Holiday Spending

Its obvious how much we spend towards each holiday is a huge amount of money, but I do not think it is a problem. People are spending how much they feel comfortable spending, even if at the end there is 127.87 billion spent on Christmas alone, no one will buy their way into debt. It is terrible to think people are suffering from homelessness, disease, and hunger in the world and we are spending billions on decorations only for seasonal use, novelties/gifts, and excessive amounts of food- but people are accustomed to this way. Holidays are a time for the family and togetherness and basically just something to do. Lets face it, America would not have the same culture if we did not celebrate Halloween or winter holidays. The decoration, costly as they are, brings happiness to people. Its amazing to imagine what would do if we took Christmas off and donated all that we could to every organization and donation fund possible, but we cannot change all of America's close nit traditions.