[Closed] Who hates christmas?

on't be a dick - give your kids one each.

hmmmm ?

"It was a joke, Mark. A Christmas joke."

Gotta love this [url=

Peep Show clip[/url].

It's good coming from a large family that does not see much of each other now due to there own family commitments, make the effort to do the rounds seeing one then the other over several days of the Christmas hols.

Otherwise we could easily lose touch, also managed to get through the last few without bloodshed the police or the paramedics. Happy Christmas.

@ Angeldust.

Yup, all good in the hood over here. Actually pretty happy with life right now.

Spring is great, Summer is fantastic, Autumn in beautiful, even Winter has it merits, and New Year is fun. But Xmas....that can just **** right off !

I really do [b]HATE[/b] all of it. The excess, the greed, the presents, the turkey, the tinsel (God I hate tinsel) the nightmare travelling on the road and rails, the nightmare family you have to smile through, the stress, the enforced joy, and every time you turn on a TV or walk into a shop, having it rammed down your gullet every - single - day from November the 6th onwards.

Just do one Santa. Bog off back to Greenland or wherever and leave me in peace.

Yours with anger and bile.

ToD

"It was a joke, Mark. A Christmas joke."

Gotta love this Christmas-themed Peep Show clip.

Yep, that sums up Xmas pretty well 🙂

Don't hate it as a holiday and festive time per say. But hate all the commercial crap that's associated with it. Sale this, buy that etc. Then there's the crowds at everything you dare attend. Even your local that only has 10 people in it all year.

Mrs Egf & I were on about going away in the caravan just to get away from it all, but now wev'e been nagged into going to her daughters.
There'll be 15 people there & I know 3 of them.

Really can't be arsed with it.

What ToD said basically.

I love Christmas. 10 days off, family, food, drink.

[b]But it's way too early to be speaking of it[/b]. I won't speak about it in our house until December - other than a few necessary invites and so on

Now is the time to be making your cake and puddings...

I was pretty indifferent towards it before I had kids.

Now I like -
Cooking/planning what I'm going to cook
Spending quality time with the wife/kids/other friends + family
Time off work

I still don't like -
The fact it starts as soon as the kids go back to school in September
Rampant consumerism
Sh*t TV (I watch less and less every year)
Missing people who really should be there, like my younger brother who died 4 years ago.

So, on balance, I do like Christmas.

Don't much like it.

Not spent Christmas eve with the GF's family for years (nor has she). Mostly because boring AF... it's just another day, but you knock off early and go and eat at 6pm and sit around the table. But this year the GF's sister has asked that we go because of the kids.

But given what my mum has been through this year the GF says we should spend it in the UK.

Last year the GF and I went to Sicily for three weeks. Winter sun bathing. Biking on Etna. Deserted coastlines. Great food.

If the GF wants to see her family then I might just do something similar this year. A week or two in Liguria....?

I love Christmas. 10 days off, family, food, drink.

yeah this.

One thing that helped for me - we used to have a £10 limit on presents. I'd do that again if I was allowed. Made you focus on the good bits, ie eating and drinking too much and enjoying the company of the people you haven't lost yet.

a lot of people's complaints here could be leveled at any given day. Consumerism is out of control generally, TV is shit every day, etc etc

Jeez they start the who hates Christmas threads earlier each year.

We haven't even had the white poppy thread yet

i love Christmas, I have a boy to treat and family to cater for and normally inlaws to visit and enjoy their hospitality. If jesus hadn't have been born then,I think we would have had to come up with some other form of festival to get us through the cold and dark of winter.

Luckily, post Brexit, no one will be able to afford xmas, so we'll all be spared it soon enough...

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Brexmas sounds good.

Getting sick of it being stretched out so much by the shops - any 'specialness' has been sucked out of it for me.

Last year all I had was a small USB powered light that only worked when my laptop was powered up (other reasons for that though...)

Christmas should be every 18 months, so every other one is in the summer.

I do not want to buy a xmas pud in October either.

That's where you're going wrong, buy it on Boxing day in the sales, they last forever.

I just hate Slade and that goddamn robbin bob bob bobbing along.

I just hate Slade and that goddamn robbin bob bob bobbing along.

I do wish that manufacturers would fit audio devices with an off button.

Hate it. 'New Year' too.

I hate being guilt tripped into spending it with one set of relatives or the other, where the possibility of being able to relax for 5 minutes is zero.

I hate being guilt tripped into travelling for the entire period so that both sets of relatives are appeased.

I hate hosting my own relatives, because the possibility of being able to relax for 5 minutes is zero.

I hate having to work my arse off in order to host my own relatives. Especially when they insist on 'helping'.

I hate being forced to 'help' to run someone else's Christmas, that I don't want to be at anyway. Or being guilt tripped into not 'helping' when I've been repeatedly told not to.

I hate insisting that we have Christmas alone (Mrs ADH and I), as one or both sets will invite themselves along anyway.

I hate receiving planet-raping junk presents, bought solely to assuage the person giving the present's misplaced feelings of obligation. I can't think of anything I've been given in the past 10 years that was actually any use at all.

I hate feeling obliged to buy other people useless junk, if I can't think of anything useful to buy them.

I hate the massive rush at work to take a couple of days off.

I hate the massive rush at work in January.

I hate being forced to do absolutely nothing, when I could be getting on with doing something useful.

I hate the cheapness, the tawdryness, the fake bonhomie, the fake sincerity, the waste, and the weakness of myself and others that makes all that necessary.

I do love my relatives, but I can only stand socialising with them in short doses with provision of a clear escape route ...

Don't hate the time itself, do hate the rampant consumerism of it all, and being forced to get together (and be nice to) certain relatives.

Most Christmases recently have been a quiet few days with my parents, relaxing. That, I can deal with.

Hate it. 'New Year' too.

I'm pleased to report that 'New Years' is a complete no-event in my life over and above saying "happy new year" to each other in the morning.

Mrs Jay is usually working New Years Day and New Years Eve, but being 40 with 2 kids it's not like I would otherwise be dancing in the street at Midnight anyway.

It was always crap when I was young, super busy out, every man and his dog who shows his face in the pub once a year claims some sort of weird ownership of the place.

'Millennium' did for me, the biggest anti-climax in the history of anti-climatic events ha ha.

anyone shifted camp in either direction (hate it -> love it or love it -> hate it) from either of these previous threads?

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/anyone-else-hate-christmas-as-much-as-me

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/christmas-whos-chewed-their-own-tounge-off

I'm pretty much in the same position

I love it - was pretty ambivalent towards it until my sister had kids and then us not long afterwards.

Now it's brilliant - seeing the kids' excitement, time off work with friends & family, just slowing down a little bit too.

We've set a limit per present across the whole extended family - means that you focus on getting people something good, thoughtful and considered rather than just chucking £££ at some old shit.

Who’s Christmas?

Who’s Christmas?

Mary, apparently

What's not to love?

I could eat mince pies every day of the week and Christmas pud with sugar and cream on it is the best!

Like - going up to see my parents, bucks fizz and croissants for breakfast, walks in the countryside, homemade christmas pud, epic roast ham, venison stew's, basically it's Christmas straight out of the country life magazine, except cheaper and classy. Probably the most relaxing 4 days of the year.

Don't like - the enforced "doing christmas properly" os the OH put's it with the in-laws, every year there's a reason why we can't go upto my parents (this'll be christmas number 8). Small house, too many people, too much food, over-cooked veg, and no one leaves for 4 days straight and ends up a highly stung, stressed adn with a bad back as no one get's enough sleep and usually ends up sleeping on the floor in a room full of relatives. This year it'll be 4 generations in a terraced house!

This year I might go for a bivi with a hip flask Christmas eve.

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the enforced "doing christmas properly"

How the actual F I managed to miss that one off my "don't like" list I don't know.

Edit.

It's pretty good, friends and kids and lights etc. As long as you stay away from that religion stuff...

But it does go on [i]too long[/i], and the ones I have spent in Oz, Canada and the US have been way better. Restaurants open, buses run and the TV isn't rubbish.

Here it is,

1) disappointing present
2) disappointing food
3) disappointing TV

in that order.

zippykona - Member
Jeez they start the who hates Christmas threads earlier each year.

I believe this deserved more recognition than it actually got.

😉

No inlaws this year they have better offers...rejoice!!
Chuck Turkey in oven and go for a bike ride, its thecway forward!!

It's a nightmare.
So hard to get a decent restaurant reservation in resort with all the Christmas skiers.

PS. I'm aware that some people have different reasons for hating it.

Have a total lack of interest in Xmas, gets in the way of my time off.
I just avoid it as much as I can.

Love it. Be a bit weird this year without Dad, he was big in to Christmas too. Will have to drink his ration of single malt this year as we don't want a glut in January.

I like Christmas and I'm generally pretty miserable. Nice food, go nice places, plenty time on bike and see family and friends.

Our family went to a £20 max secret Santa a few years ago and it's brilliant.

Crassmass,crassmass,crassmass...It always cracks me up hearing peeps say the usual guff; loads of food/holiday/family and the nippers love it. You can do that when ever you like you know, you don't have to wait until Jesus gives ye the nod. Sheep need to be herded I spose 😆

Lovely time of year though 😉

I much prefer Easter, spring weather, end of winter, Mother Nature doing her thing, and loads of choc. The thing about Xmas is all the faff and all the expectation. Everyone so wound up about making sure they have a good time, always thinking someone is having a better day. Plus there’s the traditions which usually dictate how the day is spent, usually inside. Easter - low profile, lower expectations, lower cost, higher enjoyment. Spend the day how you want, on a bike if you can. Give me Easter over Xmas any day

You can do that when ever you like you know, you don't have to wait until Jesus gives ye the nod

Probably not when you think about the logistics of holding a big family do particularly with families spread all over the place at a convenient time for all and nevermind the shared experience and traditions that make the occasion.

What? You can only get together with a big group of friends and family once a year... 😆 It just shows that this follow/control thing works doesn't it.

Break the tradition of guff and start a new family tradition of your own, start slowly and have a gathering on the 28th.. You'll all be fine I promise ye.

Currently hate it, I wish I could enjoy it like the wife and kids.
Working in retail so I have to work my ass off, get no thanks from my bosses or customers, go home, eat sleep repeat. Christmas day just becomes a day off before heading back in on the 26th at the crack of dawn for the sale. I am like the Grinch come the 25th.

Looking forward to the day I retire and can enjoy it again as, to me, it should be a time for family not consumerism.