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sbj405 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 11:53 AM
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Anyone else hoping that Christmas will get canceled this year?
I'm not a Christmas person. I don't celebrate in the religious or commercial way. I have been really depressed lately and in even less of a mood to deal with the holiday crap. I was looking forward to spending the weekend in a cabin in the woods with the bf and the dogs (as we did last year). Now he tells he really wants to go to Maine for the family celebration. Though I know the minute we get there, he'll be ready to leave. sighh. I suppose there's no way out of this for me.
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Dan-W Donating Member (383 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 11:54 AM
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1. I personally abhor XMAS. (n/t)
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cheezus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 01:14 PM
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16. I love XMAS!
frosty and santa claus, xmas trees and mistletoe, turkey and pie, winter ale and egg nog, jingle bells and sleigh ride, blinkey lights.

it's a pagan delight! (although we're all going very cheap/homemade on the gifts this year)
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Dissent Is Patriotic Donating Member (793 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 11:55 AM
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2. I'm too sad & too poor for Christmans this year.
No money, and sad because I really would like to go back to a time of hand made, really special gifts. But my large Italian family wants real gifts!
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sandnsea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 11:56 AM
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3. Light up the Darkness
I'm taking the winter solstice approach. The knowledge that spring will come, even in the darkest days of winter. I will do my part to bring light to the darkness. Hope springs eternal. All that jazz. I couldn't get out of bed if I didn't find some way to hope.
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CornField Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 12:27 PM
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9. This is how we celebrated last year
and how we will celebrate again this year. We will celebrate living through another winter, the sunlight staying around for a few moments longer each day, and the coming spring.
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sundog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 12:00 PM
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4. Only thing I really dig about xmas is my Vince Guaraldi Charlie Brown
Christmas CD... I can live without the rest... I'm not really in the mood this year
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ramapo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 12:00 PM
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5. I'm cancelling
Last year the family went to Florida over Christmas. It was great, no holiday stress plus sitting on the beach Christmas Day. It was a bit wierd, first time in 48 years not doing the tree thing.

We can't get away this year but the kids are older and we figure "Who needs it". Why buy a bunch of junk just to get stuff. So we'll let the kids do some shopping on Amazon/B&N (maybe ourselves also) and then just sit back and relax.

My parents would be horrified but they're gone so on with new traditions (or lack thereof). My wife's family will be thrilled since she's Jewish (as am I now by an act of Rabbi) and were always a bit uneasy about our tree.
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samwisefoxburr Donating Member (245 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 12:00 PM
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6. I'm not celebrating it this year...
Edited on Fri Nov-12-04 12:10 PM by samwisefoxburr
...first year I won't. Mainly because I have to pay $600 for a guy's car I damaged in an accident. Plus, I don't want to support a jobless economic recovery. And I want to go to DC on Inauguration Day, but I don't think I will have enough money.

Also I'm about to get laid off from work, until it picks up again in March.
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Beware the Beast Man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 12:02 PM
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7. Nope. Just the opposite.
Especially after the year we had. It's the one time of year where I can drop the sactimony and feel like a kid again. I'm looking forward to it more now than I have in a while.
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Moonbeam_Starlight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 12:35 PM
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12. Me too
Beast Man, me too! My very liberal friend and my husband who isn't normally into Christmas are both very excited too....
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CO Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 12:12 PM
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8. It's already been cancelled here
In our house - NO CHRISTMAS ALLOWED!

If you are anywhere near Colorado - come on over! :)
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skygazer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 12:33 PM
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10. I haven't celebrated Christmas for a number of years
I have no belief in the religious reasons and so would feel like a hypocrite celebrating it. I'm lucky because my hubby doesn't care one way or the other - if I wanted to celebrate, he would do it but since I don't, he's perfectly happy not to. He has no family and mine is 3000 miles away so we just do what we want to.

It used to depress me but now I barely notice it, really. I'm sorry you feel pressed into a family thing - any way he could just go alone?
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Moonbeam_Starlight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 12:35 PM
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11. See if you can talk him out of that
celebrate it (or not) the way YOU want to. I know that sounds really selfish, but how many years have you had crappy holiday seasons? Don't you owe it to yourself, ESPECIALLY this year, to have the holiday YOU want?

I'm telling you people you just need to do it the way YOU want to, screw the rest.

Stop giving gifts if it stresses you out, or restrict it to just the few closest people to you.

Don't decorate if you don't want to, but if it makes you happy go for it!

Go out of town if thiings get you down!

I'm a big advocate of Christmas My Way.
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demnan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 12:48 PM
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13. I'll have to celebrate
at least as far as my Mother is concerned. She wants to decorate and exchange presents. Since she is 83 I want her to enjoy it since she might not have that many left. I'll buy a few gifts but I'm not spending money like I did last year because this year I bought the condo and it needed things so there was much expense.

I'm ho-hum about it though.
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 12:49 PM
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14. Nope. My kids make Christmas what it is for me. We just bought
some new Christmas books at the book fair, so my son and I can get in the mood. It's going to lift my spirits this year. :hi:
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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 01:04 PM
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15. Nope, it's the busiest season for my choir
and we get to do some of the best music ever written for choirs (NOT the standard, overplayed Christmas carols).
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