No wonder everyone's sick of Christmas by the time the 25th comes round, the shops have had their decorations up from whenever the Christmas stock came out...October, was it?
The adverts on TV aren't any help, they numb you to the penitential and festive season from the beginning of November to the end of 'Christmas' at midnight on the 25th. I wouldn't mind if they waited at least until December to pipe Slade (bleurrch) and various other Winterval ditties at us, but that's a vain wish I know.
Moi?
Not that I'm a Scrooge, I just bah humbug the ads and sigh with relief that the Bishops haven't decided to move this Feast to one to the nearest Sunday (yet). But in spite of the ads on telly and the depressing amounts of excessive consumption encouraged by sellers everywhere, Advent takes me happily by surprise, every year.
No whining
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So my question is, what do you all do to make your Advents special? How do you -or do you bother to- block out the secular bombardment that celebrates 'Christmas' for a good month before the due date?
3 comments:
How glad I am not the only one who feels this way.The season of candy floss pumped out by TV and the stores who are in it for the money.If there was not Christmas they would invent something to fill the void.Lets just shut our minds to the commercialism and have a good Advent.
In total agreement with you and your commenter. Love your expression 'delayed gratification'. An utterly incomprehensible concept in our times!
Love
J
Yes D and J,
I think people would get a much bigger kick out of most things if they didn't always want and often get whatever 'now'. I'm not a patient person by any means, but you can learn so much from anticipation and waiting, and it's a shame it's so undervalued.
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