Do You Look Forward To Christmas?

[Thermal]

I already am, and its still November. :yes:

I like the atmosphere and the weather but I don't like being cold
I like the puds but not so big on turkey


I even have a chocolate advent calendar and apart from not believing in santa anymore, still act like a 6 year old as far as christmas goes! :2thumbsup:

p.s. you didn't need to know any of this, in fact this post was probably a waste of your time. :balloon2:

p.s 2: but at the same time this isn't spam :2thumbsup:

[pevergreen]

Costs too much, is too hot, but the food is ok.

[Thermal]

is too hot

Christmas is when it gets freezing in the UK lol :balloon2:

[Gregoshi]

I'm 50 and I still love Christmas and the Christmas season. I could do without so much commercialism, but try to ignore that aspect. Be it a clear, crisp winter night and a walk out amongst the lights listening to Christmas music or indoors with naught but candles and tree lights listening to music or a Christmas movie/show, it is a wonderful time of the year (ugh, I just sang the last part of this sentence :laugh4:).

That being said, I think once a year is enough. That helps make it more of a magical time revisit year after year.

[Thermal]

I'm 50 and I still love Christmas and the Christmas season. I could do without so much commercialism, but try to ignore that aspect. Be it a clear, crisp winter night and a walk out amongst the lights listening to Christmas music or indoors with naught but candles and tree lights listening to music or a Christmas movie/show, it is a wonderful time of the year (ugh, I just sang the last part of this sentence :laugh4:).

That being said, I think once a year is enough. That helps make it more of a magical time revisit year after year.

I agree completely Gregoshi :2thumbsup:

[Subotan]

The thing that puzzles me most about Christmas is various movies, plays books etc. all protesting against the commercialisation of Christmas, despite begging for you to go buy that particular product which has that message in.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

It loses some of its charm as you get older.

[Samurai Waki]

The Commercialization of Christmas completely shot my enthusiasm for the Holiday season for quite a few years. Usually we have a big family get together, and for probably the past ten years it was buy as many presents as you can, give them to everybody, and then leave as soon as it was all done. Not much fun for whoever was hosting (usually being me)... so last year we decided to do a gift exchange instead, with a 50.00$ Limit on what you could buy, and I gotta say, that was preferable on every level. It wasn't about the gifts, or somebody outdoing the other, just being with your family and friends, and having some good laughs.

[Owen Glyndwr]

I'm excited for Christmas this year as there are some things that I actually want this year.

[CountArach]

I already know what I'm getting for Christmas, so I'm looking forward to that, and I enjoy some of the family traditions on Christmas, but other than that it isn't a huge thing for me. Seeing as I work in the toy department of a Department store my work for the next month is going to be incredibly stressful and busy, so I don't look forward to that.

[||Lz3||]

Forget about Christmas! I just cannot wait to be on vacations and go back to my hometown! :grin:

*I'm one week away from it. The worst week of the semester. :skull:

[a completely inoffensive name]

What is with everyone complaining about the commercialization? **** values, buy an extra TV and do your part in getting the economy rolling again. To do otherwise goes against the message of charity because if you aren't buying crap for yourself, you aren't creating the demand to spur the creation of more jobs to open up for your fellow neighbors.

tl;dr: Commercialization is the true meaning of Christmas, it is the giving of yourself (more specifically your money) to benefit everyone, with a side effect of benefiting yourself as well (but that is because Jesus is awesome like that).

[Sasaki Kojiro]

I agree with acin, gift giving has always been important to people as a form of bonding.

[a completely inoffensive name]

I agree with acin, gift giving has always been important to people as a form of bonding.

Really? I was kind of trolling there, but whatever, I'll roll with it.

[Samurai Waki]

Well if we're talking about Christmas/Commercialization/Economy ... they can take their jobs and (lack) of money and snuff it for all I care. Especially this time of the year, I'll go out of my way to avoid retail chains, not because I don't want to spend money, but because I'd rather avoid immensely long lines, and having to rub elbows with every angry penniless jerk out there who thinks Christmas is about spending their year's savings.

[naut]

Well, I'm more excited about it being Summer and 4 months of holidays. :beam:

[PershsNhpios]

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[Subotan]

What is with everyone complaining about the commercialization?...
You watch too much South Park.

