Do you like Christmas?

mountsky

Not sure if its just me but for some reason I've totally mixed emotions thinking about Christmas this year, needless to say there's no getting away from the commercial side of things either ugh drain!

Macavity.

I'm just in it for the food tbh.

catallus

It's like a month away!?

alchemist33

I love it!

fleet_admiral

Love it. Its all the better with a 3 year old too

The Moldy Gowl

It's a load if ****e. Especially all that crap small talk with relatives you see 3/4 times a year.

Just stuck waiting for dinner having warm rotten cans of Heineken.

mountsky

Christmas day is undoubtedly the best,can't beat the grub!

endacl

Not much. I keep to myself as much as possible. Not a grinch. I won't spoil it, but I always give a sigh of relief when it's over for another year. My two best xmases gave been thousands of miles from home.

C.K Dexter Haven

catallus wrote: »

It's like a month away!?

I know, can you believe it? Already? :eek:

eviltwin

Love it at the moment as I have a very excited five yr old. In general I can be a bit meh about it so I'm enjoying it while I can.

Larianne

No.

punisher5112

Merry Christmas the sh1tter is full.

Ah sure its a bit of fun and nice time of year where most are a little more pleasant then normal.

Lights I love so try and get icicle lights up shortly and a few other bits.

Less then 5 weeks to go....

Filmer Paradise

Time off from work. Grub. Getting pressies. Meeting people who've come back from abroad.

Of course, there's the the giving of pressies & the whole 'santy' thang (in my case). Still, it's great to see their little faces.

All in all, the whole idea is grand. Tis something to do in the dark Winter months & generates a few bob for the economy.

Having said that, I'm sure some people dread it for various reasons though.

Nomis21

I've been a bus driver most of my life and every Christmas when I lived in UK I used to organise a trip to Amsterdam for all the Dad's who were alone at Christmas because their ex partners (Including mine) had the kids at Christmas.

We all shagged ourselves stupid in the Red Light area because the brothels were the only places open in Amsterdam on Christmas day.

I don't like Christmas, I LOVE it.

The lights, family, food, gifts, time off, the atmosphere, the cheesy movies, the little feuds, the fire, the food naps, Christmas shopping, everything about it. People need to lose the worldly wise cynicism and surrender to the whole thing and get in the spirit of it.

I won't be going home for Christmas this year, and it breaks my heart not to be with my family.

mountsky

I missed one year at Xmas when I was stateside, but on the up side we Skyped a good part of the evening and it certainly made it a lot easier,I met up with the Irish crew that day&it was like we were one big family, we were all in the same boat

CelticRambler

I used to love Christmas when it started on the 24th December and carried on for two (or even three) weeks. Now, I get fed up with people asking me on St. Stephen's Day "did you have (past tense) a good Christmas?" WTF?? You can (kind of) understand the shops having their Christmassy stuff in in November, but what on earth drives people to have a works "Christmas" party in November, or even the first couple of weeks of December. Then the whole lot of them are miserable as anything in January and the schools in France and England are back as early as the 2nd.

So these days, yeah, I like Christmas but would much prefer to see it restored to the right time of year.

bob50

in a word No Cant stand the commercialisation of christmas

Filmer Paradise

bob50 wrote: »

in a word No Cant stand the commercialisation of christmas

Yeah, but the time off work, meeting people, the grub & all that.

You don't enjoy?

fleet_admiral

Nothing beats the house on Xmas eve. The excitement, the smell of stuffing, the open fire, singing carols then the little one getting ready for 'danty'. Bliss

The Moldy Gowl

Filmer Paradise wrote: »

Yeah, but the time off work, meeting people, the grub & all that.

You don't enjoy?

I can do that any time if the year

P_1

Don't like it nor do I particularly hate it to be perfectly honest. I could take it or leave it. Not the biggest fan of the whole 'you must be happy' aspect to it mind.

Filmer Paradise

Gowlasauras Rex wrote: »

I can do that any time if the year

I can't, so maybe that's why I like it.

The Moldy Gowl

Filmer Paradise wrote: »

I can't, so maybe that's why I like it.

