I tolerate the Christmas season because my wife and kids love it. I string up the lights, put up the tree, watch gawd awful Christmas show and pretend to enjoy myself because it makes them happy. Of course I'm dying inside, like Stock Photo Harold.
Of course, the real killer is the credit card bill in the aftermath of the Missus' Black Friday spree. Hide the pain, man. Hide the pain.
The only thing good about Christmas is spending time with my family. Hail, I do that every day, so Christmas is just another Wednesday to me.
For myself, Christmas makes me both happy and sad. I’m happy because I have a lot of fond memories of the Season, which is supposed to bring out the best in people, an atmosphere of giving and camaraderie with loved ones and family, happy children, and favorite seasonal movies.
It can be argued whether Christmas is a net positive or a negative. I’m sad because the basis of Christmas is illusional, becoming a highly over commercialized party accompanied by an orgy of spending. My wife insisted we move away from the majority of our family to be near her parents, which was fair, as she spent her married life to me accommodating my career. So it has become a lot of trouble to see the good family members, having to jump on a plane (which I am less inclined to do as I age), versus driving across town, while recognizing that some other family members are more trouble than they are worth to spend time with.
And that the grandchildren (ours and other in the family) are spoiled rotten with so many material things, and the expectations of receiving new things, that they really can’t appreciate what they already have. I see this mostly in the young ones who expect a giant pile of presents, but it’s not their faults. It’s the adult’s faults.
Speaking of family members, I‘m leaving the juicy stuff out such as estrangement and divorce, one family member who decided that dumping the husband and rekindling romance with her new love took priority over her 4 kids which happens regardless of Christmas. 😔
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Well I don't like eggnog
You'd have loved Geneva in the time of Calvin.

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Very few New Yorkers I know go to Times Square for NYE.
I love eggnog as long as it’s not spiked.

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Most people celebrate santa which is the surrogate to christ, it has overshadowed the Christmas holiday.
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Its possible the date of birth is wrong and not the 25th of December but in September on the 23third or another day in that month...the Christmas holiday as people know it is filled with paganism and rituals.
I believe the Catholic Church as part of the manipulation game, moved Christmas to Dec 25 specifically to displace the Pagan holidays of "Saturnalia" and "Brumalia” which occurred in relationship to the Winter solstice.
https://www.bibletools.org/index.cf...TD/cgg/ID/1143/Christmas-Pagan-Origins-of.htm