Why I hate Christmas

There. Now I’ve said it.

The only time of the year when somebody can walk out of a supermarket with a trolley-load of alcohol and not get branded as an alcoholic. The only time we can go out and buy everybody else absolute rubbish that nobody really wants. Kids today tell their parents what they want for Christmas and often go out with them to ensure that they rightfully purchase it. Santa Claus is now so dead in the water.

Christmas is the only time we can drag a large tree into our homes that costs a fortune, only to be dumped weeks later in early January. The only time folk feel so pressurised into purchasing and sending out expensive greeting cards that, again, get dumped in early January. Many animals also get destroyed because of Christmas – yet most of their sacrificial needs are later thrown out.

Christmas – the only time of the year when many people, especially parents of young children, cast their monthly budget out of the window to pay for such madness, then spend the rest of the cold months trying so hard to pay for it all.

Who invented Christmas? I feel so sure it was not Jesus.

Christmas today is not religious, it’s a high-end commercial business which is why I hate it!

True, Christmas is about family and friends. Getting together and sharing that priceless Gift of Love in which hopefully will continue on all year round till next Christmas, when it will be further enforced.

Christine Peters

Wellington Road, Bournemouth