September 5, 2010 – Shopping for the Holidays

The amount of useless housewares that is being sold this week must be phenomenal. And it’s all ceremonial. You need to make sure that whatever you buy does not indicate that the family is lacking in anything. The interesting thing is that there seem to be almost the same number of Moslem as Jewish women buying this stuff. Of course I have no statistics. But I suspect that shopping is so contagious it transcends religious differences.