Christmas commercials........ Hate them or love them

Eeeeh,I could take it our leave it at this point.

My family and my wifes family are all past the point of giving gifts, so its all about a big meal now.
I don't know, I always enjoyed getting and giving, but the family got too big, some of the family weren't able to buy gifts because of financial issues, so we just gave it up.

Couple years ago we went to San Fran, to see the wifes family for Christmas, I kinda talked them into doing gifts. Its a smaller group so I thought it would work out. We put some thought into it, and gave gifts that we thought they wanted, or could actually use.
They went to the grocery store and bought us giant chocolate bars, just what we needed, more sugar. lol
So I just gave up after that.

We wont go to Jersey to do Christmas with my stepdaughter and her husband, and the two grand kids cause they are TOTALLY into the rampant consumerism and over giving of gifts.
The grandkids have lots of aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents back there and they get probably close to 100 gifts between the two. It's just insane.
We spent one Christmas morning with them a few years back. They started opening gifts first thing in the morning, then took a break for breakfast, then they opened more gifts, then we took a break for lunch, and then they finished with the gifts. We wont do that again, so we visit them when there's not a holiday happening.

For me I'm just over it, I like the lights, and some of the Christmas services and activities at church, but the rest of it is just a big let down. Plus we've had a lot of deaths and such around Christmas time. My grandma died on Christmas day, my dad a couple weeks before Christmas, my uncle a week after Christmas.