If you could change any part of Christmas?

Christmas Salutations fellow members!
Generally every Christmas I start to hear the usual moans and groans about the Xmas experience.  Normally this centres around the commercialism of the whole affair, the lack of snow or standard grips about the traffic/busy high streets.
Whilst I am not immune to this myself I got to wondering if you could change any aspect of Christmas, what would it be?
Last Halloween I seen the introduction of Halloween tinsel... Yes black and orange tinsel with wee skulls on it.  This has been instantly replaced with the glittery xmas version.  I must say that this has soured my notion of the decorations and it all seems a bit too programmed now.
My major gripe is the cooperate control over the holiday season.  It would be nice to revert to the days of Dickens and move to goodwill toward men idea which seems to have fallen by the wayside a little.  It almost to be more of an opportunity at excess now which I feel takes away from everything.
So the question stands, if anyone else could change anything, would you? And if not, why not?
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peteratsrinagar wrote:
Personally, I think that all these events should be cancelled immediately. As everybody is aware,today these so-called festival days are no more than a commercial  bean feast. Sick of the lead-up, sick of the flop of an event and sick of the "sales " frenzy aftermath!
My comment was lighthearted, a dig really not so much at the events themselves but at the way they've become rote. Take Christmas cards. Nothing wrong with sending some personal greetings to your nearest and dearest, but the whole business has been hijacked by a kind of competition to see who has the biggest list. So many people now maintain a computerised list so that they can print off dozens of labels each year to be stuck on envelopes containing 5p cards inscribed impersonally with just the sender's signature. The only real input is a bit of list trimming to take account of who sent them a card this year or not. It's not friendship, it's nonsense.
I do send a small number of cards to particular friends and relatives; any others bearing my name are the work of Mrs PP. It was encouraging this year to note (and others have said the same) that our cards didn't stretch so far round the wall this year. Obviously the price of postage has put us beyond the reach of some acquaintances. 
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