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How do you feel about Christmas?


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How do you feel about Christmas?  

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  1. 1. Go by the brackets, the details are for fun :)

    • I have been belting out Carols since October, I'm making biscuits, and my whole house is draped in tinsel! (adore it)
      12
    • I am humming Christmas songs and decorating the tree (I enjoy it)
      31
    • I will get presents for people I care about (it's okay)
      27
    • If I close my eyes and wish really hard, maybe it will be December 26th (I don't like it)
      14
    • Kidnap the Sandy Claws. I MUST STOP THIS CHRISTMAS FROM COMING, BUT HOW!!!!! Stop the music and singing, get me off this planet! (Loath entirely))
      8
    • I will never tell, not even if you tie me up in tinsel and play Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer on repeat (other)
      3
    • What's this? There's color everywhere. What's this? There's white things in the air. What's this? (I don't celebrate Christmas)
      8

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Merry Grinchmas everybody
*sulks in the corner until January*
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If you like singing check out the production thread for AVENites Sing 'What's This?' from the Nightmare before Christmas :) 

 

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I'm somewhere between "it's okay" and "I don't like it".  People who try to celebrate Christmas in October have kind of ruined it for me, because the actual day is never as good as the two month's of preparation.  I'm also not a fan of gift-giving holidays, so that adds a layer of stress to the whole thing.

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I missed the option, "It'll be lonely this christmas..."

 

My family is spread apart, divorced. So I haven't had a Christmas celebration for nearly half my life now. I miss these days, they were fun. T_T...

 

Now I just visit my mom on day 1, and we're together having a regular dinner like any days. It doesn't feel special anymore. And with just the 2 of you, playing a table game isn't as much fun either...

 

Day 2, I usually go to dad's place, he remarried. But the new family he got into has 1 daughter and 5 sons. Consisting of mainly extroverts and bald shaven heads tough looking types. They scare me, I don't feel comfortable being there. So I avoid going there nowadays. Unless he invited them over for day 1, and me for day 2.

 

Sure you might say, but that's not lonely!

 

It is compared to the family bond that I had 16+ years ago... I want these days, these days with my dad, mom and sister together. 

 

yearn to have these days back, not just on christmas day

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I'm pretty mixed.

Unfortunately I picked the wrong careers to enjoy it.

It would be nice to have a pretty low December, focused mainly on grabbing that tripod roaming them streets and funneling the beautiful decorations through various lens hoods.

Instead I am blessed with no days off & overtime. - The holidays themselves aren't according to my taste either. - I'd love to curl up at home maybe besiege the PC and enjoy staring some holes into the air... But yeah, family... translating to: "Breaking my day cycle the inconvenient way", usually bearably; evening on 24th noon on 26th. This year: 3 days in a row since some folks will visit on 25th.

What I really like is the gingerbread sale out in the supermarket when Xmas is over. - I'll stuff my backpack and enjoy the cheap bliss.

I'm probably just saying: If you managed to slow down, it could be quite nice.

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Christmas is my favorite holiday as well as my favorite time of the year. All the lights and decorations make the atmosphere of the holidays really cozy and calming. So I could say I adore it! The I adore it -option in the poll fits me quite well too even though I don't actually have enough courage to sing out loud that much.

Christmas is wonderful and wrapping and giving presents makes me happy.

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WhenSummersGone

It's ok. It's mostly the shopping, cooking, plans, dinners, family over, visiting family, wrapping gifts and anything else that bothers me the most.

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CHRISTMAS IS MY FAVORITE

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I like christmas, a lot :D 

possibly even more then Halloween :D 

I like wrapping presents and Christmas markets and warm punch and Christmas cookies and decorating the tree and opening presents and the cold air and dark skies filled with christmas lights and the whole season... I'm even listening to christmas songs at the moment :P ...

and it's one of the few times a year I see my brother and used to be one of the few times a year I got to see my parents or go home... 

I just wish it'd snow and there would finally be a white Christmas again... :( 

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there's parts i like and parts i don't like but overall, i like it

 

i did a wee christmas song binge last night to get in the flavour of it, starting with low (who i am seeing next week as part of their christmassy tour) then followed with some beautiful songs from lily & madeleine (my god, i love those two as people who regularly read my music posts might have realised) and then i did  a mix of my mp3's for christmas from other acts, sufjan stevens, allo darlin, the puppini sisters etc so it got me feeling a bit festive.

 

what i don't like is the people and socialising, apart from with my friends, which is great.

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I don't like my family, so being forced to buy stuff for them is obnoxious. I like the food though, and how everything gets sold off cheaply afterwards - that's when I tend to buy stuff for myself, because for some reason that I haven't quite fathomed after 30 years, people "conveniently" forget to buy me presents... The main excuse they give is because it's my birthday in January, so that's when they reckon I'll get said presents... yet it never happens. Always been that way.

 

#notbitter

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I like the "giving" part of it. It's a great feeling when you've nailed it and got someone exactly what they wanted and everything. It's the "receiving" that makes for awkward social situations...I don't know the right way/how to react - AGH, it's the worst! I also like the general atmosphere...Christmas trees everywhere and ornaments and things...it definitely helps to ease the blandness that is early winter. 

 

I also tend to overthink Christmas cards - those are harder than the gifts for me. Always second-guessing and wondering if this card I got for an old teacher was too personal, or that a card I got for a close family member was too impersonal. 

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15 hours ago, Phoenix the II said:

I missed the option, "It'll be lonely this christmas..."

 

My family is spread apart, divorced. So I haven't had a Christmas celebration for nearly half my life now. I miss these days, they were fun. T_T...

