My Christmas Tantrum~

[floffyschneeman]

Look,
Bottom line is.... IS..... Christmas is NOT what it used to be, nothing for that fact is like it used to be. OK. and you are right nobody likes waiting in long lines. but in my opinion MY opinion MY idea, MY HEART- due to MY circumstances. Christmas is just not as great as folks make it out to be,, just a load of phoney crap, CRAP! and for most part, the folks putting on the dog, with all the praises are just full of BULL...crap. (

I love that YOU love Christmas. how wonderful for YOU. now go happy happy and joy joy.. please be happy, spend and buy gifts.. how lovely. still does not mean that ***I*** have to like it,or love it. and I hate hate all the crap that I must endure to GO BUY A SHOWER CURTAIN just because JOE is there breaking bank to make himself look good, all for saving face.
Ok, Im done.
BIG hug for you my sweet lovely dear.. enjoy your christmas. please ENJOY YOUR CHRISTMAS! YAAY YAAY YAAY FOR ALL THE CHRISTMAS CHEER!!!! see I am truly happy for you.

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TaaDaa!

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I suggest you broaden your horizon. there is another world outside america. there is another world outside your own where people are not all about '' I HATE I HATE I HATE COS I CANT GET THIS AND THAT I HATE'' when most of the times, you don't even know what you are hating.

As I have said, we don't get gifts for christmas but I enjoy the holiday for what it ought to stand for but that doesn't make me like the superficial people you described as ''happy happy joy joy''

and also, it's funny how you show your 'being happy for someone'

I love christmas, it doesn't mean you have to love it too. you can hate it, it doesn't mean everyone who loves it are superficial people without a care in the world cos they choose to be happy for one holiday. and that last bit was the reason that made me reply to your thread.

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Preparing for the holidays is stressful- that's why I'm busier at this time of year than any other.

It doesn't seem fair to assume that Joe, at the head of the line with his checkbook, is especially happy or materialistic. After all, he's spending the money on the family members who invite themselves to his house. He's buying the food for family members he hasn't seen since last winter. He's getting stuff for the grandchildren, hoping it's the right stuff... because their parents are going to tell them they have to be nice about the gifts, even if they don't like them... and Joe would really like sincere smiles on their faces. He's remembering his brother's stepson is allergic to his "world-famous" stuffing, and he has to either try a substitute for some ingredient, or make another thing just for that boy. His wife is muttering that they forgot to grab some sort of present for their youngest daughter's new baby, but that she may not attend because her husband mentioned going to his family's house... in which case they should also be buying some packing material to put presents in the mail. They're feeling guilty because they hear the sigh of the person behind them in line as they shift their gallon of milk from one arm to the other, and look in annoyance at the unmanned express line register. Why hasn't the store opened that one? But Joe shrugs and smiles apologetically at the tired looking cashier as he writes the amount on the slip of paper. After all, he also had to stand in line and wait for the people ahead of him. That's just the way it goes. The only other option is to sit at home alone on the holiday, sending the family members elsewhere- and they would probably end up at a dozen other houses, rather than coming together, because Joe is the only one whose house is big enough to hold everybody, or maybe it's the only place that they all have in common. What, you want him to join ALL instead, so he can sigh over how great it would be to see his family, but he didn't want to inconvenience that one person in the back of the line who just wanted a shower curtain? And since his memory is no good, maybe he will hold up the line a minute to check his receipt, or scribble something in his little book. After all, the point of a checkbook is to make sure you always know how much is in that account, without getting online or calling some automated service, and if you put something off long enough to forget to do it, then the whole system fails.

Don't get me wrong, I totally understand how annoying and frustrating it is to be at the end of the line, wanting just one or two things. I just don't think it's fair to be upset with Joe over the fact that he's getting ready for the holidays.

^this

 

[Nolife Princess]

Okie Dokie.

 

[TrailerTrish]

I was already thinking of starting a Christmas thread, but I see someone has saved me the bother. I don't care for Christmas at all, it was the very worst time of the year when I was growing up. It was when the whole extended family would get together, get drunk and start the next family war that would rage on for the rest of the year. It was also the time when my first step-father would treat us like honeysuckle calling us ungrateful brats and generally being a prick. This is the guy who hospitalized me four times, and beat the honeysuckle out of me for 8 years, until my mother divorced him, not because he beat her kids, but because he messed another woman.

