Am I wrong?

krazyforyou

Ok, dont know about yall, but Im sorta sick of Christmas. All this money for crap people dont really want that could be spent better served. Maybe Im just crabby. How about yall?

dls06

I agree. Unless you are a child getting gifts form Santa, it's kinda loss all it's meaning.

jennajava

I think you are sick of the commercial Christmas, not real Christmas.

Sublimely_Self_Righteousreused

MinnieInMaine

In my opinion, no, you're not wrong at all. As we all became adults, and didn't start having children, buying gifts started to get more and more complicated, expensive and frustrating. So 4 or 5 years ago I had a talk with my mother and brother (the two I had the whole sit by the tree and open gifts and stockings celebration with) and we all agreed that it wasn't necessary. We still do birthdays, Mothers Day and the occassional surprise gift if we see something we think the other person would like but that's it. Also decided it was silly to do the gift exchange with Hubby's family because of the same situation - all adults and we don't really need anything.

I still do presents with Dad and Hubby and might get a friend or two something small for Christmas but that's it. Makes life so much easier this time of year!

ETA: jennajava hit the nail on the head! By the way, your new profile pic is very cute!

adjones5

Just celebrate it in a way that would make you happy. Maybe go volunteer somewhere and spend your time there rather than buying crap that people don't really want? Or you could just skip it altogether. I'm going to the beach with my parents and my brother to avoid the rest of our family so we don't have to do anything for Christmas.

Contrarian

Give these gifts in honour of the people on your Christmas list:

http://plancanada.ca/giftsofhope/default.asp?WT.mc_id=QFY12_DM_GOHACATLEG

WarriorMom2012

Give these gifts in honour of the people on your Christmas list:

http://plancanada.ca/giftsofhope/default.asp?WT.mc_id=QFY12_DM_GOHACATLEG

Ooooo, I wanna give a goat. I'm going to get the kids online tonight and we are going to buy a goat. Thank you Contrarian!! :flowerforyou: <--- not the sarcastic kind!

TeresaWash

Give these gifts in honour of the people on your Christmas list:

http://plancanada.ca/giftsofhope/default.asp?WT.mc_id=QFY12_DM_GOHACATLEG

Ooooo, I wanna give a goat. I'm going to get the kids online tonight and we are going to buy a goat. Thank you Contrarian!! :flowerforyou: <--- not the sarcastic kind!

*like*

IndianCat3

i dont feel that you are wrong, i feel the same way...xmas if more for the kids, i only buy kids gifts and my mom...my brothers and sister understand where i come from...money is always tight on my end

Avalonis

Bah Humbug.

I vote we burn down the Christmas tree in the park.

ChitownFoodie

I usually keep my true feelings about Christmas and most holidays to myself.....so I will just say, that I am with you.

infamousmk

I'm refusing to buy gifts for my family this year. The whole commercial aspect of the holiday is disgusting to me. I will get a small gift for each of my young nieces, but the adults are all in agreement that exchanging gifts between us is unnecessary. Unfortunately, some weird guilt is keeping them from completely cutting gifts out.. they each say, "I'll just get everyone a small something." ... I'm like, "okay, but I'm not getting anyone anything. We will have a nice dinner together and play games and be a family, but I'm 100% boycotting Consumer Christmas." .. if that makes me a scrooge, so be it.

ILiftHeavyAcrylics

I Christmas *ducks*

Lizzy_Sunflower

Give these gifts in honour of the people on your Christmas list:

http://plancanada.ca/giftsofhope/default.asp?WT.mc_id=QFY12_DM_GOHACATLEG

We do this every year. Through https://www.samaritanspurse.org/index.php/Giving/gift_catalog/

The kids love picking out stuff for those in need.

SabrinaJL

Bah Humbug.

I vote we burn down the Christmas tree in the park.

