Anyone else here wish they could give Christmas and New Year a miss this year, or every year? Personally I would prefer to hibernate right through the Christmas period and wake up, slim and refreshed in February sometime, maybe even March! However, most people I share this with think I’m a grumpy scrooge, or just plain strange. Please, if there’s anyone out there who feels the same way as I do, let me know I’m not alone!!
I would agree with you but I’m still young enough to get present from my parents.
That should be presents.
Nope.
For the last 30 years, I would have agreed with you, but this year, hubby’s family has somewhere else to go, so I’m looking forward to it.
A nice dinner, just the two of us, homemade gifts (if you get my drift), and a triple feature on the VCR – Night, Day and Dawn of the Dead.
Christmas is what you make it.
I’ve loathed Christmas for as many years as I can remember. It’s just a trite, commercial pain in the ass.
However, this year my daughter is old enough to “notice” Christmas. I’m already looking foreward to decorating the tree, taking her to see Santa and driving around looking at houses. I guess she’s too young to be driven by the commercial aspect of the holidays but young enough to be delighted by the traditions.
She’s totally ruined my cynical veneer. 
Nope. Final product at work is due 1/1/2001. I’ll be testing right up until the 30th. And after that, I get a tonsillectomy, which will ruin the last thing I liked about myself - my voice.
Yippee.
I’d like to wake up anytime slim and refreshed.
Or just slim, if it’s not too much trouble.
Seriously, I could have done very nicely without Christmas for the last few years, but since the kids who live near us finally had the good grace to have a child, who is now at a proper age (three) to enjoy Christmas, it should be more fun again.
For a few years anyway.
Then we’re moving!
I’ve got xmas in France this year again, and I hate it.
Always wet and cold, no places open.
All my friends leave for their families outside of town.
And I’m not christian, so there’s no church services either.
bah humbug!
I hate all the preparation for it and having to buy gifts and the entire commercial aspect but you have to learn to make sdomething good out of it. That day is always nice with the whole family together and everything. And there’s always carroling with friends… you can always find ways to have fun.
Kitty
If it weren’t for my son, I would have no reason to celebrate Christmas really. He gets so excited about it from the day we put the tree up. Its a wondrous thing to watch him!
I miss the old days where we had huge family dinners and spent Christmas eve at mass, me by my dad’s side where I loved to be to hear him sing in his incredible voice. But as Auntie Pam said, its what you make it and I make it as special as possible for el boyo.
it was far and away the highlight of the year.
Now?
Well, you go ahead and have yourself a merry little Christmas…just leave me out of it.
stoid
Normally, I would agree with the scrooges around. Christmas exists soley for megacorporations to make 40% of their profit. They spend millions convincing you people to spend billions so they can laugh and give themselves fat bonuses.
They do months of research to develop the perfect “Gotta Have It” gift, and marketing the thing so that people will spend $400 dollars on something that’ll be torn to shreds by March 1st. They bleed the spirit and soul out of a season that should ironically be about anything but worshiping Mammon. Hell, they invoke the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Future to bless their sales, they milk all the sappy sentiment they can to make you spend that last dollar on some meaningless piece of third world made, injection molded plastic that plays “Jingle Bell Rock” about three steps off key.
But there is only one time when it is actually fun. When the little kids get to see all the excitement and truly enjoy the gifts. When they like the lights and the little villages.
There’s enough time for them to grow up and get cynical. Mine are about to hit that stage, so I’ll get to actually enjoy playing santa for a few years.
Carpe Diem.
Christmas has become such a chore the past few years.
Anyway, how can I get in the spirit when I can’t even put a tree up? Stupid cats will keep climbing it. The best thing about Christmas is that the local garden place sells live trees for a steep discount on Dec. 26th. Last year, I got 4 8ft White Pines for $100, and they’re still doing good in the backyard.
I also don’t have kids, so that makes a bit of a difference.
No. This will be the first year without my grandfather. Will not be as happy or as freefeeling as it has been before. PopPop was a great and gentleman in nearly every way, and I will miss his voice this year. Especially since I will not be able to make it home to be with the rest of the family either.
If it was not for our children Lola and I could pass on the whole damn thing.
They have Christmas trees up here already. It is just sick.
The best part of Christmas is when it is finally over.
Were it not for all the overtime I get over the holidays, I too would like to bypass the whole thing.
I’m not a holiday kind of guy.
Geez, guys - you’re bringing me down…
The only thing I don’t like about Christmas is Christmas shopping, and that’s mostly due to all the morons who get in my way at the mall. So far I’ve resisted the urge to start tossing them over the railings to the floor below…but there’s always next year…
My favorite Christmas tradition was when, every November, my sister, mom and I would haul from the basement the pieces of our artificial tree, assemble it and decorate it. My sister had this small horn ornament that was her special ornament to put on. Mine was this flat Ronald McDonald ornament that, for reasons I cannot recall, I had beheaded. There was this moldy, decrepit wax angel that our grandmother had given us that my mother felt an obligation to hang on the tree – we hung it, all right, but low on the tree and against the wall so that no one could see it.
This past Christmas, since I don’t have room in my cramped studio for a real tree, I bought a whole bunch of green construction paper and cut a tree out. I bought other colors of construction paper for the ornaments.
And I forgot to take it down until May.