A little refelction as we head for that busy time of year
As may of us are in the sales industry one way or another. We start prepping for that C word a whole lot sooner. I've started making plans ready for the start of next month. As right now this month is all about this months product launches.
Any way as I sat making my plans yesterday, I got to remembering I conversation I had had last year one day in December.
This was a real game changer for me.
Hubby and I was right in the middle of organising a children's Christmas bazar. For a children's charity. And we were going round collecting the raffle prizes kind people were donating. Any way I went to a kind young lady called Lisa. She had given a gorgeous gift donation that was hand made. She had said she had made many of her children and families gift throughout the later part of that year as money had been so tight all year. We to was finding things a struggle and was partly dreading the pressure of Christmas. She went on to say for that reason she has decided her and her family were having a very humble Christmas and taking right back to how Christmas used to be. You no the kind before they got to commercialised and greedy and worse keeping up with the jones. Who can have the latest toy, largest tree or turkey, the most lights out side their home. You get the idea. Instead it was going to be about all the family being in the same lace at the same time. Eating nice food, laughing playing silly family games. Just listening to Lisa made happy childhood memories come back.
That year my family did just the same and we had a fantastic time. I intend on doing the same this year to.
What does Christmas mean to you.? And what does humble mean also. Do you think Christmases have changed for the worse. Well only if you allow them to. Should be about family & friends coming together when the rest of the year can often be very manic.
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I and my wife have run a Christmas charity for over 30 years.
Giving to people who really need, is the best feeling to have in the world.
Then we spend the day with a nice dinner and just our close family that is still around.
I get depressed seeing Christmas goods in the shops just after the kids go back to school in September. It wasn't like that when I was a child and I feel sorry for parents of younger children as it gets them excited way too far in advance. I dread to think how many cries of 'when is he coming' will be heard before November is even out!
I simply enjoy having close family around me with a nice meal :)
One thing that bugs me about Christmas is the social media bragging session that some parents get involved with on Christmas Eve, you know the mountain of gifts under the tree photo! How many presents do kids need? certainly not an entire room full like some parents think. They can only play with one at a time!
Christmas has got far too materialistic for me now.