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Christmas! Gifts! Parties! Etc!
J-cob9000:
Yay! Drama Club is having secret santas! I'm so happy! I love secret Santas! (why do I keep typing secret satans?)
But yes. Christmas party is on the 19th. We will listen to loud Christmas songs and rawk out and eat food. Oh fuck. Now I have to exercise it all off. Christmas is a bad time to be dieting. Ugh.
Anyway.
I'm going to poke around at the dollar store and put together an awesome gift thingy.
0bsessions:
Thanksgiving is more a celebration of the harvest than anything else, really. Hence, the Canadians celebrate on themselves at an earlier point in the year with their harvest coming earlier.
And if you're seriously bothered by Christmas because of religious connections, you probably have been hiding from society for the past two or three decades.
Fenriswolf:
--- Quote from: 0bsessions on 10 Dec 2008, 20:03 ---Thanksgiving is more a celebration of the harvest than anything else, really. Hence, the Canadians celebrate on themselves at an earlier point in the year with their harvest coming earlier.
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Hey, this is logical!
--- Quote ---And if you're seriously bothered by Christmas because of religious connections, you probably have been hiding from society for the past two or three decades.
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Hey I'm bothered by creepy consumerism too. :-D It doesn't upset me per se, I'd just really rather not have religious holidays of any stripe - there are lots of religions around, it'd be more fair to have secular holidays and let everyone who's genuinely passionate about their religion celebrate it on their own time.
Darkbluerabbit:
I like how my family does Christmas-Minimal religion beyond some of the songs, not a lot of the wild consumerism. The whole family has actually decided to make this year an official anti-junk year. It is pretty cool. My mother and aunt are adopting a family (you buy presents and dinner for a family that couldn't afford it) as their "gift" to each other. I dig this idea a lot.
I do like holiday shopping though. I get this sick, sentimental glee when I find the perfect item for someone. I have done pretty well with gift buying this year. I usually designate about ten dollars per person, but I actually managed to get by on less this year, which is good because I am broke like everyone else.
My suggestions for gifts that are low budget, but always well received:
Used books. If you have a used book store near you, spend a few hours browsing the shelves. You will usually find some really excellent books that are out of print or otherwise not found at Barnes and Noble or similar chain stores. For example, this year I found my sister a book on the Ghosts of the Civil war, which I couldn't even believe existed. She's a Civil War buff who likes ghost hunter shows. It was too perfect.
Booze. Who wouldn't appreciate a six pack of their favorite beer? It won't last, but that's okay, and it's definitely something they like and will enjoy.
Knitted stuff. Relatives love homemade shit.
Reed:
--- Quote from: Fenriswolf on 10 Dec 2008, 20:08 ---Hey I'm bothered by creepy consumerism too. :-D It doesn't upset me per se, I'd just really rather not have religious holidays of any stripe - there are lots of religions around, it'd be more fair to have secular holidays and let everyone who's genuinely passionate about their religion celebrate it on their own time.
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Well you can always think of it as a celebration of the winter solstice like it was before christianity came around!
Along darkbluerabbit's line of thinking....beer/wine of the month clubs are always good (because that way even when the booze goes away it comes back in 30 days!)
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