Main reason we went abroad was to get away from the BS attached to Christmas in the uk
About to do the same for the first time…
CANNOT WAIT!!!
Christmas is a bundle of joyless consumerism and everybody making a massive scene out of nothing to me. I enjoy the food. I hate everything else about it, including the expectation you’ll spend the day with people you can’t normally spend more than 10 minutes around without killing each other. I especially hate the expectation to buy each other gifts, as for the first 30yrs of my life, I always used to put a huge amount of effort into this aspect of it all, when everybody else grabbed the most inane and random thing they could that wouldn’t even warrant 2 minutes of my attention at best (my Dad got me a selection of condiments and my GF a jam selection last year, he gave rise to my very being and he got me a **** box of condiments! I would very much rather have had nothing, which is what I hope I get this year, as nothing is far less insulting than saying “you’re my son, but I really don’t know you and have no interest in finding out what interests you either”).
Argh!!!! Thinking about Christmas here is boiling my blood again!!! Thank god I’ll be on a plane out of here soon enough…