How do you feel about Christmas?

Do you like Christmas?


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Do you like it? Hate it? Or just don't care for it?

There are some people who love it enough to put there tree up in october and watch all the specials, listen to the music, and everything. They just get obsessive about the holiday season whenever it comes.

While there are others who just despise it for whatever reason. Maybe they think it's all bs and an escuse to spoil your kids when they don't need it. Not to mention how expensive it can be. And all the fakeness and commercialism that come come with it.
 
Despite it's commercial and leads people to buy junk nobody needs and throws away in few years, I like christmas, it's such a traditional holiday, you can spend time with family and have some time off work/school (expect those who work in christmas, i do not envy them)
 
love it. the snow, the lights, the decorations, the music, the presents, and especially the films/tv specials.

i am working my way through my essential december viewing: a charlie brown christmas, a christmas carol (alastair sim & george c. scott versions), a christmas story, how the grinch stole christmas, elf, eyes wide shut (heh), frosty the snowman, garfield christmas special, home alone 1 & 2, it's a wonderful life, mickey's christmas carol, miracle on 34th st (1947), mr. magoo's christmas, muppet christmas carol, national lampoon's christmas vacation, nightmare before christmas, olive the other reindeer, robbie the reindeer (bbc), rudolph, santa claus is coming to town, simpsons christmas specials, white christmas, year without a santa claus. i'm sure there's more.

also gotta keep these on hand:
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christmas is easily the best time of the year. love being surrounded by family, food and drink everywhere, we play a load of board/card games together, watch a bit of christmas tv and it's really great. Also presents, right? just love the idea that humans made a holiday about being kind and happy. the best! still get as excited as i ever did as a kid.
 
The only good parts of Christmas are Charlie Brown and alcohol-infused eggnog.
 
I love Christmas, but this year doesn't feel very much like it's close to Christmas for some reason. I'm not as much into the spirit this year as I usually am. What am I doing wrong? :(
 
I like the big dinner, the presents, Christmas TV and waking up with a stocking full of stuff to mess around with (yes, i'm 21 and still get a stocking I don't care), the rest I can take or leave. Especially the idea of some sort of Christmas spirit which magically invokes kindness in people which is basically a lie.
 
I love Christmas. Winter is easily my favourite season, and I guess the festivity of this time of year makes me feel less misanthropic than normal. I'm not religious and all the other supposed "meanings" Christmas has I don't really care about, so I pretty much exclusively celebrate the commerical aspects of it. :gatorshrug: Not that the religious stuff bothers me, though.
 
I really love it. I always have the xmas music on the radio and it kinda just cheers up my day no matter what. My parents secretly despise it but go along with it since everybody else does, since they mostly like the summer and with winter comes the cold.

especially the week prior to christmas everything is at its high (since even the most resistant people finally give in)... it's just so happy and fun.
 
I love Christmas - carols on the radio, a general feeling that a new year is about to begin.

December in general is always a great month for me - it allows me to look back on the year and think about how my life had changed.

Even when the year hasn't been all that great, I always love December.
 
I hate the cold. We get too much of it for too long here. It's seriously exhasting.

But I like Christmas quite a bit. The specials, food, family, presents. It's all pretty fun.
 
That's my problem too [MENTION=48252]Jetthead[/MENTION], a lot of people seem to think if they do one good deed towards the poor because of the Christmas spirit they are free from the obligation to do it the rest of the year
 
I like Christmas a lot. The decorations, music, weather, giving gifts, and so on. I usually have a hard time getting into the spirit of things though due to SAD.
 
I love Christmas, but this year doesn't feel very much like it's close to Christmas for some reason. I'm not as much into the spirit this year as I usually am. What am I doing wrong? :(
You're just a bad age. Trust me on that one. Around 20 it gets better again, but even then you may not necessarily be the same until you have a partner or kids, and that's OK.

This year:
Happy because - I finally told my mum a terrible secret.
Anxious beause - I have to proofread three more books before the end of the month or I break my promise to myself, AND NOW I HAVE A JOB. FO' FUCK'S SAKE WHY THIS WEEK??!!

In general:
Weather - Awful. It could at least snow if it insists to be this goddamn cold.
Commercialism - Way over the top but not fundamentally bothersome.
Christmas Spirit - Aggravating because it's such a lie. Maybe I should just be glad that these people even donated once.
Food - Hate it. The meat is about the only part I like, which is ironic coming from a vegetarian family.
Music - A mixture. I'd actually rather go to church on Christmas Eve and sing carols there than listen to most of this bollocks, but rarely does any of it make me angry in moderation.
Religion - Again not offensive to me, in fact kind of nostalgic. Each to their own and all that nog.
Presents - Not something I care about as an adult, but I'm noticing an increase in enjoyment of making others happy with a meaningful/useful gift, and showing off my mind-reading skills. Of bloody course I like to have an advent calendar and stocking, but I don't need expensive things.
Kinship - Aww, and especially online hearing about all the crazy jazz everyone else gets up to. What one of my friends described I cannot remember, but it was basically that her family does an entire day of drunken party games.

