Yeah thats right, I don't like christmas. I always seem to be in the minority here, but here are my reasons.
1) Its a total consumer holiday. People are forced into buying gifts for people that they don't want to buy, for people who don't want to receive them. We end up spending lots of money and generating a lot of trash, basically.
2) Shopping for people I barely know stresses me out. I am obligated to buy presents for my family and despite living with them for many years, I still have no clue what to get anyone. It really does stress me out trying to find something. I usually settle for something stupid that they probably don't want, and they get it anyways, and thats the end of the story.
3) Forced shopping = crazy traffic. There are places in my town that I have to avoid for the whole month of december or I risk getting involved in or stuck behind an accident. It happens every few days around here this time of year.
4) Christmas music is so old and boring. Thats right, I said it: I don't like christmas music. I'm just bored with it. Its always the same and it hasn't changed since I was a kid.
5) Christmas reminds me how much I dislike being single. This would be the runner-up to valentines day for the worst day of the year for single people. I look forward to spending christmas night by myself pondering how I managed to waste another year.
6) Its just depressing. I hate the cold and the dark days and being alone makes it all worse.
Ok maybe I can find a few positives. Things I like:
1) Tons of food. good food.
2) I get to see my family. I do only see my brother a couple times a year now.
3) I get a week off from work. This is both good and bad. Not enough space here to explain why.
4) I get to watch the best christmas movie ever made: Die Hard.
So I guess its not all bad.
So why do you like or dislike christmas?
lampshade posted on Dec 13, 2007
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wakingharmony said on Dec 13, 2007....
shhhh. I cannot go into a store and not cry if they play "Silent Night" on the intercom.....Such memeories (((((((((((((((((((Lampshade)))))))))))))))) -
lalalalalala said on Dec 14, 2007....
lampshade, you hit the nail on the head. I am anti-Christmas too. Forced gift-giving, forced family time, ugh.
and yes, valentine's day sucks for us singles.
wouldn't it be nice to just skip christmas? and while we're at it, skip valentine's day too?
*lala
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quietone said on Dec 14, 2007....
okay you little young things!! I am single old lady here LOL while it sucks to be alone...it has its advantages too. I think my worst holiday is New Years Eve...sitting alone! But, then its better than being out with a bunch of drunks trying to be somebody! put the christmas music back in its case, turn on the tv get some popcorn go rent a good movie and be thankful you have the remote all to yourself! :) -
lampshade said on Dec 14, 2007....
walkingharmony: christmas music usually makes me want to leave stores as soon as possible
lalalalalalalalalala: agreed! glad someone is with me
quietone: forgot about new years...those suck too. I'm usually the only single guy at all the new years parties I have been to.
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secretlife said on Dec 14, 2007....
ok, so call me pollyanna-i love my family, i enjoy shopping for them. i love thinking about special gifts to get for them and even some to make. i love christmas music precisely for the reason you hate it. it reminds me of my childhood. and my childhood was happy and full of love. i want to hear the same old songs year after year, until my kids beg me to put the cd's back into hiding.i'm not a fan of traffic or super-busy malls. i tend to shy away from those places unless it's early in the morning on a weekday, or after 8pm on a weekday. i do 90% of my Christmas shopping at off hours.christmas is not just one day. it's a season.it's not about shopping or gifts or being forced to do things for family.it starts in your heart. it's a state of mind.it's not about darkness and selfishness or self absorbsion-it's about light -about generosityabout giving- and not just material things........giving SPIRITUALLY-look around your world lampshade.find someone to help.find someone who really needs what you have to give.reach out to this universe-and i promise you, you will know that you've only touched the surface of christmas. and that perhaps it isn't just another day to bah humbug. -
evil_twin said on Dec 14, 2007....
Oh my God....Die Hard is my favorite Christmas movie, and no one else understands that! I also enjoy watching The Ref with Denis Leary because that's also a Christmas movie. Anyway, I have to say that I can relate to what you said here. This is the first Christmas in several years where I haven't been single. But it used to be the worst time of year for me. I hated it.
I'm with you on the Christmas music too. Maybe that's why my ear was bleeding the other day, because I had to listen to it? And I hate shopping. I still haven't started my Christmas shopping yet.
I'm trying really hard to get in the spirit this year because I do have someone now to share it with. But all those years of detesting the holidays is a hard habit to break. It's slow going, but I'm trying not to be a Scrooge.
