Who Else is Ready For IGNORING Christmas????

[CO Liberal]

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[fertilizeonarbusto]

1. MEMEMEMEMEME

:evilgrin:

[Carolab]

2. I have ignored Christmas for years

it's just turned into a commercialized event anyway.

My family just gets together to eat, drink and be merry. NO PRESENTS. Why feed the machine?

[Vincardog]

5. Starve the machine

[XNASA]

3. Ignoring what?

I'd love to. I hate Christmas.

[arcane1]

4. count me in...

starting now...

[Crankie Avalon]

6. Doesn't really bother me one way or the other...

...I don't have a family to celebrate it with, but I'm happy for the day off (plan to stay in and read all day since everything will be closed).

[dbonds]

7. Not buying a thing.

There are no kids left in my immediate family, and the rest are all of the conclusion that xmas is not worth the trouble. It is the major holiday of the new religion of consumerism (Buy something to feel good.

[Pegleg Thd]

10. My wife and I have decided

to buy each others medications for xmas gifts. She is a diabetic and I have hardening of the arteries following 3 heart attacks.:nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke:

[BrklynLiberal]

8. This is the perfect year to ignore the entire holiday season...

I was amazed on Friday at all those who were running out and shopping like there were not thousands dead and dying in the Middle East and Africa.
Gosh...Americans can be such a cold-hearted bunch. All that too-stupid-to-be-president asked the Americans to do after 9/11 was to go out and start shopping again. Wow. What a great way to prove how patriotic and campassionate we are. :(

[McKenzie]

9. ah, I'm not the only bah humbug type after all

If Christmas was a time for reflection, helping people out and just quietly winding down I'd participate whole-heartedly. As we all know it's nothing more than an excuse for gluttony and greed. I'm proud to say that I spend as little on Christmas as is possible without being too much of a Scrooge.

Bet some kids in Africa would fight to the death for the uneaten food that that gets trashed...sigh.

[Technowitch]

11. Me and my wife. We're both Wiccans.

We celebrate Yule -- Winter Solstice for the rest of you folks. ;)

Also happens to be our anniversary.

[LisaLynne]

17. Same here! (Not Wiccan, but Pagan, but still!! It's all good)

And I try to do the whole traditional giving people small things they actually NEED instead of buying anything big. My family has always insisted on doing Christmas, but they got The Speech this year. If they feel they must get me something, donate the money to the charities I love.

[Modem Butterfly]

22. Good luck to you

I'm an atheist and have been telling various family and friends to do the donation thing for years, but some folks don't listen. So I make donations for them! :evilgrin:

Well, I have some young nephews and a neice, so they get something. Also, my partner and I usually get a present for the two of us in the after xmas sales...

Damn. I'm not into xmas, but I'm really into presents. What to do, what to do?

[Squeech]

12. Me too

And this year Mrs. Squeech agrees with me!

(She's going back to school, and there's no room in the budget for anything else.)

What we'll probably do is buy each other something disgustingly utilitarian on Dec. 26th.

[salinen]

13. I'm a freakin Jew

Not my guy.

[ET Awful]

14. Why did I just get flashes of Kyle Broflofski on South Park :)

n/t

[the Princess]

15. Me for sure

I'm trying to figure out a way to sleep till December 26.

[CO Liberal]

18. I Could Go to Walgreen's & Get a Case Of Nyquil....

:-)

[The Straight Story]

16. Why?

This Christmas my mother will be in rehab if she ever gets out of ICU. I am taking my vacation at home to be with her. My wife and daughter already have plane tickets to CA to be with her family on the 15th-jan 5 and while she thought she should stay home with me I told her to go anyway. If mom makes it out of ICU she will be in physical pain and depressed over all the things done with her so far. Nothing they can do for her so no point is sitting here glumly when she can spend her first christmas with her family in 8 years.

So while some may want to ignore christmas this year I just wish I had my good old normal christmas I have grown to love. Us kids are all sad already, mom missed thanksgiving but did pull through her initial operation. I will wake up alone at home without the sound of my toddler laughing, knowing I won't be going next door to see mom and exchange gifts and have a big dinner.

It's not the end of the world, and I will make the best of it in my own way. I will know that even if my christmas morning will not be the best, my daughter will still have a good day of laughter, gifts, dinner, and family. And with all we have been through, that is a gift to me.

So I won't be ignoring christmas this year. I will remember ones past filled with joy and family and fun. It will make the next one that much more enjoyable. I have vacation from the 18th-Jan 1 to be at the hospital and at rehab center, filled with worry about mom. I might watch some old home movies of when I was a kid at christmas, and remember the smiles of those I loved on a day when I knew others were doing the same thing.

It could be worse, life can always be worse. So I will take the good I have this year and celebrate it, but I sure as hell won't ignore a day that has been a happy one in my family since I was born. Food, Presents, fun, laughing, shopping in insane traffic, seeing lights, and so on.

[madison2000]

19. I ignore it except for the religious aspects

I got sick of spending $1000 annual on relatives who I only see 1-2 times per year and who put zero thought into gifts. I come home with a carload of crap, my mothers criticism ringing in my ears, and bills I just don't need. My family has never tried to make it meaningful, and efforts to make it anything but a thingfest are resisted. I just don't need it.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

20. Christmas is my favorite Holiday. God humbling himself to take human form

and stuff - oh and presents

[gennifer6]

21. my whole family's Repunklican, they can buy their own goddamn gifts....

[terrya]

23. Unless you put yourself in suspended animation, you can't ignore it.

Christmas is the least subtle of holidays.

[CO Liberal]

24. Late Afternoon Kick

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[Jack_Dawson]

25. Blasphemy!

You ignorers will burn in hell. Just kidding. But seriously, what's up with you Grinches?

Just do your shopping online and give a toy to a tot and quitcher whinin'

:beer:

[jonnyblitz]

26. I have been ignoring xmas for quite a few years now

much to the dismay of family/friends. they think I am bitter about something. whatever.

[peacefreak]

27. I' m trying,

but it's hard to be on the other side of the counter, working retail.
It feels pretty soft so far. Doesn't seem that people are in the spending mood. Gee, wonder why? National depression, maybe?