Holiday shopping is worse

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Going shopping at any time is not a pleasant experience for me because of my sensory and social issues (mainly the sensory ones), but holiday shopping is worse by many orders of magnitude. Shopping season is upon us, and for the occasion I have uploaded a video of a recent live performance of a song I wrote in the late 1980s. Shopzilla is a parody of the Blue Oyster Cult song Godzilla but is about a shopping lady who “pulls the spitting high-tension buyers down.”

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdnBAAzXirY[/youtube]

Black Friday is really stupid how people are trampling each other to get bargains the day after "giving thanks" for what they already have.

I try not to go anywhere near malls, walmart etc. until the "Cattle Stampede" is over.

I was in Cincinnati OH on black friday on an ambulance run at 5 am a few years ago when my poorly maintained ambulance caught on fire. It was snowing and while putting the fire out I managed to catch my jacket on fire. As we were going to be waiting hours for someone to come get us, I walked over to the walmart to buy a hoodie. I wanted one item and was not picky. no one seemed to care that I had smoke rolling off me, or that my arm was bandaged. It took 45 minutes to get to the women's department, grab a jacket, and get out. By the time I got back, the engine was cool enough to touch. And I was about to loose my mind. I put out a fire, burned my arm, and was stranded in the bad part of town with narcotics in the truck, and that wasn't as stressful as trying to get a jacket...

I gave up shopping for the holidays years ago. I finally have my family "trained" - I don't buy gifts for Xmas and I don't expect gifts for Xmas.

However, if they want to get together and watch a movie and eat yummy food, I'm all for that.

Note that I'm not against gifts, just against obligatory gifts.
Xmas has gotten insane and I refuse to play.

I don't holiday shop in stores any more. My husband does most of the holiday shopping, but if he didn't, I'd just be ordering everything on Amazon. I CAN NOT take the stuff flying at me from all directions (sensorily) around the holiday season in stores.

It's not that I don't like the holidays. I actually love them, but within the confines of my own home or with the freedom to "run away," so to speak -- like, looking at Christmas decorations on houses as I walk or drive by, or turning on my own Christmas music and then turning it off when it's too much.

Can't afford to do Christmas shopping now, but avoid the stores like the plague now, with everything being crowded that i have no free room to think, then the long lined where they treat you like cattle just for the "privilege" of giving my money to them. just can't deal with that..

I might become an Old Calenderist Orthodox, as then Christmas is on like January 7th.

I absolutely hate holiday shopping. The crowds are horrible--I get so claustrophobic in them, and then the noise...yikes. By the time I get home, all I want to do is head up to my room and have some down time.

Black Friday can be rather chaotic. People wait in line over night and then literally trample each other. To remedy this issue some stores sell tickets for individual items before hand, those with tickets can get in. If someone with out a ticket comes in, they can become angry and demanding and they can get what they want which means the person behind them following the rules with a ticket will not get the item. I don't like this.

The incestuous relationship between the retailers and the media is the ultimate in sickening, this year they even opened stores on the day we're supposed to reflect on how we wouldn't even have freedom of speech or the money to buy all that crap if it wasn't for God. Al Qaeda is seriously overlooking a prime target here (hint hint) if their true aim was to take the Western economic system down.