No loving it this year. Fantastic school Christmas show on Wednesday followed by a torch light walk to a secret Christmas tree in Macc forest. A great afternoon in my local with kids watching Arthur Christmas yesgerday. Today Up to Buxton to see Santa in Poole’s Cavern (cost less than standard entry) and then a kids Carol concert in the main church in town. Polar express after tea and then Die Hard when the kids have gone to bed.

Two weeks off work including a week in the north Yorkshire moors after New Year whats not love.

I don’t despise it as such, but because we don’t have kids it doesn’t really mean anything to us so we choose to let it pass us by and because we’re grown-ups if we want something ‘big’ we’ll just buy it if we can afford it rather than ‘ask’* for it for christmas. Charities (and people in general, unless you’re a massive arsehole) get my best side regardless of the time of year as well. Don’t be tw*t is for life, not just for christmas.

What I do hate is the pressure it puts on people (like my mam when we were younger and my sister now) to produce the ‘perfect’ day, which can never happen. The commercialism and other shite can FRO and FRO some more when it gets there.

* FFS 🙄

edit- oh, and we’re not religious in the slightest either. I did choose to mark the winter solstice this year with a nice burger and chips though.

We have a set budget for presents/food etc and don’t go above it, so we don’t rack up debt! I am not fussed about the day but with two young children I love to see their excitement and getting to create our own family traditions!

Nothing of the sort angeldust
I hate everything about it, what it stands for, what it’s become, the expectations and pressures it generates

Tight fisted ?
No
However will I spend money for no other reason than it’s expected of me?
Will I f*ck

Xmas and everything surrounding it can pull its bottom lip over the top of its head and swallow

The advertising industry may put pressure on you but they don’t force you. Unless somebody pops round with a gun and holds it to your head.

I have done more than one Christmas where the gf and I decided to not buy each other gifts, we also didn’t have a big fancy meal but had a long walk in the countryside followed by a curry.

Buy shit you don’t need with money you don’t have to impress people you don’t know- yaaaaaaay…. christmas!

I love my wife. We have a fabulous relationship. But I could happily divorce her every November and get married again in January.

It’s not that I hate Xmas but there’s a limit to how much excess I can put up with. Too much food. Too many presents. New decorations every year (but we’ll never need any the following year). And on it goes. Having said that, she’s working 24-27th this year so I’m trying to do what I can to make it special around her shifts

I should also add that nobody ever admits to their tight-fistedness being the reason they hate Christmas.

Happy Christmas everyone!

Not even any good films on…

Muppet Xmas Carol on channel 4 right now! 🙂

Buy shit you don’t need with money you don’t have to impress people you don’t know- yaaaaaaay…. christmas!

No wonder you don’t like it if you do that. 😛

😆 If that’s your thing, potter on. Not my thing though, so aaaaaaaah’m oot.

Consumermas!
Much despising from me.
And a happy new year.

The new forum shortens the title a little unfortunately on my phone.

Hate the early build up and play up to the scrooge role with the kids, but… with three kids getting giddy as we speak, first bottle of black sheep on its way down, just knowing the kids are going to be so excited in the morning and will love their presents makes me one happy person come Christmas day.

Even making a special effort with the Mother-in-Law this year – wife lost her dad in October so extra effort to make new traditions with the smaller family. Looking forward to a few beers with my old man tomorrow whilst doing dinner.

Merry Christmas all! Hope everyone has a good one!

S

If that’s your thing, potter on

That’s the thing though you don’t have to do any of that to enjoy a few days off work and a few extra beers because you don’t have to go to work.
You can say no to all the bullshite and still enjoy yourself.

You can take time off work whenever you want- what’s your point, caller?

You can take time off work whenever you want

Are you a miserable **** on those days too? 😀

well if they’d rather die then let them, and decrease the surplus population.

Yup- hated it for a few years, & feeling very lonely this year.

its a randommly chosen day of the year,…… , the inevitably rubbish weather..

It’s not random though, it is entirely linked to the later – whatever the origins festivals in the long dark days when the weather is poor make a lot of sense. The weather would still be shit even if you cancel Christmas.

I’m not religious so personally don’t bother with it but feel I have to go along with it all.
I hate all the commercialisation, annoying adverts that even I struggle to avoid. The amount of presents seem ridiculous especially as people know what they are getting. Not even all that keen on traditional Xmas food. Rode past the local curry house tonight wishing for that. 🙂
I do enjoy seeing family and friends more and the excuse for more bike riding/walks though.

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You had my full attention until I opened the thread and saw the full title :/

I do rather enjoy it. I get some time off, spend it with friends and family, do my own thing.

I’m not into the over commercialisation of it and I don’t like it rammed down down my throat from November, but I ignore all that and like I say, I quite enjoy it.

