Letter: Make Christmas less material

As we enter into yet another holiday season, change is felt in Salt Lake’s atmosphere. Tunes on the radio play familiar melodies. The air is chilled and the hills covered in blankets of white. Stores line their shelves with soon to be gifts and decorate accordingly to set the mood. It’s a much anticipated time of year.America is a largely materialistic culture. Valuing things that have great financial worth is nothing unknown to us as we idolize people of wealth in our societies. The