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Holiday Season: Upper or Downer?

How do you feel about the "Holiday Season"?

  • Love it!

    Votes: 33 47.1%

  • Hate it!

    Votes: 15 21.4%

  • Indifferent to it.

    Votes: 17 24.3%

  • Don't celebrate anything to do with it.

    Votes: 2 2.9%

  • Obligatory Other

    Votes: 3 4.3%
  • Total voters
    70
  • Poll closed .
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Oct 21, 2003
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So... with a little over 32 days to Christmas, I am already getting into the mood. I just bought a classic holiday album on iTMS and was playing it much to the dismay of one of my colleagues. I absolutely LOVE this time of year and I'm actually depressed on December 26th because it's sooooo long until the next Christmas.

I love the weather, the music, donating things, doing community service, the decorations, the decorating, the giving of gifts, the receiving of gifts (duh!), the food, damn.. everything! Well except holiday sweaters, I'm out on those. Well, and the religous aspect of it. I couldn't care less about baby jeebus.

I find that people seem to fall into one camp or the other (assuming they celebrate anything this time of year). They either hate it, or love it.
Which camp do you fall into?


*Since I don't mean this to be an exclusionary thread for those that don't celebrate Christmas, I'll do my best to include some alternate options.
 

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I'm with you. I love the Holiday Season. I love how much my kids are looking forward to Santa bringing them toys.

I love Christmas movies... It's a Wonderful Life, A Christmas Story, the Charlie Brown Christmas, Rudolph, Frosty etc.
 
With all the cheesy commercialism, wanton materialism et al, there's a lot to hate...but at this time of the year everything is just so warm and fuzzy, it's impossible not to feel happy about the season!

I love Christmas time...the worst part is taking it all apart just after new years. :(
 
I'm in two minds about it all. It's nice to get a little break from work and see family and stuff – and of course, the opportunity to eat lots of nice food is always a good thing – but I'm always a little annoyed and disappointed with how commercialised we've let the whole occasion become.

I also can't stand most Christmassy music, so I won't be buying any Christmas albums off iTunes myself. ;)
 
After several years of wanton disillusionment, I've found myself coming to enjoy Christmas again.

The rampant commercialism I positively loathe, but I've found a way around that - I stopped buying presents (except for the girlfriend ;) ). Not to avoid spending all the money or being a cheap bastard; I brew mead throughout the year, two versions of wassail (a regular and a non-alcoholic brew for kiddies) and distribute that. It's not inexpensive but better than going out and just buying some plastic crap in a store.
 
I love the holiday season! I do not care about the commercialism, because I rarely come in contact with it.

I seldom watch broadcast television. In fact, I doubt if I watch 1/2 an hour of TV per day, during the work week. I watch some on the weekends. I like viewing some lectures on the educational channel. We also have channels for City, County and State government. I like to keep current with land-use, critical habitat, stuff like that. Then there is my favorite. "Questions for the Prime Minister". In short, I miss the commercials.

I also avoid the shopping Malls like the plague. I usually have an idea of the types of gifts I want to buy. So, I keep an eye out all year long for sales. Most of my Christmas shopping is done by Summer. So, I also miss all of that commercialism as well.

For me, the holidays are just a great time to have fun with family and friends. Starting last Sunday, my calendar for the remainder of the year is completely booked doing the things I like best. Pretty hard to improve upon that!
 
I've gotten to love Christmas a lot more since I left home. I love seeing my old friends, seeing my old town and seeing my family. I also just love relaxing for a couple of weeks watchin all the old films and Xmas films they show on the TV, making mince pies :D and drinking snowballs. I also love going to Christmas market they put on in Manchester and getting wasted (yes it's tacky, but it has the best German beer ever).

Then again, there's a lot I hate about Christmas - the tackyfication of it all. The fact that everywhere you go someone is trying to sell you some crap. But I find it quite easy to close that out of my mind.
 
I'm not Christian, so I'm indifferent to it. I do buy presents for my relatives who are though, like my nieces and nephews. It keeps me in good standing as the "cool uncle who lives in the city". ;)
 
I really like the holidays, since it's the one time of the year when I see a lot of my relatives (aunts, uncles, cousins, etc.). I send out Christmas cards to about 90 or so people, I have a pretty cool fake tree (from MoMA in NYC) and ornaments that I'll be setting up on Friday, etc. I do go to church on Christmas Eve with my Mom and my brother and whoever else might be around.

This year the holidays will be extra special for me because my second nephew is due right around Christmas.
 
Totally mixed feelings about the whole thing. Many special events in the past meant disappointment for me so I learned to hate it. A lot has changed in my life recently and I'd like to think that [disappointment] won't happen anymore but I hesitate to hold my breath on that. Expectations are a premeditated resentment after all. I'll merely hope to be proven just a cynic.
 
katie ta achoo said:
Usually it reminds me that I'm alone. I don't like it.
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It does the same to me. I think John Mayer captures the feeling pretty well with "St. Patrick's Day."

Overall, besides that one aspect, the season makes me happy. I get to bust out the hoodies and go chill with some friends and a glass of hot chocolate. Christmas music puts a smile on my face every time. Being cold makes me happy, and it doesn't last long in Texas, so I have to enjoy every minute.

The rest of the year... depressing.
 
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