ETA: [MENTION=25429]parklife[/MENTION] I want an Elvis Christmas album!
 
I love it for the same old movies they play at this time every single year, that you've seen a million times before or have on dvd yet still watch them anyway. It's just not Christmas if you're not snuggled up in bed with a bottle of cheap plonk watching Home Alone 1 and 2. Other than that though I'm really not a big fan of Christmas at all, it's so depressing, and too damn costly. I've told all my family it's either socks or a selection box they're getting from me this year. Line in the sand.
 
Christmas is always great. Seeing my family, giving/receiving, having a huge meal, going for a pint with my Dad, the mostly terrible songs/movies etc. I know Christmas was essentially created because it brings a TON of money into the economy, but it still always feels like a magical, happy time of year, and I always really look forward to it.
 
You're just a bad age. Trust me on that one. Around 20 it gets better again, but even then you may not necessarily be the same until you have a partner or kids, and that's okay.

The worst part of the year is when somebody asks me what I want for Christmas. I never have a clue what I want. Apparently money is a bad word towards my grandma, so I have to come up with something else. Most of the time, I just love to come up with gifts for people that I love, and if I receive nothing in return, I never feel bad about it. Sometimes I get something as a gift, but it's not very often.
 
I used to like the music, decorations, certain TV shows/movies....except I always get depressed and let my depression ruin it for me. And that's exactly what I plan to do this year.

I rarely see decorations anymore because we don't go on drives to see Christmas lights like we used to, I'm not good at picking out gifts, I feel guilty asking for gifts, I don't really listen to the music unless I happen to hear it out in public, and the only specials I look forward to are the claymated Rudolph ones......which I always miss because they don't work with my schedule and I don't have a TV at college this year. Plus I get depressed at family gatherings, no matter what the reason is. I have nothing in common with my family, and I have nothing worthwhile going on in my life....no guarantees of a career, no boyfriend to bring home (I wouldn't care about this if people would STFU about it), and my looks don't hold a candle to how pretty my cousins are. This wouldn't bother me either if I actually liked anything about my appearance, which I never have. To be quite honest, if we could just end the family aspect and I could spend Christmas by myself, I would like the holiday season a lot better.
 
It's like a family get-together time that I just don't have an opportunity to have, every year. :(
I've got cousins in Toronto, Christchurch, Taipei, Melbourne, Denmark.

Haven't seen some of them in at least eight years or so...
 
I've always liked Christmas. When I was a kid it was for the whole Santa + tree + wrapped gifts thing. My parents stopped doing the tree and gift wrapping thing very early on when we had all our puppies in the house but the family always got together which is what I took away most from holidays. So now I always look forward to seeing the family, especially since things haven't quite been the same since my grandma and aunt passed away. The atmosphere of Christmas is very nostalgic for me even though we don't have a traditional Christmas here - no snow, no carolers singing about figgy pudding (we actually had our first encounter the other night! they sang to the baby and she loved it), traditional Christmas dinner usually replaced with hodge podge potluck of local food, we have no chimneys for "Santa" to come down, and other things. But yah, it's about family for me. I would say my most "special" Christmas was the first one we had after [MENTION=23743]D4C[/MENTION] moved in with us. My parents actually set up a tiny tree, wrapped presents for us, and addressed his card "From: Mom & Dad." Found that really touching.
 
I've always loved this time of year. My birthday is 5 days before Christmas, which everybody always assumes sucks, but really I like it. It's cool having my birthday so close to the holiday season. I usually get to see my mom's and stepmom's sides of the family. My dad's side are mostly all up in MD, so I don't usually get to see them sadly.
 
*sigh* I don't like people who try to deny Saturnalia, the original Christmas that was commissioned by the pope to exchange religion. You see at that time, priests were struggling to convert the Romans into Christianity so they forced to change their new holiday into a christian themed one. How, by making a legend about a boy born on December 25. I don't know if this is true, but who cares, everybody worships Santa nowadays
 
At least for the next three years, Christmas is one of the two major periods of the year when I get to come back home from college. I really like spending the holidays with family.
So yeah, I love the holiday and all the stuff that come with it.
 
I like it alright, I just hate all the prep and shit that goes along with it. And then there's annoying ass family members that you have to pretend to like...
 
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