I'll bring the matches. I keep telling my family we should make it less about gifts and more about being together, but I get told I'm trying to ruin xmas. WTF?

mikethom

I think a great meaningful gift (anytime) is a charitible donation made in someone's name, you support a good cause and you let your friend know that you were thinging of them... just my $0.02

NiciS72

Nope you are about where most of us have been for years. I asked my husband the other night "Is it wrong that I'm more excited about putting together a nice gift for my Angel Tree recipients than my family?" He kindly responded no, and that he had the most fun buying for the kid he chose. BTW he got the kid a remote control car with a huge pack of batteries and a set of Star Wars Legos. I chose 15 & 17 year old girls who asked for towels. It touched my heart that they would ask for such a simple thing. The day after Thanksgiving I'd gone to Bath & Body Works to buy a few things I needed and I cashed in on their deal if you bought $40 worth of stuff you could buy as many bags filled with product worth over $107 for $20. I got 2 thinking I always need extra gifts. I'd already broken one apart, but then decided how fun would it be to give the two girls as much of the stuff in the bags as I had left as well as some other bath stuff I have extra. I really hope they like it and wish I could see their faces when they open it and see towels but the underneath is all the goodies!

_beachgirl_

No, you're not wrong. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

TheRoadDog

You're neither right or wrong. You just like letting others know you ar unhappy with something. Bah, Humbug!

I, on the other hand, love it. Not as a theological event, but rather as a chance for my friends and family to all get together. I love that time with them.

sadiecara

I have struggled with this for several years and now I take my children on holiday for Christmas. They get a small gift each, but we always try to have an adventure on Christmas day- like going on a boat trip, or swimming in the sea (not possible in the UK at that time of year) . We are going to Morocco this year. We also sponsor a child at www.foreverangels.org We are so fortunate, most of us on here because we have eaten too much food, while millions of people in the world struggle to get enough. I think Christmas is a good time to give something back.

nehtaeh

I christmas, but more for the feeling. I love the lights, the sounds, the knowing that a lot of people will help and buy for those that simply can't. I get my kids presents and that is fun in itself, but I've always loved this time of year. I belong to a mom's message board and we sponsor a few families, I am sending those kids snow pants and some winter clothes.

I'm sure as a kid I was all about the commercial aspect of christmas but I don't remember many of the presents. I remember waiting for my step-brothers to come over so we could go spend time with extended family, playing games and hanging out.

nehtaeh

Nope you are about where most of us have been for years. I asked my husband the other night "Is it wrong that I'm more excited about putting together a nice gift for my Angel Tree recipients than my family?" He kindly responded no, and that he had the most fun buying for the kid he chose. BTW he got the kid a remote control car with a huge pack of batteries and a set of Star Wars Legos. I chose 15 & 17 year old girls who asked for towels. It touched my heart that they would ask for such a simple thing. The day after Thanksgiving I'd gone to Bath & Body Works to buy a few things I needed and I cashed in on their deal if you bought $40 worth of stuff you could buy as many bags filled with product worth over $107 for $20. I got 2 thinking I always need extra gifts. I'd already broken one apart, but then decided how fun would it be to give the two girls as much of the stuff in the bags as I had left as well as some other bath stuff I have extra. I really hope they like it and wish I could see their faces when they open it and see towels but the underneath is all the goodies!

This makes me cry - but a joyful cry. And THAT is what I love about this time of year.

LorinaLynn

Christmastime has become much more enjoyable to me since realizing that all of the hype is completely OPTIONAL. I only have to celebrate the parts of it I enjoy.

I'm not a Christian, so the holiday itself isn't a big deal anyway. I only look at it as a time to spend time with loved ones and enjoy delicious foods, and spoil my younger nieces and nephews a little since (as I like to joke) they're going to be the ones picking out my nursing home in a few decades...

If I don't want to battle the mall, I don't. If I don't want to decorate, I don't. If I don't want a tree, I don't. (Although I actually LOVE trees and lights and shiny things, but I have seven cats and that would equal DISASTER!) I could do with a little less bells and carols and commercials, but it's alright.

