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Why can't you do all those things and shop for deals?
The merchants may have commercialized the season, that doesnt mean you cannot take advantage of decent deals to get things for the people you love.
By protesting it and making a big fuss about it, you admit that the merchants won. The season is not about letting them tell you what to do or not to do, ignore the hype and get things you think the people you love might want. Sure you can hand make items, or you can give them nothing, but I earn the money I spend on them with my hands and my mind, so the store bought gifts I buy for them are every bit as much a product of my love as something I created myself if I had such a skill.
It seems sort of like protesting the Catholic Church because the Jews added another candle to the Minorah(sp?) to me.
[ 11-10-2002, 07:58 PM: Message edited by: MagiK ]
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