What is Christmas? to you..?

Answer 1

I love Christmas! I feel closer to my family during this time! It's really a time to show how much you care for someone. I will always remember the true story behind Christmas though! Have a Merry Christmas!

Answer 2

Funny you should ask. Just got done putting the few things we use out around the whole house. I have two boxes of stuff now to decorate with instead of (you ready?) fourteen! Thanksgiving Day I unpack what little I have and put it in the room where it will be used. That all takes about twenty minutes. I have taken a string of miniature coloured lights and made a cascading waterfall of lights going from top to bottom of the window to my right here where I am typing this to you so people driving down the street outside our home can see it as they pass by. I must be using all of 5 watts. They burn cold. But they are so pretty. I turn the other lights out and they make a warm glow for the whole room. So to answer your question, less and less. This year it is less than what we did last year. We are tapering down all the excesses of the past. I am now down to just two boxes. I more or less (because of being on a fixed income) confine myself to just sending a few Christmas cards (like about 20) so I am not strung out and exhausted like so many people are these days when the big day actually gets here.

This is all supposed to be about the birth of Jesus Christ. I am giving that whole thought a whole lot more conscious thought and less with the glitz and baubles and tinsel, &c.

Everyone is different in the way they do Christmas. Many people overdo it. They will wind up paying credit card debt starting about mid-January. How much fun is that?

I used to knock myself out with a real eight foot tree fully decorated Victorian style, over 150 cards, presents - you name it, but sad thing about doing all that is you wind up in a heap the night before, tears in your eyes, irritable and crabby - Merry Christmas?

So for the past three years, we have been concentrating on the meaning of Christmas instead of buying stuff.

I hope this helps to answer your good question. What is Christmas? More and more in meaning because we are doing less and less of the showplace stuff that can leave you totally empty afterwards. You can get to a point where nothing you do will be "enough." That is when you know you have an issue with it.

The idea is to bring Christmas your love and live within your means. A phone call to relatives will mean more to them than a singing bird house. Something to think about...

Answer 3

Hello,

(ANS) Christmas is nothing more than pure exploitation & emotional manipulation, its a big guilt trip especially if you have children.

**Christmas is utter capitalism gone mad, its just a way to make money out of people, usually the people who can least afford such non sense too.

**Christmas is utterly meaningless to me, I feel so sorry! for ALL these people who rush round spending money on stupid presents as if the world was going to end on the 25th December each year. Christmas time is like the world has gone stark raving bonkers, its all totally schizophrenic. Pious non sense on the one hand & total blow out & excess on the other.

**I'm always totally relieved each year when Xmas & new year are done & finished with for another 12months.

**If it was possible to scrap the Christmas madness I would, but there again human beings are so stupid they would only invent something equally irrational to replace it and who knows it could even be worse?? I blame the madness on religion which has a lot to answer for but there again human beings have alot to answer for, for being so stuipd as to believe in such non sense in the first place.

Ivan

I'm a devout skeptic!! bar humbug !! :-)) TEE HEE!!

Answer 4

A time of reflection. But I'm working over Christmas like last year due to night shifts, but things will be quiet.

Christmas means: a few slices of Stollen Cake with Cheshire Cheese, and watching a nice film on TV.

Answer 5

To me Christmas is a time for us to celebrate the coming of Christ, and for family to get together and be happy, even if they are separated or arguing every other day of the year. Its about sharing laughs while sliding in the snow, teaching the youngest family members to build a snowman, sipping hot chocolate in front of the fireplace (or furnace lol) with the person you love, decorating the house with green and red, carefully placing the ornaments on the tree, passing down family traditions, and seeing the joy in your child's' eyes when they see that Santa came to visit and ate the special cookies they made just for him. Just knowing and seeing that on this day, children's eyes glow because they know that magic is real, not matter what they are told, is a fantastic feeling.


(may sound a bit corny, but that's what it means to me ^_^)

Answer 6

I agree totally with Italia. My family never celebrates it because we're not religious, but those songs on the radio, the lights, the presents, the snow (or the not-snow), and the Love Actually... that's what it means to me. It's grown to be much more than just a Christian holiday, really. Christmas is lovely.

Answer 7

Christmas is the BEST time of the year to me, and it is the time to remember Christ's birth and enjoy family time.
I enjoy every part of Christmas, the shopping, the food, the giving, the receiving, the family gatherings, the snow, the rain, and on and on and on and on...

Answer 8

Christmas is the time for togetherness and forgiveness x

Answer 9

it's the only day of the year that my entire family(1 brother, 4 sisters a of course mom and dad) are all together. so it's a great time now that we are all older and not in our 20's, for some reason when we were younger there used to be some problem or other, but now were just glad to see each other

Answer 10

a time of reflection on the birth of our Lord Jesus. It is also a time to remember that the year is coming to an end in about six days time before the new year. So for me it is a time of the year to really reflect, rejoice,replan and be ready for remarkable beautiful things.