CHRISTMAS TIME.

We are quickly approaching that time of year, the time of year where our bank balances drop quicker than the temperature and like the temperature our bank balance struggles to stay above zero. The time of year that shopping becomes a nightmare as millions of people flood the shops in a frenzy looking to buy presents to prove how much they love their families and friends.

The time of year that we over indulge, in a sick frenzy of greed, we drink too much, eat too much , spend too much and waste too much. The time of year that we go out and buy plastic junk, unneeded gadgets, cheap and lame novelty gifts that most people do not want or need. Most of the gifts that we buy, we buy simply because "they might buy us something."

The time of year that we wear clothes that do not fit us properly out of politeness, the time of year that parents spend hours trying to assemble some shit pieces of plastic before realizing we have been ripped off! At the night cities and towns will turn in to something like a scene from the Walking Dead as the work gatherings and parties take place, our hospitals fill up with injured drunks.

I am obviously talking about Christmas, the time of year that the masses replace their hard earned money with plastic, corporate junk and corporations replace their plastic, corporate junk with our hard earned money.

We rush to the shops to buy to shit ready for Christmas day and Boxing day we rush to the shops again to buy the shit that nobody wanted only this time we buy them closer to the actual value of the product in the so called boxing day sales.

Christmas is a time for corporations to cash in selling us mass produced, low quality products for twice their value, has nobody noticed that EVERY occasion in our lives comes with the tradition of spending money? Christmas time, you spend money on everything, Valentines we spend money on flowers, chocolate and perfume, Easter we spend on Chocolate, Birthdays we spend, Halloween we spend on sweets, no matter what the occasion it is tradition that corporations cash in, I wonder who thought of these traditions?