In my country you can hear Christmas carols playing as early as November. You hear them on televison advertisements. Down town suddenly starts getting busier and busier with each passing week until December when it's hard to walk down the sidewalks.
People generally "Break up house" I think that's what they call it. I never took part in it so I never did care what it's called. It's when they polish their houses from top to bottom. I have to do this every week since lots of things make me ill, so I don't do any kind of "Christmas Cleaning" When the house is cleaned it gets new curtains and carpets and decirations and appliances.

Now this is the part that really gets me angry. People who cannot afford it go and buy things for their houses on hire purchase and use it over Christmas because a certain store has this offer every year where you pay nothing down until the next year. So they but appliances they cannot pay for. They will buy from other places too of course. Then they buy so much food and a whole lot of presents for people they don't even like and go out shopping for things for the house like artificial flowers and ornaments and they finish their money on such unnecessary things when they know that the next paycheck is not until the end of January for those who are paid monthly. Children get hungry, parents get angry and business is bad during January because these people are broke.

Nothing sickens me at Christmas like the way people waste. Families cook so much food. A small family will probably cook enough to feed a street. They don't finish their food and end up throughing it all away. Why is it in a world with so much poor people, that the rich and middle classed have to be throughing food away. Why is it that some parents allow their little children to stuff theselves to death while some parents have to watch their babies starve? I think it's evil.

We do have some wonderful traditions here though. We have masquerade bands on the roads dancing and playing flutes in bright colourful costumes. Families cook some of the best food in the world. Many people spend Christmas in church, which is usually a good place. We have stretched out magazine where the media mocks the politicians, and everything they've done for the year. Families start to talk to each other at least for a bit, and I don't know about anyone else really but I appreciate any moment I can spend with my family.

Today I did what I always do on Christmas, cook, eat, deliver presents to the kids next door. Tomorrow I get to go see my beloved uncle and his family. And in just over a minute I hope to be asleep.

Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year to you.
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