I'm making a list of the stupid things we all do at xmas, can you help me add to it?
So far I have:
1) Bring trees inside
2) Spend ages standing in the cold putting lights up
3) Buy cards for people we've never met just because they sent us one
4) Complain at the cost of presents but still insist on having tons of lights which double the electricity bill!
Can you help add to it????
2006-12-11 04:48:07 · 37 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Christmas
Great ideas people!! Thx!! Keep em comin!
2006-12-15 09:23:09 · update #1
i wear mistletoe under my skirts to work
2006-12-11 04:53:23 · answer #1 · answered by Offends Equally 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Spend a fortune and a lot of time wrapping gifts that are going to be torn apart and then have the mess of the ripped wrappings to contend with.
I stopped doing 1-3 on your list. And because I don't do 2 I never do 4. Used to, but just too much damn work.
2006-12-11 04:52:14 · answer #2 · answered by maamu 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
very strong camp coffee, with fresh cream and a splosh or two of brandy...
racing around from shop to shop, only to find out no one has the toy of the moment
flitting from website to website, only to find out everyones too busy to update their stock records in your search for the latest toy of the moment.
and forgetting what its all about.. these days we seem to import our christmas spirit from warehouses in france...
this is the period of greatest darkness, we gave joyous abandon to the sun gods of old, so they would return, to warm our bones and grow our crops... the Holly king is about to lose a great battle with the Mighty Oak ... and we stopped saying thank you... in any way shape or form.
so, take some tobacco, (in any form) and pick a tree, they are teh standing folk, take the tobacco and rub it into the bark, and say thank you... its doesnt matter where you do this, or which tree you choose, or indeed when you do it.. just do it.
this is an ancient american indian practice... and if your skeptical, just think of it as covering the bases.
christmas shouldnt be franchised.
2006-12-11 05:09:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The dumbest thing is when one person who celebrates Christmas says "Happy Holidays" to another person who celebrates Christmas. It's gotten so bad that a relative who is a Christian minister and knows that I celebrate Christmas said "Happy Holidays" to me-- he's just gotten so used to saying Happy Holidays.
Another dumb thing: writing illegibly on Christmas cards-- it's torture to the receipient.
Not putting your return address anywhere on the Christmas card envelope. Maybe I don't have your address memorized!
Saying "I don't want anything for Christmas" and then being disappointed when ppl give you a gift you don't like.
The WORST-- a relative once told my family: "I have no use for this gift. You should have given me money." Yuk!
2006-12-11 05:16:30 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Spending way too much money on gifts and then crying about it when the bills come in
Get up way too early to hit those "sales" when the stores open before daylight
Eat way too much rich food then complain our tummies hurt
Buy gifts for other people and then they complain behind our backs that we got this stupid gift for them
2006-12-11 05:04:16 · answer #5 · answered by grbarnaba 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
actually taking an effort to have a tricked out tree for 26-30 an it took 5 days to put up then take it down on the 31, TOO MUCH WORK!
2006-12-11 04:50:46 · answer #6 · answered by champagne b 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1) Make out electricity bill go up by turning on the heat and light very high.
2) Donate all our money to the homeless which leaves nothing for us to do christmas shopping.
2006-12-11 04:56:23 · answer #7 · answered by youngwoman 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Be rude jerks that elbow each other in the shopping mall just to get someone else a gift. In other words, act like a barbarian to strangers in order to be nice and give a present to someone you care about.
2006-12-11 05:00:59 · answer #8 · answered by funnygrrl19 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Get caught up in the store's advertisements and actually accept that some fools want to rename Christmas the sparkle season.
2006-12-11 04:51:27 · answer #9 · answered by jonathan x 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Make the mistake of picking the horrible hazlenut centre out of the tin of roses or quality street instead of the nice ones (orange, strawberry centres).
Wear stupid paper hats on x-mas day that come out of crackers.
2006-12-14 10:56:38 · answer #10 · answered by Rebecca 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cook for hours on end,making a HUUUUUUGE meal.
Pig out on said HUUUUUUUUUGE meal-then complain bitterly afterwards.
Go on to accept a pudding-despite being stuffed 'as it's Christmas'.
Drive yourself insane getting presents that are 'just right' for everyone.
Getting into debt buying said 'just right' gifts.
2006-12-11 04:52:56 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