2007-12-19 14:06:32 · 12 answers · asked by ♪Give into Me♪ 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Christmas
First thing is not being able to see my family and grandchildren this Christmas. I'm not sure what I'm going to do. This is the first time in my life I haven't spent one cent on Christmas or had a tree or decorated the outside of my home and the inside. It's the strangest Holiday year I have ever had and I know if I survive this one alone I can survive anything. Everyone is just not getting along at all this year and I am tired of fighting. I'm going to rent some movies I guess because there is no way I will be able to handle all the Christmas shows on tv. Actually I've never had anytime to watch any tv during the holiday, so I'm going to assume besides football, that's what will be on tv and I just can't go there. So as much as Christmas has been my favorite time of year, with making the big dinner and seeing all my children and all my grandchildren, it will be a sad time for me, I'm not even counting the days I'm just going through the motions and trying not to get more upset knowing other families "seem" like the perfect families (When I already know I'm not alone) But it feels like it.
Family is the Heart of Christmas and being with those you love. I volunteered at Thanksgiving but didn't get to it for Christmas.
Other than that....the TRAFFIC....:(
2007-12-19 14:31:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The empty phoniness approximately all of it! The day isn't the actual birthday of Jesus Christ, and he gets much less interest to the holiday each and every 12 months. human beings won't be able to wait to get the tree and tinsel up after Thanksgiving, basically to be each and all of the greater aggravating to get it back in the field to keep in the attic in the previous New Years. human beings getting inebriated at events on an afternoon it is meant to represent the incarnation of God in human style! they might say, "Peace on earth" yet flow into the mall this weekend, and you will see something yet that! And, come the 2nd week of January, all and sundry would be back to their regularly occurring recurring of existence, without this holiday having made an significant impact that ought to alter their lives. Is it no accident that it is the time of 12 months with the optimal fee of suicide? i'm sorry, however the entire element is a farce that would not honor the beginning of the guy who got here to convey salvation for the time of the laying off of his blood for the forgiveness of sin!
2016-11-23 16:28:54 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only thing I don't like about the holidays is the crowds in the stores and the people who try to get you to buy things you don't want. I love spending money if I have it.
2007-12-19 14:15:34 · answer #3 · answered by tabbycat 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the ubiquitous piped-in Christmas carols, the crass commercialization, and the efforts by retailers to convince you your kid will hate you if you don't get him/her an IPOD helmet (with built in smartphone that soaks up leaking alien spaceship electricity, meatball deflector, GPS head-up display and two-way stealth rat radar and snotnose detector) and a pair of sequined, pre-skidmarked around-the-ankle ghetto pants, and that your wife/girlfriend will dump you if you don't take out a second mortgage on the house so you can buy her a useless rock the size of Rhode Island to wear on her finger. The relentless bellyaching about what a pain in the butt the whole thing is. Having to call and hear from people and relatives that you don't like and who don't like you but feel it's some sort of obligation to pretend they do. Grossly overpriced Honey Slopped hams. Chopping down live trees and sticking 'em in living rooms.The dumb parties that I have to come up with an excuse not to go to. The crowds in the parking lots, the phony smiles, the noisy hag ringing the friggin' bell in front of Wal-Mart trying to collect money for the Needy Little Brown People Fund, the mob of clods barging through the mall looking cheesed off about maxing out their credit cards buying crap for people they don't even like, and the American peoples' inexplicable willingness to keep putting up with it all, YEAR AFTER YEAR.
Oh, and egg nog. I friggin' HATE egg nog.
2007-12-19 14:22:20 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I like it all except having to think of the perfect gifts. Now I only do that for my mom everyone else gets whatever or nothing. I don't care how much I spend if I get things I want for them.
2007-12-19 14:35:50 · answer #5 · answered by shipwreck 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My least favorite thing about christmas is shopping because the stores are always crowded and you sometimes cant find what you are looking for.
2007-12-19 14:27:03 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cranky/stressed out people getting caught up in the materialistic aspect of the holidays.
And traffic...
2007-12-19 16:55:55 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Having to be so politically correct at school, the teachers can't even say Merry Christmas!
2007-12-19 14:15:27 · answer #8 · answered by Scooter_MacGyver 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The presumption that everyone actually gets along.
2007-12-19 14:16:34 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
stress from all the food and presents. but other than that, i love spending money (when i have it)
2007-12-19 14:09:57 · answer #10 · answered by #!@#^$*#($ 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