If the GUEST who is blowing his or her stack about the number of Christmas threads is the same GUEST who started this thread (thereby adding to the number!), I thought this was about boycotting the Christmas spending orgy. That's pretty much what my wife and I do, but we do "keep Christmas," as Dickens would say.

If this was intended to be a totally anti-Christmas thread, as in "BAH! HUMBUG!" then sorry I peed in your punchbowl.

I'm gone. But don't look for me at the mall because I won't be there.

Don Firth