What is the more important holiday for you?

[MissHoneychurch]

I was just wondering with Thanksgiving around the corner and Christmas not too far away. What is more important for you?

[Chan790]

1. New Years

I dislike my family and I'm a militant vegetarian...and I like the drinking holidays.

[MissHoneychurch]

2. Sorry

I didn't add that option :)

Drinking on holidays is sometimes just necessary :evilgrin:

[Chan790]

6. I almost went with Halloween.

Apparently, everybody else did go with Halloween.

[Cant trust em]

23. St. Patrick's Day is a really fun day for me.

I like speaking in a fake accent.

[Chan790]

32. That's another favorite.

[AsahinaKimi]

3. I love Halloween

But New Years is a great holiday too..

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

4. I chose Christmas

because I quit doing Thanksgiving over here because I can't get the ingredients I need to make a proper Thanksgiving dinner. The first year I was here I had my family send me what I needed but it was very expensive...not to mention the turkey, which we stupidly bought fresh from the Metzgerei which cost almost 50 euro!

Plus, Christmas in Germany is delightful! Glühwein, snow, Christmas markets, candied almonds, hot chestnuts...

[HopeHoops]

5. Halloween

For one day, you can let your alter ego out in public and nobody thinks it is weird.

[Deep13]

7. Feb. 8, 1992, the day I met Sweetie.

Our anniversary is our most important holiday. I live in a Sweetie-centric universe. :loveya:

[Bertha Venation]

8. To me, Christmas is just a day off.

Edited to say: I enjoy the decorations and the aroma of trees and all such things. But "the reason for the season" is meaningless to me.

[unpossibles]

9. Halloween then maybe New year or my birthday

As a vegetarian and someone whose family is far away, I don't get too worked up about Thanksgiving one way or the other, and if anything kind of enjoy just having the day off usually painting and playing music, or occasionally visiting someone else's family gathering.

As a non-Christian without children, Christmas is ok, but not that special either other than the days off. That said, I have a December birthday, so I like to pretend that all those lights and songs are for ME! lol.

Halloween is actually fun though, so it's my favorite. Someone accused me of enjoying a "juvenile" and "infantile" holiday, but then I pointed out that their favorite holiday (Thanksgiving) involves being fed by your mommy until you fall asleep, while mine involves booze and adults in various stages of costume/dress/undress and usually goes all night. :D

[SteppingRazor]

10. I'm an agnostic who married a nice Jewish girl, so Christmas doesn't have a whole lot of meaning.

So, I guess I have to go with Thanksgiving. But, like others in this thread, I'd put New Year's, Halloween and my b-day above both of those holidays.

[old mark]

30. I'm also an agnostic married to a nice Jewish girl, and I love all holidays

but I guess I love Thanksgiving best - I love the trad turkey dinner, and the pure gluttony of it all without too much "religious" interference.

mark

[begin_within]

11. Independence Day and Halloween are the most fun, but

I'll take Christmas over Thanksgiving, because to me Thanksgiving is mainly just an opportunity to pig out on unnecessary food and fight with relatives you don't like. Christmas is way overcommercialized and I could do without all the gifts and crap, we should just donate to the poor. But I do enjoy all the music, decorations, lights and parties. The world seems like a different place, at least for a day or two.

[phasma ex machina]

13. Both holidays provide ample opportunity to help poor people.

Few things more satisfying than feeding the hungry or giving gifts to the less fortunate.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

12. valentines day

[bikebloke]

14. Summer Solstice

With the Winter Solstice coming in second, because the light will start returning.

[ipfilter]

15. Any holiday observed by the US Government.

Because I get those days off.

[cwydro]

16. Voted Thanksgiving,

but it aint gonna happen for me this year.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

19. nyc?

[cwydro]

20. Hey woman.

I just saw this response. If I had seen it yesterday, I might just have done it...

Thanks!

[LiberalEsto]

17. Yule/Winter Solstice

followed by Summer Solstice and Halloween.

[jakefrep]

18. Thanksgiving

It's a good opportunity to just sit down and have a nice meal with family and friends. I feel somewhat fortunate that I get along reasonably well with my family. Thanksgiving, to me, is not as hypercommercialized as Christmas has become.

[GoCubsGo]

21. Festivus

The holiday for the rest of us.

[Cant trust em]

22. I celebrate Festivus with my buddies every year.

Replete with pole, feats of strength and airing of grievances.

[defendandprotect]

24. Where's Winter Solstice???????

That's what the whole shebang is about -- !!!

:party:

[pitohui]

25. christmas/yule/blah blah blah by a long shot

i've done thanksgiving on "alternate" days before but i have never missed xmas w. my hubby

[kentauros]

26. The paid holiday!

[DuckBurp]

27. Halloween

Because anything goes. And it just happens to be my birthday.

[av8rdave]

31. Ditto...love Halloween

[astral]

28. the day after Thanksgiving

When absolutely nobody expects me to absolutely anything.

[cowcommander]

29. Christmas

It's an important family holiday

[SeattleGirl]

33. MissHoney!

Nice to see you!

For me, it's Christmas.

[Odin2005]

34. Christmas!

I just love Christmas. The pagan roots (The Return of The Sun, Christmas trees, mistletoe), the decorations, the festive atmosphere, gift-giving, the wonderful music, the pretty lights during the darkest time of the year...

[shanti]

35. none, really

unless it results in a day off work!