Crisis? What Crisis?

If you're not familiar with Christmas, I'd say it's a religious celebration, that brings joy to all christian families, as we commemorate the birth of Jesuschrist, the 25th of December. It's for sure easy to understand, as there're similar celebrations in (almost) every religion.

The fact is that Christmas is not a nice time to me. I really hate that people are pushing the boat out for it. If you read newspapers or watch the tv, you'd hear that the economic situation is getting worse, that the prices are raising, that the mortgages are higher day after day or that the unemployment rate is quite high, but people do not stay at home.

Everything is more expensive in Christmas, but the commercial areas in every city (and I've seen a few cities this Christmas) are incredibly crowded with people and there's enormous traffic jams in the highways. The cash registers are ringing louder than ever, nevertheless. Every year is the same, or maybe it's going worse year after year.

I 'd like to criticise the spirit of "modern" Christmas, in which people are so eager to waste their money, no matter what they're looking for or no matter how hard will be January. After two weeks buying tenths of presents, the finest food, and moving from one city to the other, families are supposed to have not much money to spend.

Now, in January, almost every shop makes the prices lower, or offers discounts: they're having sales, and thousand of bargain-hunters are invading (yes, in January too) shopping centers, commercial stores and shops. I ask myself, where the hell do people earn so much money? crisis? what crisis?