After spending rougly ten years in the retail trade I have to say that I am totally turned off by the commercialization of Christmas. Rather than a time of joy it has become a time when you are judged by the quality (read expense) of gifts that you buy for people. I think that the low point came when I actually saw 2 people fighting over a parking spot in the mall a few years ago. Sadly every holiday, religious or not has perverted by commercial enterprise into a profit opportunity.