Ramdom debate 7: Has xmas become too commercialised?

Yes.

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Yes, very much so.

I'm not even going to take this from a religious angle: so far as I'm concerned, even those who are not Christians are very welcome to join in the festivities. They might even learn something from it.

What irritates me is how stressed people get about it. Going to great lengths and to huge expense to buy presents, with still very little guarantee that anyone will like them. Parents spending hundreds of pounds on their children - that's quite frankly ridiculous.

All the parts of Christmas I enjoy are entirely stress-free. Going down the pub on Christmas Eve and bumping into loads of people, wandering up to the church for the midnight service, drinking throughout the day and having dinner (yes, I do help cook it - but realistically, an average Christmas dinner doesn't really take any great flair in the kitchen to prepare). **** presents.