FabSwingers.com > Forums > The Lounge > You get to eradicate one Xmas tradition…
You get to eradicate one Xmas tradition…
Jump to: Newest in thread
"Presents"
I agree with this, people just go crazy and put themselves in debt from one year to the next, then it starts all over again, I wish they would take the pressure off themselves to outdo each other and have the biggest pile of presents which most kids open and then just leave go one side
 |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
 |
By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
|
That's a hard question. I went my whole childhood without Christmas.
I think I might go with Christmas crackers. They really don't have great stuff inside them at all. Unless you spend mega bucks but even then! And they just take up space on the table.
PW
|
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
 |
By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
|
"…what’s it going to be?
I think for me it’s Xmas jumpers, hideous things, although Xmas cards comes a very close second. "
We have eradicated the sending of Christmas cards... woohoo. We donate to charity instead and that's a much more satisfying experience.
We (Mr NBVN and I) do not buy gifts for each other at Christmas, it less stress, less unnecessary expense and instead we spend a little extra on birthdays and treats for each other throughout the year.
NBVN x |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
"The creeping commercialisation of it all. Good food, good drink and good company should be what its all about. "
Exactly this! It starts wayyyy too early now too. Christmas is in the shops even before Halloween is done! Overkill... |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
Gifts. We buy what we want through the year anyway, and are both pretty sure we love each other.
And then family and friends who know our financial situation feel obliged to buy us expensive things as they think that’s what we’d like, and equally we feel obliged to buy expensive gifts without really knowing what people want which seems a bit of a waste.
Whole things a mess, our best would be a £20 max secret Santa among everyone and call it good.
No matter how many times we’ve tried a no or limited gift policy it just hasn’t worked though. And it’s awful seeing what some people go through around this time of year and the anxiety and financial pressure isn’t what Christmas should be about. |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
 |
By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
|
The whole Christmas dinner and the expectation around the event.
I’ve gotten married, had two children, separated, taken on 3 step children, moved a handful of times, and helped my OH through serious illness.
Non of this compares to the stress of cooking a Christmas dinner!!!
Left me me it’d be steak, chips and egg! |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
 |
By *imbo59seMan
over a year ago
North Norfolk area |
"The creeping commercialisation of it all. Good food, good drink and good company should be what its all about.
Exactly this! It starts wayyyy too early now too. Christmas is in the shops even before Halloween is done! Overkill..."
Whilst we're at it, can we eradicate Halloween as well?
If you want to do American things, then go live in America!
 |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
 |
By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
|
"The creeping commercialisation of it all. Good food, good drink and good company should be what its all about.
Exactly this! It starts wayyyy too early now too. Christmas is in the shops even before Halloween is done! Overkill...
Whilst we're at it, can we eradicate Halloween as well?
If you want to do American things, then go live in America!
"
Oh gods yes please! Halloween is a garbage holiday!
Black Friday too. |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
 |
By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
|
"The creeping commercialisation of it all. Good food, good drink and good company should be what its all about. "
Creeping? It crept up about 30 years ago and has not stopped. I think the FTSE has beaten the Church out of the equation by now!  |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
 |
By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
|
Having to pay the staff a Christmas bonus! I mean the sense of expectation!!!!
And now that we’re banning presents then they don’t need the extra the fookin scrooges!
 |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
If we did do away with Christmas and all that goes with it, that might then mean we would have to do away with the holidays that are mostly paid for! That may cause an uproar even to the anti Christians! Btw I’m agnostic and certainly not preaching for the great god above lol |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
‘Last Christmas I gave you my heart’. Every frigging year he gives his heart to ‘someone special’, and then the next year he’s complaining about them giving his heart away again, while setting himself up for the same thing again. Clearly this person is exhibiting ‘ repetition compulsion’ behaviour. |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
"The creeping commercialisation of it all. Good food, good drink and good company should be what its all about.
Exactly this! It starts wayyyy too early now too. Christmas is in the shops even before Halloween is done! Overkill...
Whilst we're at it, can we eradicate Halloween as well?
If you want to do American things, then go live in America!
"
I have numerous friends who live in the UK who decorate for halloween, have halloween parties.
There are over 24 countries that celebrate All Saints Day, Mexico celebrates Día de Los Muertos, the Day of the Dead, which honors the dead.
Halloween, also known as “All Hallows’ Eve,” is celebrated on October 31st, the day before All Hallows’ or All Saints Day. All Hallows’ is a Christian festival celebrated in honor of the saints. The celebration stems from the belief that there is a powerful bond between those in heaven and the living. Christians held the belief that during Halloween, “the veil between the material world and the afterlife is at its most transparent.”
So, as far as it being just an “American” holiday…it isn’t. !!!  |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
 |
By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
|
Christmas music in shops.
Every one you go in plays the same thing over and over.
Really pisses me off to the point that I'm finding it painful to go shopping at the moment.
Please bring food parcels and booze  |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
 |
By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
|
"…what’s it going to be?
I think for me it’s Xmas jumpers, hideous things, although Xmas cards comes a very close second. "
Picking gifts for people randomly. I make people give me a list of what they want, to make sure no one gets disappointed. |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
 |
By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
|
"Queens speech
R She is the “Defender of the faith”
Isn't she the Defender of the Kingdom of Lizard People?"
Does the queen actually make a Christmas speech here? |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
"Feck off Queen haters hm is my boss!! " I’m certainly not a queen hater but I’m not a flag waving royalist either. We can poke fun and humour with it though, spitting image had a puppet of her and surely that was also taken the way as it was intended. Not as a torch burning rally demanding a Republic
|
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
 |
By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
|
"Feck off Queen haters hm is my boss!! you took the queens shilling are very admirable that is too and serve her country "
As an outsider observing this conflict, I actually quite admire the unity your queen brings to this country. The monarchy is a rallying symbol unlike any other and you’ve got an exemplary queen at the helm currently. |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
Funny people saying they hate crackers & cards; as I’m a crafter I save all the crackers as when you cut them a certain way, it looks like bunting, so perfect for DIY cards during the year.
We have special ‘family’ cardboard shaped hats from years ago and everyone has their assigned one :D
Have to agree on the piped music-used to work in retail and the CD would go on mid October and not end till start of Feb hearing Leona Lewis ‘Bleeding Love’ so many times kinda took it out of you.
One thing I’d get rid-the schmaltzy American ‘Christmas’ movies.
Millie |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
 |
By *imbo59seMan
over a year ago
North Norfolk area |
"The creeping commercialisation of it all. Good food, good drink and good company should be what its all about.
Exactly this! It starts wayyyy too early now too. Christmas is in the shops even before Halloween is done! Overkill...
Whilst we're at it, can we eradicate Halloween as well?
If you want to do American things, then go live in America!
I have numerous friends who live in the UK who decorate for halloween, have halloween parties.
There are over 24 countries that celebrate All Saints Day, Mexico celebrates Día de Los Muertos, the Day of the Dead, which honors the dead.
Halloween, also known as “All Hallows’ Eve,” is celebrated on October 31st, the day before All Hallows’ or All Saints Day. All Hallows’ is a Christian festival celebrated in honor of the saints. The celebration stems from the belief that there is a powerful bond between those in heaven and the living. Christians held the belief that during Halloween, “the veil between the material world and the afterlife is at its most transparent.”
So, as far as it being just an “American” holiday…it isn’t. !!! "
Am well aware of "All Hallowes", "Day of the Dead" etc., so I'll quantify my statement..... If you wish to do American things ("trick or treat" for example), go live in America!
How's that?  |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
"The creeping commercialisation of it all. Good food, good drink and good company should be what its all about.
Exactly this! It starts wayyyy too early now too. Christmas is in the shops even before Halloween is done! Overkill...
Whilst we're at it, can we eradicate Halloween as well?
If you want to do American things, then go live in America!
I have numerous friends who live in the UK who decorate for halloween, have halloween parties.
There are over 24 countries that celebrate All Saints Day, Mexico celebrates Día de Los Muertos, the Day of the Dead, which honors the dead.
Halloween, also known as “All Hallows’ Eve,” is celebrated on October 31st, the day before All Hallows’ or All Saints Day. All Hallows’ is a Christian festival celebrated in honor of the saints. The celebration stems from the belief that there is a powerful bond between those in heaven and the living. Christians held the belief that during Halloween, “the veil between the material world and the afterlife is at its most transparent.”
So, as far as it being just an “American” holiday…it isn’t. !!!
Am well aware of "All Hallowes", "Day of the Dead" etc., so I'll quantify my statement..... If you wish to do American things ("trick or treat" for example), go live in America!
How's that? "
Trick-or-treating—setting off on Halloween night in costume and ringing doorbells to demand treats—has been a tradition in the United States and other countries for more than a century. Its origins remain murky but traces can be identified in ancient Celtic festivals, early Roman Catholic holidays, medieval practices—and even British politics.
During some Celtic celebrations of Samhain, villagers disguised themselves in costumes made of animal skins to drive away phantom visitors; banquet tables were prepared and food was left out to placate unwelcome spirits.
I hope you’re feeling better soon. Enjoy your evening.  |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
» Add a new message to this topic