My wife goes crazy when wives get upset at their husbands for not getting them gifts on Mother’s Day. I find it rather amusing. What’s going on with that?
I am often amused at how commercialized holidays are. Here in America it’s as if buying things on holidays has become a national pastime. From Wikipedia:
“For example, according to IBISWorld, a publisher of business research, Americans will spend approximately $2.6 billion on flowers, $1.53 billion on pampering gifts — like spa treatments — and another $68 million on greeting cards [2]. Mother’s Day will generate about 7.8% of the US jewelry industry’s annual revenue in 2008. Americans are expected to spend close to $3.51 billion in 2008 on dining out for Mother’s Day, with brunch and dinner being the most popular dining out options [3].”
Even my church goes out of its way to provide flowers for all of the mothers on Mother’s Day.
Now, I’m not saying that celebrating motherhood is bad. Far from it. I love my mother and always will. What I don’t understand is why men have to feel obligated to get their wives who don’t have children something for Mother’s Day.
Usually I advocate doing more for wives. Today, I have to say that I’m tired of hearing about how women should get something simply because they may be mothers some day.
Is that so bad?
