The Non-Denominational Holiday Season Megathread

[Ed Anger]

Christmas sucks.

[CountDeMoney]

Yes, yes it does.

[Syt]

Christmas for me is mostly memories of decent to good food, shitty ass knock off toys that broke as soon as they came out of the box (later, uninspired "I have no fucking clue what to get you" gifts), watching shitty TV movies with the family (hey, at least we don't have to talk!), and - the last few family christmases - spending several days in the pig sty that my sister called "home", with two week old dishes in the sink, and a living/dining area where you had to shift clothes, magazines, and other stuff around to find a place to sit, while Mom marinated all of us in the cheapest tobacco smoke you can imagine (she smokes over two packs a day).

Fuck Family Christmas. (In my family, at least.)

[Liep]

I like Christmas in my family, good food and great wine. I do however hate driving Christmas party goers home, if you can't handle schnapps then don't fucking drink it.

[FunkMonk]

I love Christmas 

[Grey Fox]

I love Christmas 

[Valmy]

Christmas is awesome.

Damn Syt. Your siblings bring you nothing but endless joy.

[Syt]

I like the idea of Christmas. In practice, I spend Christmas Eve (the main Christmas occasion here) with friends' family in Vienna which is nice.

And I've always had jobs where in the weeks leading up to Christmas I usually had crunch time, so little time to enjoy all the markets, soak in the atmosphere etc. It doesn't help that the city is overrun with tourists during the season.

[PDH]

You can all come to my place for the holidays!

[sbr]

I have no interest in Christmas anymore.  I loved as a child obviously and really enjoyed it when my kids were young but these days I am very Bah Humbug! 

To me it's a kids holiday.  My family doesn't observe any of the religious parts of the day so it is just a bunch of adults feeling obligated to buy other adults shit they don't really need.

I am glad to see my youngest daughter and her boyfriend got a tree this year, my Scrooge-iness didn't completely rub off on her.

[derspiess]

Feel bad for you guys who dread the holidays.  I don't think I've ever had a bad Christmas.  Christmas Eve was always more exciting than Christmas Day itself and still sort of is.  As a kid I was even excited to go to church Christmas Eve, partly because that was what kicked everything off and once you were done with the service it was all presents, cookies, candy, etc.

I have my own routine now that I hope to never deviate from: church, have the family over at my house for late dinner, let the kids open a couple presents, open a special bottle of beer or two with my brother, then Christmas Even cigar.

[Berkut]

I have two teenagers. The younger one really gets into Christmas, and still mostly for fun reasons. The older could not care less, except for the chance to get stuff.

Meh. It is fun, but it is harder and harder to enjoy the real part of it while ignoring the 95% that is contrived bullshit.

I am looking forward to grandkids on another ten years or so, that might put some more of the fun back into it all, I hope...

[Valmy]

Meh. It is fun, but it is harder and harder to enjoy the real part of it while ignoring the 95% that is contrived bullshit.

The solution is to enjoy both!

[CountDeMoney]

Christmas was enjoyable as a kid, and then as a bail bondsman.

Alas, growing up and the gradual decrease in zero tolerance has just taken away the magic.

[Eddie Teach]

it is harder and harder to enjoy the real part of it

You mean the part where we celebrate the gift of Jesus Christ to save the souls of those God picks but not us? Yeah, I don't care for that part either.