Please Help With Christmas!!!!!?

Question

ok i need help...everybody is asking me what i want for christmas..the problem is that i dont know what to tell them...
i am a 14 year old girl if that helps any...
i dont need cd's because i get music from the internet...
i have a cell phone already and a MP3 player
i don't know of any goood movies out...
i'm not real girly but i'm not a tomboy either because i shop at like hollister, ae, a&f, and stuff like that...
i don't wear that much jewelry either.. it gets in the way..
i do have a PS2 though...


please help as much as you can....i would really appreciate it..

Answer 1

sounds to me as if you have the world at your disposal. How about people donate the money they would spend on you to a charity of your choice, or to children who don't have toys for Christmas. Or if it must be something for you, the money could go to your college fund or car fund. Something along that line.

Answer 2

Some suggestions:
1) Is there anything you really want--a trip somewhere, a special kind of dress, funds for college, a pet? Perhaps your family can pool their money and get you one big gift instead of a few small ones.

2) Ask your family and friends to give not to you but to the needy in your name. For example, this coming week of November 13, Operation Christmas Child of Samaritan's Purse will collect shoeboxes that people have filled with gifts for poor children throughout the world. Heifer.com accepts donations to buy farm animals for the needy, and Samaritan's Purse has recently started doing something similar. You and your family can use the money usually spent upon you to buy toys to donate to Toys for Tots. You can pick up a letter from the post office written to Santa by a needy child or parent, and have your family help you answer that letter as part of Operation Santa. You can ask your local church if any family in the neighborhood needs special help this year. You can name your favorite charity and have your near and dear donate to them in your name.

Possibly even if your family and friends follow the above suggestions, some of them may still want to give you small gifts such as cologne, DVDs, or chocolate. Let them.

Merry Christmas!

Answer 3

Well, you sound pretty content, so maybe a few of the gifts could go to charity. You could ask for a toy for the toys for tot's drive. Something like that. I am not saying, give your Christmas away. I am saying there are less fortunate out there, and the feeling you get from giving is better than any present under that tree. I do like present under the tree though, my husband has to get them canned, or I peak. Canned as in I need a can opener. He is a clever man. Have a good Christmas.

Answer 4

Books, Money is a favorite with me, Ps2 games, maybe a gift card to best buy so u can pick out your favorite games, computer games, or even this may be sumthing since you download music online a music download gift card from walmart.

Answer 5

Ask for gift cards to the stores you mentioned then you can buy whatever you want whenever you want.

If its hard for you to think of what you want you have to realize its even harder for other people to pick something for you!

You can always find a charity you want to support and have them make donations to it.

Answer 6

I get what you're saying.

People ask me what i want and i hate telling them. Just tell them anything will do. I love surprises...better not knowing what you're gonna get than opening it up and be like 'i knew i was getting that".

just give them an area of what you like: ie. sports you like,teams you like, an actor/actress,genre, musician,author.

because even if you know you might be getting something from a a certain author...the book is a surprise in itself.

Answer 7

Ask for gift cards to your favorite stores, or a gift certificate to a movie theater. Do you like to read? Ask for some new books.

Answer 8

What about a gift card to your favorite store. Then you can buy what you want.

Answer 9

Ask for gift cards.

Answer 10

Tell them that Christmas is not a Christian holiday and with the world in the brink of destruction from war and hatred, global warming, yuo want to have a future better than the pleasure of electronic gifts can get you.

Is Christmas a celebration based on the Bible?

Date of the celebration

M’Clintock and Strong’s Cyclopædia says: “The observance of Christmas is not of divine appointment, nor is it of N[ew] T[estament] origin. The day of Christ’s birth cannot be ascertained from the N[ew] T[estament], or, indeed, from any other source.”—(New York, 1871), Vol. II, p. 276.

