Merry Christmas or Bah Humbug...

thatdesertgirl777

Does it seem like some years you're totally into the Christmas Spirit? And then theres some years where you're totally over it before it the season even starts....

Which one are you this year?

boomshakalaka911

I'm into it. I'm always into it

JackKopCh

Once I got to like 18 it kinda started sucking haha

salembambi

im in the christmas spirit this year

boomshakalaka911

Christmas music is my jam.

Wham!

you know.

pie_eyes

I have no Christmas spirit this year. Seems most others feel the same to me. I blame it on 365 days of Summer

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JSurita3

Bah Humbug

salembambi

boomshakalaka911

Debby downers in here

cwolfman13

I've always been into it...I'm just a kid at heart...and now that I have two kiddos of my own, I'm even more of a dork. Took the boys to Durango, Co to ride the Polar Express this year...not sure who had more fun, them or me.

This is the first year the my eldest really gets what's going on too...he's 5 and we're having a blast this Christmas season.

thatdesertgirl777

boomshakalaka911 wrote: »

Debby downers in here

Don't fear, theres still hope for us!

boomshakalaka911

There we go! @thatdesertgirl777

Timshel_

TMI TLDR...I dunno.

I'm older now. Life threw me a bunch of curves that took the shine off of things. Also, my two boys are older now and this is the first year they both don't believe in Santa. Work has been crazy and everything I have spent almost 25 years building could be changed this next year....

I love this time of year, but what I expect from it...the high and emotion of it...has changed. So not bahumbug, but it isn't the same.

ilfaith

Indifferent. I find it much more difficult to get into the holiday spirit living in sunny Florida. Back when I lived in NYC the season seemed much more magical...all the shop windows...the lights...the whiff of impending snow and roasting chestnuts...the tree at Rockefeller Center. And I don't even celebrate Christmas.

Once again, this year, Chanukah was well over before Christmas begins, so we are done with our holiday...not that my family makes a huge deal of it. We light candles and eat latkes and give a few presents, but that's pretty much it. Next year I believe the holidays overlap, so maybe I will feel a little merrier.

One night next week I am going to do my annual drive around the neighborhood playing Christmas music on satellite radio and checking out all the community decorations. Nobody in my family ever wants to join me, but I always find it relaxing.

Runningman_78

Too much stress for me to enjoy it unfortunately. I'll just go hide in a hole until it's all over.

Timshel_

Sugar_Pill wrote: »

As much as I am not looking forward to the year my children stop believing in Santa- I think it also opens a pretty cool opportunity for parents.

To teach about giving, rather than receiving- maybe donating old toys & coats- or buying a ham for a family in need. We currently do these things, but I think once children begin to understand that it's us parents who work so hard & give so much- the selflessness rings truer.

Selfless- but still selfish, cause it also gives us parents the opportunity to cash in on all those years of lack of appreciation lol

But seriously, there's a whole new Christmas lesson to be learned & an entire lifetimes worth of joy to come from just sharing the day without any ideals about Santa, who was good or who was bad. Just family, togetherness & appreciation.

it is bittersweet, and it will hit you at some point too. We too have always done 'gifts for giving', which is every year before Christmas we had the boys go through all their toys and if they hadn't played or touched them within the last few months, they had to give it away. Same with clothes. We always went to lower income houses and you should see how much kids loved getting stuff. Also lots of time at the church. So we didn't have too much ah-ha moments with that. It was really nice when my youngest said, "so you and Mom bought all that stuff for all those years?! Wow, you really loved us." Not that it was about the gifts, but about the whole charade and pomp of it. All that was done to make the spirit come alive in the season.

As for cashing in on lack of appreciation....you obviously haven't got teens yet.
Ungrateful level...master.

Bah, it ain't that bad, but they do lose a lot of common sense trying to find themselves.


Anyway, all the best though. Enjoy the little ones and the magic.

ClubSilencio

I order gifts online (gift cards at that lol), stay inside more (it's cold anyway), and the supermarket I shop at doesn't play Christmas music. I'M GOOD.

