Looking at Crystal’s blog, I realize how soon Christmas will be here. That is one thing I haven’t thought of for a while, another thing I haven’t thought of before is the business of Christmas.
If you look at its (Christmases) origins, it comes from religion. The only way that it has changed and become such a commercial period of the year is because of marketing. This is an extreme example of how powerful marketing is. It managed to changed the philosophy of a holiday from religion to commercial. Now, for many companies Christmas is there most successful time of the year. They can sell everything and anything to anyone. The only problem for these companies is the competition.
I think that the Christmas spirit has been created by marketing. People talk about presents, lights, trees, food, family, cold, etc. Although its wonderful to have these things, they are not important and actually have no reason to really be around Christmas. Yet they are, Christmas has been commercialized and the marketers that did this were extremely smart and successful.