Well we have managed as a society to sink to a new low. Honestly! Pepper spraying one another, shooting, shoving, stealing - for what? One more video game, one more pair of designer jeans? Bigger needs are abound. Can we make Christmas about what it is intended? If you don't believe in the intention of the Christmas Holiday then why do you choose to participate? You don't have to put up a tree and you can buy your "presents" any time of the year. If you are not Christian then don't practice Christian Holidays. Sell the plastic Christmas Tree in the next yard sale along with the lights (and all the crap you bought this year and won't use more than a few weeks before you feel it is obsolete) and all those homemade ornaments that the kids bring home from school and just buy stuff and hand it out.
Just in case you are wondering - I haven't bought a new television since I was 17 that lasted more than 4 years - I finally gave up, but the tv I bought when I was 17 still works perfectly and is the center of seldom used television room.
