Christmas...not again

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It's christmas soon? I haven't noticed, nor do I really notice anymore.

I hate christmas too, though for me it's because I feel like I should get presents for people, but I have no Idea what to get not to mention that I don't have enough to get anything,

this sounds lovely. the holidays are horrible for me =( hospitalizations around these times. i am going to get a gamecube again for cheap before november. and its been so long since ive had thai food. mario kaaart =)

I'm already tired of it when I hear the first Christmas song on the radio and I know I'll hear them for the next couple of months! I don't really care about Christmas anymore. I just look forward to it being over.

I love Christmas. I love putting up Christmas decorations in my unit Star Wars and Gaming Christmas decorations on my tree and playing Christmas songs. I have a small family just my Mum, Dad my sister and I and we listen to christmas songs and have traditional christmas lunch. Even though I am nearly 40 I still love Christmas.

I don't like Christmas. It's always the time of year which highlights how lonely my life is the most. Everybody else is enjoying themselves together and I am sat at home. Bah f***ing humbug.

+/- of Christmas for me:

+ I can get some neat presents, provided I manage to think of some things I want in time for people to get them.
+ I like Christmas trees, decorating, lights, etc. Especially the Christmas lights!
+ Unlike most here, I enjoy getting into the "Christmas spirit" even though I'm not Christian. Flame me at will.
+ I enjoy giving presents (what I can with limited funds, anyway) and watching kids make out like bandits!
+ There are people generally around who play pool or other games, which I like.

- It's hard for me to think of things I want for Christmas.
- It's even harder for me to think of things to get people. I don't stay in-touch enough to know what they actually want, and I don't want to get someone something they don't like which they will feel obligated to lie to me about liking.
- It can get expensive buying presents! Especially since my mantra is, get things people would hesitate to get on their own but would really like.
- Definitely difficult to keep up with a 20-person dinner conversation! Flat-out impossible even with five for many others here!!
- I generally don't care for the food, and it tends to get cold while prayer that I see as unnecessary takes place, and then the dishes have to be passed around a table of 20 people, meaning an embarrassing trip to the microwave which nobody else seems to need.

Yep, and i can't run errands as the stored are cramped at that time.

I loove yul (jul) also termed christmas. I am not a christian but I love all the christmas decorations, candels and gifts - but I am bit of a granny (and I do insist in being a granny in black and with tattoos!).
I do think that all the commercial christmas stuff starts way to early - I try to awoid it until 1. of December. I am goint to have a christmas tree and design christmas decorations and bake tons of cookies

I'm one of the few people I know who actually enjoys Christmas.

I don't require the company other people to be able to enjoy a holiday.

Oh why did you have to remind me of that terrible time of year.

I am having some eggnog as I am posting this.

Thanksgiving Is eep lots of ppl.
15 to 20 NT's (some times a lot more.) and one with Autism and now very non verbal. ( I 100% lost my voice back on the 17th of Feb due to a seizure. It's not going to come back. )

Christmas is not that bad for me I go to my mom's and it's mom and me and my sister. so not bad at all.

That dreaded "month" starting on the day after Thanksgiving and ending on December 24th.

That "bonfire of NTness".

There are in scripture actually 9 feasts but we slaves get it all packed into one holiday over with we get to exercise brainless consumerism.


F it.

Christmas is complete and utter hell for me. For starters, my best friend was killed by a drunk driver on Christmas eve 10 years ago. Then there's the parties and overwhelming amounts of cheery people who assume I feel the same way. Top that off with the fact that Christians celebrate the birth of Christ by decking their houses with pagan objects and traditions - and the stress of trying to make sense of that conundrum, it's enough to make my head explode! (I do consider myself to be a Christian by the way, so I have to also deal with people criticizing me for not decorating, because apparently THAT is illogical to most everyone else).

To be fair, a lot of the rituals involved in Christmas have nothing to do with Christianity, a lot of them were borrowed from the Pagan winter festival and incorporated into the Christian celebration in order to make the idea of conversion more enticing to Pagans back in the middle ages when the Christian church was going on its mass-conversion rampage. Christmas trees for instance, a Pagan ritual of bringing plants into the house during winter as a way of representing bringing the plants back to life come spring. Santa Claus, a Pagan myth about a demon who came into the rooms of bad children on the night of the winter celebration and took them away in a sack. Christ wasn't even born in December for goodness sake, he was born in April, but the Christians decided to move his birthday to the dead of winter in order to coincide with the Pagan winter festival, because they wouldn't get many converts if they took away the peoples' favourite holiday. The idea of eating a lot at Christmas was left over from the Pagan feast that was meant to get rid of leftover food stores that would go bad and was used as a way of clearing out the cupboards to make room for next year's harvest. So as you can see, even Christians, when celebrating Christmas, aren't really celebrating anything unique concerning their own religion, it's mostly a mishmash of religiously irrelevant ideas used as an attempt at converting people a very long time ago.

^ This.

For me personally, the only aspect I liked about Christmas were the birthday presents, and then afterwards Christmas Day just felt like any other day. I ended up just doing my own thing, and in the afternoon everybody just dozed off.

What puzzles me though is why we have to have the same holidays over and over again without doing anything new or inventive. Why don't we invent our own holidays, like Carl Sagan Day, where you go star gazing and get to make an apple pie, from scratch?