Has Christmas had its Day ?....

[hilaryfrances]

Thats right tiglet, and I bet they dont believe in fairies either

[tiglet]

Now you're just making a mockery of the whole thing ...

[Bookworm]

Well I know lots of boys and girls who will be getting coal in their stockings this christmas eve ...

Seeing how cold it is here this morning, that's what I'd call a useful present at last.

[suzieblooz]

Much as I love Christmas, it is too commercialised. Why not just remane it Chocolatemas? I've been trying to find an advent calander that does not have chocolate in it. When I was wee they used to have glittery Christmas trees and snowmen on them or a nativity scene. Now it's High school musical or The Simpsons. The supermarkets are full of sweets & chocolate then the minute Xmas is over they fill the shelves with keep fit stuff and diet foods!! Every one should have a decent brake over Xmas - do we really need supermarkets and other shops open on Boxing Day?

Anyway apart from that , Merry Christmas!

[Peepo]

I havent celebrated Christmas for years because it means nothing to me. People say to me, 'why dont you celebrate it for your daughter, so she doesnt miss out on presents.??

My reply is 'And teach her to take part in an anual holiday that means nothing to us?'

I will not teach my daughter to drift through life questioning nothing & just being a sheep.

So, I celebrate new year instead. Something that has much more meaning to me. My daughter & I decorate the house with new year decorarions & give new year presents. Something much more worth while I feel.

 

Some people seem to get offended when I tell them I dont celebrate Christmas. Like its something they have also wanted to do but never had the courage. Its a funny old wold sometimes.

[freakyleaky]

Lots of people don't celebrate Christmas for lots of different reasons and that is their choice and that choice should be respected!

However it also works the other way round. You can't call everyone who celebrates Christmas a sheep just because the majority of people in this country do the same thing!

That is their choice for whatever reason and that should also be respected!

 

I love Christmas by the way!

[Peepo]

Im not saying people that celebrate christmas are sheep. Im saying that if I continued to celebrate christmas with the knowledge that it means nothing to me I would be teaching my daughter to be a sheep.

[freakyleaky]

As long as she understands why she is in the minority then there is absolutely nothing wrong in that and i admire you for sticking to your priciples!

[Guest wino]

 

yes. Its crap.

 

 

 

Don't beat about the hollybush Crusher, just tell us exactly what you think!

[Woolleykat]

Don't like it either - just another birthday to me

[PriorityOne]

Wish Summertime woud go on for as long as "Xmas" always does.... but then, there's not as much money to be made, is there ?.... so it won't.

 

Pah !...

 

....P1 against promoting Xmas from August onwards !.... lol

[PriorityOne]

Now this is the kind of Xmas miracle I'd like...

 

[Woolleykat]

Yeah but he's wearing pants

 

Oh! and wouldn't the feathers get in the way lol

[the main man]

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[PriorityOne]

Yeah but he's wearing pants

 

Oh! and wouldn't the feathers get in the way lol

 

... but I can see up those pants.... lol

 

.... and those feathers would be ripped off with all that testoterone-charged scrambling to get down the chimney....

 

Sorted.

[hedgey06]

D'ya know what? I love christmas with a passion!!!

 

I know it's commercialised, I know it's a big money-spinner, and I know it's a bit contrived! But the thing is................ I really love it!

 

I love the fact that my dad's gonna sit on one of the sofas huggin' a bottle of wine (that I'll desperately try to wrestle off him!); I love the fact that my mum will be pis*ed as a fart on Bailey's and then announce to the entire house that she's "having a hot flush" (even though she's 65 - bless her!") And I love seeing everybody that I love in the whole wide world happy, contented, full of food, full of drink and generally "happy"!!!

 

I love it when somebody starts an argument about the 'game' they're playing with the kids............. usually because 'somebody' hasn't read the instructions right in the first place! Therefore, the kids totally whoop their asses!

 

And I love it most of all cos it's a time when I remember my brother - cos he died 2 days before christmas day 15 years ago. So we make it a special occasion for "being family" in his memory. And I always remember how much he loved christmas day........... so we "big it up" in his memory!!!

 

But most of all................ I love the thought of it. And if it costs that little bit extra, then so be it! Cos even though (like everyone else!) I can ill afford the expense, I'll take the sentiment of the whole spectacle................................ and look forward to it every time!!!!!

[Woolleykat]

Ohh Sooty

 

[Woolleykat]

Hedgey - don't do Christmas for reasons already posted - but still do Boxing Day as if it some sort of party - brother, parents etc. but still not right as son does own thing, just comes down to say hello and back up to pit . No real joy in this house unfortunately.