And all the insanity is optional, whether you're Christian or not. Celebrate the season how YOU want to celebrate it. If you got kids, now's a great time to teach them some good values... that screaming "BUT I WANT IT!" doesn't mean you need it or will get it.

Although I do hate how so many people are completely batpoop crazy this time of year. Peace on earth, goodwill towards man... unless they're about to get a better parking spot, then cut them off and flip 'em the bird!

But I'm not going to let them get me down. I'll just spread my message of "It's all OPTIONAL!!!!" :drinker:

remyegomez

This year my family decided instead of getting gifts for each other we adopted a family and are getting gifts for a family at my mothers church.

fit4mom

This is a little cynical. Why bash a day that most people really genuinely enjoy and love. Like Thanksgiving. Even if you don't like how corporate America destroys and abuses most things, (from personal experience) most families really do get meaning out of the holiday and take it to heart. I get tired of the anti Christmas attitude. It's about tradition. But if you are tired of the corporate part of it I so get it. There are people dying out there and because of the selfishness of the group for no religion. Children in Africa ( being supported by Operation Christmas Child) might not get presents this year. Really sad when politics get in the way of giving.:frown:

foremant86

You're not wrong, but everyone celebrates it differently.

In our family gift buying/giving has never been a ordeal. We're all pretty down to earth and easy going and are happy with anything we get each other, i've never felt the need to go over the top and buy anyone anything overly expensive. Heck last year i got my brother a white sox barbecue set for about $30 and he was thrilled with it.

Christmas is what you make it, if the people around you are materialistic and unsatisfied with gifts unless they cost a lot then tell them to F off and don't get them a damn thing.

My nephew and niece started to get a little unappreciative of gifts(they're 6 and 4) so I told them that's fine, if they aren't happy with just the fact that they have something to open at all then I won't be getting them anything...you can bet they changed their attitudes pretty quick

Growing up my grandmother always got me some kind of make up set and a hair curler or something like that.....and let me tell you i was the biggest tom boy ever so I never once liked or used anything she ever bought me lol BUT you can bet I also never let her know that, I was never unappreciative of gifts and I was always delighted to have something to open.

So yeah... Christmas is what you make it

carlynishere

Give these gifts in honour of the people on your Christmas list:

http://plancanada.ca/giftsofhope/default.asp?WT.mc_id=QFY12_DM_GOHACATLEG

We do this every year. Through https://www.samaritanspurse.org/index.php/Giving/gift_catalog/

The kids love picking out stuff for those in need.

Lizzy, this is awesome! In my job I work rather closely with Samaritan's Purse on a weekly basis. They are all wonderful folks to work with there! What a great way to make a difference!!

fit4mom

Give these gifts in honour of the people on your Christmas list:

http://plancanada.ca/giftsofhope/default.asp?WT.mc_id=QFY12_DM_GOHACATLEG

We do this every year. Through https://www.samaritanspurse.org/index.php/Giving/gift_catalog/

The kids love picking out stuff for those in need.

Lizzy, this is awesome! In my job I work rather closely with Samaritan's Purse on a weekly basis. They are all wonderful folks to work with there! What a great way to make a difference!!

LOVE THIS! Great idea!

DWilbanks

It's not that I don't like this time of year, it just makes me a little sad. I miss family that's no longer with us. In particular my mom. Since my family has grown so much over the years, all brothers and sisters have started traditions with their own families so the entire family doesn't get together like we used to do. You see there's seven kids in our family, so when we got together, with all in laws and neices and nephews, well it was an awesome big bunch. But I'll have a little time with a brother and sister that lives close and husband and his mom and step dad so it will still be good.

fit4mom

I so get this. My uncle died with cancer 2 years ago, and right before that his mom and right before that his dad. It's sad to not have them here but my focus get's shifted to being there for the ones left behind.