Christmas and Consumerism

I’m of two minds on the whole consumerism of Christmas thing. On the one hand, it all sometimes makes me feel quite ill, the acquisitiveness and the materialism of it. And then again I feel the nobility of it, of thinking of others’ happiness and trying to find or do things that will please them. I think at least it is better to give than to receive, and accordingly Christmas is a much more blessed time as an adult than as a child.