I made a simple one sentence observation about how things have changed in the past century after viewing the Eaton Christmas catalogue and your riding me about it, and I don't understand why. Perhaps it's a good thing, perhaps a bad thing, it was only an observation.
I wasn't around in 1897 but by all accounts over the years from my grand parents (now deceased) things were nothing like this when they were growing up, my parents say the same. My recollections are that midnight mass was of the first order, then a gift was given to children on Christmas morning and husbands & wives exchanged a gift but things began to change around the 1950's and onward. Today I myself can't go anywhere without being bombarded with buy-buy-buy - be it on the Internet with ads & pop-ups, when I open my email in the morning and am greeted with countless Christmas promotional junk mails, snail mail junk & fliers, endless TV ads, store windows and Christmas merchandise placed at the front of most every type of store from Pharmacies to optical stores.
To be clear, I don't like Christmas; all the fuss and stress is way too much for me. To everyone else who enjoys the season - fantastic! Merry Christmas!
