It's only Black Friday if you follow all the hyped up sales techniques employed by stores to aleviate you of your hard earned cash 4 weeks ahead of the actual event.
The Christmas period never fails to amaze me, especially when it is starting earlier and earlier each year.
Traditionally the 12 days of Christmas lasted from Christmas Eve until 6th January and that was it. The Christmas tree went up on the evening of December 24th and came down 12 days later when Christmas finished. Not as it seems now, Christmas Tree up in August and down again in February when all the needles have fallen off. Go on, tell me when your town/city/village started putting up Christmas decorations, and we are not even into December yet.
You know there is something wrong when a one day Christian holiday has a bearing on just about every other religion in the World, especially when everything that surrounds it has absolutely has beggar all to do with the actual day itself.
I'm with Arthur on this one. And I won't be handing over my cash to some greedy shopkeeper who has a real problem with the calender and thinks Christmas lasts 3 months of the year and uses it as an excuse to put his/her prices up. Bah Humbug indeed!!!
While we are on the subject, do you know why there is a Fairy at the top of a Christmas Tree? Well one day a Fairy was walking down the road with a Christmas tree under one wing when she met up with Father Christmas. She stopped and said to Father Christmas... "Where shall I put this tree?"