[hedgey06]

Totally understand Woolley............ it's about what we all feel comfy doing at the end of the day. So whatever makes you happy sweetie, that's what you've gotta do.

 

It's the holidays - so everybody should do what they're happy doing - as opposed to what peeps think they should do. x

[PriorityOne]

 

It's the holidays - so everybody should do what they're happy doing - as opposed to what peeps think they should do. x

 

Well said Hedgey....

[Woolleykat]

Go with that - do my thing not commercial

[empowered]

My stomach goes in knots at the thought of Christmas! I loved all the preparations and excitment when the children were little - it was really done for them then. Now they are 23 and 18, they still have a stocking to unwrap in bed and I just do little mini stockings for the table filled with miniature drinks, chocs, little bit of jewellery for everyone. Elderly parents stay (each Christmas I am aware it may be their last) so really it is a time of celebration that we are all still together. Old friends drop by for drinks in the morning and I really don't bother about when the main meal is ready - its ready when its ready and not a minute before! We then have all the leftovers on Boxing Day (I much prefer this day) and parent toddle off home and then I can chill out! Christmas is what you make of it mentally and each year I have spent as little as possible financially - I shall use up the spare cards from last year and not buy any more. The tree will go up on 17th (day before daughter's birthday) and I then start to get into the spirit of the occasion but I absolutely detest shopping and all the false bonhomie - bah humbug!

[moggieb]

Christmas for us with 4 lads has always been really hectic. Traditionally, for the last 25 years we had never spent Xmas Night in our own house. Until my parents both passed away in October 1999, we (and my 3 sisters & brother & their familys) spent Xmas night from about 7 o'clock onwards at Mom & Dads opening presents (kids only) and playing silly games (everyone). After 1999 we carried on the tradition at one or the other of our houses but it was never really the same as grand children had come along and present giving had to be cut back cos there were so many. So last year when we got together to arrange Christmas night I decided to make a stand and said sorry, hubby & I would like to spend Xmas night in our own house for once wih just our own offspring. After the initial complaints-it was agreed that we would do our own thing & get together on Boxing Night instead. Great sucess!!! So much so that everyone has all agreed that our get together this year will be New Years Eve. Just goes to show that the perfect Christmas is each to their own!!

[hilaryfrances]

of course it is, life is always what you make it, we are all different and we all enjoy different things. Christmas is not all about spending money, I have no religious beliefs myself, so I join in anyone`s celebrations who will have me! Jewish, muslim, St Patricks day, any excuse for a knees up! But Christmas is special, the atmosphere and the build up is unique. I marvel each year how I manange to find the money, but find it I do. We have just had our first Chrismassy weekend with my sisters and we had a brilliant time. ( Jimmy Carr was cracking by the way) If I found anyone who was on their own on Christams Day, I would feel duty bound to invite them round rather than have tham on my concience. I have done this in the past and if peeps say they prefer to spend Chrissy on their own then that is fine at least I have offered. Come on peeps, you are a long time dead, my lovely nephew died died last year aged 46, I am glad he made the most of his life, he was the life and soul of every party and sadly missed. You never know what is around the corner. Most of the peeps on here will have had or are still having financial problems, these are minor to what some people have to go through. So all you bah humbugs out there, "GET IN THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT"

 

Here endeth the first lesson!

Gosple according to St Hils

[Bookworm]

Oi, St Hils, your halo is slipping!

 

Thing is, what makes you obviously thrive is the opposite of what makes me thrive! Nothing to do with being long dead, I just don't like the hustle and bustle and all the activity in general. My idea of an ideal Christmas is to be somewhere hot and non-Christian so they don't even have Christmas there, a good book, and enough cash to keep on topping up my glass of Diet Coke.

 

Add to that the fact that my youngest son is Asperger's Syndrome, so that excitement and surprises and sensory over-stimulation are too much for him to handle. As a result, previous xmases have often ended up with being just too much stress for us parents trying to keep his stress levels down, and for him being unable to process all that was going on around him, invariably leading to meltdown.

 

As the kids are getting older, every year, we are turning the level of decorations and celebrations down a notch further, until hopefully we won't have to do much, and even, with luck, not have to do it at all. Once we're only left with our youngest (the one with AS), we might even be able to get what we want for xmas, that is the warm place described above where we don't have to have anything to do with xmas at all. Now that would be bliss. *sigh*