What Are The Chances Of.....?

Question

Buying gifts for family and friends at Christmas coming to an end? What are the chances of movements such as buynothingchristmas.org and others succeeding? Patrick Moore talked about that stuff in his column.

Answer 1

Based on the steady spread of the Christmas buying season coming earlier and earlier during the year I would be quite surprised.

With so much money involved (something like 20% of all retail sales come during this period) the de-commercialization of Christmas is extremely unlikely.

It is also extremely culturally ingrained - should Christianity become a marginalized religion, certainly the end of the Christmas buying season would decline or even vanish... but again, I don't see that happening, at least not for the next hundred years or so...

Just my .01

-dh

Answer 2

There's about a 0% chance of that happening everywhere because this is a consumer driven world, and Christmas is the most busy time of the year. The harder people try to stop creating such a materialistic Christmas, the harder the industries try to make us buy something. There's just too many people who don't care about buynothingchristmas.org so odds are, the chances of having a completely material free Christmas are near zero. You can't stop trying to promote buying nothing though, it's definitely a noble task. Remember, be the change you want to see in the world.

Answer 3

The secret is out!! Patrick Moore is a close relative of the Grinch!!

Answer 4

well its cool to take advantage of the fact that you may demand gifts at this time of year just because you can. there will always be rich people and there will always be christians, so no.

Answer 5

then we may as well cancel it all together and destroy the economy. won't happen