42 degrees (celsius) in the shade and there are fencelines to be constructed.

Bah! Humbug!

Now... Weihnacht in Oesterreich aber sei mir etwas lieber...

I bet. I'm guessing there are no Weihnachtsmarkt in Australia.:laugh4:

[Fragony]

I don't care really, I'll take a random summer's barbecue, which is just about every weekend when the weather is good, over christmas any day. Beef and bikini's yay. So we are doing the same thing inside, it has it's charm I guess but I hate the winter.

[Ferret]

I'd look forward to it a lot more if I didn't have so many exmas in January...

Summer is better though, imo

[Beefy187]

Yes until Santa Clause started to think that I'm naughty and stopped the Christmas Pressie supplies.

Now its just the same as every other day.. I do enjoy the Christmas songs and illumination though.

[Hooahguy]

yea, but just because everyone is happier (esp the cashiers) and the roads are empty of traffic.
but i love the week after xmas because thats when all the real sales occur.

[a completely inoffensive name]

You watch too much South Park.

Damn straight.

[Andres]

I like the Christmas period, mostly because I usually don't have to work more than 3 or 4 days during the last two weeks of the year :2thumbsup:



Really? I was kind of trolling there, but whatever, I'll roll with it.

Seems like your skills are getting a bit rusty :laugh4:

[miotas]

I'm really looking forwards to seeing my family for a couple of weeks, and having a monster barbie on chrissie day with all the rellies. My parents also have a pool which is great during the hottest week of the year(christmas coming straight after the summer solstice here). It's practically tradition that christmas eve, christmas day, and boxing day are all over 40C.

Also, this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1aYkutjXfQ).

[pevergreen]

Only out where you are miotas.

30c is about as high as it goes here.

[Viking]

Good food, no lectures to attend to, have a bedroom as big as my entire current apartment...I can live with it.

[G. Septimus]

hmmpphhh
:san_smiley: hohoho,
I wish Santa Would come
Baaaaaaah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He wouldn t come here: :indonesia: he's gonna melt if he's comin' here
If he comes here
:san_smiley: ->:skull:

[miotas]

He wouldn t come here: :indonesia: he's gonna melt if he's comin' here
If he comes here
:san_smiley: ->:skull:

I think he'll be fine.
https://i385.photobucket.com/albums/oo293/joshball2000/Beach_Santa.jpg

Your post reminds me of a terrible joke about Indonesia and Santa. Not sure if I should tell it.
What did Santa give the Indonesians for Christmas?
Nothing, he just gave a big wave as he flew over.

:shame: sorry

[Prussian to the Iron]

like Thanksgiving, its a "meh" for me. even before we stopped celebrating it, it was just sort of a

"well, i already got all the good presents for channukah. now i get the 1-gift harry potter lego set that i never even alluded to wanting and am now stuck with in place of something cool."

of course getting like nothing from my dads parents and my moms dad was kinda crappy, we'll see what they send for this channukah.


i always loved the smell of the tree though. i hate it when people get those fake trees that dont drop needles or smell good. lame.

the spirit of the holiday isnt the original though; i dont see how its celebrating jesus' birth when it was in April, or how family even matters when everyone just cares about presents. too commercialized now:

ironically, channukah, a Jewish holiday, is not commercialized......winter makes everything backwards.

[drone]

Hate it. Too commercialized, too much hassle, everyone running around like headless chickens, overall this is the worst time of the year. The holidays are supposed to be joyous and happy, but everyone turns into a real :daisy: from the Friday after Turkey Day through Dec 24th. Gah, Humbug!

[Thermal]

My advent calender came with jokes! 1st decembers is:

What do you call a Snowman Bitten by a Shark?


A Frostbite


Fairly awful, even by Gregoshi's standards :clown: I hope they get better as I progress.

[Strike For The South]

One of the few times of the year I get to spend with my family, makes everything else worth it.

[Scienter]

I love Christmas! I enjoy having my tree and an excuse to light candles at dinner and put out some potpourri. I'm putting up my tree this weekend!

