Easter is now Christmas: The Sequel

[Aviation Pro]

Had a conversation with a nurse who is counseling my wife on some family matters. She mentioned that her sister works at China(Wal)mart as a manager and told us that the bicycles and toys were just flying off the shelves in preparation for the holiday.

So here are my questions, when did the holiest day of the year for Christians become nothing more than a marketing tool to sell cheap Chinese products to Americans? And if one is a true Christian, why isn't there a grassroots effort to shut down China(Wal)mart's marketing of Easter as a sequel to Christmas?

Oh, and fuck Billo, McFucksanity, FuckstickMcBeck and Fat Bag 'O Shit those bloviating assclowns for even thinking that liberals had anything to do with destroying Christianity in this country.

[Va Lefty]

1. "Oh, and fuck Billo, McFucksanity, FuckstickMcBeck and Fat Bag 'O Shit those bloviating assclowns "

Awesome!!
:yourock:

[Initech]

2. Celebrate the death and resurrection of Jesus by buying shit !

[roguevalley]

18. actually, its spring break for a lot of folks and people ride their bikes.

[Renegades of Funk]

3. Easter

Easter is really more about Church than Christmas. Instead of gifts, today we mostly just get cheap chocolate.

[Cyrano]

4. How long before the wingnuts claim that we've declared war on Easter?

[kestrel91316]

5. It understand the gifting tradition at Christmas, because of the gifts of the magi.

But there is no such gifting tradition at Easter.

We got a modest Easter basket with candy, and my parents made and hid Easter eggs for us. That was IT.

Oh, and Easter dinner was a big baked ham.

[crikkett]

6. I think it's 2 things

1. tax returns

2. movement away from candy/bad food to celebrate season

[Liberal Veteran]

7. I think of chocolate, marshallows, and zombies.

[crikkett]

9. this easter is about staying in bed, for me.

I was speculating about why toys were selling so well this year, that's all.

Easter to me is all about the return of Spring and getting outside into the community....resonating more with the Zoroastrian holiday of Nourooz the Resurrection of Jesus. But this year it's rainy and cold so I'm checking out.

[Retrograde]

15. Way back when, candy was an occasional treat

I'm of an age to remember no candy for Lent, and meat limited to once a week, on Sunday. In northern European tradition, one gave up such luxuries for religious and practical reasons: Lent took place at the end of winter and last year's supplies were running out. One saved the last ham (which preserves well) for the Easter feast, along with new eggs and dairy, thereby celebrating the return of plenty - or at least adequate - supplies for the new planting year.

[eShirl]

8. it started w/ small toys as a substitute for some of the candy

and took off from there

[Ezlivin]

10. "And, lo, the lord maketh the gifts wrapped and doth lower their price."

"Verily he saith unto thee, 'For the price of one you shall get two.'"

Sales 2:15-16
The New American Marketing Version

[UTUSN]

11. K&R #5 for, is this a war on Easter?!1 ----------Kidding!1 But when O'LOOFAH's producers

hear of this, they will be knocking on your door!1 They KNOW who you are!1

[SoCalDem]

12. I was trying to remember back to my childhood the other day

and other than a small easter basket with a few chocolate "eggs" & an edible bunny & a package of Peeps, I could not recall any "gifts" at all..

Maybe the smallest kids got a stuffed animal (but mostly because the parents did not like the idea of messy little hands smearing candy all over)..

The egg hunt was for fun only..and of course egg salad sandwiches for lunch too:)

Our boys got the basket..but not the egg hunt..they thought it was "stupid", and I did not want to waste eggs:)

[Liberal_in_LA]

20. Yep, a basket with candy and one stuff toy, that was it

[soleft]

13. When I was a kid I remember Easter always being like Xmas Junior

We'd get soccor balls and softball gloves, stuff like that. But then Xmas was always just a secular occasion for getting stuff in my family. I think people have been complaining about these holdiays being commercial for 100 years or so. Even back in Dickens time Scrooge was moaning about it.

[TlalocW]

14. I twisted balloons at a country club yesterday for their Easter lunch

They had an egg hunt as well for plastic eggs that had different prizes in them. The Golden Eggs (and there was 1 for each age group) held $50.00 in it. I guess if you've got the money, Easter is about gifts and money.

I remember getting Easter baskets with mainly candy but every now and then a small toy from the cheap toy rack from the local grocery store.

TlalocW

[Liberal_in_LA]

16. wow...bikes and toys for easter. It was candy & small toys when I was a kid

maybe a stuffed bunny. but that was it. spoiled kids

[DesertRat]

17. My teaching assistant buys a load of gifts for her girls for Easter

They don't attend a church or celebrate the meaning of Easter. It's just another reason to buy them more "stuff".
She was complaining the other day about how expensive Easter was becoming now that her girls are teenagers. :eyes:

[Liberal_in_LA]

19. I had not idea!

[TheMightyFavog]

21. Yeah, All I got wa a basket with lots of candy, and maybe one or two Hot Wheels cars...

Or one of the smaller LEGO sets. That's it.