 

[Nolife Princess]

I was already thinking of starting a Christmas thread, but I see someone has saved me the bother. I don't care for Christmas at all, it was the very worst time of the year when I was growing up. It was when the whole extended family would get together, get drunk and start the next family war that would rage on for the rest of the year. It was also the time when my first step-father would treat us like honeysuckle calling us ungrateful brats and generally being a prick. This is the guy who hospitalized me four times, and beat the honeysuckle out of me for 8 years, until my mother divorced him, not because he beat her kids, but because he messed another woman.

Trish, I am sorry that you had to endure a sad life (I can identify) on so many levels with you here.
Some ppl just do not understand, and only think of their own happy bliss, when so many others have their own reasoning as for why they do not/can not enjoy the holiday season. not everyone has a 'normal' family, not everyone has $$$ to spend, not everyone has any good memories at all to even consider Christmas to be a happy time for them. I just wish more ppl would open their eyes and see past their own happiness and feel the pain of others who only want the holidays to be over and done with due to unhappy memories, pain, and sorrow.

 

[floffyschneeman]

I was already thinking of starting a Christmas thread, but I see someone has saved me the bother. I don't care for Christmas at all, it was the very worst time of the year when I was growing up. It was when the whole extended family would get together, get drunk and start the next family war that would rage on for the rest of the year. It was also the time when my first step-father would treat us like honeysuckle calling us ungrateful brats and generally being a prick. This is the guy who hospitalized me four times, and beat the honeysuckle out of me for 8 years, until my mother divorced him, not because he beat her kids, but because he messed another woman.

I am sorry for all your struggles. I wish there's something I could say to make you feel better but I know there isn't. I understand how you feel that about a holiday that should be about family and giving. I can't say my christmas was all happy and fun, I did have some hard times. But no one should go through what you've gone through and though I may not be able to understand much, I mean this with utmost sincerity that I wish for you to feel better now and the days to come. *hugs*

 

[DreamerDeceiver]

I remember a time when the Winter Holidays meant something happy and exciting. Not stressful and heavily commercialised.
Bah...Fiddlesticks...
Bah...Poppycock...
Bah...Hogwash...
Bah...Phooey...!!!!

 

[SofiasMami]

I remember a time when the Winter Holidays meant something happy and exciting. Not stressful and heavily commercialised.
Bah...Fiddlesticks...
Bah...Poppycock...
Bah...Hogwash...
Bah...Phooey...!!!!

Hi. My name is Teresa and I'm a Christmas addict with no hope of recovery.
But not everyone feels the same way and you're certainly entitled to hate the holiday.
Each year for the past few years, it's just been Sofia and me and her aunt and uncle on her dad's side have very generously opened their home to us. My closest family lives halfway across the country.
My favorite part of the season is seeing lights on people's houses, watching "A Christmas Story" and going to the Nutcracker (taking Sofia next week - yay!).
The local post office sets aside letters from kids to Santa and invites people to come by and "adopt" a family if they wish. A few years ago, I chose a letter from a 6 year old girl and got her and her family a bunch of stuff. They seemed to need the help, and that was before the Great Recession started.
And Joe...poor Joe in line paying for his merchandise. Maybe he just found out he's terminally ill and has 6 months to live and wants to make his last Christmas memorable for his family. Let's not knock strangers, shall we? If you wouldn't knock them any other time of the year, how about not making an exception based on what the calendar says. Thanks.

Teresa

 

[Bones]

I have not celebrated Christmas since around 1989; however, I have always let daughter celebrate it because it is her choice.

I remember coming home from my freshmen year in college and me and Dawn went to a bar on Christmas eve and partied together from midweek until Sunday together because she did not like Christmas and I decided Christmas - that year - was not in my best interest in 1986 - LOL.

It was one of my better weeks & weekends of my life.

My Christmas tantrum ... Ok, I saw a thread on here posted as who else loves Christmas or something like that.... so now I am here to ask, who else HATES Christmas as much as I do ...

 

[Minus]

I remember a time when the Winter Holidays meant something happy and exciting. Not stressful and heavily commercialised.

I wonder is that is more from a change in situation and perception as we age.

The same complaints were made by some, about Christmas at least since the 1950s and probably for many decades before that.

 

[Jilted John]

A valid point Minus.

 

[Syber Tiger]

Christmas is a money making scam

this time of your everything in pice dubbles and dont let le get the the holladay places (no)