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From: louie@umd5.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.social
Subject: Re:  XMAS PRESENTS AND ....
Message-ID: <269@umd5.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 13-Dec-84 11:09:05 EST
Article-I.D.: umd5.269
Posted: Thu Dec 13 11:09:05 1984
Date-Received: Sun, 16-Dec-84 06:42:05 EST
References: <1747@wateng.UUCP> <1576@drutx.UUCP>
Reply-To: louie@umd5.UUCP (Louis Mamakos)
Organization: U of Md, CSC, College Park, Md
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Summary: 

In article <1576@drutx.UUCP> grm@drutx.UUCP (MartinezGR) writes:
>Just for discussion - does anyone have any ideas how one can gracefully
>escape from the vicious circle of buying family members (becoming more
>and more extended!) gifts for x-mas - especially when the "act of
>giving" has degraded to commercial routine?

How about greeting cards?  It's one thing to send Christmas cards to friends
and family who live far away, and you won't be seeing during the holidays, but
my (extended) family all insist on exchaning cards.  We all see each other
every Christmas, and in fact all have Christmas dinner together.  This must
all be an artifact of clever marketing from the greeting card companies.

Louis A. Mamakos
Computer Science Center - Systems Programming
University of Maryland, College Park

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