So I'm at the toy store today with specific instructions from Roo as to what I was looking for. They didn't have what she wanted but I didn't mind looking around because after all it is a toy store. As I wandered around I realized that there were very few children in the place. That's natural I suppose at this time of year but without the children something else was missing as well. It took me a second to realize what it was. Pleasure! No one was having any fun. It appeared that at best people were going through the expected toy buy motions or at worst hating it. To be filling your cart with all that cool stuff and not enjoying it should be against the rules. I suppose it's a good thing that you can buy just about everything online now instead. That way people can stay at home and be miserable and alone while doing their Christmas shopping.
It seems that as long as I can remember I have heard people complaining about Xmas being so commercialized but I think that over the last 10 years it has gotten significantly worse. I don't have a problem with the commercial aspects of the holiday as long as it's fun. But buying stuff has now become more than fun. It has become a need as opposed to a want! To what can we credit this downward spiral? Well advertising of course. But we've had adverstising forever you may say. Yes but......we have not always had the internet! It drives us to need stuff we didn't even know existed let alone had a purpose for. Claudette and I used to have this running joke about the latest toy I "needed" when what I really meant was "wanted". I no longer use that one. Maybe I can't tell the difference any more?
Yup! As soon as any idea comes up off we go the our bew browsers to check out where, when and for how much we can get it. Most times we can just hit a bunch of keys and voila! It's on the way to our house. Toys, bikes, books, electronics, furniture, you name it.
Thats it for today. It's almost my bedtime and I need to order some stuff online before I hit the hay!
“Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life"---Andrew Brown
“The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow."---Bill Gates
“The Internet is like a gold-rush; the only people making money are those who sell the pans."---Will Hobbs
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peter
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