It is so deeply weird to me that shops have Christmas trees in their windows. I used to love Christmas as a kid, but now it just instils a deep sense of gnawing constant fear in me. Every year since around 2015 has been filled with uncertainty. Rolling horrors and financial instability leave me with internal icy cold dread. Will I be able to afford Christmas? Do we reallocate money to Christmas at the risk of other bills? Because that's what it feels like now. Just another bill. A tax. Except for this one you have to pretend to be constantly cheerful for an ever-extending period. Now Christmas cheer apparently chimes as the clocks change. Your two options are either 'way too hot' and permaChrimbo. I can't breathe. Just give me some room to be, without having to constantly be in fight or flight. Anyway, morning! Hooray! Another day. What day? Literally no one knows. I think it might be Thursday? It all blends at this point. Anyway let's all get out there and be our best selves and have a terrific whatever day it is. Day! Day! Day!
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it seems madness to buy adults things they don't need just because it is xmas.
also wait till the sales.
"Bah! Humbug!"
also with all the hacks, Mariah has defrosted and broken out of containment early.
@TheBreadmonkey You’ve summed it up nicely. For many years it’s just felt like another financial and mental burden. Something else I just don’t have the capacity to deal with.
@TheBreadmonkey I don't think you're the only one who feels like that Ben 😕
@TheBreadmonkey Yeah capitalism fucked it to some degree
Sorry I think I'm just a bit tired
@TheBreadmonkey Imagine if Camus had put that at the end of The Stranger.
@TheBreadmonkey They do it earlier every year as well. Shops here had Christmas stuff out in August. August! I bet they just won't bother taking it all down next year.