Q: What's the worst part of the holidays? A: Commercialism

[kwassa]

This is the part I hate, the mass commericial push to guilt people into buying unnecessary junk, the endless advertising, the newspaper full of flyers, the awful traffic.

Children singing is one of the nicer aspects of Christmas.

"I've got a mind to give up living,
And go shopping instead
I've got a mind to give up living,
And go shopping instead
Pick me up a tombstone,
And be pronounced dead"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8GZUZavklw&feature=related

http://www.bluesforpeace.com/lyrics/give-up-living.htm

[Arugula Latte]

1. If it were contained to two weeks before Xmas, it would be bearable.

As it is, stores start filling up w/ Xmas crap before Halloween, and it is just sickening overkill week after week after week.

[arbusto_baboso]

2. In the words of Lewis Black, "When I was a child, Halloween was Halloween,,,,

"And Santa wasn't poking his FAT ASS into it!"

[kwassa]

3. yeah, the stores put up their Christmas displays in October!

It is almost one third of the year devoted to retail hell.