it really brightens up the dark winter and you don't have to get drunk
2006-09-22 19:44:11 · 29 answers · asked by minerva 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Christmas
Its all so commercialised now and seems to be all about how much you spend. Also it mens an obligation to spend time with family who you would rather baste slowly in an over in place of the turkey.
Bah Humbug!!!
2006-09-22 19:47:09 · answer #1 · answered by Dr Fill 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because it has become too commercialised and materialistic!! As a parent I used to dread the Christmas list ~ worrying about affording it all and also the availability of toys on the list! Guraranteed my kids would want the latest gadget and I would spend hours trying to find them! We didn't have the internet then! Then there was the year the local supermarket (I lie in a remote place) ran out of sprouts!! I mean a sproutless Christmas dinner!!!! unheard of!
People spend the run up to Christmas worrying about what to buy people ...... then end up buying the usual box of smellies. Its a lovely time to give (and that is the true meaning of Christmas) but the amount of money spent during this time is ridiculous!
Don't get me wrong I enjoy Christmas once its here! Its just the stress involved during the run up to Christmas that I hate!
2006-09-23 03:16:35 · answer #2 · answered by KAZ M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It contains so much expectation of goodwill, apart from the commercial crap of presents, and the conventional symbols of holly and snow etc (so false in half the world anyway) that it is almost bound to be disappointing - especially in families where sibling rivalry, anger at parents, etc, figured strongly in childhood and has not been resolved (which takes a lot of growing up, and wisdom, but even then there are subconscious scars). I think many people also feel somehow guilty, or at least "left out", because they don't really feel the religious convictions of Christmas. Perhaps if we went back to the old pagan "turn of the season", it would feel more convincing, and truly celebratory? In Australia, I have enjoyed "un-Christmas" festivities in the Antipodean winter.
2006-09-23 02:54:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christmas has an unspoken tradition. That tradition is people who only see each other infrequently over the year, and communicate by telephone or email, suddenly get over come with this desire to be in the same place and eat dinner together. Then to make things bad they compete with each other over their accomplishments while slaving over a hot stove arguing about how to make the gravy. Then they eat too much drink too much, and finally around three in the afternoon. Someone throws the traditional Christmas tantrum...........usually starting with: "I have slaved all day to make this a family Christmas and you bunch of ingrates who never come to see me during the year just come here to argue and sit around and watch telly"
OK that's the long answer.........the short answer Christmas is stressful because that's the tradition!
2006-09-23 04:19:35 · answer #4 · answered by The Guru 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We "gave up" on traditional Christmas long ago. We now think of it as the Winter Solstice festival, and celebrate the fact that the days are getting longer again.
Freeing the family from all the "Christmas stuff" also freed us up to invite people who would otherwise have been alone to a celebratory meal.
2006-09-23 03:00:24 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
People spend vast amounts of money and run up huge debts to celebrate a baby born into poverty.
They decorate their houses with trees and tinsel and baubles to celebrate a baby born in an animal shelter.
They get stressed, argue and fight at a time of "peace and goodwill to all men."
They see the baby in the manger without seeing the man on the cross He was destined to become.
Basically, too much materialism, not enough love.
2006-09-23 03:06:51 · answer #6 · answered by waycyber 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christmas is not buying presents, it's the birth of Jesus. Who said we have to buy presents for relatives or people we can't stand, just because it's Christmas. Then the same people return the gift because they don't like it; after you spent udles of time thinking about what to get them, what an insult.
Ever gone to a mall the day after, the return line is sooooo long, it doesn't pay to buy presents. If you really need to give a gift, give money; they will never return it!!!
As for me, seeing my phony sisters-in-laws makes it the worse day of the year.
2006-09-23 14:34:46 · answer #7 · answered by lover 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I always feel like the true meaning of Christmas gets lost in the shopping and stress. I'm not talking about the relgious part, but the family and taking care of others. I always am a bit guilty when I view the excess of our holiday. Food, money, presents.
2006-09-23 02:54:19 · answer #8 · answered by Chloe 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The non-believers try to take Christ out calling it x-mas,giving power to the made up clown Santa and created the giving/recieving madness of presents. The greatness of the true meaning is hidden and we let it go on, therefore sadness and lonliness creeps into peoples minds because the soul knows better.
Jesus Christ is born=Christmas GOD'S GIFT TO US
2006-09-23 02:51:14 · answer #9 · answered by ate up 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you spend months buying the perfect gifts and christmas morning all it takes is 20 minutes to open everything and christmas is over. Then you gotta take that stuff down and you begin to wonder what the hell did you do it for. That's why
2006-09-23 02:49:08 · answer #10 · answered by bonitabertrell 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