Anyone else on this Forum tired of the "Happy Mother's Day" commercials?

[gunfan]

I'm sooooo sick of the krap they pump out everywhere! My mother was a mental wreck for so many years that she was a pathetic, pointless, abusive woman during the final four years of her life. She gave a new meaning to the phrase "Mommy Dearest."

Aside from this, the junk they make to separate you from your money begins to make my soul weary.

Is anyone else tired of the crass commercialism that revolves around "Mother's Day?"

Scott

[imashooter2]

No. My Mother was everything 1950's TV portrayed a perfect mother and housewife to be. Deeply religious, loving, caring and attentive. I have no issue with the holiday honoring mothers or with capitalists trying to make money from it.

Your obvious pain saddens me. I hope that someday you might find peace.

[gunfan]

No. My Mother was everything 1950's TV portrayed a perfect mother and housewife to be. Deeply religious, loving, caring and attentive. I have no issue with the holiday honoring mothers or with capitalists trying to make money from it.

Your obvious pain saddens me. I hope that someday you might find peace.

She's been dead since December 10th, 2010. Believe me, it was a day of liberation. Neither the world, nor the remaining members of the family miss her at all! The woman was more trouble than she was worth. I'm comforted by her death.

[zidave]

Mother's day doesn't really bother me but I HATE Valentine's day. I don't need a certain day to buy my wife something special.

[WILCO]

Your obvious pain saddens me. I hope that someday you might find peace.

Lots of folks have difficulty on holidays. Major and minor ones. All one can do is pick up the pieces and move forward. As for the OP, I always vote with my wallet. If I'm against something, it doesn't get my cash.

[runfiverun]

"it makes a perfect gift too".
I wasn't aware my mom needed a new stackable 4 place roll around tool chest.
or that she could feel good about changing her own oil.
and nobody ever gave me some steaks, so I don't know how I or she would feel about that.

[Driver man]

The ads dont bother me. My mother passed away 1998. i like the memories of the good times that the ads bring up. Mothers day without a mother to share it with is a bit sad.

[starmac]

Haven't seen any adds???

[RugerFan]

She's been dead since December 10th, 2010. Believe me, it was a day of liberation. Neither the world, nor the remaining members of the family miss her at all! The woman was more trouble than she was worth. I'm comforted by her death.

So sad that was your experience. My mom was wonderful God rest her soul.


Haven't seen any adds???

Neither have I, but my TV watching is not real extensive.

[Hickory]

I worked in a cabinet factory for 7 years,
there was a guy there who got a mother's
day card every year. He was a real mother . . . to work with.

[jules]

I have not seen any but then again I don't watch TV much. My Mom was great. Did well in everything she did. Without her I wouldn't be here.

[reloader28]

I'm glad I rarely watch TV. I aint seen a single commercial.
This is actually the first Mothers Day that I will even be home. We are usually on the other side of the state turkey hunting this time of year.

[1Shirt]

It's a Hallmark and flowerist holliday!
1Shirt!

[Doc Highwall]

My wife asked me what I was getting her for mothers day I said..............."Nothing... your not my mother"

I did give her money to take her mother out.

[blackthorn]

I was adopted at age 8 months. I got the best deal EVER! My mom has been dead for over thirty five years and I would give anything to have her (Dad too) back!! As far as the comercials go, there are a few "Halmark hollidays" that we celibrate but I just let the comercialism go in one ear and out the other!

[wallenba]

I wish you had a mom like mine. I miss her greatly. The commercials do drive home the fact that, she's not with me today.:cry:

[Recluse]

I was adopted at age 8 months. I got the best deal EVER! My mom has been dead for over thirty five years and I would give anything to have her (Dad too) back!!

Three days before Christmas in 1995, we lost a baby and were never able to have kids of our own, so for many years, Mother's Day was a bittersweet reminder of what we might never have.

Then came a young lady three days before Christmas five years ago I met in a chance encounter at a retail store. She'd run out of money, was tired and weary, looked like she was fourteen years old and reminded me of those "truck stop waitress cuties" you hear country & western singers singing about. So pretty, so innocent, so tired.

I paid for the rest of her gifts and it was only about ten/twelve dollars, but God was wise and a friendship was forged. She was pregnant with her second child--and by the way, she was twenty-two years old--new husband was working late on his second job and she'd just gotten off from her job as a maid at a large hotel chain.

