Who else is ignoring Christmas this year?

[Gothic Sponge]

Christmas will just reenforce all the sorrow i have felt over the past year. I got rid of all the Christmas decorations that were packed away in my basement. Perhaps when things are looking up again i will celebrate....

[autorank]

1. Me...bah humbug. The * stole Christmas!

[Left Is Write]

19. Not to me.

I refuse to let that man have that kind of power over me and the personal celebrations that mean something to me.

[autorank]

22. Welcome to DU. I always ignore Xmas but rock on!

[Droopy]

2. I'm still celebrating

Christmas doesn't have the same special meaning for me that it did in years past, but I'm not going to let anyone get in the way of me celebrating the holiday. I think if you do that you are letting them win in that you are letting them have more control over your life.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

3. It means more to me than ever

I'm adorning my tree with peace ornaments my daughter and I are going to make, in the (vain?) hope that 2005 will be a better year for the Iraqis and our US servicemembers.

It is also serving as a way to forget about all this, shut the world out, celebrate our nice, quiet, small Christmas and forget about the evil that is the bush administration for a few days.

Anyway, I say to each his own! :hug: For you Gothic.

[ClassWarrior]

4. We can't ignore it completely - for faith reasons and others...

...but we're deliberately removing ourselves from the retail sales statistics this year.

NGU.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

6. Same here

no retail sales for us. But we try to avoid that anyway. Even more so this year.

[BoX o BooX]

5. I ignore it every year.

Shalom, baby!

[Ekirh]

7. I'm still...

Celebrating Christmas, but probably low key, for I don't see myself getting into the Chirstmas spirit at all, in fact, I haven't really been the "spirit" in a long, it's hard to get in the spirit when since November first the mall and local stores and such have already started force feeding the Christmas cheer....

[Dez]

10. I'm scaling back

this year. Giving my sister a used book.. will buy few gifts, just my nephew will get a new one though..

[UNIXcock]

8. I will never ignore Christ's birthday

... we may not be as materialistic about it as we have in the past, but our Lord's birthday is sacred in our household

[BoX o BooX]

14. Christ was born in the Spring.

Shepherds were tending their flocks. Do the math.

Happy Saturnalia!

[UNIXcock]

15. Perhaps so, however Christians celebrate His birthday on December 25

... EOM

[mr_hat]

20. Yeah right. Then what about the Christmas trees?

And why do think the INN was FULL?

[Cerridwen]

9. The holiday season is more important to me this year than

many of the past.

I'm planning to limit my participation in the commercial part of the season, but I'm going to celebrate it more intensely than I have in the past.

I have more to be thankful for, more to appreciate now than ever. This election just showed me how much the people and animals and things in my life mean to me.

I plan on sharing that knowledge with my neighbors, my family, my pets, my friends, maybe even some strangers on the street; I'm gong to honor the holidays this year.

[StClone]

11. Tis the season By jolly Coincidence

I have told my wife and kids I am not putting up any outside X-mas lights, decorations, or inside tree and will minimize gift giving. I pulled out of my brother and sisters name draw too. I will celebrate but it not be externalized. This year, at least, we will not celebrate and it is a test whether it should become a four-year tradition.

[distantearlywarning]

12. Dunno about Christmas yet

but Thanksgiving is right out. I'll be cleaning house instead. What is there to celebrate?

Happy Thanksgiving, America! Your election was rigged! We're invading Iran! And possibly North Korea! Have we mentioned peak oil? Patriot Act II? Osama bin Laden with a suitcase nuke? And if you act now, we'll throw in the erosion of the separation between church and state, devaluation of the dollar, + a special bonus: all your gay friends and neighbors go to concentration camps!

Yeah. Not a lot to give thanks for this year.

[CO Liberal]

13. We Are!!!

It's just gonna be another day at our house....

[Reverend_Smitty]

16. This will actually be the first Christmas...

that I will have spent with my mom in about 9 years. For whatever reason I was just never able to visit her, so despite what it going on in the world, I am going to spend the holiday with my favorite person! Forget the materialistic part, this is a holiday about peace and love and mom's home cooking. I'm really looking forward to this year!

[babylonsister]

17. I'm wrapping gifts.

Guess that's not ignoring but the grandkids and family that we've exchanged with for years won't be left out (and every gift I send has to be shipped-grrrr). In my house, very low key.

[Book Lover]

18. Never do celebrate Xmas - only Yule

Santa Claus still gets to visit, and I don't have to deal with the religion I left! Plus, we celebrate all 12 days of Yule, so if I don't feel particularly jolly one day, there's always tomorrow.

[yorkiemommie1]

21. i cancelled the holidays

after my freeper brother told me to 'get over it, the left wing Moore radicals lost...etc'. hell, too bad he was 4F for VietNam maybe his perspective would be better. and my husband said the same thing. that Michael Moore had influenced me.

uhhh.... since i didn't vote for bush in '00 why would i have changed my mind this time?

anyway, i have no intention of cooking for a couple of freepers. for my defiantly democratic daughter i'll do anything, though!

so, nominal gifts for the freepers, and a LOT of stuff for the daughter and the dogs. but no decorations.

i would love to feel better about things but with each and every new development ( the GOP covering for Delay, the new attacks on womens' right to choose, the war, the war the war ) i cannot put on a happy face. i am too sad.

[ClassWarrior]

23. Good for you refusing to serve the freeps.

Perhaps you can use the day for introspection, healing, and choosing a path to channel your frustration into action.

NGU.

[yorkiemommie1]

25. i just can't shake this mood

DU has been my salvation. It, and the people at my work (ESL Adult school), so mostly very enlightened folks who are just as distressed and scared.

when i think of all the evil coming our way ...

ah, well,

i do hope that everyone finds a way that makes them and their families happy during this season. i know one thing that will make me happy. i'm going to take the little christmas monetary gift the teachers give me and donate it to the USO.

[TOhioLiberal]

24. Not Celebrating...

Having just lost my mom, no one's in the mood this year. :(

[GoddessOfGuinness]

26. I was thinking of distributing holiday flyers in mall parking lots...

The lyrics to "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" accompanied by photos of Fallujah.