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Sales Event

How many times have you heard the term “sales event?” Far too many? Yeah me too. When I see the phrase on ads and hear it on commercials, I almost tune it out. Isolating the phrase, it sounds sort of exciting. A sales EVENT. It sounds like a formal, fancy get together with all your favorite cars or household items or clothes. But when you hear it repeatedly it gets really annoying and, at least for me, is easily tuned out. Sometimes advertisers will throw in the name of a holiday to remind us of our procrastination in purchasing gifts. I think that it is sad that the virtue of these holidays is being overridden by sales events. The biggest example of this is Christmas and Black Friday. I think it’s awesome to be able to get such great deals, especially when Christmas can be so pricy. It seems that sometimes people will get so caught up in gift giving that they forget the true nature of the holiday. Some handle it really well and don’t let material things get in the way of spending tome with loved ones. However, with the increase of the ads that tell is to do otherwise, it is harder and harder to remember the true nature of the holiday, and easier and easier to become materialistic. Although the repitition of the statement of “sales event” is easy to ignore, it has really found a place in our society.

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  1. UnknownJune 2, 2018 at 4:16 PM

    I have noticed this issue an and think that it is ruining the nature of holidays by replacing the idea of "gift-giving" with the true reason to show you love someone, to an extremely materialstic event that you will be proiud of becasue you got a "steal", instead of just giving something that you think will make the other happy that will express your love for them.

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