Christmas cheer....
Dec. 24th, 2009 02:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ash48*phew* I'm back in (vidding) business. Seems like forking out $20 is the answer after all. Though still no idea why QT has a trim option but no way to export the file.....
Anyways..
It's Chrissy eve. All is prepared for a day of present opening, family merriment and food.
I have a love/hate relationship with Christmas. The extreme excesses of Christmas bother me greatly - especially when the planet is groaning under the strain of excess consumerism. I am seriously considering starting a campaign against the blatant waste of Christmas crackers (bon-bons). I personally banned them a few years ago and I feel that if everybody stopped buying the silly things, then they'll stop making them. Because really? What good are they? A product made mostly of paper, with a cheap plastic thing inside it and a joke. We pull it and it goes bang (minds out of the gutter please!), we don ridiculous looking paper hats, share our silly joke and that's it. Then ALL of it goes in the bin. Makes no sense to me....
Or am I being a Christmas grouch? I can be a little bit ba-humbug this time of year.
The love part is spending time with family, sharing gifts that have been really thought about and relaxing because really there's nothing else to do. And I also get a lot of glee from watching my daughter open presents. That's always been pretty magical.
So. MERRY CHRISTMAS to you all. Or HAPPY HOLIDAYS if you don't celebrate it. Or LOVE AND SMISHES just 'cause. I really do hope you all have a wonderful time.
Check you on the flip side. <3 <3
Sarah
Anyways..
It's Chrissy eve. All is prepared for a day of present opening, family merriment and food.
I have a love/hate relationship with Christmas. The extreme excesses of Christmas bother me greatly - especially when the planet is groaning under the strain of excess consumerism. I am seriously considering starting a campaign against the blatant waste of Christmas crackers (bon-bons). I personally banned them a few years ago and I feel that if everybody stopped buying the silly things, then they'll stop making them. Because really? What good are they? A product made mostly of paper, with a cheap plastic thing inside it and a joke. We pull it and it goes bang (minds out of the gutter please!), we don ridiculous looking paper hats, share our silly joke and that's it. Then ALL of it goes in the bin. Makes no sense to me....
Or am I being a Christmas grouch? I can be a little bit ba-humbug this time of year.
The love part is spending time with family, sharing gifts that have been really thought about and relaxing because really there's nothing else to do. And I also get a lot of glee from watching my daughter open presents. That's always been pretty magical.
So. MERRY CHRISTMAS to you all. Or HAPPY HOLIDAYS if you don't celebrate it. Or LOVE AND SMISHES just 'cause. I really do hope you all have a wonderful time.
Check you on the flip side. <3 <3
Sarah
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Date: 2009-12-24 10:44 am (UTC)The plastic tat in Christmas crackers really, really annoys me. My MIL makes the crackers, so they have stuff inside them that is personal to the recipient and not a waste, on the whole.
We keep presents small and simple, even for the kids, and always something that is wanted or needed and not rubbish. I hate the part of giving gifts where you buy something because you have to rather than because you know the recipient will love the gift. I really dislike the conspicuous overconsumption of the commercialised Christmas we get presented these days.
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Date: 2009-12-24 01:46 pm (UTC)And my mum used to make the homemade crackers which were a lot more personal and contained a little gift that was special. I like the idea of that.
I really dislike the conspicuous overconsumption of the commercialised Christmas we get presented these days.
Yeah - I'm not sure why it just seems so "in your face" these days. I'm sure it's always been like that - maybe it's just been in the last few years I've actually noticed it.
I hope you have a lovely day.
xx