-evil_twin LA
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quietone said on Dec 14, 2007....
secret has a good point there lampshade...look outside that box a bit! :) -
Eilan said on Dec 14, 2007....
I'm ambivalent about Christmas. I have negative family memories associated with it. OTOH, I do find Christmas music to be oddly soothing, as long as it's not "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer" or something like that.
My husband and I aren't religious--IOW, Christian. We celebrate Christmas because we grew up celebrating it and because we think some of the things that secret mentioned above are important values for our family to have. We don't feel that we need to be religious to espouse/appreciate those values.
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lampshade said on Dec 14, 2007....
secretlife: I have no problem with the christmas spirit, I just think its lost on a lot of people. Its turned into a consumer holiday. Among my family and friends, christmas is a time of year for giving gifts to each other, decorating, and playing a specific set of songs. Its never been religious or spiritual for me.
evil_twin: ho ho ho! now I have a machine gun.
quietone: I wasn't aware I was in a box
Eilan: I grew up in a completely non-religious family. We do celebrate christmas and always will, but it has our own special meaning to it.
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CreativeWoman said on Dec 14, 2007....
Christmas is not my favorite holiday because I haven't been able to have children. Christmas can really make me sad if I let it. I feel cheated from the joy of the season. I can push it out of my mind most other times, but it's harder this time of year. I never say it out loud though.CW -
lampshade said on Dec 14, 2007....
CW: I can understand that. I usually try to ignore christmas and hope it passes without me noticing. The music makes that a little hard, though. -
callingyou said on Dec 14, 2007....
I love christmas.
I don't really dislike anything except, shopping..
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uniquely-ironic said on Dec 14, 2007....
I used to be idiotically happy every Christmas. I've had that knocked out of me the past few years so that I'm only humming christmas tunes about 1/2 the time.I like seeing the lights on christmas tress, the scent of pine, seeing pretty cards come in the mail, great sales of stuff I've managed to live without so far this winter and seeing certain family members.I dislike having to strategize to be able to see my kids during christmas break, candy canes (can't stand the sight or taste), crowds in stores, having to avoid the bell ringers after I've already contributed, and how wacked out everyone becomes because of the stress of the holiday. -
lidstrom82 said on Dec 14, 2007....
I think all of our negatives have come from what Christmas has become - a consumer holiday - rather than from what Christmas really is.
What it's originally about is that instead of living without hope, Jesus Christ was born into the world. This should be nothing new to anyone who's heard at least a few Christmas songs (although I grew up on Christmas music and tv specials, and still didn't recognize Jesus until age 17 - just proof that we can be exposed to something good and not even realize it).
I think you're in danger of missing the point, lampshade. You can vent about Christmas, no problem: we all need at times, over dumb relatives or buying gifts that others won't keep, the mass of humanity in the mall and the 6th rendition of "Silent Night" we've heard in a span of an hour on the radio...
But my point is that Jesus was a gift to the world, and is savior to all. That in spite of how much we can resent things we really should love (like family or holidays, for instance), God does not resent us. He sent His Son out of love for us...a kind of generous love that can inspire and renew us, and lead us to share that same generosity with others. If, and only if, Christmas is celebrated that way, then you have a REASON behind giving gifts. Otherwise, it's the chore many have described it as in this thread. You see, God is our comfort even as we lose loved ones, or if we find ourselves alone for the holidays, or if we're unable to bear children to share the joy of Christmas with. Jesus lived and died to make us whole again, and those of us who understand and embrace that have true cause to celebrate.
Keep in mind that not everyone has a family to spend holidays with. Or that some of us would be endlessly generous to everyone they knew...if they weren't dirt poor and couldn't afford the gifts we (often begrudgingly) give to others.
Most of us who aren't religious (aka Christian, because that's who celebrates Christmas, after all) still celebrate Christmas, either because it was a family tradition or our parents/family were religious, etc. But if we lose that it really means, we find ourselves disillusioned and resentful over a holiday that was MEANT to bring us hope and love.
Don't miss the point, guys. Sometimes we just need to stop lamenting what we don't like or don't have, and instead be/give something that another person needs- time, love, thoughtfulness, generosity, and so on...
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anonymous said on Dec 14, 2007....
christmas is a great festival in our country, though we don't like it. but we can't stop it.
want branded bags and watches/ pls visit www.btbnt.com
could give you a surprise
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lalalalalala said on Dec 14, 2007....
spam! go away!
lampshade, can you believe that anonymous posting?!?
*lala
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