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Monday, September 12, 2005
Consumer Society
I
t is early September and I received four Christmas catalogs in the mail last week. And many stores are all dolled up for the holidays, which are over three months away.
T
he greed has gotten so out of hand that we can't even enjoy the seasons we are actually experiencing without constant reminders that it is time to start pouring money into the bottomless Christmas pit.
T
he obvious remedy to this oversaturation is to ignore it financially and hope the profit-hungry merchants will get the message, but, honestly, there ought to be a legally binding regulatory code for holiday-specific mass mailings such as Christmas catalogs and the like.
Posted by fm on September 12, 2005 at 12:07 AM