Your favorite and worst thing about Christmas?

Rosie_McA
Rosie_McA Posts: 256 Member
edited November 2024 in Chit-Chat
For me the best thing is having a traditional Christmas dinner and the worst part is having to tolerate relatives who you hate and who hate you back.
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  • BlueEyedRedhead
    BlueEyedRedhead Posts: 5,169 Member
    The best thing is being with family; the worst is that it's over too quickly!
  • SmartAlec03211988
    SmartAlec03211988 Posts: 1,896 Member
    Favorite: Family and friends!
    Least favorite: Family and friends!
  • fedup30
    fedup30 Posts: 141 Member
    Best: Being with my immediate family....I love them with all my heart and they love me for who I am...
    Worst: Being with the extended family. They all judge me and tend to make me feel worse about my less the mediocre life. If I could skip that part I would, but I hate disappointing the immediate family....
  • FabulousFantasticFifty
    FabulousFantasticFifty Posts: 195,832 Member
    Favorite: The Reason we celebrate and the Family time!
    Least: The Expense!
  • JazzFischer1989
    JazzFischer1989 Posts: 531 Member
    I'm a scrooge. There isn't much I enjoy about the holiday. I guess the best would be the food, the worst is the music. I find Christmas music supremely irritating.
  • Jennloella
    Jennloella Posts: 2,286 Member
    the best is all the baking and all the food and all the parties and fun!! the worst is that all of that takes place at my house and it's all so expensive!! We keep doing it though, so must be worth it!
  • ItsMeGee3
    ItsMeGee3 Posts: 13,254 Member
    Favorite: Being with my kids and grandkids

    Least: My sister
  • fuhrmeister
    fuhrmeister Posts: 1,796 Member
    edited December 2014
    Favorite: Christmas Eve Candlelight Service
    Least Favorite:???? I guess Driving. I love going to GA to see my family. I don't love traffic.
  • FabulousFantasticFifty
    FabulousFantasticFifty Posts: 195,832 Member
    Glynn20 wrote: »
    Favorite: Being with my kids and grandkids

    Least: My sister
    TeeHee! Meeee Toooo!!! :stuck_out_tongue:

  • emdeesea
    emdeesea Posts: 1,823 Member
    Favorite: The sparkly things
    Least favorite: Consumerism, commercialism. Showing how much you love your kids by buying crap made in China made by slave labor.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    Best: It is a very magical time, especially with kids.
    Worst: Consumerism
  • DoNotSpamMe73
    DoNotSpamMe73 Posts: 286 Member
    Well I enjoy the mass amounts of food in one day (I give away the excess but eat as much as I manage on that day and new years eve).
    I dislike the stomach ache later in the day... And the way all my family and friends try to make me drink alcohol. I don't like alcohol.
  • MaxPower0102
    MaxPower0102 Posts: 2,654 Member
    The best part of Christmas: Being with family
    The worst part of Christmas: Being with the WHOLE family! (I betcha thought I was gonna say the music!!!)
  • KGRebelRanch
    KGRebelRanch Posts: 109 Member
    The good: Presents. Im not even going to lie.
    Worst: I never seem to have enough money to buy all the gifts I declare "PERFECT" for certain people. (Some day I will win the lottery and everyone I know will get the best xmas EVER.)
  • fitfreakymom
    fitfreakymom Posts: 1,400 Member
    The best part is family

    The worst is the shopping
  • angf0679
    angf0679 Posts: 1,121 Member
    Best: The reason WHY we have CHRISTmas
    Worse: How materialistic Christmas has became
  • KGRebelRanch
    KGRebelRanch Posts: 109 Member
    The best part is family

    The worst is the shopping

    Onlne shopping saves my hide every year. I cannot deal with crowds. :)
  • EZDUZIT68
    EZDUZIT68 Posts: 1,168 Member
    THE BEST: Watching my kids opening their gifts on Christmas morning. They're teenagers now, but I still love the reactions when they see what they got (plus, they deserve more than we can give - they're amazing).

    THE WORST: Spending so much money and the "planning" for eve & day - who's going where, who's bringing what, how much are we spending on those kids vs. those other kids, etc. I can't deal with long-winded conversations and talking through every possible option there is... make a plan and just GO WITH IT!
  • gzus7freek
    gzus7freek Posts: 494 Member
    Favorite: Family, Friends, Food & Fun.

    Worst: Christmas Songs & Movies!!!! HATE THEM
  • seltzermint555
    seltzermint555 Posts: 10,740 Member
    Best: exchanging gifts with my husband and parents. I truly am more into giving them stuff...I am really ridiculously excited about the stocking stuffers I chose for my husband, for example. But I like the exchange, we all keep it thoughtful and low-key and have a blast with it.

    Worst: holiday parties I'd rather just not attend such as work Christmas lunch, extended family get-togethers, etc. I do say no sometimes, but eh...they just are kind of a drag.
  • concordancia
    concordancia Posts: 5,320 Member
    Favorite: The lights! I will take any holiday that includes putting up lights at this dreary time of year. Are there any June holiday's for the southern hemisphere?

    Worst: Shopping. Where did all these lunatics come from?! Even grocery shopping is a chore, with that d@mn music drilling into your ears on repeat. I wonder if the CIA ever used Little Drummer Boy to drive out a dictator or torture a terrorist?
  • laurasuzie3
    laurasuzie3 Posts: 493 Member
    Favorite: Family, movies, gifts, food, no school
    Worst: Crowds. I live a block away from a huge mall and a major tourist attraction that is known for it's Christmas display. It's insanity. Also, violence and death. It seems like there's a lot of shootings and suicides around the holidays and it makes me sad.
  • blueakama
    blueakama Posts: 399 Member
    Favourite: Food and family
    Worst: Carols and travelling by car.
  • Timshel_
    Timshel_ Posts: 22,834 Member
    Too many favorites, but worst is crowds.
  • Spnneil06
    Spnneil06 Posts: 18,745 Member
    Shopping in crowds is the worst, the best is spending time with my family!
  • dbanks80
    dbanks80 Posts: 3,685 Member
    Best: Spending time with family, food and drinking
    Worse: Consumerism, Christmas music, shopping, crowds, decorating
  • kinkyslinky16
    kinkyslinky16 Posts: 1,469 Member
    Best: watching my son and being off work.

    Worst: when it's over.
  • kari_selph
    kari_selph Posts: 19 Member
    The best is seeing all of my family and our crazy traditions.

    The worst is working in retail when everyone else is stressed out doing their shopping and I get blamed for everything, including once (no crap) making a customer's dog die in the car when he got his head in something because 'I took too long to ring them out'. :/
  • ilfaith
    ilfaith Posts: 16,769 Member
    Best: Chinese restaurants are still open

    Worst: The movie theaters are still crowded
  • TheVirgoddess
    TheVirgoddess Posts: 4,535 Member
    The magic of it all. I love it - everything about it. My kids writing their notes to Santa, baking cookies, seeing my girls faces on Christmas morning, getting drunk with my sister. It's all fabulous.
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