Luke 2:8-11 shows that shepherds were in the fields at night at the time of Jesus’ birth. The book Daily Life in the Time of Jesus states: “The flocks . . . passed the winter under cover; and from this alone it may be seen that the traditional date for Christmas, in the winter, is unlikely to be right, since the Gospel says that the shepherds were in the fields.”—(New York, 1962), Henri Daniel-Rops, p. 228.

The Encyclopedia Americana informs us: “The reason for establishing December 25 as Christmas is somewhat obscure, but it is usually held that the day was chosen to correspond to pagan festivals that took place around the time of the winter solstice, when the days begin to lengthen, to celebrate the ‘rebirth of the sun.’ . . . The Roman Saturnalia (a festival dedicated to Saturn, the god of agriculture, and to the renewed power of the sun), also took place at this time, and some Christmas customs are thought to be rooted in this ancient pagan celebration.”—(1977), Vol. 6, p. 666.

The New Catholic Encyclopedia acknowledges: “The date of Christ’s birth is not known. The Gospels indicate neither the day nor the month . . . According to the hypothesis suggested by H. Usener . . . and accepted by most scholars today, the birth of Christ was assigned the date of the winter solstice (December 25 in the Julian calendar, January 6 in the Egyptian), because on this day, as the sun began its return to northern skies, the pagan devotees of Mithra celebrated the dies natalis Solis Invicti (birthday of the invincible sun). On Dec. 25, 274, Aurelian had proclaimed the sun-god principal patron of the empire and dedicated a temple to him in the Campus Martius. Christmas originated at a time when the cult of the sun was particularly strong at Rome.”—(1967), Vol. III, p. 656.

Wise men, or Magi, led by a star

Those Magi were actually astrologers from the east. (Matt. 2:1, 2, NW; NE) Although astrology is popular among many people today, the practice is strongly disapproved in the Bible. (See pages 144, 145, under the main heading “Fate.”) Would God have led to the newborn Jesus persons whose practices He condemned?

Matthew 2:1-16 shows that the star led the astrologers first to King Herod and then to Jesus and that Herod then sought to have Jesus killed. No mention is made that anyone other than the astrologers saw the “star.” After they left, Jehovah’s angel warned Joseph to flee to Egypt to safeguard the child. Was that “star” a sign from God or was it from someone who was seeking to have God’s Son destroyed?

Note that the Bible account does not say that they found the babe Jesus in a manger, as customarily depicted in Christmas art. When the astrologers arrived, Jesus and his parents were living in a house. As to Jesus’ age at that time, remember that, based on what Herod had learned from the astrologers, he decreed that all the boys in the district of Bethlehem two years of age and under were to be destroyed.—Matt. 2:1, 11, 16.

Gift giving as part of the celebration; stories about Santa Claus, Father Christmas, etc.

The practice of Christmas gift giving is not based on what was done by the Magi. As shown above, they did not arrive at the time of Jesus’ birth. Furthermore, they gave gifts, not to one another, but to the child Jesus, in accord with what was then customary when visiting notable persons.

The Encyclopedia Americana states: “During the Saturnalia . . . feasting prevailed, and gifts were exchanged.” (1977, Vol. 24, p. 299) In many instances that represents the spirit of Christmas giving—an exchanging of gifts. The spirit reflected in such gift giving does not bring real happiness, because it violates Christian principles such as those found at Matthew 6:3, 4 and 2 Corinthians 9:7. Surely a Christian can give gifts to others as an expression of love at other times during the year, doing so as often as he wants to.

Depending on where they live, children are told that gifts are brought by Santa Claus, St. Nicholas, Father Christmas, Père Noël, Knecht Ruprecht, the Magi, the elf Jultomten (or Julenissen), or a witch known as La Befana. (The World Book Encyclopedia, 1984, Vol. 3, p. 414) Of course, none of these stories are actually true. Does the telling of such stories build in children a respect for truth, and does such a practice honor Jesus Christ, who taught that God must be worshiped with truth?—John 4:23, 24.