2006-08-18 05:09:37 · 33 answers · asked by Cowboy 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Christmas
don't need Christmas as an excuse.................... .......
2006-08-18 05:14:53 · answer #1 · answered by Belizabeth 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I love Christmas as I live abroad and get to see my whole family together just once a year. We get on very well so its a really unstress free time where we can be ourselves and just have fun. I think we enjoy just being with each other rather than making the day really special - that's incredibly stressful when you have to have the correct dinner be nice to people you don't like - keep up with the Jones etc If you are stressed by your family - come round to ours - its laid back and everyone helps out and has a holiday and celebration.
2006-08-18 05:50:31 · answer #2 · answered by |Chris 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stress at Christmas comes when everyone wants to do too much in such a short time. This causes upsets amongst family members not to mention aggrevation and short tempers. Christmas is suppose to be a period of good-will towards men...and women where the simple things in life like family comes first and foremost, yet some families it means rushing around in mid-December to find a tree, dashing through crowded department stores on Christmas Eve to buy some over-priced, over-rated toy or present, stressing over a traditional Christmas lEve meal and gulping it down in a mad rush to go to Midnight Mass. Instead, Christmas should be planned a little earlier in the year and planning two or three events instead of countless Christmas parties, visits to over-crowded department stores, or the rush to buy your child's gift on Christmas Eve and spend a sleepless night trying to assemble their todlers' myriad of Christmas morning toys.
I love Christmas and no, my family has never caused me stress. My husband and I were engaged on Christmas Day 2002. We now live abroad and had a wonderful Christmas with his family. I like to be well-organzied and I often finish addressing my Christmas Cards by Thanksgiving weekend or the fourth week in November. Last year I started buying Christmas gifts in mid September and by early December I was done!
2006-08-18 08:53:55 · answer #3 · answered by mrsmaryaris 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not any more I book a table at Georgio's Restraunt'e for Christmas Dinner Just Me My wife and Bless her The Mother in Law. Smashing, No shopping no cooking no washing up. Just sit down eat a five coarse meal have a tipple, then take a nice stroll along the sea front, PS Our House is named Peace-Haven
2006-08-18 22:16:17 · answer #4 · answered by mushy peas 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hell yeah christmas 02" mom went out to the bar and she sat the turkey out to unfreeze it but i had forgot to put it in the icebox and the turkey sat out to long and basically ruined christmas dinner we ended up going to United dairy Farmers and getting frozen chicken i was so upset and stressed out.
2006-08-18 05:19:18 · answer #5 · answered by Lindsay 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They all do regardless of who you are or where you are. I really like Christmas time, but not as much as I do when it is over. Dec. 26 is one of the best days of the year.
2006-08-18 05:22:58 · answer #6 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not any more. My mom use to be psycho about cleaning and decorating for Christmas. Now I have my own place and don't get home until the 23rd or 24th.
2006-08-19 11:49:43 · answer #7 · answered by vickit447 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
spending lots of money around christmas ,cause stress.buy gift for family and friends.
2006-08-18 09:17:17 · answer #8 · answered by lanie1713 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, my sister and her boyfriend (she's 53) came to lunch and were picking my dad up from the pub, I said 2 for 2.30pm for lunch, my dad phoned to say she wasn't there yet, he had also phoned her to see where she was, this was at 2.45. Then she phoned me around 3pm to apologise for being late, (no excuses) and started to have a moan about my dad phoning her, she didn't give a damn that the pub shut at 3pm and he would have been standing outside waiting for her. We couldn't fetch him as we had had a drink. It was too far for him to walk, he's 81. She turned up at 3.30pm.
They wasn't going to stay all night, but left around 1.30am totally peed (well she was, he wasn't)
Sorry! but it's good to have a rant now and then, and you did ask!
2006-08-18 05:20:14 · answer #9 · answered by Jayne 2 (LMHJJ) 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, but gift buying is a pain....I like the baking and decorating and Christmas music and Christmas movies.....but.....the malls and the crowds and the Grinch's, and the cost...stress me out
2006-08-19 13:23:07 · answer #10 · answered by Kipper 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only if I let them.
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2006-08-19 17:25:30 · answer #11 · answered by marketingexpert 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