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happy_camper

Joined: 18 Mar 2005
Posts: 256
Location: 3rd coast

Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 1:45 am Post subject: What Makes a "Good" Christmas?

Not since Linus took the stage and gave Charlie Brown the meaning of Christmas have I heard someone speak so briefly yet eloquently on this subject:

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I keep seeing in the newspapers that it might not be a "good" Christmas because while visits to stores are up, purchases per visit are down very slightly.

For those of us toiling away in retail, what with the extended hours, long days, endless lines of grumpy customers, we live with the pressure of a bad holiday shopping season. In fact, my manager makes sure of it. But I'm really bothered by it, and so is our speaker:

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I'm fascinated by this, because I have looked through a Concordance of the Old and New Testaments and I do not find the word "shopping" even once.

Well, it is said that the King James version is an inferior translation of the Old and New Testaments, but I digress . . . back to our speaker:

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Maybe a good Christmas for this most blessed of nations would be when we as a nation and as communities made sure the homeless had a warm, safe place to sleep.

Hmm . . . sounds like another bleeding heart, tax-and-spend liberal. Rolling Eyes

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Maybe a good Christmas would not be about buying your kids the latest gizmo for listening to obscene lyrics, but about teaching them that if they are fortunate enough to have extra time or extra money, they can help out at the old age home or at the local animal shelter.

Spoken like a true typical liberal who does not understand supply and demand. If parents want to buy gizmos for their kids, then retailers have a responsibility to stock them. It's how our economy works. Thumbs Up

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Maybe a good time would not be buying your parents sweaters they will never use, but taking a trip to see them and telling them how much you appreciate that they spent the heart of their lives taking care of you, feeding you, teaching you, putting a roof over your head, warming you with their love and concern.

Hey there, sweaters bring in major profits for retailers, especially if they are manufactured in China.

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Maybe the best time of all would be telling your husband or your wife or love partner that you would be lost without him or her and that you're sorry for the selfish things you did that year, and you'll be better next year.

Love partner? Sounds like more liberal propaganda intended to undermine the sanctity of marriage and allow same sex unions. Naughty!

Who is this liberal nut job?

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Magnolia

Joined: 26 Aug 2005
Posts: 1704

Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 11:21 am Post subject:

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I keep seeing in the newspapers that it might not be a "good" Christmas

In so much I completely agree with the author's point...

Some of us already don't let retailers decide how "good" or "bad" my Christmas has been.

Does Stein?

I'm guessing Stein is "engaged" in the business world, and in the past, has worried about his precious stock prices through the 4th quarter... ultimately letting that decide the quality of HIS Christmas.

Atleast that's what I get from his article. How else do you eventually get to this opinion?

I think he's just another republican hypocrite.

DGSUCKS

Joined: 07 Jul 2003
Posts: 106
Location: Lost In The Stockroom

Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 6:53 pm Post subject:

What makes a good Christmas ??? that's an easy one ==> Friends and Family

trueairspeed

Joined: 13 Mar 2005
Posts: 464

Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 9:26 pm Post subject: Re: What Makes a "Good" Christmas?

happy_camper wrote:

What Makes a "Good" Christmas?

My two sons getting up Christmas morning, opening their gifts and seeing the excitement and delight in their eyes, then as they each turn to my wife and myself and thanking us for those gifts.

(We never started the Santa Claus stuff with them as this is not, at least to us, the true meaning or reason for the Christmas season.)

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