Having dinner last night with friends in the food court of our major shopping centre referenced here. As the lift doors opened, I was horrified to be greeted by three gold reindeer! But it’s only October. My mother’s birthday is mid-November and I used to object if I saw Christmas decorations before her birthday.

I don’t get it. I understand that it’s been a tough year commercially probably. Then how are we supposed to maintain interest in shopping for Christmas for two months. I’m not even really in my summer clothes yet!

Perhaps decorations have gone up this early in previous years. I haven’t noticed. But I really crave a rhythm to the year that isn’t disturbed by the almighty dollar all the time. Christmas is, at least for some of us both religious or spiritual and at points, somewhat painful. It certainly isn’t always about shopping. It seems a bit insensitive to make it so commercial given that even for those without religious conviction, it can be a sensitive period of the year. And in many cases, we all walk in their credit card statements in January and decide that it is also an expensive time of year.

Or am I just being a Scrooge?

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