I would love to leave Christmas behind, but it is a huge percentage the stupid consumer-driven economy in the USA. I think it would upset the apple cart and put a lot of folks out of work for a while. I suppose things would stabilize and recover (unless riots and worse happened).

Christmas becoming a BFD was a gradual thing. It’s one reason I don’t care for Dickens. I don’t blame him for all of it, but he certainly helped make it “mandatory fun” with his preachy novella. It’s ironic, because he was moralizing against greed and now Christmas is all about greed.