I used to love christmas but im dreading this year as its the first without my ex so its just going to be me, mum and dad. I wont be seeing my ex or any of her family, only got two people to buy presents for, no one to go christmas shopping with and on christmas day i'll be sitting alone in my room. I used to like going out drinking new years eve but that dosent appeal to me anymore and hasnt for years. To me new year dosent mean anything. Its just another day, nothing changes other than the date. I prefer being with someone special doing something but this year once again i'll be sitting home alone.
QFT. I love buying gifts for people. Every year our local library has names of children that need gifts for Christmas. I shop for one of them and that gives me a lot of joy. Especially last year when I found a boy that wanted TF's. I also enjoy buying gifts for friends & family.
I love Christmas, yah. But like Moony says, you got to get off your butt and do something or you shouldn't be complaining. I just don't like other people around Christmas, like crazy soccer moms and that old lady that glares at you when you buy that something she wouldn't approve in the older days. People that think Christmas is ruined when Walmart sells out of Snoopy blow up...things. Christmas is more like the refresh button, I helps keep you going. Then you get to watch reruns of a Christmas Story Sorry guy, hope you'll be okay
Yeah! It really sounds tacky, but it is what makes Christmas great. Not looking forward to Christmas? Find some people who are, but are less fortunate and go and help give them the best Christmas of their lives! You'll feel all the better for it!
I'm very disillusioned at Christmas time... working in retail has killed it for me. People just get to frigging stupid this time of year and they annoy me. Everywhere you look it's Christmas, you can't avoid the damned thing. To top it off, my fiance is a Christmas nut and goes crazy for it (her entire family is like that), but I don't really care for the way they do things. For Christmas dinner, the ENTIRE family (aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents) show up for dinner and it's buffet style eating at 3 tables. It feels like a cafeteria. My family is just my immediate family (mom, dad, sister, her kids, me) and it's at one table with the food ON the table. You can actually talk to anybody who's there while you're having dinner. Also, her family puts up 5 trees. Yes, 5. One in the living room (big one), one in the kitchen (small one), one in the bathroom (pretty tiny), one on the landing between floors (medium) and one in the rumpus room downstairs (big one) which is where the dinner is served. She wanted to have several in our home, but there's really not room for it. Her mom got us a little one that plugs into the computer, so I allowed that in addition to the 1 normal sized tree. I think the thing that bugs me the most about Christmas is that my birthday is a week and a half before it. Growing up, I'd never have anyone attend my birthday parties, usually with the excuse that they were Christmas shopping. My birthday was and still is, overshadowed by it. At least my father in law understands what I go through as his birthday is a few days after mine. I know he feels the same way as I do about how his family celebrates. It's nice to have someone who gets it, in her family.
Now that thread is making me SAD. So I see that ANYTHING good and fun - like Transformers - are for the rugrats. Why do we even grow up to begin with?=P
Let us know if you need anything, okay? New Years bores me - I spend it online with longtime friends then go to bed. It sates what little need I have for a party, as I've never been a party animal. And the whole 'end of the holiday season' is depressing. Don't sit in your room, go out, take a walk, do something. First Christmases after a loss are very tough, but don't close yourself off from everything or it will be much worse. Find something you like and stick to that at least. I had one year after some family deaths where only reading a funny website daily cheered me up at all, but it really really helped. So that we can gift others with good Christmases. --Moony
Welcome to adult Xmas. It's magical when you are a kid, disappointing when you are an adult. That's my experience anyway. I still love to decorate with the outside lights and tree inside though :-D
This. Also when you're an adult you just get to see how commercialized the holiday really is and how people and companies strayed away from its actual meaning.
For me Holiday's don't mean much. I grew up as a Jehovah's Witness, so we never celebrated any holiday's or bithdays. We stopped being apart of the religion when I was 15. Even now, 19 years later celebrating any holidays feels very alien to me. I used to just treat them as a normal day. After my wife and I had our daughter I had to get more into the holidays. Even though they have no real value to me, seeing my daughter light up on the holidays is worth it to me. Basically for me holidays are meant only for children.
Always loved chrismtas it is the feeling, dont care much for gifts anymore as I see it is more fun to give and see ppl reactions when they getit. If I want something I just buy it and wrap it and say its from santa.
I'm growing up, and I figured I couldn't have another Christmas like I used to back when I was a little six year old, BUT, I could try to make it just as awesome for me. For the past two years I've just been stock piling every toy, comic, w/e I buy from September till Christmas and opening it all in one big shebang. It makes me feel like a little kid again for one day, and I enjoy that, also exercises my patience a ridiculous amount (all that stuff in a box in my closet right now, I could just OPEN IT RIGHT NOW!). Still, I can't hoard it all, being older now I gotta look out for what my family and friends want too, so it all comes in balance. DN
lol i do that too DN. Its tough packin it away, but it always pays off christmas morning. It also helps that there have been so many reissues lately. It's like christmas 1987 all over again!
Way to many of you guys seemed to be focused on "what you will get for christmas" and if you don't get 'good shit' then christmas is terrible. Maybe you should wonder *WHY* christmas was so magical for you as a child? Maybe because your parents and families went without in order to give you something that made it special? No wonder when you are 25 and you are still demanding magical presents and massive hauls you are so disappointed. Maybe you should take your fortune, be thankful for what you have and then try to bring some Joy to others without thinking "what is santa going to bring me?" Donate your time, Help out some homeless shelters, Find a giving program and sponsor some kids. Christmas shouldn't be about what you can get but maybe take some pride and joy in helping others. It might make your christmas have some value opposed to being disappointed when your family didn't buy you enough transformers.
We should do our own TFW Christmas, everyone draw names and go spend $10 on that person and mail it. But only within your own country so the shipping fees won't kill us