That said, I hate all the advertising, it's so tacky. I wish that malls/grocery stores/etc didn't start decorating for Christmas in October. In my area, people are INSANE during the holiday shopping season and having to deal with them in a mall puts me into a homicidal rage. :furious3: Hooray for amazon!

[Prussian to the Iron]

That said, I hate all the advertising, it's so tacky. I wish that malls/grocery stores/etc didn't start decorating for Christmas in October. In my area, people are INSANE during the holiday shopping season and having to deal with them in a mall puts me into a homicidal rage. :furious3: Hooray for amazon!

Christmas shopping in D.C.? Christ.....the rest of the year is bad enough, I couldn't imagine doing it every year around Christmas.


Aside, I hate when people surprise me with gifts. Mostly because I know exactly what I want, and no more or less, and I will tell you. Especially when it is something you detest rather than don't care for. This happened the other day:



I was at my friends house, and his mom (who, by the way, is a total and complete loser, and treats those around her like :daisy:, which I will provide more details on if you want) gave me 2 presents, and she said to open them at christmas. I shook 'em around, and knew they were clothes. Now, she knows how I like to dress. I dress nice, even playing Football (not Soccer), and especially when I meet people.

So I asked what kind of clothes they are, and she instantly said something about some rapper (don't know, don't care but knew he was a rapper) and that's the kind of clothes they are. Then when I politely refused them, she went into some stupid rage for no reason, asking if I wanted to "Dress like a nerd all my life" (coming from the lady who suggested her 17-year old daughter spend a weekend with her boyfriend at a beach-house, even though her daughter, being responsible, continually said she needed money and had to work. the mothers response was something along the lines of "Do you want a life, or do you want to work all the time like your father?" with the father right there).



sorry....I just needed to vent that. his mom is such a racist, ignorant, loser, idiotic, horrible-advice-giving, fat, disgusting, piece of :daisy:, who constantly spews insults at her husband, her only source of income, who just takes it. GAH!!!!

[Husar]

Won't get a girlfriend for Christmas so it's pointless really. ~;)

[Meneldil]

I bought a plane ticket for Canada, at a ridiculously expensive price, so my girlfriend and I can see eachother a last time before we break up.

So no, I don't particularly like Christmas usually, but this one will be a killer.

[Husar]

This (http://www.theonion.com/content/cartoon/nov-16-2009) also fits the subject. :sweatdrop:

[Thermal]

I'm glad the majority of orgahs aren't scrooge's :smash:

2nd decembers calander joke

why did the golfer have a spare set of trousers?

In case he got a hole in one



---Not only have I heard that joke a thousand times, its not even christmassy :shame: Shame on my malteasers advent calander, shame on malteasers, the chocolates good though :yes:

[miotas]

Won't get a girlfriend for Christmas so it's pointless really. ~;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aEEhN7_ZTw ~D

[Thermal]

3rd December

what do snowmen eat?

Iceburgers


well, its getting better I guess

[ajaxfetish]

I love Christmas, but I do take issue with some parts of the holiday. One thing I particularly dislike is Christmas stuff before Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving doesn't seem to lend itself to commercialism enough to get a lot of attention from stores and whatnot, and gets too edged out by the December holiday. I won't listen to any radio stations playing Christmas music before black Friday, and I avoid stores with holiday decorations up before then. The one big exception I make is learning Christmas choral music ahead of time, as I've long been in performance choirs and the music has to be ready by the time the Christmas season arrives, so the learning must come earlier.

One thing my wife and I have considered, though, is starting a tradition of holding off on gift giving till Epiphany, since it's the day associated with the wise men's arrival and thus the original Christmas gift giving, since it'd make sense of the twelve days of Christmas, and since we'd have any lame gifts we were given available for re-gifting. What do you think?

Ajax

[Monk]

Thanksgiving and Christmas have always been a 1-2 punch in my family. Two big get-togethers where everyone sits down and has a meal together, talking about all the happenings with everyone they know. Sometimes thanksgiving is a little meh and it's normally seen as your "get out of family meeting free" event, but Christmas is without a doubt the social event. If you miss Christmas you better be dieing!

[Wishazu]

Well I love Christmas, even more so since my 3 children came along, not only do I get presents from my family but now I get to choose my kids presents/toys too. I plan my christmas playtime way in advance.