I feel this guy’s pain, and (now that my kids are all grown up) I am so glad that I don’t have to deal with the current “keep up with the xmas-jonses” that words cannot really describe it.

A Bremerton, Wash. man has registered his protest of the commercialization of Christmas by crucifying Santa.

“Santa has been perverted from who he started out to be,” said Art Conrad. “Now he’s the person being used by corporations to get us to buy more stuff.”

A likeness Santa is nailed to a five-metre-high crucifix outside Conrad’s home.

On one of Conrad’s Christmas cards, a photo of the crucified Santa carries the message, “Santa died for your MasterCard.”

“I don’t make a lot of money myself these days, and I definitely feel the expectation to keep up with the pressures of Christmas,” he said.

Conrad is dead right about the corporations using the old duffer to try and convince people to buy more and bigger gifts — wft is up with a commercial of Santa trying to drag a pickup in his big red sack anyway?

It’s friggen nuts.

How many of us actually even know someone who can afford to buy trucks, big ass’d diamonds, snowmobiles, and 52″ wide screen, HD, surround sound, TV’s, as Christmas presents?

I know a woman who ended up buying not one, but 2 brand new laptops for her sons this year. The first because the mother of one of her sons good friends confided in her that she had bought a laptop for her son, she bought the second because she didn’t want one of her sons to get a computer, and the other to get something smaller.

She can’t afford that shite any more than I could but seems to feel that if she doesn’t “keep up” her kids aren’t going to have a good Christmas — and she wasn’t the least bit amused when I told her she was probably only about 2 xmases away from trying to finance a couple of trucks for the boys because once you start down that road what comes after a laptop for next year?

In case you’re all ready to get outraged at the crucified Santa here’s what people there say

While many have stopped to take pictures, no one has told him they are offended, he said.

Maybe there’s hope for this thing yet.

If people want to get their knickers tied up in knots over the War on Christmas^[TM] maybe they should look to those who have taken a once happy family time and turned it into a annual stress filled spending spree.