I've just been to hell and back, braving the big box stores during the Christmas rush.
I normally avoid the big box area. Not only is it always crowded, but it's poorly designed. Whoever laid out the streets likely took his cat with him. Wherever his cat walked, that's where he laid down some pavement. There is no rhyme or reason to the crisscross of streets.
Anyhow, I went because I was desperate. I knew exactly what I wanted to get my brother, the last person on my list. I just couldn't find it, so I risked near collisions with bad drivers and rude shoppers in store after store after store.
The Christmas shopping is done now. My hard-earned money went straight from my bank account into the pockets of Best Buy and Winners. I'm just doing my part to make sure the rich stay rich and the poor get poorer.
While most of us are in financial debt in one way or another, we had no problem handing over $36.8 billion to stores during the month of December in 2005, according to Statistics Canada. This year our spending is supposed to increase six to seven per cent.
I think the left-leaning magazine Adbusters has it right. We should have a "Buy Nothing Christmas" and stick it to The Man. Of course, the economy might then collapse . . .
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You could confine your shopping to smaller independent stores, and if you can't find your loved one their preferred gift there, then too bad. Why should you/I/anyone betray our principles just to get someone some junk gift from a big box? I would never ask that of someone close to me. They'll respect you more in the long run...even if they whine like babies on X-Mess day. -Fez.
Well I tried to suggest making a dontation to a charity instead of giving gifts, but no luck.
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