Best and worst things about christmas

Pac1Man wrote: »

Listening to the 'I hate Christmas' spiel from the usual few is definitely the worst.

I'm meh towards Xmas, some good ones and some crap ones.

However yeah, I can't stand the bore who bangs on about how commercial it is and it is all about spending money as if they were the first person ever to have that realisation. zzzzzzzzzzzzzz:pac:

Best- almost everything for Christmas with my wife and I is for our daughter and the best is the happiness on her face, as they say it's all about the kids; also enjoyed just meeting people I hadn't seen in years just walking down the street over the last couple of days.
Worst - missing my mother who we lost 2 years ago and still wanting to share with her, and seeing my dad older and more frail every year.

Worst - people saying Christmas is for children, people giving out about commercialism (take a stand and stop taking part then), people going to mass once a year (the amount of extra cars outside all the churches I drove past yesterday was hilarious), people asking what you're doing for Christmas/who you're spending it with but only wanting to hear one answer, today it's raining so walking the dogs will be wet, I prefer a nice crisp cold Christmas Day, having to replace batteries in lights at least twice over the few weeks.

Best - cooking, baking and eating Christmas food, celebrations with my loved ones, playing board games while having a few drinks, getting up early so it feels like every day is longer, giving gifts and knowing you got it just right, getting to spend more time with my husband and our dogs as we have a couple of days off work, the smell of the Christmas food cooking (currently enjoying the smell of my gingerale ham in the slow cooker), mince pies in particular, the decorations, I love the predecorating big clean and putting up the decorations and then sitting back with a glass of prosecco admiring all the twinkling lights (while the batteries are still 100%), driving around looking at the Christmas lights, Christmas music, love Christmas FM, getting to celebrate Christmas exactly as I want to because my husband is a sound man.

Christmas used to be a big occasion in our house growing up, my mam used to put a lot of work into the christmas dinner and we always had to wait until my dad had the farm work done before we could eat.

We were poor growing up like a lot of people back then but they always tried to get us the toys we wanted and neighbours would call in christmas evening for a few drinks and a chat.

they are all gone now but those memories are the best for me.

Deedsie wrote:

All the excess waste packaging. So much plastic

But, but, 'the market', it's good for us, apparently!

Patww79 wrote: »

I'd love to see a priest take a stand and ask any of the once a year heads to leave.

Ah here now - that would be a Christian thing to do? seriousley? Considering the scandals the church have been embroiled in - they should be happy that anyone turns up tbh. That said religion isn't just for the godly - I think the "sinners" and prodigal son's/ daughters are supposed to be welcome or did I read the wrong bible?

Oh and there's always that extra money on the plate ...

Patww79 wrote: »

If people want to make their stand against all the scandals that's fine. How do they forget about their principles in December 25th though?

It's not about people's genuine concern about church scandals- it's more about the churches attitude to doing the right thing and not being hypocrites towards others ... as said I don't remember church being just for the 'godly' ...

Roger Hassenforder wrote: »

heldel00 wrote: »

Each to their own and all that but I really don't get this!

He/she might like the community coming together/social aspect of a good mass!

Fcuk that

One of the things I dislike are Athiests happily celebrating Christmas without seeing the inherent contradiction in it.

If you're a self professed intellectually superior Athiest with no time for make believe like those religious yokels at least have consistency in your convictions.

freshpopcorn wrote: »

One thing I don't really like about Christmas is the ordeal people make out of cooking the dinner. You are essentially cooking a big roast dinner and if you do something different you generally have a simple enough recipe to follow. Every year you have to listen to people's struggle with something that is a very basic task!

No. A normal roast dinner is easy, meat & potatoes into one roasting tin, steam the veg, gravy and a tub of ice cream, you're done.

There are so many dishes cooked from scratch on Christmas day, each cooked in batches, re-heated, know your timings.. make cranberry sauce, bread sauce and gravy and there are always at least two puddings, if not three, so no it's not as easy as a straight forward slap up Sunday roast.. oh and I forgot to mention the starters.