How are you NOT going to be celebrating Christmas?

kkelly77 · 01-12-2013 02:02AM #1

I'm surprised a "Bah! Humbug!" to Christmas thread hasn't been started yet

I'm wondering how those that aren't too fond of the festive season will be not celebrating it. Do you take a holiday to avoid it? Or just hide under some coats until it all goes away?

Personally, I'm not a fan of Christmas at all and would rather it just fcuked off as quick as possible. I'd love to just ignore it and not take part but I'd just get an ear full from the OH.

What's your un-Christmas celebrations like?

Lapin · 01-12-2013 02:04AM

Happy Christmas OP !!!

P_1 · 01-12-2013 02:05AM

Grudgingly get on with it I guess. For some reason you're considered some kind of leper for not wanting to engage with it

kkelly77 · 01-12-2013 02:09AM

P_1 wrote: »

Grudgingly get on with it I guess. For some reason you're considered some kind of leper for not wanting to engage with it

Exactly!

Rho b · 01-12-2013 02:13AM

I love Christmas, not a big fan of the religious part of it but I doooo loveee when all the family are at home and chillaxing. Probably the only time of the year when we (including extended family) are together. To me that is important and it is wonderful to have a 10 way conversation and we are all cross talking over one another and still keep track of the conversation.
I did a solo Christmas one year due to personal circumstances and stubbornness - never want to go there again.

wretcheddomain · 01-12-2013 02:14AM

P_1 wrote: »

For good reason you're considered some kind of leper for not wanting to engage with it

FYP

P_1 · 01-12-2013 02:16AM

wretcheddomain wrote: »

FYP

Why so? Once you think about it christmas has to be the greatest ever example of social conditioning there ever was

wretcheddomain · 01-12-2013 02:17AM

P_1 wrote: »

Why so? Once you think about it christmas has to be the greatest ever example of social conditioning there ever was

Even if that were true it doesn't justify being miserable...

hfallada · 01-12-2013 02:17AM

Well christmas is about celebrating jesus' birth (well is supposed to be, buts its more about shopping now). Im not to go to mass this year. Last year there was a decent turn out in the church, so the priest scrapped the reading on the pamphlet and choose the longest reading in the bible. I honestly thought it was never going to end.

So Im going skip mass this year and for the foreseeable future.

SweepTheLeg · 01-12-2013 02:19AM

I could do without Christmas/Birthdays and everything else. Mainly because I know my family always worry about money to pay for the Xmas/B-day celebrations and it puts unneeded stress on them.

P_1 · 01-12-2013 02:19AM

wretcheddomain wrote: »

Even if that were true it doesn't justify being miserable...

Nothing miserable about not wanting to be part of a consumerist charade to be fair

Jester252 · 01-12-2013 02:23AM

I'm going to post on Borads.ie about how edgy I am for not following a social norm

IvaBigWun · 01-12-2013 02:27AM

Christmas Eve > Christmas day.

In so many ways

Dublinpato · 01-12-2013 02:33AM

i just don't get it if it's jesus's birthday then why the f*ck are we getting gift's? or do people buy gift's for jesus and because he hasn't turned up for his own birthday party in like forever they just give each other the gift's instead of letting the gift's go to waste?

chrissb8 · 01-12-2013 03:36AM

Par the pressure it puts on people to get gifts I think it's a great holiday. Doesn't have any religious meaning or I don't care much for the fact about santa and all that lark but It's a celebration of being alive for another year in my mind. A time when you can look at the people in your life and say great here we all are alive and well. Let's celebrate that and be happy. All the grumpy people out there hating it because it is oh so bothersome to actually bother getting involved because of some fickle reason like it starts to early or it's just an advertising holiday just shut up. Look for your own value in it and stop seeing it from the traditional view. Just think what you like about it and just go with that, ignore the rest.