Christmas day itself is fun though and I do appreciate the folks who puts lights on their house.

thatdesertgirl777

Runningman_78 wrote: »

Too much stress for me to enjoy it unfortunately. I'll just go hide in a hole until it's all over.

Aww sorry buddy! Don't hide too far away

synchkat

I LOVE CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!

Maybe I'm just a big kid I dunno. My parents still do Santa gifts, my grandma always had a gift for everyone under the tree from Santa.

Christmas Eve is still magical. I love putting out the Santa gifts and stuffing the stockings and seeing the surprise as they are opened and someone finds something that they really really wanted but didn't know.

This being said I stay home during the day so it's easy for me to prepare parties and dinners and hunt for perfect gifts.

thatdesertgirl777

ClubSilencio wrote: »

I order gifts online (gift cards at that lol), stay inside more (it's cold anyway), and the supermarket I shop at doesn't play Christmas music. I'M GOOD.

Christmas day itself is fun though and I do appreciate the folks who puts lights on their house.

I am so with you on the online shopping. Maybe Im just lazy lol. But the lights.. those are definitely the best!

StacyChrz

I definitely have years when I'm just not into it. This year I am very into it. This has been a great year and, even though my hubby recently lost his job, we are healthy and happy and Christmas is quite welcome in our house.

JenHuedy

Bah humbug. Got laid off from a job I absolutely loved and having really hard time with it. Kids are teens and at that age where they're not that into it. Just don't have it in me to do anything more than get the kids to school, work out, feed the kids/critters and repeat.

Rachel0778

I am ridiculously in the holiday spirit this year. We only see my significant other's family over the Christmas season (and I'm one of those weird people who really loves my inlaws) so I'm counting down until we go to visit them.

Plus I love playing the gift game with my family, eating posole soup, drinking wine, and just having a great time. I'm going to genuinely mourn when January comes and the lights come down

thatdesertgirl777

jenhuedepohl wrote: »

Bah humbug. Got laid off from a job I absolutely loved and having really hard time with it. Kids are teens and at that age where they're not that into it. Just don't have it in me to do anything more than get the kids to school, work out, feed the kids/critters and repeat.

Aww Im sorry. Hope things get better for you soon!

lseed87

Merry Christmas! Watching youtubers do vlogmas has done it the most. Besides that it doesn't really feel like Christmas is so soon!

zcb94

Meh. I'm recovering from what had been a life-threatening injury/illness at this time last year, so Christmas shall be very blue this year, but is normally tons of fun.

thatdesertgirl777

Rachel0778 wrote: »

I am ridiculously in the holiday spirit this year. We only see my significant other's family over the Christmas season (and I'm one of those weird people who really loves my inlaws) so I'm counting down until we go to visit them.

Plus I love playing the gift game with my family, eating posole soup, drinking wine, and just having a great time. I'm going to genuinely mourn when January comes and the lights come down

You had me at wine

StacyChrz

zcb94 wrote: »

Meh. I'm recovering from what had been a life-threatening injury/illness at this time last year, so Christmas shall be very blue this year, but is normally tons of fun.

I'm so happy to hear that you're recovering. Best wishes for a happy, healthy New Year!

13bbird13

I'm in the middle of the usual two weeks packed with events I'm required to participate in, and I'm getting tired of pretending to have fun. My list of to-dos and cards and gifts is probably ridiculously short compared to most of y'all; I don't have kids and only have one get-together scheduled for my own home, tomorrow night, with a grand total of two adult guests, but it's all I can handle. There were three parties last week which were basically two too many, but all were in one way or another "required". No matter how much I think I've prepared, something always happens at the last minute and I have to go running to a store which I try to avoid like the plague this time of year. I want Wednesday to be over and then I can relax. Christmas Eve and Christmas Day are MINE, ALL MINE... just me and my jammies and my TV and my merlot. I won't leave the house unless it catches on fire, and I won't let anybody in unless they've got a Publisher's Clearing House check made out to me.

The one thing I really do like is Christmas lights... other peoples'. I hate taking decorations down so I don't put any up, but I like driving at night and seeing what other people have done with their homes.

orekosi3485

I don't mind skipping Christmas one year.