Christmas....

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I both love & hate this time of year. Love it because I enjoy the decorations & lights, & going to different neighborhoods to check out the decorated homes. I adore the festivities. I love the food, & special treats this time of year too. But I also hate it because it's so overly commercialized & I am sick to death of all the holiday shopping hype. It starts earlier & earlier every year & it cheapens what should be a celebration. It's not about commercialism, it's supposed to be about a holiday enjoyed with one's family. I refuse to participate in the black Friday sales. I also tune out all the holiday commercials that bombard us with car, clothing, trinkets ads, etc. I am perfectly happy with my current car & not planning to replace it. I certainly wouldn't bother during the holidays because I can't stand that car companies insinuate that you're a complete loser if you don't buy a luxury car around the holidays & flaunt it in front of neighbors or family. They can take all their luxury cars & shove them where the sun don't shine. Christmas is not supposed to be about buying the biggest, most expensive (choice of items goes here) that you really can't afford, & will go into debt up to your eyeballs if you do. Christmas is about family, & spending time together, & making nice memories. Screw it anyway....no family here. I'll probably just celebrate with my hubby & our dog. Usually we go to the beach to enjoy the day & check out the homes there that are all decked out with over-the-top decorations. I do wish the stores would stop hocking so much stuff this time of year. Most of it is just stuff anyway. Even kids get over their gifts quickly...what they want is time with family & to have warm & fuzzy memories of the holidays.

Tomboy

I love Christmas. I enjoy watching my sons open their presents and taking part in Christmas activities at school and at church. I enjoy being with family this time of year. And I have put up as many as 35 Christmas trees in my house---I can tend to get carried away a bit.

It's supposed to be a special time of the year obviously but I and most of my family couldn't care less

My Aspie husband loves X Mess, except for the obligatory family get togethers. I'm not a Xstian, and wish I could leave US for Haifa, Tel Aviv or Beirut from October til after January. No, sorry, I don't care about Aire Faire Tales about some virgin birth story. Or that obnoxious media concoction in a red suit.

Red Suit Guy is such a scam. The fat guy loves Little Jimmy better. He gets a X Mess trip to Aspen, Colorado. You on the other hand, got donated gloves and a turkey. Keep the lie alive.

That being said. I'm roped into planning, burning a CD of appropriate X Mess music, and helping out at my kid's school's Holiday Party (oh the irony!). Don't worry, I won't give them broken glass and nails to play with while the MC 5 blares on the boom box.

Celebrate how you want, just leave me the hell out of your insanity.

I agree with all of you about the rampant commercialism. I work at Wal-Mart, so I've seen its beginnings from mid-September onwards...it's driving me nuts.

@Douglas MacNeill: I LOVE that clip! That is what the holiday is SUPPOSED to mean.

If I may, I'd like to share with you what someone else had to say about the commercialism aspect. I think he described it very well:

Bah Humbug to all this christmas nonsense!!
I don't care for it at all. The commercialism is total B.S.
And, not being christian, that aspect of the holiday means nothing to me.

If it just went away, I would not miss it one bit.

Unfortunately, I still have to have it pushed on me by everyone else, including family.
So I grudgingly participate.

The lights are kinda cool though. But if there we're no christmas, I'd find another excuse to put up lights.
I'm all for having lights up year-round. Maybe change them on a seasonal basis.

I hate family holidays. My mom always gets into a foul mood about having to do all the cooking for a large family. Last year was great because there were only 5 of us. This year there will be 11. A pretty big group so you know things are going to get rough and we only have one oven to work with. My sister is the big holiday aficionado is gonna make us sit through holiday specials and games and stuff. Last year for Christmas, she got me "A Charlie Brown Christmas" on DVD. I HATE THAT SPECIAL!

Also, I don't have any money and never know what to get anyone.

I don't know I got no problem with it. I usually have good gift ideas for my family. I get to spend good quality time with my moms, pops, sister, aunts, uncles, and cousins. I get a new pair of boots, a new coat, and video games are REEEALLY cheap on Steam. I plan on asking my dad for some money to buy Skyrim on steam and maybe a mic stand, and my mom for a faux fur lined coat, some sneakers for spring, and some goretex boots.

My dad needs socket wrenches, and drill, my uncle is into problem solving so I'm going to try and get him a puzzle ball or something he can build (a robot or something), my cousins I plan on getting a strobe light, black light, some MMA gear/Dicks Sport's gift card and some money for steam. I'm leaving everything else up to my mom. I suck at picking gifts for womens.

It's just another day where people who don't like each other come togther and pretend to be best buds , than to make that experience less unpleasant drink copious amounts of alcohol and other " highs" (Turkey)

Animals hate Christmas to you know (I prefer them alive) unlike most people it seems.

I like the cookies

Why do people give gifts on christmas if it is jesus christ's birthday and not their's?
I don't understand because I am not a christian.

I generally love this season: the lights, the weather, the smell of the trees, but it's definitely an overrated holiday, that's for sure.

I don't exactly celebrate that holiday because I don't follow christianity nor do I follow any other religions that have a holiday around that time.....but obviously due to my family its something I've more or less had to celebrate I guess. But I don't like the family get togethers mostly I mean I always end up just sitting in some corner or going outside to smoke ciggerettes because I don't have much in common with them.

I like the overall mood this time of year.