Title says it all, poll to follow.
Pretty damn excited. I love Christmas anyway, but this year our first child will be 9 months old. OH MY GOSH WE GET TO BE SANTA!!!
This year, Halloween is just an irritating obligation keeping me away from Christmas.
Thats a ditto for me - Junior is 14 months and he’s just starting to get the idea behind the whole thing. I’m excited because I get to share it with him. 
Extremely excited, but only because I’ll be in Vegas and getting married the day after. 
I voted sort of neutral. Which really makes me sad, actually. I have always adored Christmas.
My daughter would say my house looks like it vomited Christmas (she has a way with words), but not this year, probably. Maybe.
My mother is gone, my small family lives too far away to come for dinner. All the reasons I love it, are gone. 
But, in spite of what I just said, I’m going to try very hard to love it again. Cause I want to. I need a plan though.
Sort of neutral, but that’s because so much is happening before then.
I’m really excited about spending time with my family, though.
Pretty excited. I love Christmas and always look forward to it, especially ever since I became mother but this year is going to be rough. No job and no money means it’s going to be a very sparse Christmas for the little one this year. Luckily she’s still small enough (3) that she probably won’t notice most of her gifts are either from the dollar tree or thrift shops. Either way, I’m always excited to see her reaction once the decorations and the tree go up and then especially on Christmas morning
I’m not a Christian, I don’t celebrate Christmas, and I don’t really care.
What disturbs me, however, is the fact that last night, October 24th, I was driving around my neighborhood after dark and spotted two houses with Christmas lights up and on. Seriously? We have like 2-4 holidays to get through, depending on which religion you are and what country you’re in, and you’re just skipping over all of those and getting straight to The Most Commercial Time of the Year? I like the lights, don’t get me wrong. I like to get a buzz on and get someone to drive me around so I can trip out on all the purty lights. It’s just… too soon, dammit. I’d like to enjoy my high holy holiday, Halloween, first, thankyouverymuch.
That is all.
I am excited about December, because my office closes for the last two weeks and because I don’t celebrate Christmas, that time is usually relaxing and chill. I often get a lot of intensive house projects done because most of my friends are out of town visiting family. I bake eleventy billion cookies (a pagan tradition, mind you) and drive around on the Solstice delivering little goody bags to my friends. I look forward to that, too. That’s a lot of fun to just bang on someone’s door, hand them a bag of cookies, and take off. Usually, I’m invited in for samples and a glass of wine or something, but I excuse myself after about 20 minutes and wander on delivering joy and baked goods to my next stop.
Christmas is just like any other day of the week to me.
Neutral. It’s still too early to really get excited. Talk to me after T’giving.
I’m neutral at the moment. The day after Thanksgiving I will be pretty excited.
I’m starting to sew presents and that has me a bit excited. I’m quite happy about not being completely broke this year.
I used to grumble about it, but then I realized that Christmas was going to happen whether I wanted it to or not, so might as well enjoy it. Since then I’ve thrown myself into the festivities with an enthusiastic heart, and I really enjoy it now. Like others, it helps that I now have two small children who still enjoy the magic.
I get the stressful gift-buying out of the way early (like October, or at the latest, November) so I can enjoy the fun stuff later like buying toys for the kids and baking cookies and decorating the tree.
I want to be excited like when I was a child… I’m trying hard.
I’m swinging between “annoyed” and “raging.” The raging usually happens when I’m out shopping and I see Christmas stuff on display already.
For me it starts on Thanksgiving Day, right around pie time.
I used to hate the shopping, because my family is big and growing bigger. But in the past few years we’ve had a One Family Member, One Gift rule. Last year I got to really splurge on one person, and felt really good that I could give something so nice.
One of my earliest childhood memories was of my drunk father throwing our still wrapped presents down the steps, making sure to break them all. I remember another time when he kicked in a door on Christmas. One of my sisters is actually suicidal around Christmas and every year, increases her visits to her shrink during the holiday period.
Chirstmas has always been a bleak, black time for me and I spent most of my life hating it. Plastic trees bug me and it seems perverse to cut down a living tree, cover it with crap, put it in your house and then just throw it away, etc. etc.
BUT, my wife didn’t have my childhood and actually likes Christmas, so I have made an effort over the years to get into the spirit for her. We have a tree and (this is key) we spend Christmas with her family, who are much much nicer people than my parents and I get one night during the holiday to get drunk, eat bad junk food and watch Bad Santa with my wife.
All these efforts have enabled me to climb up one click from the very bottom of your poll.
I don’t even want to think about fucking Christmas until Halloween is out of the way, and I’m still not terribly interested until after Rememberance Day. Right now, seeing Christmas shit in the stores is making me pretty stabby.
Aw. That’s too bad. I think you’re right - you will feel better with a plan. You need something new. Don’t try and make the exact same Christmas you used to love and end up disappointed that you can’t recreate that same magic… Maybe just pick the parts of it that were the best and inject some exciting new traditions into it! Maybe your new tradition is an exotic vacation! Maybe it’s volunteering or celebrating with a friend whose family is also far away. I hope you find your magic!
Me, still too early to get excited. After Halloween I’ll start thinking about it, and after the Remembrance Day poppies are gone I’ll be totally psyched.
Well I don’t celebrate christmas but I don’t begrudge the people that enjoy it BUT it is waaaaay to early to start having it shoved in my face. WAY too early. Chrstmas is a one-day holiday, maybe a one-month season, if you stretch it. Is is not an entire quarter of the calendar.
I’m not getting shoved in my face. Maybe I’m going into all of the right stores.