Going to vent today;

Holidays good or bad?

Guess it depends on what, how and why you are celebrating them.

 

Things most holidays have in common;

Most people get a day off

All holidays seem to be set around some kind of food

We have a Holladay set around chocolate, one for corn beef, one for apple pie corn on the cob and fried chicken or the BBQ,

one for candy,

one for turkey, ham, pie and basically any and all kinds of food,

and one for peppermint.

 

The United States has over 175 National Holidays set aside to celebrate food one specific food for each day.

Why do we have to have so many holidays in America?

We have 175 National Holidays just for food

We have 172 for animals

Over 100 to celebrate individual people or special days

??????

And the average American doesn't know about most of them.

 

All these holidays have become centered around food

And the most common foods involved have to do with sweets (sugar)

 

They also each have their own set of cards that you can purchase to give or mail to someone, so they can know you are celebrating National eat a raw oyster day, or that you hugged your cat on huge our cat day.

 

We as a people waste so much time, energy and money on trivial things it is a wonder we get anything of value dune, and then there is the commercialization of eachmajor  holiday, the hype to get you to purchase that perfect gift or old i wont talk to you the rest of the year but i love yand care for you so much card.

Just in greeting card last year in America we spent over 6.5 Billion dollars a year that $6,500,000,000.00

In America we spend over;

19 Billion on Valentine’s Day,

7.4 Billion on Halloween,

7.9 Billion on Thanksgiving and over

800 Billion on Christmas

For a total of $834,300,000,000.00

 

It is estimated that this year over all on holiday’s birthdays in America we will spend $9.4 trillion dollars.

 

According to the American debt counsel the total outstanding U.S. consumer 2016 debt was $3.9 trillion dollars, and is looking at an 18% increase for 2017.

If you honestly look at the numbers, in America one of our largest debts is due to holidays. Over half of consumer debt is holiday spending, to try and make our self’s feel better or to try and make someone ell think or feel better about us,

 

i personaly know of one lady who by her own admission admits she does not communicate with her family all year except for holidays, she sends cards for every holiday and on the major ones like Easter, Halloween, Thanks Giving and Christmas last year she spent (on credit) over $8,000.00. When we were talking she had no problem stating it was because she felt guilty.

Next time you walk in to purchase a greeting card, or that special gift that will set on a shelf and collect dust, stop and think about it, are you doing yourself or the person it is intended for any real favor, instead set down and wright them a not or letter, or perhaps give them a call or if they are close enough go visit them, share your time with them.

The Lord said “I don’t want your money I want your life” Man is really the same way it is of more value to spend one on one time with someone then to spend money on them.

You can’t buy happiness, you can’t buy friendship, and you can’t spend away bad feelings.

 

Stop feeding the beast.