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I enjoy Christmas mainly because it means presents. I grew up in a very agnostic family so for many, many years I didn't even know Christmas was a religious holiday. As much as I enjoy Christmas, though, I too am very jaded on the over-commercialization of it. It used to be that Christmas only came once a year, but with the whole "Christmas-in-July" marketing scheme, it seems as though Christmas IS the year in these modern times.
There were a number of years that I didn't celebrate Christmas, but then my daughter was born and I didn't want to be one of those parents you hear about at school where all the kids get all the great stuff and there was always that one kid who would have to say, "We don't celebrate Christmas." So yeah, I guess the marketing worked very well.
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