What is it about Christmas that makes people lose their damn minds. If you can't afford to pay cash for it - don't buy it.

My wife and I didn't do anything for Christmas this year. We have more important things to save for. The kid is too young to know the difference.

Life does not revolve around "stuff" unless you let it.

Live your life by it. In everything.

If you don't then you've earned your own misery.

... and it works. So does the Big Lie.

We've been taught from birth that buying stuff is the American Way. We've been taught that gifts = love. We've been taught that going into debt for Christmas is normal and OK.

The Big Lie....repeated often enough... makes people believe the damnedest things.

Remember... 63% of Republicans believe that Iraq had WMD.

Not making excuses... just explaining.

Disclosure....Ms. Bigmack and I spent less than $100 for Xmas for both of us and our kids and grandkids.

Really?

People need to be strong enough to make their own decisions and form their own opinions.

If they aren't then they deserve all the misery they get.

Maybe that makes me lacking in empathy, but I am getting tired of people complaining about their lot in life when they make a lot of the choices that lead to their own misery.

For a supposed Dem you acts like a Republican


Pompous, you got the gift.

And not spending yourself into debt because corporate America shows you a pretty picture is now a "right wing theme??"

Being against the consumerism that helped lead to the financial collapse is now a "right wing theme?"

Advocating that people spend cash and not get themselves into usury with banks is a "right wing theme?"

Sorry, no. Those are the most progressive themes I know of.

People not acting in their own self interests and getting themselves in debt with banks is not good for them or America. It is only good for banksters. People who go out and spend money they don't have because a pretty commercial tells them to is disgusting. It is the epitome of what is wrong with our country.

I must be a bad liberal. I did limit how much I spent. There were a lot less presents under the tree this year. And even though I didn't want to I did my kids' school clothes shopping on Black Friday to save money. My husband and I try very hard to be responsible. It's not enough. There's not enough money for rent, food, and all the private insurance policies we now must carry the burden of. I'd be doing a lot better if I didn't have any medical, dental, or life insurance. Our economy is now stacked against us. We must fight back.

We're all in the same boat, unless you're Republican......

We make sure the kids get a couple of presents at least. Christmas was a lot smaller this year. It did not go unnoticed by my son especially. But the presents he did get were things he really wanted so he was happy.

The retailers are the ones laughing all the way to the bank.

Otherwise they won't know how they will make it through the year. And yet they do.

I guess there are two Black Fridays now.