Black Friday

[Shasta56]

Black Friday is starting Thursday evening this year.  Christmas decorations were crowding the Halloween candy off the shelves in September.  Maybe the people who leave their Christmas lights up all year long were ahead of the curve.  Hell yeah!

Shasta

[zorgon]

My daughter put up Turkey Day lights and cornucopias... Xmas lights go up Monday

We did turkey today because she works tomorrow for that black Thursday

I wonder how many will be killed in the mad rush this year to fight over the one deal?

Native Americans hate this day Its all a lie

[PLAYSWITHMACHINES]

In Amsterdam they have a Pink Wednesday, but i'd rather not go into that....

[The Seeker]

Pink Wednesday??? Really??? Hmmm... but them again you did say Amsterdam...

As far as it goes, I simply look at this as a day to enjoy with my family; drove 900 miles yesterday to smoke a turkey in Waco, Texas with my grandson, son in law, and daughter...

As for black friday, ppppfffftttt!!!!!!!!!!! a waste of time, money, and a total display of greed and stupidity... my goals since the election is to eliminate all debts asap...


seeker

[Shasta56]

Which end of the turkey does one light?

Shasta

[petrus4]

Christmas in my book is best done small.  I might be aware that corpulence and giantism are Jupitarian correspondences, and this is largely a Jupitarian (Sag) holiday, but that does not mean I have to like it.

My idea of a sincere Christmas is perhaps having a single piece of shortbread and mince pie each, and spending a couple of quiet hours on Christmas night in remembrance of the birth of Jesus Christ; which according to most, did not even happen in December anyway.  Temperate, moderate, and non-obnoxious. 

The noise, the lights, the blatant, crass commercialism in contrast with the number of people on this planet who are starving; not to mention the giant parties that either side of the family have attempted to drag me to, year after year.  I truthfully cannot stand any of it.

It may be an unpopular opinion, but I hold that to a large extent, Scrooge was actually right about one thing; Christmas very largely is humbug, in contemporary terms at least.  It is a commercialistic lie.  Virtually none of us want to do it, yet we continue to do so, year in and year out; and it only gets more excessive, more commercialistic, and more ugly.

[Shasta56]

I worked at a very busy Cinnabon bakery for two Christmas seasons in the mid-nineties.  The company called it Jollybon.  We called it Happy Hellidays.  I'm not a Christmas person/cat.  I enjoy overindulging my grandkids, but the highlight of the season for me, is Yule.  My hubby and I were handfasted on Yule eleven years ago this year.

Cat

[The Seeker]

Which end of the turkey does one light?

Shasta

Ah, Shasta, dear feline fem friend, can't light the turkum itself; but the hickory and apple wood chips did a real good job of it 

now the one that Zorg has might need to be singed after plucking...


seeker

[Littleenki]

Which end of the turkey does one light?

Shasta

Never mind lighting it, where does one find a bong big enough to fit a turkey into? 

[The Seeker]

Never mind lighting it, where does one find a bong big enough to fit a turkey into? 

actually it is a vertical smoker; the water in the bong would put the charcoal out and make the turkum mushy.


seeker

[zorgon]

My idea of a sincere Christmas is perhaps having a single piece of shortbread and mince pie each, and spending a couple of quiet hours on Christmas night in remembrance of the birth of Jesus Christ; which according to most, did not even happen in December anyway.  Temperate, moderate, and non-obnoxious.

Only one problem with that  Jesus was born in may not December and Christmas was a holiday stolen from the Pagans, The Church figured it was easier to convert people by using a holiday already in place   So Christmas is in fact a Pagan celebration of the return of the sun at winter solstice.

And the Xmas tree with lights? Also stolen from the Pagan Yule tree, which had candles and wrapped candies in it.

So when your celebrating this year do try to remember what the Yule is all about

Virtually none of us want to do it, yet we continue to do so, year in and year out; and it only gets more excessive, more commercialistic, and more ugly.

well you DO look a lot like a GRINCH   But we celebrate the Yule in style... for many days with the last feast being 12th night



Be an old Scrooge if you must... be a Grinch... but my medieval Manor home will be glowing with lights again this year

[petrus4]

well you DO look a lot like a GRINCH   But we celebrate the Yule in style... for many days with the last feast being 12th night

I've got nothing against getting together with people at all; but around four at a time is my limit.  It's the autism, I think; beyond that, and I start getting cognitively overwhelmed.

[Shasta56]

For me, the winter solstice is about the return of the sun and the time of new beginnings.  It's why my hubby and I were handfasted on Yule.  It was so cool to feel the energy of the spells that people cast that day, and so bittersweet to see our spirit cats draped all over the altar.

Petrus, I know what you mean about too many people.  I find myself in "get away from me, get far away from me mode," if it's more than a few.

Shasta