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From: tommyo@ihuxw.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Christmas in October!!!
Message-ID: <542@ihuxw.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 25-Oct-83 21:01:55 EDT
Article-I.D.: ihuxw.542
Posted: Tue Oct 25 21:01:55 1983
Date-Received: Wed, 26-Oct-83 09:08:12 EDT
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, Il
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I am really burning up!  I was out shopping this weekend,
and was totally appalled to see Christmas ornaments and
trees for sale.  Not that I don`t like to see them, but
in October?  BEFORE Halloween even!!  I`ve got a good mind
to write the store managers (J.C. Penney and Montgomery Wards)
to complain.  Is there no more Christ in Christmas?  Has
it really gotten that commercial?  I can remeber (not that
many years ago) when the first Christmas items weren`t seen
till the day AFTER Thanksgiving.  Now they`re here in the
middle of October.  I doubt that this is an isolated incident
(Chic suburbs), that it is happening all over the country.
Don`t the stores think they`ll have enough time to sell
their trees?  Will they really make any money off their
displays so far before Christmas?  Now I love Christmas.
Not just the gift part, but the feeling of love and caring
that it brings out.  I`ve been so into the joy and good cheer
emotions that I`ve felt tears in my eyes at church on Christmas
day when singing Christmas carols.  But I`m really fed up
at the materialism that has invaded this most wonderful of
seasons.  Join me, and protest this attempt to make Christmas
into what it really isn`t about.  Complain to store managers
who commercialize it to the point of putting trees and wrapping
paper out 2 months early.  Maybe they`ll get the message, and
won`t give us the Bah Humbug attitude.

Tom O`Connor