Are your missing
Benevolence
Peace
Community
Joy
?
Xmas does not foster any of these ideals. Xmas fosters recklessness, stress, frenzy, and debt.
Xmas is about money.
Dissing Xmas Brenda L. Barnes ISBN 978-0-615-32892-8 Spring Arbor
The role of money at Xmas is layered with emotions, traditions, and complex family circumstances. Dissing Xmas probes the underlying questions of why, how, where, and for whom money is spent. Where does it go? What is the total? Is that affordable? Does it increase the joy of the day?
Many celebrants don’t know how much they spend during the holidays. The Dissing Xmas worksheet (also offered as an iphone app) computes that: right down to gag gifts and postage.
A series of paired aspirations and expenditures guide the reader through a radical perspective on the role of money in the holiday season. From the passage titled “Serenity”:
“Do not do or buy anything in a panic. The holiday is always December 25th. It should not take anyone by surprise or cause a last-minute purchase. The goal for December 24th is a sense of calm and happy anticipation.”
For those who want to re-think how and why they are spending, Dissing Xmas is the place to start.
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