Is more really merrier?

I like Christmas, but it's a little bit ruined by advertising that keeps telling us to spend more.

This is one of the bluntest - it straight out says that the path to happiness is spending.

Of course, more accurate (but less grammatical) slogans would be:

the more the stressier
the more the costlier
the more the debtier
the more the exhaustinger (from shopping)
the more the wastier (of food and unwanted gifts)

But of course it's not the shops' job to tell the truth. Their job is selling.

Perhaps it's our job to realise that it's nonsense and to focus on what really makes Christmas merry.

If you'd like your Christmas to be more about love and giving than about shopping and credit cards, why not grab my free Christmas Resource. It's got 5 websites to help your Christmas have less stuff and more joy. Have yourself a merry little Christmas.

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