On Dec 23, 2008, at 17:45, Agnes Boddington wrote:
[...] like you I cannot believe how much food people are buying: do they really expect to eat all that in one day?
It's all those Polack immigrants y'all now have in UK :) Our Christmas tradition is to: pig out on Christmas Eve (beginning with the first star and ending at midnight), follow it up with another pig-out (or two) on Christmas Day (no longer meatless, hurrah!) and spend Dec 26th in the hospital, having your stomach pumped.
Even though I'm a dedicated atheist, I don't mind people wishing me a Merry Christmas; I figure I can use whatever goodwill is going around, for whatever reason. I answer them "and the same to you" and everybody's happy. So, I guess, I won't be joining Sue and Jean on the soapbox :)
Vis gifts... This year, due to the dreadful economy, we decided that only the children get gifts; it doesn't bother me, because that's how it was in Poland anyway. Adults... We're donating money -- in one another's name -- to charities. Food Bank, Free Clinic, library, Doctors Without Borders, CARE... So many causes, so little money... charities are suffering more than ever, while being needed more than ever too.
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