If you buy into Christmas then you should ask yourself one question: Why?
I am a stickler about this because I want people to realize what they are doing when celebrating this holiday.
1. Can you afford the holiday? If you can't afford to celebrate the damn holiday, then don't. Being in debt because your spoiled and bratty children demand stuff isn't a good reason. If you are bad with money, then find someone who isn't to make a budget for you. Stick to the damn budget. If you have a budget of 0 or negative dollars, then just suck it up, you shouldn't make it worse by adding to that negative amount with a credit card.
2. Celebrate the holiday because you want to, not because you are obligated to. Not everyone needs something from you and don't feel obligated to give anything in return.
3. Secret santa games are stupid. If you have a limit of x dollars, then that means everyone should just give each other x dollars. No loss and nothing changed. Therefore the whole transaction is pointless. If you get each other actual items, the calibur of those items will be judged. IE: "I got a better present than this for that person, this sucks"
4. Admit that this holiday season is occupied by more than one holiday. Don't be a jerk, respect others. Say "Happy Holidays" don't force christmas on people. It's not nice or fair.
5. Be conscience that the Christmas holiday is simply about consumersim. The notion of "this is the season of giving" simply tries to hide the fact that someone bought something for someone else. If someone is giving something to someone, there is someone receiving it. End of story. This holiday is selfish for two reasons, the people giving something to someone feel good about it and the people receiving feel good about getting something usually.
6. Hannuka is a boring holiday and not comparable to christmas. You are NOT supposed to receive any gifts, especially not eight days of them. You get shitty tasting gelt chocolate coins and a piece of shit draddel which encourages gambling. The holiday is about lighting candles/oil floating wick, which is due to the story of having enough oil for 8 nights when really there was only enough for one night or something. Anyone who wants to alter the holiday, such as a hannuka bush is not being a good jew. Either you do it right or you don't do it at all.
That being said, happy non denominational holiday. Don't get yourself into debt and please no drunk driving.
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