lazylinguist
Glad he's getting the use from it. It's the wasteful side of things that I find a bit much.
Kid needs new pyjamas, great. Kid doesn't need new pyjamas but the whole family gets a themed set never to be touched again, not great.
Not all things that are bought at Christmas are tat, but there is a lot of tat being flogged at Christmas and it's not harmless. I know companies market and sell things, but part of that is convincing people to buy shit they don't need, they won't last or won't be used in a week. There's a market there because there's enough people buying into the idea that they need more stuff and new stuff that's fairly similar to the stuff they threw out after last Christmas.
There's a cost being paid for cheap plastic decorations, a new set of mugs each year for the Christmas Eve box, a new plate for Santa's food, a bag of glitter to throw in the garden, the themed pyjamas, a new Christmas jumper each year.
There's some posters on here with lovely ideas where they have their christmas things in the christmas eve box and each year the plate comes out, the book comes out, etc. That sounds great. The demand for tat and endless supply of tat shows many people are in buy buy buy mode.