HOHN

I can't believe it.

First, I see the pathetic display of people getting CRUSHED as they all try to crowd into Wal-Mart. NO doubt they will sue, because this has to be Wal-mart's fault somehow

Point: We are so sickeningly materialistic that we will waste our time to save a dollar or two, to buy things we don't need and/or couldn't otherwise afford, and are willing to hurt others that stand in the way of our pathetic material gluttony.

Then I see this story on the news last night. Some poor woman waiting ALL NIGHT outside a wal-mart to get her son an X-BOX 360, only to have someone steal it from her after she checked out. Her news interview:" I spend a WHOLE WEEK'S PAYCHECK an waited all night in the freezing cold (Casper, WY) to get my son the XBOX he needed."

1) Lady, YOU CAN'T AFFORD THE TOY IF IT COSTS A WHOLE WEEK'S CHECK!
2) BE A PARENT AND TELL YOUR SON HE WILL HAVE TO GO WITHOUT. He doesn't "need" an XBOX anymore than I "need" to have filter mignon for every meal
3) More proof that the poor are poor because they keep making decisions that keep them poor.


Then to top it all off, I happen to go into a Kohl's yesterday, and the line to check out was wrapped around the perimeter aisle of the while store! There must have been 300 people in line, and waiting about 2-3 hours to check out.

Point: my employer pays me more than $5 an hour, so if I'm going to wait that long, it better for DANG sure be to save a lot more than a couple bucks on some clothes.



I'm embarassed that yesterday's images will be beamed to the rest of the world as representative of the fat, lazy, selfish, gluttonous American. Too bad some people are obsessed with proving the worst about us to be true.

Frustrated

MikeyB

I agree.
I hate this time of year, really shows how materialistic we have become. Seeing the buying frenzy last night on the news proves it. And this morning I went into Walmart and it's a ghost town.
I rather be hunting......

MikeyB

procrastinator

I agree with you both.

I love Thanksgiving, because its like Christmas without the gifts. I love the ideas of "Merry Christmas" not "Seasons Greetings," but I really loathe the materialistic side of Christmas.

Procrastinator

signature600

Well Said HOHN!!

I don't buy into this commercial crap that everyone loves so much anymore. Everyone calls me a Bah Humbug To which I say "Dern Right!"

Chris

Geico266

No arguements here. Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday, food, football, family. The day after every moron shopaholic is up at 0 dark 30 to get in line with the other idiots to buy stuff for Christmas in which the other 11 months of the year they don't believe in Jesus Christ.

It makes my head hurt! (So does hitting my head with a mallet)

apache

Look at the good side. Soon with all trhe bashing and political incorrectness of celebratring Christmas and Thanksgiving you will no longer have any after turkeyday sales. If one is allowed to say "happy holidays" what exactly does that mean? what holidays? Christmas? thats no longer cause its politically incorrect. I hope the idiots and I mean IDIOTS who are whining about this expression of life and celebration own buisnesses and when they end them and the consumer spending is gone they go broke and end up in an alley licking dog food can lids. IMO I`d serve them right. BTW how is it that Walmart sells Christams trees and ornaments yet they`ve banned their employees of saying Merry Christmas. Ive never seen a "holiday" tree. This stuff blows me away, then I sit here with the kid watching MTV and the shows is about which lesbian will win a date with the other lesbian.
God help this country.

smokindog

Yep! I have to go into Wal-Mart sometime this weekend, but that is only to get a special deer tag since I'll be hunting off the family property for gun season. I'll walk right past all the materialistic snobs, check out at the sporting goods counter and vanish!

torquefan

Well stated, Hohn. I agree.

Shovelhead

.....and the fact that Christmas decorations start appearing right after Labor day?.....

The best Christmas I remember was spent in Calca, Peru.
A very small village about an hour from Cuzco.
We went down with a 10 pound bag of hard candy, a few small gifts for the relatives,......to see the look in the faces of the little kids in the village as they recieved a few pieces of candy, you woulda thought we were Santa Claus in the flesh.
In the good ole US of A, kids get PO'd when the parent shells out $100 and buys the wrong version of a video game.

Ph4tty

I was reading drudge report this morning and there were reports of a 70 sumptin woman getting trampled in a walmart another occasion an off duty poilce officer sprayed a crowd with pepper spray. Hmm and people wonder why I stay home

P.J

All true and quite annoying. Very much a "sign of the times" this kinda of stuff went on over 20 years ago with the Cabage Patch Kids if you guys remember. It's not just the shoppers that are ignorant, some of the store workers need to to be taken outside and beaten with a stick too.
I hate shopping anymore (and my fun has just begun).

CIN'S DODGE

Frustrated as well. I tell you what it gets me really uptight is some of these people will grab things out of older peoples hands that just burns my buns.Some of these people really don't get it.Have respect for people

Herrin811

you guys ought to lok at ebay..specificly the x-box 360

game system selling for $400 at wal-mart is going for close to $1000 on ebay

my kid would have to do without

Shovelhead

And from what's being reported on 'gaming' BBs on line,.....most folks are complaining about system lock-ups, failure to load games properly, you know.....typical Micro$oft failures due to them rushing untested junque to market.

ChrisLib

First off excellent post Hohn, and all the replies are spot on! All the shopaholics should be made to watch "It`s a Wonderfull Life" until they get what the spirit of the Season is all about, it is`nt about xbox360`s or that dvd player on sale for $10.95 or the million other things that big business try`s to cram down our throats, it`s about Family, Friends and fellowship....geeze!