Is Santa really good for kids?

[TRSimon]

Originally posted by BlueReign
A few years ago my children were questioning the Santa thing and I was reluctant to tell them the truth. Now that they know the truth what a load off my pocketbook! Cause now they know that there is a limit to what they will ask for -- it's Momma's money not free gifts from a fat bearded man in a red suit!

I am even so now tempted to do away with all gift-giving at Christmas from here on because it's so WRONG!! I felt this way on Thanksgiving because I overate and then watched one commercial after another after another after another about getting out to shop at 6 a.m. on Black Friday. Some stores even offered a wake up call. I am so turned off from what we do from Nov to Dec every year. We eat way too much on Thanksgiving and there are people starving next door. And then we get up at the crack of dawn the next day to buy gifts for people we know who already have everything. This doesn't make much sense to me if we call ourselves celebrating the birth of Christ and do nothing to help a world full of hurting people.

I agree with you BlueReign. What was up with those wake-up calls? I think I went to one store (after I rolled out of bed, there was going to be none of that crack of dawn action ) and that was because it was a new store that I wanted to see the inside of. Sometimes it is a bit too commercial.