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What’s Really The Reason For This Season?

Just another excuse to give and receive gifts?

Grace Bianco

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Blogmas Day 25

Blogmas 2023 💚🎄🎅💚

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The Christmas season is chaotic. There are so many activities to jam pack into one month. Then, there is the long list of gifts to buy. The countries that celebrate Christmas seem restless and constantly busy.

Majority of the time, it doesn’t matter if you are a believer or not. Everyone is all into the Christmas season.

In 2021, Americans were estimated to spend $6.1 billion dollars on Christmas TREES alone. It was also estimated that people would spend $15.2 billion on UNWANTED Christmas gifts. That did not even include all that was spent on gifts that were wanted. (Information was found in an article written by Capitalcounselor.)

This was a tweet that I came across on Black Friday. I am not sure who the original poster was.

It’s a holiday for consuming. And with all the chaos and spending huge chunks of money (a lot of times money we don’t even

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Grace Bianco
Grace Bianco

Written by Grace Bianco

I am the author of “Party Pooper: Growing up with Anxiety.” I love oversharing my life. I talk about my faith, marriage, mental health, & everything in between.

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