Anyone else not really into Christmas/New Year

It depends what's going on around us really. We have not bothered with trees and decorations for 3 or 4 years recently, mainly due to having stuff going on with family, friends and real world that didn't really help ones mood. However this year we are both in a good place so I can see trees and all sorts and a **** load of presents.
 
doofer said:
Horrible time of year, commercialised the **** out of. And we will all have to suffer the retarded 'What can I buy my Mother/Sister/Brother/Dad/Dog/Cousin/Cousins Dog/Wife/Girlfriend/Fianceé/Furryfriend etc. for Xmas?' Threads from people who seem to think random strangers on the internet will know more about someone's likes and dislikes more than they who know them personally will. :rolleyes:
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Just ignore them. I don't buy many fancy gifts, I tend to just give some sort of token to say I was thinking of them.

Spend your money on expensive food and alcohol ;)
 
It's the end of October and I am fed up with it already. Call me a miserable old git (the wife does) but I am sick and fed up with it getting rammed down our throats wherever you go. Give it another couple of weeks and the stores will be playing Christmas songs!! We put a tree up but that's as far as it goes decoration wise. If it was just me I wouldn't even do that. We have a roast on Christmas day, Boxing day and New Years day but it's nothing special as it's only the two of us and the two cats. TV is usually crap so we usually play a board game or similar. If we didn't live in a village we probably wouldn't go out on New Years eve either. We used to go to the pubs and club when we lived in Elgin but both usually got fed up with the pushing, shoving and waiting to be served at the bar. At least in the village we usually end up in the quietest of the two pubs with around 20-25 people.
 
New Years I normally ignore as much as possible, I really don't see the point of going out and paying vastly more than usual for an over crowed rubbish time.

Christmas ... i enjoy the overall concept but the actual shopping/travelling/etc I could take or leave really. This year I don't know what I will be doing, visiting family or spending it alone at home, as it depends on family things outside of my control ...
 
As a child I used to love the presents, all those amazing gifts, like a Sega Mega-drive with Sonic The Hedgehog, or the Lego Technic car I got, spending time with my grandparents and extended family, playing daft board games, etc.

Christmas is a little more effort nowadays, all the shopping and organizing, planning which family to stay with, what gifts to buy, which days to book off, and what to do for NYE. It takes more work, and it's not quite as fun or the same as it used to be, but I still enjoy it, more-so for the time off work.

Last NY spent in a little town called Hebden Bridge, my girlfriend, a mate of hers and I drank champagne and cooked a meal, then wandered up the side of the valley and watched all the fireworks go off at midnight, then we sauntered down to a nice little local pub to have a few pints before retiring relatively early.

Most important thing is spending it with friends family and loved ones obviously, I can imagine a lot of people aren't so lucky to have people to share it with, and feel quite lonely over this period.
 
I love Christmas itself and over the past few years have even been trying to get into the run up.

The thing that used to spoil it was the worry of having to sort presents and that out, so the past few times I've always tried to get everything sorted by 1st December then I can just enjoy the counting down :D

Christmas day itself is just like a really long and big Sunday as we don't really have any kids in the family, the 'magic' of Christmas is for kids.
 
I hate the Christmas music, the stupid tree, the decorations, the flashing lights, how everyone is all of a sudden polite and happy, the non sense religious associations, buying presents that they don't want for people, having presents bought for me that i don't want, being forced to eat my sisters cooking.

The last bunch of years i've just told my parents i am opting out completely. What we do is meet up a few weeks before and have dinner at a restaurant and exchange gifts there. I tell them to buy themselves something for £50 and then ill buy myself something for £50. Then we exchange £50 note.

I have enjoyed the last few xmas where i have been at home and just treating it like a long weekend.
 
Christmas is great... forget the religious nonsense (whether pagan or Christian) - but the true spirit of Christmas is going for beers with old friends, having a big meal with extended family and giving presents/getting cool stuff in return.

Frankly SouthPark is right - it must suck to be a Jew at Christmas... Other similar festivals are pretty weak in comparison... involving starvation nonsense, fussy dietary requirements... Christmas on the other hand is pretty much secular these days, can be enjoyed by all and a heck of a lot more fun than any of that Eid or Hanukkah nonsense...(can't have pigs in blankets with your feast then it is second rate at best). Maybe Diwali will catch up - the lights/fireworks are cool + their multi limbed elephant god is a bit more exotic than Santa. Chinese New Year, St Paddy's day are also alright... But really Christmas is the top dog still.
 
That is another thing i hate, the day before christmas eve, everyone is their usual self all rude and fed up. Then christmas eve comes and everyone is full of this so called spirit of xmas. Then when i am not overly excited or annoyingly happy, i am told i don't have any spirit. Then they call me names like bar hambug or grinch, boring. Yesterday you were your normal usual miserable self now you all happy and nice? such a superficial thing to do.
New years is also quite dumb as its usually the worst night of the year to go out. In warmer climates new years i think is awesome but in colder climates its not as good.
 
Looking forward to xmas this year in my new house, get the old decorations out some nice flashing lights on the window, work xmas eve into xmas day and get £700 notes for doing so:)
 
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