Hats off to anyone buying me a Christmas present.
First off I hate the commercialization of the holiday. This trend of going into debt annually for Christmas is out of hand.
By first world standards I’m not materialistic. Sure I have a car and some clothes, but I hardly have a house full of all new crap. In fact I don’t have a house at all, but a small apartment.
Last but not least the few things I wouldn’t mind having are items I change my mind about hour-by-hour. Like a Playstation Portable looks really cool in theory, but I’m not a huge video game fan and I’m definitely not going to buy those little movie discs. Same thing with an I-Pod. I love them in theory, but I have an old school one my family got me a while back. It is a first generation mini and lacks the video capability, color monitor and the other snappy stuff the current I-Pods have, but do I NEED that? I don’t even know that I want that.
As you can see the ideas I have are for things that aren’t cheap. They’re definitely things I wouldn’t go out and spend money on myself. So I’m really hard to shop for. I use Netflix.com to catch movies and TV series I want to see. Once I watch a movie I rarely feel like watching it over and over again. The same goes for music. I mostly download music these days and buying a whole album is almost unheard of.
I guess I’m just not materialistic enough for this holiday and when it is all said and done I’d rather get nothing. Especially if it means putting anyone in that miserable state of stress and financial strain. The best thing any of us can do is liberate ourselves from the commercialism that seems to go hand-in-hand with Christmas.
First off I hate the commercialization of the holiday. This trend of going into debt annually for Christmas is out of hand.
By first world standards I’m not materialistic. Sure I have a car and some clothes, but I hardly have a house full of all new crap. In fact I don’t have a house at all, but a small apartment.
Last but not least the few things I wouldn’t mind having are items I change my mind about hour-by-hour. Like a Playstation Portable looks really cool in theory, but I’m not a huge video game fan and I’m definitely not going to buy those little movie discs. Same thing with an I-Pod. I love them in theory, but I have an old school one my family got me a while back. It is a first generation mini and lacks the video capability, color monitor and the other snappy stuff the current I-Pods have, but do I NEED that? I don’t even know that I want that.
As you can see the ideas I have are for things that aren’t cheap. They’re definitely things I wouldn’t go out and spend money on myself. So I’m really hard to shop for. I use Netflix.com to catch movies and TV series I want to see. Once I watch a movie I rarely feel like watching it over and over again. The same goes for music. I mostly download music these days and buying a whole album is almost unheard of.
I guess I’m just not materialistic enough for this holiday and when it is all said and done I’d rather get nothing. Especially if it means putting anyone in that miserable state of stress and financial strain. The best thing any of us can do is liberate ourselves from the commercialism that seems to go hand-in-hand with Christmas.
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