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Does anyone on here not look forward to Christmas
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I'm not Christian.
I don't buy into the bullshit commerciality
I like to be with friends / easy company etc......
Laughter , fun , friendship ........... the rest is a shitty glitter ball but those that love it are welcome to it. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Hate it to be honest..
See my Son in the morning and then leave so him & the ex-wife can go visit her family and spend the holidays with them.. I return to my flat and stare at the walls until I goto work |
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"Good afternoon all I personally love it . I celebrate my birthday on Boxing Day so always a fun time for Me. How about you good people  "
Me too. Unfortunately inend up working on both more ofter than not.
Also, growing up, nothing was open on Boxing Day. So I hate having my birthday then. |
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Getting less and less keen year on year. Possibly partly because trying to include my Dad is getting stressful and unfortunately spoils things for the rest of the family. Last year was horrible (for us, due to "bubbles", Christmas was a normal experience). |
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I dislike it and hate the atrocious commercial bent on it today. Winter get togethers are natural and great but have been grabbed by Christian doctrine, which I have no belief in.
I'd ban all adverts until December quite happily. Any full of sentimental shite, permanently banned. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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What grinds my gears more than anything is the expectation to play at being fake nice to people I barely see for the remaining 364 days of the year. Or to play who spent the most on meaningless tat.
If you don’t do it, you’re branded a miserable cnut.
No, I’m not miserable, I simply don’t buy into the hype that some heap on what used to be one or two days. That’s now become 2 months. Whatever next, Christmas starts before October begins? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Don’t look forward to it for the fact it’s Xmas etc. I enjoy that time of year as we always take a long break abroad but the actual Xmas part we won’t really celebrate at all. We will wake up Xmas morning and just spend a day relaxing sunbathing drinking. We won’t buy a card or a single gift to exchange so it’s really just another day.
I also don’t like the fact that many many thousands of people will borrow and go into debt to purchase and spend to the level they will. I’m sure parents feel pressure to make sure their children have just as much as everyone else regardless of whether they can truly afford it or not. It’s become so commercialized and for that I feel sorry for people who have to borrow |
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I also don’t like the fact that many many thousands of people will borrow and go into debt to purchase and spend to the level they will. I’m sure parents feel pressure to make sure their children have just as much as everyone else regardless of whether they can truly afford it or not. It’s become so commercialized and for that I feel sorry for people who have to borrow "
^^^This. We personally think it's bizarre that people spend so much when they can't afford it. Children don't need trinkets. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Don’t look forward to it for the fact it’s Xmas etc. I enjoy that time of year as we always take a long break abroad but the actual Xmas part we won’t really celebrate at all. We will wake up Xmas morning and just spend a day relaxing sunbathing drinking. We won’t buy a card or a single gift to exchange so it’s really just another day.
I also don’t like the fact that many many thousands of people will borrow and go into debt to purchase and spend to the level they will. I’m sure parents feel pressure to make sure their children have just as much as everyone else regardless of whether they can truly afford it or not. It’s become so commercialized and for that I feel sorry for people who have to borrow "
Sneaky advertising at work there.
Credit card adverts that come immediately after a raft of toys and games ad’s. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I also don’t like the fact that many many thousands of people will borrow and go into debt to purchase and spend to the level they will. I’m sure parents feel pressure to make sure their children have just as much as everyone else regardless of whether they can truly afford it or not. It’s become so commercialized and for that I feel sorry for people who have to borrow
^^^This. We personally think it's bizarre that people spend so much when they can't afford it. Children don't need trinkets. "
I think it’s an outlet. I think a lot of people work hard all year for little reward, just to pay their bills and survive. So I think it’s a small window where they can be with loved ones and enjoy a different sort of day where gifts that wouldn’t usually come so easy are bought. I can understand why people do it. I just feel for them when credit card bills etc hit the doormat the following month and they spend the next year battling to pay it. It’s a vicious cycle and it just seems the debt rises and rises. |
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I look forward to the family time, time off of work and just meeting people I haven’t seen all year. I used to enjoy the January sales too although they don’t seem to be the same.
I don’t enjoy the terrible radio songs, the adverts in November, the rush to get people presents that they probably won’t like and dry turkey which is overrated! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Me I really don't enjoy it. It was difficult growing up as my dad always worked nights and was always in bed Christmas Eve day and working boxing day night, so tempers would always fray due to his little sleep and my attitude (wasn't a great teenager).
When I had my own family I really tried to enjoy it, hubby loves loads of decorations, which I love looking at on other people's houses, plus the environment I am in is not great either.
This year I am dreading it more than other yrs X |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I’m not the biggest lover of Christmas I find it really hard emotionally. Especially as a kid when my family was split and having to see my dad one day mum the next. I always find it super stressful. It’s also my birthday on the 27th and so that kinda gets lost amongst the festivities. I do think it’s massively hyped up and over rated now. As a kid my most favourite Christmas memory was when me my mum and my eldest sister went to London for the day and went to a soup kitchen and helped the homeless and a simple Carol service in a church. It was so lovely to make it about giving something back. It’s become so commercialised over the years and it should be about family, memories, love and quality time.
I’m a non practicing Christian and feel that Christmas has become less about Christ and more about greed which is not very Christlike at all.