Agent Smith · 01-12-2013 03:43AM

Not by opening the basement thats for sure.. :pac:

Mince Pie · 01-12-2013 03:43AM

Christmas as much as the pressure of pressies and all that **** is tough, its also a break in the winter and gives people something to look forward to and focus on in the long dark wintery nights. I err towards the bah humbug but then think if we didn't have it we would just have months of short days, long dark nights and cold with nothing but a long wait till spring.
So I find myself embracing it and trying to enjoy the lovely food, drink and time of work.

Mint Aero · 01-12-2013 03:43AM

Time to get fat eating all the good stuff and drink myself stupids

kneemos · 01-12-2013 04:12AM

It'd be great if it wasn't for the pressure on people to spend ridiculous amounts of money on crap or the charities lurking around every corner.

Vito Corleone · 01-12-2013 04:18AM

I'm just in it for the turkey dinner tbh.

zenno · 01-12-2013 04:35AM

Happy Christmas to ye Birthday to ye. Phew, after 44 Christmas's, I'm sick of them except for the christmas dinners, will never get fed up with them.

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

01-12-2013 04:38AM

I'll be at work as usual because it's just catching on in VN.

Irish Guitarist · 01-12-2013 05:21AM

I hate Christmas because my father fell ill during the Christmas of 1999 and died soon after New Year. It doesn't make me quite as miserable as it used to but I'd still rather not think about what time of year it is. For years I used to go to one of my sisters houses for dinner but sitting around pulling crackers and watching films about Santa made me miserable. A few years ago I told my family I would prefer to stay at home by myself. I've done that every Christmas for about five years.

Now in the couple of weeks leading up to the day I record as many non-Christmas films as I can find and sit around watching them. I just try my best to treat it as a normal day.

RobbingBandit · 01-12-2013 05:28AM

Gonna try and get away for the week maybe spain or somewhere far a field it's really the bull**** leading up to Christmas I hate, in 6 hours the stalls will be out on Henry Street in Dublin where nut bags try to sell under priced crap on the busiest shopping street in the country, too many people out buying too much crap, Bah Capitalism, Bah I say.

Charlie19 · 01-12-2013 05:36AM

Rho b wrote: »

I love Christmas, not a big fan of the religious part of it but I doooo loveee when all the family are at home and chillaxing. Probably the only time of the year when we (including extended family) are together. To me that is important and it is wonderful to have a 10 way conversation and we are all cross talking over one another and still keep track of the conversation.
I did a solo Christmas one year due to personal circumstances and stubbornness - never want to go there again.

1 & 11 should sort that out.:)

COYVB · 01-12-2013 05:39AM

The wife decided tonight she was going to put up the tree. Then she fell asleep, saving me the indignity of having the tree up in November. Win!

Charlie19 · 01-12-2013 05:44AM

COYVB wrote: »

The wife decided tonight she was going to put up the tree. Then she fell asleep, saving me the indignity of having the tree up in November. Win!

Novemeber isn't too bad, I've seen a tree up in early January.

Ghost Buster · 01-12-2013 09:02AM

hfallada wrote: »

Well christmas is about celebrating jesus' birth (well is supposed to be, buts its more about shopping now). Im not to go to mass this year. Last year there was a decent turn out in the church, so the priest scrapped the reading on the pamphlet and choose the longest reading in the bible. I honestly thought it was never going to end.

So Im going skip mass this year and for the foreseeable future.

Nah, the celebration of jesus birth thing is just a brief anomoly. Thats why the remaining 99% of it is Pagan

Mickey H · 01-12-2013 09:45AM

Well, I'm going to NOT celebrate Christmas by NOT sniffing Cocaine of Mrs. Claus' arse.

Gokei · 01-12-2013 09:49AM

P_1 wrote: »

Why so? Once you think about it christmas has to be the greatest ever example of social conditioning there ever was

Don't think about it so

dublinbhoy88 · 01-12-2013 09:54AM

Gokei wrote: »

Don't think about it so

celebrating the birth of a Arabic dude born over 2000 years ago, may aswell have the festival celebrating the birth of Elvis or somebody, lets be honest Jesus birthday is used as a cash cow

How are you NOT going to be celebrating Christmas?

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