Bah Humbug

Advent calendars in one shop, a whole aisle of Christmas food in another. What on earth is going on? How can Xmas ever live up to three months of buildup and excitement? Who cant wait a month or two for a mince pie and who cant live without a Xmas pudding in September?

Christmas seems to be the focus of so much consumerism over the last ten or twenty years, with people spending beyond their means and getting themselves in debt to shower their spoiled offspring with hundreds of pounds worth of plastic junk, 90% of which will either never be played with or will be broken by New Year. How sad. What child needs £500 of new toys a year? Even £200 seems madly extravagant for a 3 or 4 year old who is still happy playing with a wooden spoon, a saucepan and some leaves. Last year the Child got £40 of stuff and she only played with half of that!