I was wondering what this Christmas season has been like for you? I do not have kids so it is much different. I was so angry last year when a woman in my building pretty much told me I couldn't enjoy Christmas because I didn't have kids. I was like A) Not your business and B) I can enjoy itt just as well.
Christmas has really changed for me. I do not know where the magic has gone. I was more excited about it when I worked retail then I do working in an office. I think I see how other people behave and it depresses me. For instance, I'm actually afraid to go shopping on Black Friday (the day after Thanksgiving). People in my area have been physically injured! Last year a woman stepped infront of another as the store opened its doors, the owman she stepped infront of poured hot coffee down her back! She ended up with 2nd and 3rd degree burns! People, this is not the Christmasy way!
I remember the special times like decorating the tree and baking cookies, sending out cards and of course shopping and receiving gifts. I remember them more that whan I actually got. Christmas dinner my family would laugh the meal away. Church was an extended family. The beliefs I can take or leave but there were really good people that went to my step fathers church.
I'm trying so hard to get that feeling back. I give more to charities than people. I have downscaled everything I buy and give. my office is giving to a needy family instead of to each other (I have bought gifts for certain people and I always attach a small ornament to my Christmas cards).
People really need to step back and think about what it means to them. It is not about the $300 toys. I prefer handmade gifts and smalled meaningful gifts than an xbox.
Let me know what you think!
2006-12-13 11:38:13 · 9 answers · asked by Christy W 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Christmas
commercialism has taken over we start in October setting displays for store but as long as consumer shops they will do we need to boycott and not buy till after thanksgiving and put limits on what we buy instead of keeping up with the Jones only when we as the consumer take back control will there be sense second we don't teach the meaning the true meaning its all about tree and lights and presents but no Jesus
2006-12-13 14:44:19 · answer #1 · answered by theessenceofrose 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I have no problem enjoying the christmas magic and I am a single 42 yr. old female that doesn't have any kids either but when I get together with my two dearest and best friends, yes there is still magic there. This year I am spending it with my new "baby" a 13 yr. old miniature poodle that is a rescue, so I will be seeing it for him (he is blind) and I am having a blast buy for him and hoping that he will like if not love what Santa and I got him. But as for you getting some Christmas spirit, go out and see if your community has an Angel Tree and adopt an angel, you will be really helping a child that would not have a christmas otherwise and you will know that what you buy them will give them a truely Merry Christmas will give anybody their Christmas Spirit back.
Have a very Merry Christmas
2006-12-13 20:03:02 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well I am sorry you are not feeling the Christmas spirit. I do have a child and Christmas is going to be wonderful. But it's not *only* because of fun with family, it's also because of the TRUE meaning of Christmas. Not gifts, not trees, not food. I have been a Christian for a while, but I have never REALLY gotten excited about the real reason for Christmas, which is Jesus' birth, until this year. If you took religion rather than left it, you would find real joy wherever you went, wherever you worked. It's not about material gifts-handmade or storebought. It's about the gift from God.
2006-12-13 19:47:38 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The days of celebrating the Christmas(oops ) HOLIDAYS went by the way of the Ghost of Christmas(oops) Holidays past when the lawyers and the lawsuit happy Ba$87rds got in on the act. We still bake cookies and make fudge for our postal and sanitary engineers and some other people that provide a service for us during the year. Until we can display our tree and decorate without fear of getting sued, and put the real and not the monetary meaning of Christmas back into our society we are lost.
2006-12-13 20:00:08 · answer #4 · answered by Jack C 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I totally agree with you 100%!!
Espiacally now that the majority of americans go out and buy expensive gifts and don't affiliate christmas with christ's birthday and the media hasn't helped. All those memories you talked about are great ones people love to expierience and bring out what christmas is supposed to be like. Not rich, spioled kids getting hundreds of dollars in video games and ipods.
2006-12-13 20:43:08 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i am a 33 yr old mom of 2 teens 14 & 15, me, my husband and kids decorate the tree, decorate the house, listen to christmas music and laugh about our memories. I love christmas time, my kids do too. they know the "true" meaning, we get what we can get them and the time we spend is enough, i always have friends and family over to spend time and play games and eat. the world is so sad now a days, everything is materialistic. i enjoy just spending time with my family.
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!
2006-12-13 19:52:02 · answer #6 · answered by mom*2 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree a X-mas full of laughter and enjoyment settling around the family, having a nice home cooked dinner can make-up for expensive gifts. As long as you enjoy yourself thats X-mas, the memories, the fun times, many of us including me forget that often
2006-12-13 19:48:17 · answer #7 · answered by Sephiroth~The One Winged Angel~ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i make christmas cards for my friends and get them presents and stuff, but i don't over do it with my spending.
i do understand what the holiday is all about. since my little brother found out there isn't a santa claus, i think they don't feel as obliged to get us the same amount of presents that they used to. before their excuse was, "we'll see if santa has it in his bag." if we asked for something.
2006-12-13 19:49:58 · answer #8 · answered by dcarcia@sbcglobal.net 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
xmas is just another day, except at time and a half.
2006-12-13 19:45:50 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