Don't know if she adopted the wife and I or if it was the other way around. All I know is she calls me Dad, she calls my wife Mom and we call her our Daughter, her husband our Son-In-Law and we're the only grandparents the little tadpole she was carrying that Christmas almost-Eve has ever known.

So in the past five years, Mother's Day and Father's Day have now become something very special to us, and no, we don't mind the ads and commercialism at all because every Christmas, we're now reminded not of what we lost all those years ago, but what God gave us in the recent years.

Likewise, the goddaughter--who is also like a daughter to me (not nearly so much with my wife)--is 22 years old and doing very well for herself.

These kinds of holidays remind me of how much I have been blessed. I'm truly sorry for those who had miserable upbringings and poor relationships with their parents. But family is not about biology and reproduction and genetics. A houseplant can reproduce.

It's about love, and love is what makes Mother's Day and Father's Day the special occasions they are.

Gunfan, look around you. There are young people out there who would do anything to have a man like yourself in their life because they had the same miserable relationship with their parents as you did.

Break the chain, man, break the chain. It turns these holidays into something truly special.

:coffee:

[Sweetpea]

It's about love, and love is what makes Mother's Day and Father's Day the special occasions they are.
:coffee:

JD, I couldn't have said it better...

Sometimes the family you choose is better than the family you were given!

Brandon

[GaryN]

Good post J.D. They say you can't pick your relatives. Looks like you proved them wrong. There are a lot of good people out there if we give them a chance.

[km101]

Nope, haven't seen that many since I don't watch much broadcast TV. The few that I have seen only reminded me how much I miss my Mother. All I can say is, if they bother you that much, quit watching! And if the commercialism bothers you, don't support the advertisers. It as simple as that. You seem to be making yourself miserable for no reason. You are the only one who can stop it.

[merlin101]

I hear people like Gunfan (not picking on ya) and just feel so sad for them. My mom wasn't perfect but she was my mom and I miss her and dad A LOT. Then I read something like post 17 by Recluse and that just shows the other side of the coin.
Well done!

[troutman]

It is annoying to me for what it has become. Like someone else said Valentines Day is the worst. When the spouse expects a gift bc some commercial says so. What about the other 364 days of the year when I take her dog and do other things some she can't do bc of arthritis. And when I bring her flowers just bc.

[WILCO]

It as simple as that. You seem to be making yourself miserable for no reason.

Not true. It takes the desire to heal, many years of good therapy and self awareness techniques to conquer the painful actions of other evil people in one's life. Holidays, birthdays, historic dates and even random dates are enough to make one struggle. If you haven't had to deal with vicious, traumatic dysfunctional evil people or events, then you're truly blessed. Other folks aren't that lucky.

[troutman]

My mother was awsome. She took care of 3 kids and a house and would not let my father be put in a nursing home. Unfortunately she suffered a stroke 3 years ago and they both had to go into a home. My father passed last year and she doesn't even remember the next day being at his funeral. I don't know what is keeping her alive except Gods will.

[Taylor]

I am the oldest of 7,my father was killed when I was 13.She has earned every wrinkle and worry.She is now in a nursing home.She never re-married,done it all herself! I remember when we were all young,so does she,and misses it.She is one proud woman.Loved and respected b y all who know her!

[Gliden07]

I had a GREAT childhood, and a lot of it had to do with my Mom! I was very fortunate as a kid and I wish no one had to go through what you and I'm sure countless others as children have endured... That being said I am sick of the commercialism that has been injected on all of the Holidays in general!! Made up holidays to get you to spend money on things you don't need. If you think about it there is almost a holiday every month!! I read the other day that Cinco De Mayo was a minor holiday in Mexico and has exploded in the USA!! Why is that?? MARKETING!!! Those advertizing people jam **** down our throats everyday!! So gunfan to a point YES I am!!


I'm sooooo sick of the krap they pump out everywhere! My mother was a mental wreck for so many years that she was a pathetic, pointless, abusive woman during the final four years of her life. She gave a new meaning to the phrase "Mommy Dearest."

Aside from this, the junk they make to separate you from your money begins to make my soul weary.

Is anyone else tired of the crass commercialism that revolves around "Mother's Day?"

Scott

[TXGunNut]

I don't watch TV but didn't mind the radio spots much. I did have the pleasure of taking my mom out to dinner. Won't get to do this many more times, it was pretty special.

[gunfan]

Since my father passed away long before my mother, I have consistently wished I had him back. The man was my rock! (The only one that really made my childhood worth it.)

Scott