Christmas Hatred Thread

Elessar

Anyone else explicitly dislike Christmas?

Personally I can't stand it. The fakeness of it, the social expectations to behave a certain way and put up decorations and get together with family etc. I hate Christmas with the burning fire of a thousand suns.

Although this year I'm luck in that it's just myself and my mother, most other years were filled with the high anxiety of walking on egg shells around certain family members, the big rows over the smallest of things and the expectation that I will drive everyone, get all dressed up and be forced to enjoy it or I'll get the guilt trip and said row.

Then there's the shopping, shopping centres and the loved up couples and families which just fill me with disgust (recently broken up you see and it just reminds me of what I'm missing with my ex).

Then there's the stress of it all. I just want to do nothing, drink a lot and get it f*cking over with.

Anyone else?

Mantis Toboggan

I just like the holidays, 2 weeks off work. The Christmas stuff I'd take or leave. Usually head to the sun for a week if possible. Staying here this year though unfortunately. Still nice to be off and not have much to do apart from drinking and eating.

Thespoofer

The time off is nice, a chance to step out of life for a while.

decky1

be careful folks, got a severe warning[a ban in fact] last year for my comment on the same subject.

the beer revolu

Just strip out the things you don't like.
Myself and Mrs beer don't buy presents and no one buys us presents. We don't decorate the house. (no kids)
For us Christmas is a long lunch with great food and drink with most of my family, which I enjoy.
Will probably be home by around 10.
Usually join the family to eat the leftovers on Stephen's day.
That it.
No fuss.
I like it because I don't do the stuff I don't enjoy.

Mad_maxx

Loved it until i was about eighteen, bores me senseless now

andekwarhola

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeyHl1tQeaQ

Pinch Flat

I'm driving home for christmas

the beer revolu

Pinch Flat wrote: »

I'm driving home for christmas

The road to hell!

AllForIt

Yes, but I was proactive about it. A few years ago I just said f*ck the lot of them and didn't do a thing for xmas. Not a single solitary thing. No cards, no gifts, no shopping, something for myself only and that's really only to make use of any sales that might be going on.

Consequently I now get a formal invitation to dinner, I gratefully accept, turn up, on the understating I'm not doing anything and I'm leaving at a reasonable hour to go home, bout 9ish. I'll help only if I feel like it and not out of any sense of obligation.

If I do Christmas at all henceforth, it's about me, not about anyone else. If siblings and relatives think I'm going to spend the day itself and weeks beforehand busying myself with them in mind they can think again, but they do seem not to have gotten the message.

I have to laugh though, last year they made a mess of the dinner - one plate was served at a time and Dad who got his first had his half finished before the next plate arrived. Mine was freezing cold and I had to put it in the microwave for 5 minutes. I could do the whole thing myself without any assistance and do a much better job of it. Unfortunately they wouldn't let me do that in the past where I'd normally be in the kitchen with 2 others taking orders and grumbling about the way I did things. Which is crazy when you think I used to work in kitchens for a living but they seem always forget that. Those days are all over now though.

I can tell you one thing though, it really is amusing to see people going frantic in the lead up to xmas while I observe the madness going on around me in relative calmness as If I'm detached from it all, which I am I suppose.