Do you like Christmas?

Sofiztikated · 24-11-2014 04:36AM

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 · 24-11-2014 07:05AM

I like it.

Dozen Wicked Words · 24-11-2014 07:18AM

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 · 24-11-2014 07:28AM

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 · 24-11-2014 07:34AM

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

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Bar Humbug :P

2Mad2BeMad · 24-11-2014 07:47AM

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 · 24-11-2014 09:19AM

Love it.

Always have, always will.

Overflow · 24-11-2014 09:42AM

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 · 24-11-2014 09:49AM

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 · 24-11-2014 10:42AM

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

Graces7 · 24-11-2014 11:15AM

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..

24-11-2014 11:27AM

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 · 24-11-2014 12:38PM

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!

24-11-2014 12:46PM

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 · 24-11-2014 12:47PM

I love it

desertcircus · 24-11-2014 12:48PM

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 · 24-11-2014 12:54PM

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 · 24-11-2014 01:06PM

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 · 24-11-2014 01:13PM

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 · 24-11-2014 01:19PM

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:

beks101 · 24-11-2014 02:03PM

I love it purely because of my family, it's the ultimate family day. I can understand how it's a difficult time of year for anyone who's lost/estranged from their family though, I think I'd find it very hard if that was the case.

I haven't lived at home for more than a decade and because of my job/life, don't get back nearly as often as I'd like, so all those tiny stupid traditions mean the world to me - the big fry-up my Dad makes in the morning, opening presents around the tree together, going for a walk together down by Galway Bay and watching the prom swim, walking through the Christmas markets in the city centre in the days leading up to it, getting drunk on wine and brandy and having drunken debates about politics around the dinner table, watching shyte cheesy movies that we've seen forty times and stuffing our already-stuffed faces with Roses and Foxes biscuits, the Stephens Day turkey sandwiches...

I feel very fortunate to be nearly 30 and to still be doing all those same things with the people I love, who are still healthy and still here, and each passing year just makes me feel even more blessed for those small, silly things.

Don Kedick · 24-11-2014 02:18PM

I like and hate Christmas.

ScumLord · 24-11-2014 02:27PM

mountsky wrote: »

needless to say there's no getting away from the commercial side of things either ugh drain!

Yes there is, you can avoid the worst of it if you stop watching TV.

I'm feeling slightly less grinchy this year, I may even go as far as to allow a tree of some sort in my house. Not a full on Christmas tree though, I don't have the space.

The Cool · 24-11-2014 03:02PM

Not a fan of Christmas. Other than the food there's not much to enjoy of the day, in my experience. It's THE longest day, we're up at about 7 to see my youngest sister unwrap Santa presents and then, other than dinner, there's nothing to do all day except watch rubbish tv. I think last year I went to bed about 9.30 just for the day to be over.
I like Christmas Eve as I spend it preparing all the trimmings, and Boxing Day as that's my night with my friends and I get to finally go out and have a few (too many) drinks.
Generally find the whole Christmas season fairly depressing, I think there's expectations built up from the start of November about it being so magical and then it's completely mundane and meh.

TheBeardedLady · 24-11-2014 03:05PM

Absolutely LOVE it. Family, food, no work, time in Ireland, walks on beach, pints in front of the fire in my local with old friends, glasses of wine nattering to my sister....

My parents are heading to the States to spend it with my two siblings over there so spending it with my sister and her husband and my beautiful niece this year. Dying to see her Christmas morning as she's old enough to have an idea of what's happening. I've never experienced the whole santy thing with a child before except when I was one myself as I'm the youngest of 5 and have no kids.

Only negative is not spending it with Mr Luvaman as he's spending it with his (big deal here as well). Hopefully we'll spend it together down the line.

Favourite time of the year. LOVE; LOVE; LOVE!

OldNotWIse · 24-11-2014 03:07PM

iguana wrote: »

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.

Me too. It's as if the magic just disappears at 12pm on Christmas day

Christmas Eve night is much better!

emeraldstar · 24-11-2014 03:11PM

beks101 wrote: »

I love it purely because of my family, it's the ultimate family day. I can understand how it's a difficult time of year for anyone who's lost/estranged from their family though, I think I'd find it very hard if that was the case.

I haven't lived at home for more than a decade and because of my job/life, don't get back nearly as often as I'd like, so all those tiny stupid traditions mean the world to me - the big fry-up my Dad makes in the morning, opening presents around the tree together, going for a walk together down by Galway Bay and watching the prom swim, walking through the Christmas markets in the city centre in the days leading up to it, getting drunk on wine and brandy and having drunken debates about politics around the dinner table, watching shyte cheesy movies that we've seen forty times and stuffing our already-stuffed faces with Roses and Foxes biscuits, the Stephens Day turkey sandwiches...

I feel very fortunate to be nearly 30 and to still be doing all those same things with the people I love, who are still healthy and still here, and each passing year just makes me feel even more blessed for those small, silly things.

Exactly this.

Especially the food :pac:

TheBeardedLady · 24-11-2014 03:12PM

anncoates wrote: »

Love it.

Always have, always will.

I think you're officially the biggest fan of Chrimbo everrr.

24-11-2014 03:14PM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

Me too. It's as if the magic just disappears at 12pm on Christmas day Christmas Eve night is much better!

Christmas eve is brilliant. Quick look around town in the afternoon to soak up the atmosphere and grab any last minute things, then to evening mass and into the local for a couple of pints with my dad and home to a big feed then. Its tradition in our house to open presents late Christmas eve night (santa used to come to us Christmas eve too) so we always do that also.

conorhal · 24-11-2014 03:19PM

Once the stressful part of the season is out of the way, buying something that sombody doesn't either want or need because you'll be recieving the same from them, I love Christmas to bits. It would feel more special and less of a slog however if Christmas kicked off around the 12th of Dec rather then the second the Halloween decorations came down.

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