You can't take time off work? Make dinner? Meet people?
For 51 weeks of the year?

Load of ****e.

Filmer Paradise

Gowlasauras Rex wrote: »

You can't take time off work? Make dinner? Meet people?
For 51 weeks of the year?

Load of ****e.

God. Well, I work about 50 hours a week, not counting commuting time.

My weekends are usually taken up with work & then spending time with the kids, doing some DIY jobs round the house, visiting relatives, or taking one or other of the kids to some activity or other.

retro:electro

I would like it if people didn't mention it until like the week before hand. All the hype and talk of it makes me feel sick of it before it even gets here. I don't like it but I don't dislike it either if that makes sense. What's far more depressing is knowing miserable January is just around the corner. Ugh.

Feckthis

Ye great craic meeting people you don't want to see and pretending to be happy in their company. Yeaaay!

SMJSF

I like the "buzz" leading up to it, but Christmas day Is awful, Xmas eve is my Christmas day, then it's over for me... I don't even like the food!

mountsky

Feckthis wrote: »

Ye great craic meeting people you don't want to see and pretending to be happy in their company. Yeaaay!

Ignore said people like the plague!

handbagmad

I think I'd like Christmas more if I had children. All the excitement waiting for Santa must be heartwarming.

I generally find it a tough and lonely time of year.

--LOS--

I like it, i catch myself singing Christmas songs to myself these days, all the pretty lights, its a nice atmosphere. My friend was over last weekend and he asked me what I want to eat, I said christmas dinner! He did actually make me vegan style Christmas dinner I just wanted to put cranberry sauce on things tbh but the supermarkets didn't have it so I was a bit gutted.

Chriiiisstmas tiimmee, potatoes and mulled wine...lalala

Sofiztikated

Filmer Paradise wrote: »

Yeah, but the time off work, meeting people, the grub & all that.

You don't enjoy?

Not everyone gets time off for Christmas. I think out of the last 16, I've worked 12. And going to be working this Christmas night again. To counteract that, I've made myself see Christmas as just another day (which is it)

I like the whole Christmas dinner thing, but it really is a lesson in gluttony.

And the forced jollility? **** that craic.

biko

I like it.

Dozen Wicked Words

Off Christmas day and Stephen's day this year for a change which is great. I used to enjoy Christmas, now with my kids a an age where they get the whole thing, it's absolutely brilliant. Not very sociable, we don't go out much, just a great time to spend a few days with the kids playing with their new toys. What's not to love.

Minderbinder

I love the atmosphere at christmas and it's even better if the weather is cold and dry. but i don't understand the fuss about the food. most people who go on about that eat like pigs all year so it's just another day. personally i can only eat so much and eating too much makes me uncomfortable. a long time ago when most people were poor and didn't eat a lot then the food at christmas must've been a genuine reason for excitement.

Buona Fortuna

Don't want to piss on anyones chips - if you like it / love it - Buona Fortuna.

I feckin hate it from the first sh1tty advert to the last carol. I hate the over indulgence, the over spending, the gifts that no one needs, the being crammed together submarine-like for what seems days on end. Mostly I hate being reminded of friends and family no longer here .

Bar Humbug :P

2Mad2BeMad

Love it love it even more now my new job closes for 12days over the christmas and new years
Cant stand all the cringy stuff though

anncoates

Love it.

Always have, always will.

Overflow

Gowlasauras Rex wrote: »

It's a load if ****e. Especially all that crap small talk with relatives you see 3/4 times a year.

Just stuck waiting for dinner having warm rotten cans of Heineken.

Your christmas does sound shiite !

JoeK20

I really like it. We spend the rest of the year working all week and then trying to do everything else in the evenings/days off. So it's nice to just relax for a few days, watch the same old christmas movies and eat a lot of food!

AudreyHepburn

I love it....I revert to being a child at a Christmas! The lights, the decorations, the songs, all of it is wonderful.

