Season greetings to you all, it's a beautiful festive season and hope you all are enjoying your holiday? As for me, I'm enjoying myself because Mom has been cooking delicious meals for us in my family for the past one week.🤣 Also gisting and shouting has taking over my day because my nephews and cousins are around to celebrate with us.
Though they help out in doing lots of house chores but they are very playful and the noise in the house has really raised to three times the normal one I'm used to, the way they eat almost every minute, fight and then reconcile in the next minute baffles me a lot.... Lolz. But in all, it's part of holiday fun and I'm enjoying every bit of it cause the last time I saw them was April this year during Easter celebration.
Looking at holiday traditions, there are different traditions people carry out that are absurd to me because I see no reason such traditions are in place in the first place. That one tradition that is observed during festive seasons that I don't really understand why it is done is hiking the price of goods and services.
In Nigeria once it's festive season, prices in every sector doubles or triples, if not that the price of petroleum products had already gone up before December, it would have been another thing entirely by this time because it's like a perpetual tradition for petroleum marketers to hoard petrol during festive seasons. But thankfully, almost all filling stations have petrol this festive season.
Hiking the price of goods and services is the usual tradition that happens almost at every opportunity people see once it's the festive season either during Christmas, New year or Sallah celebration and I see no reason why the prices of goods we all are buying will decide to go up all because we are celebrating, why can't I buy things any time I have my money?
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The most annoying thing is that people selling perishable goods and foodstuffs in the market are also guilty in this inflation stuff. For instance if you go shopping few days or a day to Christmas, the worth of goods you will buy for ten thousand naira will be so minimal that you will think maybe you have lost some of the goods you bought.
But wait till Christmas day either in the morning or afternoon, the trader will literally be begging you to come and patronize them and you will be wondering is this not the same goods I bought few days ago at an exorbitant price. It's so pathetic and I just wish this tradition will stop so that whether people are celebrating the season or not, they will have whatsoever they intend to buy at normal rate without excess charges.
If I were to be a part of my nation's economy committee, I would love a situation whereby people will be anticipating any holiday season because they know they can get whatever things they needed at cheaper rates. I don't like a situation where pains are inflicted on people, I just want people to enjoy themselves with whatever they desire. To me the holiday season is a time for merriment and relaxation not a time to stress people up and down.
Thanks for visiting my blog and happy new year in advance 🥰