 

Now I just visit my mom on day 1, and we're together having a regular dinner like any days. It doesn't feel special anymore. And with just the 2 of you, playing a table game isn't as much fun either...

 

Day 2, I usually go to dad's place, he remarried. But the new family he got into has 1 daughter and 5 sons. Consisting of mainly extroverts and bald shaven heads tough looking types. They scare me, I don't feel comfortable being there. So I avoid going there nowadays. Unless he invited them over for day 1, and me for day 2.

 

Sure you might say, but that's not lonely!

 

It is compared to the family bond that I had 16+ years ago... I want these days, these days with my dad, mom and sister together. 

 

yearn to have these days back, not just on christmas day

 

I feel this. Since my mom died, Christmas has all but fallen apart. I always have high hopes for it, thinking it will be like it was before, but it's always just depressing and barely phoned in. If it wasn't for my brother's in-laws considering me and my dad as part of their family on the holidays, we wouldn't have any holidays at all.

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Christmas is a terrible drag on some days, and much better on others. 

 

Pros:

- friend's christmas party

- opening presents

- giving presents to friends

- sales

- religious stuff

 

Cons:

- family gatherings

- presents from relatives who think I'm three

- crowds and socializing

 

Really, it's mostly fine.

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Is nobody going to say it?

 

 

No?

 

 

Oh well, I'll have to say it then:

 

 

BAH HUMBUG!

 

 

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I enjoy Christmas. I like the decorations and stuff because they are very pretty! But I don't start decorating until after Thanksgiving. I'm not that enthusiastic about Christmas. I personally love Disney related Christmas stuff, that's really what gets me excited for Christmas. Plus my family never does a full on Christmas party so there's no stress, which is really really nice! It's always just myself, my mom, and my brother exchanging gifts. Then I do a couple little gifts with a couple friends but it's never stressful or over-thought. 

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I like Christmas as a holiday but I more generally enjoy Christmastime, like as a season.  Except the ads.  Christmas ads are annoying.


But I have a playlist of nice non-annoying Christmas songs, and there's lots of local events I go to, and Christmas lights and other decorations are sooo pretty!  Also, Charlie Brown Christmas?  A+++.  Also, the availability of hot chocolate and peppermint-flavoured things increases exponentially.

 

I will say though, I am one of those people who does NOT want to see/hear any Christmas stuff until after Thanksgiving.  Though I suppose if I lived outside the US that might be different.

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Also I probably shouldn't say this, but, I celebrate both Hanukkah and Christmas, and Christmas is 100x more fun.

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I find Xmas a depressing time of year, maybe its because I have low Elf-esteem, it makes me feel Claus-trophobic!!!

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I like it, but only when it's December. I hate Christmas in November. I thought the rule was after American Thanksgiving. Not Canadian!

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1 hour ago, emma-can said:

Also I probably shouldn't say this, but, I celebrate both Hanukkah and Christmas, and Christmas is 100x more fun.

Hanukkah is difficult because you have to do all the work to celebrate it, while all around you there's Christmas noise, and you know if you were Christian, you could  just float.   

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Christmas Day is the tough one.  Although I like the run up to Christmas, without a family Christmas Day is pretty pointless.Those with families may value my freedom. :P

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Luftschlosseule

Ooooh, you can't put Nightmare before Christmas stuff into the options. >.<
My favourite song is Kidnap the Sandy Claws, but I picked other.

 

Usually, I love Christmas, but for me it's more ... I call it Tannenbaumtag. My mother tried to raise my sister and me as catholic christians, which gloriously failed, but she ever tried to do the big celebrations and we kind of evolved it into the only time in the year when we all can be together without arguing, having fun watching tv, sitting next to each other reading. Backing stuff, being merry.
Some time ago my sister decided that she hates me and wants me to die, and I had to move out from home and celebrating Christmas is... the last two years I was allowed to visit for a few hours, than had to go back. I was left alone in the knowledge that they are happy, together, not alone. I was battling with my depressive thoughts.
Don't know what they want to do this year, but I said it won't work like the last two years.

 

Since both my parents have birthday in december, my sister is freaking out because I am there for three days in the month for a few hours. ...as I moved out, I thought I would be visiting from the 24th right through to the 26th. Ha. No, I sit alone in the empty flat and nobody has time. Not even my muslim friend because she traditionally shuts herself up in her room and plays videogames.

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*looks forward to Dec 27*

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J. van Deijck

Honestly, I can't wait.

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23 minutes ago, Sally said:

Hanukkah is difficult because you have to do all the work to celebrate it, while all around you there's Christmas noise, and you know if you were Christian, you could  just float.   

For me personally, part of it is that only my dad, sister, and I celebrate Hanukkah, but my mom and extended family celebrate Christmas. 

 

Also Hanukkah stuff always feels like it's just a ripoff of Christmas stuff. Well, it kinda is. 

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I LOVE HOLIDAYSSSSSSSSS

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I enjoy Christmas in the fact that it beings people together and happiness tends to be a theme. Forgiveness, thankfulness, ex.

I don't appreciate the over-materialistic view of Christmas (Buy! Buy! Buy!), and I don't connect with the religious aspect.

I do look forward to Christmas overall though.

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I'm an agnostic atheist, but I love Christmas. The whole season just feels very celebratory, and you don't have to be Christian to celebrate the togetherness, charity, gift-giving, etc. aspects of it!

 

But you better not start decorating until after Turkey Day *glares*

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I used to love it, but after a while, it got boring. Maybe I just need to celebrate it a different way this year...I wonder how they celebrate it in other countries *starts researching*

 

Why, hello, Sweden, Mexico, etc. *waves her arm* I shall try to at least cook your food!

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