[Closed] Who loves/hates christmas?

Despite having my mother-in-law staying, and having spent the whole day trailing around Madrid city centre and all the festive hell that implies, I too am looking forward to Christmas.

I liked it when I was younger and then became a bit meh with it in my late teens up until I became a father.

Now, with three young children I really enjoy it again 🙂

Looking forward to my annual Christmas cigar, mothers cooking & nap in the afternoon.

I always appreciate Xmas, but this year having a wonderful 9 month old daughter I am excited like a little kid, I can't wait to open presents with her.

Love christmas

its not as exciting when yer kids are all grown up, i used to love watching their faces as they ripped open their presents 😉
its alot of hype for one day tho !

not bothered.
I hate the crass commercialism of it all that starts in September, but I do enjoy the break

What bugs me most about it though is the enforced jollity of it all - "the party season" especially. You [i]can[/i] have a party in the other 11 months you know!

I'm not a Christian, so not particularly bothered about a Christian festival based on a Pagan one really.

Will have a Xmas day dinner with me mum, but only cos that's what we always do. Won't be making much of a fuss, and sod buying loads of presents cos some consumerist culture dictates we ought to....

I like the pretty lights and stuff, but they've got bugger all to do with either the Pagan or Christian celebration really.

As a brown person, I'll be trying not to offend myself. Or be offended. 😕

Absolutely love it!

I watched Elf with the kids today as well

Love that film

Love, love LOVE Christmas

Tree is up, presents wrapped and cards written over a glass of wine, all ready to go. Yayeeeeeeeee 😀

Ha ha @ elf, trying not to offend myself 🙂

KINGTUT - Member
I always appreciate Xmas, but this year having a wonderful 9 month old daughter I am excited like a little kid, I can't wait to open presents with her.

You do realise she won't understand or care about Christmas, I suppose? Give her a couple of years, though...

Kingtut - What have you got her? Scalextrix? New Niche SS?

not bothered.
I hate the crass commercialism of it all that starts in September, but I do enjoy the break

What bugs me most about it though is the enforced jollity of it all - "the party season" especially. You can have a party in the other 11 months you know!

x2 I enjoy seeing friends and family and the day itself, but the whole hullabaloo in the lead up to it is a pain in the backside.

love it
our tree is up, decorations in the garden.
off to disneyland paris on tuesday to really get excited , then home for the real thing
it's all for the kids, honest 😉

I love Christmas because I enjoy the atmosphere of the festive period. I love the food, the drinks, the xmas decorations and seeing kids enjoy themselves. I have no interest in the religious side of it but it doesn't offend me the same way as I couldn't give a rats ass about ramadan or eid when I'm in their countries at these times. Religion is horseshiz but xmas is ace.

Heh, of course I know my daughter knows or will appreciate diddly squat about Xmas.

We'll all still have great fun.

I have 2 year old twins, they are excited like mad about santa and the chrismas tree. They are forever singing jingle bells. Normally I just love the break and to gouge on fine food and wine, but Xmas with little kids is AWESOME

Ha ha @ elf, trying not to offend myself

No you don't understand it's very difficult. As a brown person, apparently I might be offended by Christmas, so it's very stressful, trying not to get all offended. 🙁

In my mind I've changed it to 'Winter Festival'; only by doing so, can I sleep at night.

Well, until some big fat bearded bloke comes down my chimney I spose...

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Mummy I'm frightened. 😥

.............can't really be bothered with it TBH

BAH HUMBUG!

Used to love Christmas when I was a kid, especially as I was an only child - got spoilt rotten by my grandparents and got to spend time with my 3 cousins, who were like brothers to me - we used to really do the family get together thing.

In my latter teen years I too was a bit meh about it and preferred New Year for the partying, but growing up and having a child has made me appreciate it again. Absolutely love it, get well into the spirit and spoil our daughter rotten.

Love the family bit. Hate the spend spend spend, what am I going to get type mentality. The way the commercial side is rammed down our throats winds me up.

I love spending money.

Well I'm going to be a right old miserable bugger now. I hate christmas.

I like winter. I like snow. I like seeing the kids get presents. And seeing the family is ok. I just freaking HATE having to buy presents, I hate the christmas frenzies. I hate the advertising 3 months before it starts. I hate going food shopping. I hate the panic buying. I've no feelings whatsoever about the christian aspect of christmas. I hate the over indulgence. I hate christmas cards, I hate christmas trees, I hate being given presents and I ****ing despise tinsel.

I mostly blame the commercial aspect of christmas for this hatred but clearly the real blame lies on my own nasty shoulders.

