Why do the poor spend so much money on Xmas?

[belamy]

How much are you spending on Xmas this year?

The same I do every year... €0

 

[looseliam]

The same I do every year... €0

Nothing, not even for your favourite whore?

 

[belamy]

Nothing, not even for your favourite whore?

I haven't fucked for Christmas since I was 19 or 20... I haven't hired a whore in months... I...

 

[jakester5575]

Wow. This forum makes me sick. I thought the whole "gay bitchy snobs" thing was nothing more than a stereotype. Apparently I was wrong.

Who are any of you to pass judgment on people just because they don't make as much money as you? Besides that, you don't even know what their lives are like. You see them at a store or wherever else, but you don't know what their life is. You don't know what they spend their money on, how hard they work, what opportunities they have or haven't had. And they are just as entitled to celebrate Christmas as anyone else.

 

[BenF]

Wow. This forum makes me sick. I thought the whole "gay bitchy snobs" thing was nothing more than a stereotype. Apparently I was wrong.

Who are any of you to pass judgment on people just because they don't make as much money as you? Besides that, you don't even know what their lives are like. You see them at a store or wherever else, but you don't know what their life is. You don't know what they spend their money on, how hard they work, what opportunities they have or haven't had. And they are just as entitled to celebrate Christmas as anyone else.

They don't work.

That's my point.

 

[belamy]

(...) I thought the whole "gay bitchy snobs" thing was nothing more than a stereotype. Apparently I was wrong.

Who are any of you to pass judgment on people just because they don't make as much money as you? Besides that, you don't even know what their lives are like. You see them at a store or wherever else, but you don't know what their life is. You don't know what they spend their money on, how hard they work, what opportunities they have or haven't had. And they are just as entitled to celebrate Christmas as anyone else.

Dahlin', is no about how much they make, it's simply about how much they throw away...

I don't know about Ben's people, but every year I see these "average good people" Spaniards around me (well, on Spanish TV ) making the silliest purchases pillaging their "hard-earned" money and their good health like there's no tomorrow, and all in the most cheerful and self-satisfied mood.

They have the right to celebrate, and also the sacred right to make the government in Spain or in the USA wholly responsible for their hardships.

Wow. This forum makes me sick.

Take some emetic.

 

[3nipples]

How much are you spending on Xmas this year?

About the usual amount, which is to say, very little... we don't get ourselves stressed out about Christmas and we don't spend a lot, ... the essentials are the tree with candles and some decorations, a good meal and having everyone together.

 

[Joshua_me]

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"We Need a Little Christmas"

Take it from a tipsy Mitzi Gaynor. The lyrics are true now more than ever.

People need to gather and celebrate *something* with friends and family.
This takes money. How much depends on the person, of course, but when things seem crappy everywhere else, we'll take what we can get.

 

[belamy]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBBRJs6YCE4&feature=related

"We Need a Little Christmas"

Take it from a tipsy Mitzi Gaynor. The lyrics are true now more than ever.

People need to gather and celebrate *something* with friends and family.
This takes money. How much depends on the person, of course, but when things seem crappy everywhere else, we'll take what we can get.

There she looked at her best: all that late (early "real") 1960s heavy make-up, the surgery, the expensive wig to make up for the nice thick hair she didn't have in her scalp and the all the years of dancing and working out in the body of a real woman in her 30s...

 

[belamy]

Where I live, over-decorating for Christmas is strictly middle class. Enormous inflatable plastic snow globes, Santas etc...My rule of thumb: If it takes three generators to "pretty up" the lawn, you're wasting money. To quote Diana Vreeland, "elegance is refusal".

Right, but the "era of elegance" died decades ago (whatever Anna Wintour's covers pretended): we are now (still) in the era of "style"

 

[Fucker29]

To pretend they're not poor.

 

[Ram]

Why do the poor spend so much money on Xmas?

Because the poor have kidneys too...and they also have weak, defenseless grandmas that are easily drugged.

What a sick bastard you are.

 

[PreTTy PeTe]

Who would deny the poor their pleasures?

a lot of miserable shits would

it's sad

 

[jubalon]

Christmas is the time of the year to contrast people's economic differences. So, when you suddenly feel very different and left out, I guess spending a little extra seems worthwhile. Most poor parents wants to hide that extra difference from their kids - for the sake of the commercialized christmas.

I won't blame commercialism alone for why the poor spend much money on christmas. It's more of a trigger to bring forward the contrasts between different economic classes.