# Question for and/or about hard core Xmas lovers **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 7, 2023, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-and-or-about-hard-core-xmas-lovers/977852 "2023-01-07T20:06:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2023, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-and-or-about-hard-core-xmas-lovers/977852/21 "2023-01-09T15:53:51Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > I used to be very passionate about Christmas but it’s waned over the past decade or so. I think a big part of it has to do with childhood – initially, memories of one’s own childhood Christmases, then later, reliving it through one’s own children. But when those children grow into adulthood, Christmas starts to lose its magic, and becomes at best an occasion for family get-togethers. I’ve moved into this mode now too. I do love Christmas, but I’ve scaled back my decorating in the last few years. We have grandchildren now but since COVID, we’ve been doing our big Xmas celebration in June. When COVID was an issue we did it because we could all be outside, not cooped up in close quarters. Now that we’re really not all that worried about COVID we found that we really like doing it in June. The parents have one less house they have to drag the kids to in sub-zero temps. No traveling on icy highways. The kids can play outside. It just works out for us. So because of that, I don’t decorate as much because there’s no one but my husband and I that are going to be looking at it. I put up 2 small trees instead of the big tree. This year I didn’t do outdoor lights. I have to say that putting Xmas away this year was much easier than ever before! ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2023, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-and-or-about-hard-core-xmas-lovers/977852/22 "2023-01-09T16:17:43Z")
For the hardcore Christmas lover there’s [Bronner’s Christmas Wonderland](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronner%27s_Christmas_Wonderland) in Frankenmuth, Michigan. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2023, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-and-or-about-hard-core-xmas-lovers/977852/23 "2023-01-09T18:59:50Z")
I was there a number of years ago. What I loved though was the fried chicken dinner at that place with the clock figures. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2023, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-and-or-about-hard-core-xmas-lovers/977852/24 "2023-01-13T22:38:03Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > I think the reality is simply that winter, real winter, sucks donkey-parts. > > The gaiety, lighting, parties, etc., associated with Christmas disguises the horror settling in during December. When that decorative band-aid is ripped off in early Jan, the giant festering sore of cold dark enduring misery is exposed in plain sight. The next two months are the depressive disaster you’d expect from having to exist in such conditions with no respite. > > YMMV. But that’s how it affects me and a bunch of people I know. I’ve lived in New England since birth, and yes, this is how more people than I can count feel, me included. There has to be **something** cheerful in December or more people would kill themselves when daylight shrinks to 9 hours a day. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-and-or-about-hard-core-xmas-lovers/977852.md?page=1)