Graces7

Depends what YOU mean by Christmas.. for me it is Christ-mass. There is no need to join in with the commericalised part... MInd you I am watching the price war on tins of chocolates and will stock well on cheap fruit and vegetables if Dunnes start that ball rolling.;)

I have no close family living near and all our family are greatly involved with carin for the homeless and I work for the funding by making hand crafts and selling at craft fairs so am now very busy with stock and fairs.... That will end the week before Christmas and once shopping is in that is it for me with the outside world. It is family time and decade ago used to find it hard to be invited into someone's family just for Christmas dinner and those old folks events... Just me, and many love them and find them a help. Would rather be invited later in the year ...

Stopped the gift giving on both side years ago; I have all I need and so do all I know,,,Now I make pretty things for others to buy and give.
And all I save goes away

Love Christmas Eve alone here on the mountain. Utterly peaceful and holy and family have a prayer time at a set hour wherever we are..

And the Churches.... Killarney Cathedral and the Friary and the Christmas Cribs.. I sit there hours before i leave the town.. the Cathedral did not use to have eating before the crib so I emailed and asked as we old ones need that!

It is after all what each chooses and if you have no faith ... I tune out the hype so it does not touch me.. gently gently time..

I love xmas and the atmosphere and the cold weather and the markets and the food and the pretty lights and all of it

mountsky

I am pretty close to my family so that's what cuts it for me,its being a fairly hectic year for me personally,so Im even more grateful for them this year!mind you as I said before,Xmas day is my favourite particularly the nieces and nephews whom for me,make Christmas, in the same breath, there are the arguments,its rare the family are ever altogether,but for the one day its worth it!

Love it, my favourite time of the year!

Off for over two weeks all which will be spent at my home house with all my family, lots of food, lots of nights out, relaxing and a bit of farming thrown in for good measure.

Red Pepper

I love it

desertcircus

Pork belly, spiced beef, jerk ham, tandoori hake, roast potatoes, ten bottles of different beers, pudding, Bailey's ice cream, Roses.

Dawn run, morning nap, visit dad's place, 11:30 beer, all-day eating, possible 7pm nap, drunken shouty card games.

Cooking and hosting for me, my new wife, my brother, my mother, my mother-in-law.

The first of four straight days off work.

JONA GODDAMN LEWIE AND CHOCOLATE MOTHERF**KING KIMBERLEY LIKE A BOSS.

OldNotWIse

Love it and will even concede the whole thing starting in November. The one thing that bugs me is the fact that it can't be completely forgotten about the next day.

iguana

OldNotWIse wrote: »

Love it and will even concede the whole thing starting in November. The one thing that bugs me is the fact that it can't be completely forgotten about the next day.

Yeah that gets me. I love Christmas so much I've noticed that I actually get a bit sad as the day itself approaches as that means Christmas Time is nearly over. So I've decided to counteract that by making it tradition in my family to celebrate the 12 days of Christmas, culminating in a Twelfthnight part on the 5th of Jan. I've been looking up all the different Twelfthnight traditions from the past and the countries where it is still celebrated and am hoping to roll as many as are practical into my party. I just have to buy a bundt tin, so I can make all the various king cakes and practice my figgy pudding and mulled cider.

Green Giant

I'm sure people have valid reasons for not enjoying this time of year, particularly those who have suffered bereavement in recent months, but thankfully I can say that I cherish it.

There generally seems to be a happy vibe around communities, helped in no small part by the festive lights in cities, towns and villages, and I love catching up with people I haven't seen in a while due to them living a considerable distance away and returning home for a few days.

Yep, I love Christmas!

kylith

I'd like it a lot more if it wasn't forced on me. Leave me alone until I have kids, ffs.

My dad's insisting on doing a 3hr round trip to collect me to bring me to the family Christmas because 'you can't be alone at Christmas'. They're perfectly happy with me being alone the week before and after though. So instead of sleeping until I want and slobbing around in my pyjamas I'll have to be up early, listen to mum complain about my dogs, put up with her strops about the SiL, get dragged to all the relatives I haven't seen in 6 years, and get pestered about why I don't go to mass.

Won't even be able to watch the Doctor Who special :mad: