Fuck the holidays

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Banana182

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Christmas itself is a great holiday. It's the commercial business of Christmas that pisses people off. We only need to be told that "Christmas is a time of good will and cheer" ONCE people. Christmas, Thanksgiving and Easter are all so boring and stuff, nobody gives a crap anymore.

In my opinion, Halloween, New Years, and maybe 4th of July is far better.

Parties
Friends (Not family)
Fun
 
christmas is a bastard holiday. usurped from the celts' celebration of the winter solstice. either way, it fucking sucks.

i think the best gift anyone can get me this year is to leave me the hell alone... i think i'll put that on my list.
 
It's the pressure and the dramatic fall in my bank balance that pisses me off at Christmas. Getting together with family, friends, having a big party and getting merry is the part I enjoy. I would enjoy Chrismas so much more if presents weren't a part of it.

Urgh, I've got so many presents to get...:bawling:
 
I just had an idea...

i'm going to get a single gift. a really really great gift.

then i'm going to get all my friends and family together, and tell them the survivor gets it.
 
Now THIS is the topic for me.

I don't do Christmas in any way shape or form. I take the week around Xmas off so I don't have to be around people.

The last Christmas I did was '99 right before my ex-husband and I split up. It was tense enough between us but then he had his parents in from England for two weeks on top of it and they knew we weren't getting along so it was a nightmare.

As if that wasn't bad enough my ex step-brother hung himself in his grandmothers garage the day after Christmas and being the only non-prostitute/drug addict/fuck bag in that sector of my family I had to be the grown up for all those proceedings.

BTW by "ex" I'm not referring to his current state. His mom and my dad divorced a short time later, I'm sure he's moved on to wife number 8 by now, but I haven't talked to him in years. Remind me to tell you the story of wife number 7, it involves a prostitute "track" and heroin. Don't think I haven't gotten offers from the Hallmark channel.

Yeah, so after the festivities of '99 I said that was enough. My family has always been a waste of time and I finally got them all out of my life.

So with no family to deal with all I have to do is fight off the "invites".

What the fuck is it about saying "I'm not doing anything for the holidays" that makes you transform into a fucking refugee?

"Oh, you can come to our house, we always have tons of food and it's really nice. No one should be alone on Christmas"

Bullshit. If I don't want to be around my family, what the fuck makes you think I want to be around yours?

Yeah, yeah that's harsh. My decline is always polite but then they get pushy. Finally they just think your a headcase.

That's why I always take time off and disappear from the radar for that week.

Me and my dogs and 24 hours of A Christmas Story on TNT. Now that's Christmas.
 
hell yeah, christmas story is the only good thing about december. I love that movie, and the book it came from... classic.

but i like your idea of disappearing for a while. too bad i'm still married or i'd do that. (she'd hunt me down, make no mistake)
 
Yeah, not sure you can pull it off.


I say it's time to dig out the aluminum pole and start with the "airing of grievences" followed of course by the "feats of strength"
 
first. i'm not a christian, never have been, CHRISTmas can take a hike for that alone, i do have some interest with winter solstice celebrations and so me and my wife have exchanged gifts then the past few years, it's also our wedding anniversary.. so it's a nice night to do both..
best xmas i've had was in india, on a beach, sunbathing nude and i bought myself a samosa as a gift..
we always do our xmas shopping early, we were done by the end of september this year.. but we've still had enough even so.. next year with the exception of my young nieces we aren't buying anything and are refusing gifts, instead we'll be adding the money we would've spent as a boost to our charity donations.. probably the dog shelter, and we're asking that any gifts coming to us be similarly diverted.
i don't hide from xmas, but we do go out of town a lot then, abroad or out of state.. anything to hide from the family and the DRAMA.
 
I don't like holidays, but I especially despise X-Mas. Commerical holiday of the ages wrapped in a lie of caring. I'm too lazy and uncaring to look it up but I know that X-Mas sales account for at least a quarter of all sales for the whole year. Let's all be nice one day a year! Weeeeee.

I think people need to rethink themselves. Holidays are "special" times to do stuff with your friends and family? Fuck that. Every day is a chance to do that. Live it like that, and you'll be much happier. Why save it up for a few days a year?
 
Hm, surprise surprise that you're the first person to respond to this thread. It's right up your alley.

Anyway, I personally love the holidays. I grew up an hour's drive from my nearest family memebers, so for me, it's a really happy time when I get to see them because I don't get to see them often. And this year will be especially nice because I live 3 hours from my imediate family, so to go home for 5 days over Thanksgiving and just under a month for christmas is great. And I have plans to hang out with my best friend since I was 3 over Thanksgiving weekend because we haven't seen each other since a week before school started back in Aug. I miss her so much.

Back to your problem, take a freakin' Zoloft. If you don't like the holidays, don't celebrate. And if you must be part of the merriment, suck it up. It's not for very long. Only two days a year out of your life. Assuming you don't celebrate Kwanza or Hannika (sp?).
 
Hmm we don`t have the " gift problem " here in Bulgaria , or if we do i haven`t noticed . Nobody`s getting presents anyway , except maybe for the smallest representors of the population . But that alone can`t stop me from being pissed around these holidays mentioned above and all others in general . The thing that makes my blood boil is that everybody expect you to be happy on that particular day and i don`t know about you , but i can`t " ignite " my happiness with a push of a button . When i'm happy i am , and when i'm not i'm not , end of story . Maybe it`s the " spirit of the event " that should cheer me up , but hell look at it more carefully and you`ll see that it's a day like any other , no big deal .
When i think about it i had my happy x-mases and new years , but here comes the second thing that kicks the chair under the legs of enjoyment . Everything is almost the same , the meals , the fat ass with the long white beard , the way people are acting . Like it`s all a play with everybody`s roll in it , and if you don`t play along you`ll be branded " crazy " . The only good thing is that when the curtains fall the thing`s are back to normal , if something can be considered normal ...
 
Someone said this to me at work the other day. Made me want to hit them too.

Sure, the actual holiday parts are only 2 days of the year (excepting kwanza and hannika (i don't know how to spell it either)), but the entire season, which used to run from december 1st to december 26th, now begins the day after easter and ends the day after new years. (slight exaggeration) You end up so fucking inundated with holiday specials, advertisements, well wishes and you-have-to-be-merry-and-spend-lots-of-moneyment that i'm surprised there aren't more christmas day massacres, if just to stop the noise for a little while. I'm glad you enjoy the holidays, i'm glad someone can, but don't try to force your over-eager, sugar-sprinkled views on me. Go enjoy the holiday, but leave me alone about it.

Goddamm christmas elves, they're everywhere now.
 
yeah, FUCK, christmas. Bah Humbug. I hate christmas. I hate New Year's day; it's so fucking depressing. I hate everyone on Tv saying the love everything, and they love christmas. Bah humbug.
Now some asshole religious group is trying to sue Wal-mart because they say tat Wal-mart says christmas is not a religious holiday, so Wal-mart is saying "happy holidays" instead of "merry fucking christmas".
I hate christmas. I hate christ. I hate mas. I hate every fucking part of christ and mas. I hate christmas.
Went past a local Litehouse pools and spa store the last week in Oct., they had the entire store full of fucking christmas trees.
I feel sorry for the trees. They rape the poor trees out of the fucking ground where they are minding their own business, just sitting there growing, to put them in thier fucking houses. I hope their fucking houses all burn down to the ground.
Good thing I gave up on religion about 30 yrs ago. There is no such thing as god, and I wish everyone would stop trying to shove him down my throat,
:mfinger: :mad: :gun: :banghead: :fuckoff:
 
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