If Christmas ads are the drinks, then lackluster Christmas sales are the hang-over and we???re giving up booze.
Every year, our reward for making it through a month of ubiquitous Christmas ads is hearing about how ineffective they were. This year was no exception:
Spending from Thanksgiving to Christmas rose just 3.6 percent over last year, the weakest performance in at least four years, according to MasterCard Advisors, a division of the credit card company.
If it???s any consolation, Amazon had its best Christmas ever. Actually, it???s not. We don???t care either way.
While we were eating Chinese food, Spencer Pratt was following the P.R. Christmas Eve tradition of serving food to the homeless. This was his second highly publicized good will trip to the Los Angeles Mission in two months. What a mensch, this one!
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This year instead of making us work, Jossip grand poobah David Hauslaib asked us to write “at least one holiday-related post.” Well David, readers, this is it.-raronauer
I should be working today. It???s Christmas Eve, and I have no tree to trim, no last minutes presents to buy and no epiphanies about the greater importance of my actions in the Universe to have.
I???m Jewish, and to me Christmas means nothing. The entire holiday is a bit like I Am Legend. I???m aware something???s happening, that other people are excited, but the production isn???t really marketed at me and I have no interest in participating.
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Guitar Hero III is already ruining the music industry, and now it has also ruined Christmas for one Canadian dope fiend/curious teenager
After catching his 15 year-old kid smoking pot with his ???delinquent friends,” a father in Montreal sold his son???s copy of Guitar Hero III on eBay for $9,100 to punish him.
This is just the kind of story that gets parents thinking they can control over their kids??? lives. Add this to the list of reasons we have a disregard for Christmas, right behind our Jewish heritage.