A Thread For Those Of Us Who Don't Like Christmas

Rubberchikken

Sometimes I'm not sure if I hate it or not.

I don't feel I can say ir out loud to anyone. Problook at me like I've two heads.

My mom passed away christmas morning a couple of decades ago and while I e always made christmas just the way it should be for my kids I always feel this sense of doom/gloom decend on me in the weeks before and it's hard to shake it off.

I'm working again this christmas. Nights. So can avoid a lot of it.

We'll have our Christmas dinner on christmas eve and I'll sail off yo work christmas night and the following nights happy.

I dislike the panic that people seem to get into over it. To me it's a large meal on a particular day, a christmas tree in the sitting room and i actually cant think of another thing.

I look forward to January and the spring ahead and refuse to ruin christmas for anyone else but it really could pass me by and I don't think I'd notice or care.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122984300#Comment_122984300

Oh yeah!

@Rubberchikken

@Rubberchikken - that's just one of the worst things imaginable at Christmas. So sorry to read it. I don't blame you for dreading it - it's such a stark reminder. But fair play on ensuring it's a happy time for the kids. Hope that eases it a little. I think people would be very understanding though if you said you're not that into Christmas. Our culture, the media etc leads people to believe they have to enjoy it, have to be happy - but many people are not, it's very difficult for many. An in-law of mine died this year in an accident, aged 28, and my heart breaks for his family, girlfriend and friends over how painful the first Christmas without him is gonna be. And I say this as someone who loves Christmas. I feel lucky that I can though.

Fr Tod Umptious

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122967252#Comment_122967252

It's today.

https://youtu.be/HX55AzGku5Y?si=JpDpUfWd0wvN-_mU

Potential-Monke

This song sums up my feelings about Christmas. A law should be passed banning it from being discussed or advertised until December 7th!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csYnMGiB_5M

Markus Antonius

Don't get me wrong, I like the food and the chocolates and the lights etc. but otherwise it literally is the most miserable time of year. It's the time of year when all the most selfish, ignorant people in our lives double down for two weeks, they turn the knife and make sure you know about it. It's a time for taking, gluttony, greed, selfishness and the older I get the worse it seems to be getting. It's like a groundhog day at this point, an inescapable loop.

The one silver lining to it all is that it has made me really appreciate every day of the year that it is not Christmas. An idle Tuesday in April. A Sunday in August. A quiet Wednesday in October. It's Christmas 10 months of the year for a Christmas hater such as myself.

HildaOgdenx

Mod - Merged into existing thread.

Loughc

To all of ye who struggle through Christmas I really hope ye passed the day the best way ye could.

Christmas can be tough I really wish ye all the absolute best wither ye like Christmas or not. Everyone deserves happiness no matter what.

An Riabhach

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas is over.

And bloody good riddance to it.

bnt

I think I'm fortunate since I don't really have to deal with Christmas much. There's a bit of it at work, but not too much, but apart from that I do as little as possible. I last "did Christmas" three years ago with friends in the USA, but it was pretty laid back too. (Apart from one of my friends' kids bringing his girlfriend and having arguments with her there.)

Get Real

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122991721#Comment_122991721

Absolutely spot on. I am self employed and treat Christmas like any other time. Before that, I worked shift work in various jobs. Haven't had "the Christmas" in 20 years.

I'm grateful I still have good childhood friends. They know I'm not opposed to the food, lights and stuff, but they'd be 9-5 Monday to Friday the past two decades too. I think they find it quite a bit alien that for me, it's just a Tuesday, a Thursday or whatever.

I suppose very gradually, over time, people's bodies and brains adapt to a particular routine. And I'm by no means saying that's a bad thing. So for many, many people, they haven't worked a Christmas day or Christmas eve, a Stephen's day or New years day in decades. If ever.

I therefore get why there's a little extra buzz and indulgence over what is a nice time. But on the other end of things, there's also bus drivers, restaurant workers, airport staff, business owners or whoever else just setting the alarm for 4,5, 6 am and it's just another day. Or bar staff and fast food workers doing nights. It's nothing beyond their normal routine.