Ignore mainly

I hate the commercialisation and the exhortations to consume consume consume

I will have no Christmas lunch as such. I will send money to oxfam and water aid instead. Token pressies( so as not to annoy my family by giving nowt) both given and received with more money to wateraid and oxfam

love or hate? neither.
Doing it? nope.
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I normally get annoyed with the build up to Christmas, right up until Christmas Day when I can start enjoying it...
... but this year I'm off to New Zealand and it's going to the best one ever! 😀

I never ask for, or receive much, although if I want something then mrs TAFKASTR will get it for me.

However, I love the total indulgence - eat, drink, buy for my daughter, but for my mrs, eat, drink, erm, eat & drink, relax, eat some more, get pissed, have the perfect excuse for more narcotics than usual, spend more money, eat more food, drink more ale.

I give to various charities throughout the year, so don't feel the need to increase that at Christmas, as an increased donation at a specific point in time would not necessarily see that donation filter through to benefit the recipients at that particular corresponding point in time.

I'm with tj and samurai. It's great for the kids
, but other than that it seems to be just over
intensified commercialism. I don't mind spending
Money. Just not "under duress" .I suppose a lack of faith may
Have some bearing on it but frankly it just feels like imposed bs.
However I do think the merriment etc is just the ticket in what
Is the darkest, greyest time if the year.
Merry Christmas!

Christmas is great with kids, so long they are on form! But opening presents is the best. Last year i gave both mine a lump of radium. It was lovely seeing their faces light up.

I still stand by what I said up above, but I also would like to add that I can understand why many generations ago they decided to have a winter festival in mid-winter to cheer everyone up.

I hate the long hours of darkness at this time of year and I personally need something to cheer me (and the family) up.

A week or two holiday with lots of food and drink and getting together with my adopted family really cheers me up, so I am thankful for having this festival.

+1 ho hum

It's good.

Well I'm going to be a right old miserable bugger now. I hate christmas.

I like winter. I like snow. I like seeing the kids get presents. And seeing the family is ok. I just freaking HATE having to buy presents, I hate the christmas frenzies. I hate the advertising 3 months before it starts. I hate going food shopping. I hate the panic buying. I've no feelings whatsoever about the christian aspect of christmas. I hate the over indulgence. I hate christmas cards, I hate christmas trees, I hate being given presents and I ****ing despise tinsel.

+1 - going to be just me and my elderly mother again! It's just become too commercialised, and even the religious element seems to have got lost as families try to out do each other on the present giving. Its the sense of people trying to be nice to each other for a day or so that is so false.

I hate it. I hate the commercial side of it. I hate the religious side of it. I hate that my mum asks me every other day what I would like as a gift. Im torn between telling her that as usual I don't want anything, or that I could do with a new heart rate monitor 😉

The only bit I enjoy is seeing extended family, but why do we only feel the need to organise these parties at this time of year?

My Dad's birthday was 25 December. I cannot put in to words how magical Christmas Day has been to me all of my life.

I have to admit I am not in a good mental space for it this year. I really wish it was 6 months or more away this year. Wish it wasn't how I felt as usually I love it to bits. Really don't know what to do this year, feel like hiding away somewhere.

Sorry to be a downer.

For the first time in a long time we're (as in me and her in doors) buying presents for each other, for the last few years we've just said let's spend the money on the kids, but sod that this year I'm having some pressies too!! 😉 well I hope so anyway!

Not religious but do enjoy a period of the year when (most) folk are off work at the same time and generally in a good mood.

This year could be different - looks like we'll get the results of my father's current tests to see if he has pancreatic cancer a few days before and with me on the south coast of England and him near Inverness and the current long term forecast for more snow & ice it's not a given I'll get to spent it with him. 🙁

It's a week off work so time for even more biking, esp good if it's going to be snowy 😀
As for the rest of it, meh.

In the right company, I love it.
In the wrong company, I hate it.

Not a big fan of it.
I hate the the fact that youre somehow meant to see all your family and yet enjoy yourself ever so much on just one day of the year.
I also seem to find the quality of the food and entertainment really bad at Christmas, it's all a bit 'never mind the quality it's the quantity that counts'
I also hate buying for people that judge you on the cash value of your gifts.
Lots I don't like really.
Things I do like. being with my kids though there older now and one has left home. Time off, as I only get five days off in the year.

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Now there's a man who really has the Christmas spirit!

I love Christmas, though not for religious reasons, and the commercialism does my head in. Putting up the tree with the kids, stocking up the wood pile, baking & deoorating the cake, going for a ride to Christmas Common, the smells of Christmas Day cooking, having a week off at home and seeing my siblings....these are all things that mark the middle of winter, the time of year I like the least.

The lights and sparkly things are a welcome antidote to the unremitting darkness, and once November and December are out of the wat I can look forward to lengthening days and the return of the sun. January's a bit grim, but skiing in February and March are always a good antidone, and by March everyhting's cheered up and things are growing again.

I don't like Xmas dinner - turkey, roast potatoes, stuffing, sprouts, mince pies, Xmas pudding. It's horrible - if it's so tasty why do you only have it once a year?