I can’t wait to have my own family one day and maybe the magic of Christmas might return to me and I’ll enjoy it once more. I usually only get excited for it on Christmas Eve. As I’ve got older Christmas seems to start in October these days.
Bah humbug haha.
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I don’t hate it but the actual day is just any other day and this year Christmas Day will actually be the 27th.
We spend time with family and friends prior to the day, going out for dinner, theatre, doing daft stuff like persuading 71 year old grandad to get on a rollercoaster.
The main thing for us is that we get to spend quality time with each other, as don’t see each other much during the year (due to distance) so those days are more special than the day when we are all in our separate houses and better than any other present we could give. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Apart from the time off work, it always seems like a fairy pointless faff and hassle  "
Just the commerical aspect ie excess food and drink and presnts for the little ones other than that its total BS
Its a bigger BS those that are alone, lost all of their family/friends stuck in a shelter/resdiential home or home alone as the bastard kids they brought up, helped with their first proerty/car etc ect could not give a flying fuck as they swan off to magaloof |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Me I really don't enjoy it. It was difficult growing up as my dad always worked nights and was always in bed Christmas Eve day and working boxing day night, so tempers would always fray due to his little sleep and my attitude (wasn't a great teenager).
When I had my own family I really tried to enjoy it, hubby loves loads of decorations, which I love looking at on other people's houses, plus the environment I am in is not great either.
This year I am dreading it more than other yrs X "
Oh how I can relate to this. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Already with the ads on TV. Showing things you can by for people (I have no one to buy for) Being told about everyone getting together, seeing loved ones. Families and friends sitting round a table for Xmas Dinner. So many people have lost loved ones. |
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Not my fave time of year I have to admit, but I do like that it excites others! All very low key in our house, certainly never a games console under our tree that’s for sure! But there is always a shiny penny and a satsuma in the kids stocking haha! Miss Grinch  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I fucking hate it, just one big commercial rip off to part you from your hard earned pennies!"
and the weak minded with the least amount of money fall for it, every time. Better to pay your rent/bills/dues and ensure you have food etc on the table.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I could deal with it better if it didn’t start in October and earlier. It’s that pish that has really drawn any level of Christmas spirit I once had out of me. I’m also not a fan of the amount of money I have to spend on people I don’t see throughout the year.
I really would rather go without it and Spend the day watching movies on my lonesome |
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By *ooBulMan
over a year ago
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Should every day be like Christmas - not just one day? Without the decorations of course.
If advertising started a week before Christmas that would be better too!
I have not put decorations up for the last 2 or 3 years or so... Mainly because I can't remember where exactly I put them when tidying away????
For me it's for the kids. Let them have their fun!
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I love it, i love a decorated house, seeing family for special meals, buying Lego for grandchildren, eating sherry trifle, chocolate and satsumas for breakfast.
This year will be different because my mum died earlier this year and another close family member is very ill. |
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By *.D.I.D.A.SMan
over a year ago
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Have never enjoyed it as an adult. Especially with my ex who indulges the kids. It's hard to relate as I don't have kids myself. It just appears a bit vulgar with the kids making lists from end Oct/early Nov comprising of items totalling £1000s combined. By boxing day you can see gifts which were not from their list in a disregarded pile. The whole shopping experience creates stress including financial stress. |
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We are lucky as we go away for Christmas to the states and have done for the last 7 or 8yrs save for covid.. we buy the kids a little of what they want as the exchange rate is better but we don't spoil them through the year. So whilst it is Christmas it's more of a shopping trip. ** Kids are 21, 18 and 12.** |
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"Good afternoon all I personally love it . I celebrate my birthday on Boxing Day so always a fun time for Me. How about you good people "
I absolutely hate Christmas, time of year lost me nan, not the same anymore, plus always on my own  |
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By *ora69Woman
over a year ago
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Christmas is just another day for me, have never really enjoyed the day. But I like the season, people tend to smile more (even tho most probably more stressed) and be nicer to each other. I do like making my children feel the magic and no not with expensive gifts but with feel good memories |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I don't look forward to it anymore..both parents died last year very close together..i just don't see the point in it anymore and dread all the fuss and crap that goes with it. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Absolutely dreading it. Normally love it but this will be first not spent as a family so can’t bring self to even think about how it will be on the day"
Hope you can find something to do for you.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Going to be complety on my own this year.
No family,GF or dog.
So no decorations going up.
Just going to let it pass me by."
Hope you can find good things to do. |
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"Good afternoon all I personally love it . I celebrate my birthday on Boxing Day so always a fun time for Me. How about you good people "
Good afternoon.
I don't celebrate Christmas in the Christian sense as I'm not Christian.
We have a family get together and exchange token gifts, I cook a turkey dinner with all the trimmings and we spend the afternoon lazing on the sofa in a food coma with lots to drink and nibble on.
But I announced last year that this year I'm not doing it.
I started doing it back in 1975 and I haven't missed a year yet, so I'm due this one off.
I would actually love to be spending it in a hotel in Ireland, but not sure it's going to happen due to pandemic reasons, we will see. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Good afternoon all I personally love it . I celebrate my birthday on Boxing Day so always a fun time for Me. How about you good people "
I love spending quality time with friends/family, but all the commercialism/consumerism/opulence/excess... Cannot stand it. |
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