Ah, Christmas. The time of year when people give other people — friends, loved ones, family, even complete strangers — gifts large and gifts small. When I worked retail, I heard it said that if Christmas, as a shopping\/buying tradition, didn’t exist, marketers would have invented it. Like Valentine’s Day. \ud83d\ude09 <\/p>\n
I stopped asking for things for Christmas a long time ago. I’ll occasionally have an item or two in mind that I might possibly like, but I don’t absolutely need<\/i> it. Honestly, I think I have enough stuff<\/i>, and I can’t imagine someone going out and buying stuff<\/i> for me just because it’s a societal norm.<\/p>\n
No, I’m really and truly not<\/i> as curmudgeonly as that sounds. I buy stuff<\/i> for family and friends for Christmas. I even have a Christmas Eve wrapping tradition<\/a>, an annual viewing of Santa Claus Conquers the Martians<\/i>. So I do do<\/i> Christmas. \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n But is there anything this year that I want<\/i>? Hmm…<\/p>\n I added some items recently to my Amazon wish list<\/a>.<\/p>\n And when I was at Target today (which is a story for another time), I saw some nice LEGO sets (I’m taken by the LEGO Kingdom: Prison Tower Rescue set). There were also sets of four Beatles glasses for twenty dollars that were very nice; I preferred the glass set of the album covers, but the glass set of the individual Beatles was quite nice, too.<\/p>\n But I’m not asking for any of these things, honest.<\/p>\n They’re just stuff<\/i>. I don’t need more stuff<\/i>.<\/p>\n Really and truly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ah, Christmas. The time of year when people give other people — friends, loved ones, family, even complete strangers — gifts large and gifts small. When I worked retail, I heard it said that if Christmas, as a shopping\/buying tradition, didn’t exist, marketers would have invented it. Like Valentine’s Day. \ud83d\ude09 I stopped asking forContinue reading “On Thoughts Towards Christmas Gifts”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[64,101],"class_list":["post-5464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-christmas","tag-plinky","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}