I’ll say it again, not all of us get time off.

I had a few very few tough ones as a kid and I hated it as a single adult, few found memories but as a Dad I love it.

This…
I dislike it when I have to venture into town shopping and I dislike the constant ads for boxing day sales as if shopping was some sort of hobby but getting to see my son open his presents and spending time with the family ( not the inlaws though) is great

This will be the 4th/5th Christmas as a single feller, I find it pretty grim tbh, I never look forward to it.

All my mates are doing the kids thing or with their families so I’m pretty much left to myself for the day, I’ll catch a few of them on Boxing day and see them for a ride during next week.

I’ll get up, have a bacon sandwich, go for a long ride, get back and drink a nice bottle of red I picked up in France while watching the tour in the Summer, sit around and think about some of the cool stuff I did through the year, listen to some records I’ve not got around to yet, phone my mum and step dad, see how there getting on.

It goes by but get’s a bit grim and lonely if you stop and think to much, always feels like I’m under a microscope or something, and a bit of a wasted opportunity, I miss someone being around to spoil a bit, but that’s how it is for now…

It’s the forced fun I don’t like.

I don’t hate Christmas – there’s some parts of it I quite like. But it goes on too long and I really don’t like all the excess, the social pressure to have excess, and the expectation that you’ll be incapable of doing anything after dinner as you’ve eaten too much. “nobody diets at Christmas” – well given for a change I’m in the right mental state I don’t see why I can’t go out and work up a sweat on Christmas day, and then not overeat.

What I dislike most is things stopping for the holidays – I quite like just having a normal week where I get out of the house and do fun activities with other people a few times, but it’s all stopped next week and instead I have to make polite conversation whilst sitting in the house not doing anything.

Love hate here. Not that bothered by it but with a 4 year old the sheer excitement is infectious ! Don’t go nuts on presents, loads of little things probably 40 quids worth. She likes the boxes !
Nice dinner but nothing crazy.
I lived overseas for 16 years and it was the only time I really missed family, we will see them all tomorrow and share a glass of bubbles but it’s what you make it. Had a few lonely ones as well, anyone alone in edinburgh feel free to pm me and come round, I have beer !

yep…………it comes round too often. perhaps I would enjoy it if it were like the Olympics… .every 4 years !

No kids of our own so it has usually been a drive to visit the aged parents, but this year the last one passed away…….hopefully get some sort of ride or walk in then settle down for a dirty great Lasagne and garlic bread followed by some guitar practice.

Family, good food, excuse to drink too much and a hilarious 14 month old niece who already has a sense of humour and likes to join in with the toast and say “cheers”. Spent most of our money on nice food and booze for everyone to enjoy, instead of presents – because it’s about the experience not presents isn’t it?

So it’s good fun this year, the only good thing about winter, things will be a little bit meh again up until April or May.

I’ll get up, have a bacon sandwich, go for a long ride, get back and drink a nice bottle of red I picked up in France while watching the tour in the Summer, sit around and think about some of the cool stuff I did through the year, listen to some records I’ve not got around to yet, phone my mum and step dad, see how there getting on.

It goes by but get’s a bit grim and lonely if you stop and think to much, always feels like I’m under a microscope or something, and a bit of a wasted opportunity, I miss someone being around to spoil a bit, but that’s how it is for now…

Sorry to here that, any way to get to your mums at the last minute and perhaps surprise her?

I only despise Xmas when I end up working it, or some of it. This is the 1st time in 13 years of prison service that I’ve been of for Xmas AND NY.

So I’m loving it. 😆

I was enjoying the carols from kings then they started the god awful **** reading from genesis about adam and eve being cast from the garden of eden so i turned it off.

Just in case anyone isn’t feeling great today – please read this…

Well I love Christmas, atheist but so what it’s a festival, I’ve been skint so I’ve only spent what I had, I’ve had to work Christmas day, great shift. My father died a couple of days before Christmas a few years ago, but I still celebrated because he loved Christmas and that’s what he would have wanted. In fact I’m looking at a bottle of his favourite whisky right now so I think I’ll pour a treble and raise a toast to him 😀

Merry Christmas everyone 😀

Thanks Tom, it’s a 5 hour drive, I do think about popping back some years but usually I’ll be OK on the day, I always give them a long skype call in the afternoon and spend the time I’d be sat in the car each way with my mates on the bike.

I’ll get up, have a bacon sandwich, go for a long ride, get back and drink a nice bottle of red

sorry scratch couldn’t resist 😉

Fantastic time of year. So much fun.

Must be shit to be a try hard misanthrope…

Some aspects of it irritate me, mostly the commercial.

Folk treating the various TV adverts like they are some form of culture FFS.

But I get to see family and buying presents is fun. I think I’d struggle on my own.