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Lack of Christmas tat might not be a bad thing?

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KingsleyShacklebolt · 14/10/2021 09:11

News this morning about all those containers stuck at Felixstowe from Asia, and similar problems at ports in the US which are now working overnight to clear the backlog.

These aren't shipping containers with food, it's all the other toys, decorations and associated tat which line the shelves of supermarkets and places like Home Bargains earlier every year.

Maybe if people have a year where they can't buy tinsel, or a musical Santa which drops its trousers, or Christmas bedding, or elves on shelves, or any of the other crap, they will maybe realise that you can have a brilliant Christmas with last year's decorations, or homemade decorations, or charity shop decorations? Consumerism at Christmas has got WAY out of control and this might force a halt to the buy buy buy mentality, focused on single use plastic and cheaply made rubbish from China.

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Blackmagicqueen · 15/10/2021 22:42

’ Chuckling at the lovely middle-class homespun heirloom tree decorations...with an air miles carbon footprint bigger than Waitrose's vegetable aisle...’

Me too…

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