…Or is it? It looks like it: the showcases of the stores, the street lights…The retailers do all they can to make us start the shopping as soon as possible! I don’t quite understand it: one would think that, no matter when you start the seasonal shopping, the amount of money you spend depends on the number of gifts you have to make and your budget, but not on when you start to shop. That is to say, if you start early you should be done early. But I suppose my reasoning is wrong, and that by putting lights on the street a lot of people will buy more things. People are weird. At any rate, since at home we’re one of the strange ones that only give presents for King’s Day (we’re probably just a few!) I have a few extra days to go shopping, and so I won’t start to worry about gifts until Christmas Day is over!
Just to make it clear: I like Christmas! I like to give and be given presents; I like family gatherings around a table (even if there isn’t always peace and harmony!); I like to eat neules and torrons; I like that my niece and nephews sing to the Tió and that they say the traditional Christmas poem; and to go and watch the Kings’ Cavalcade and Els Pastorets. But I find it annoying that for some people it has become a mere excuse in order to make money.
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