I Hate Christmas!
Human Clauses November 21st, 2006I hate Christmas, this miserable, overrated holiday and I hate the way it makes people behave. I hate the shallow, fake little advertisements I see every damn place I go that tell me how by going into endless debt to buy shit for my family and friends I’ll somehow be a better person. I hate the lines in the stores, I hate how the decorations go up mid-October under the guise of “Holiday Spirit.” And I hate the people that buy into that sort of thing. I got news for you–Giant Department Store isn’t throwing up the fake evergreen cause they just can’t wait to go caroling and make cocoa with Aunt Sue. They want your MONEY, you fools!
While we’re on the subject, I really hate people who love Christmas and go all out. I hate how they look at me funny when I say I don’t like the holiday and I don’t celebrate it. I hate how they reminisce about their childhoods like they were made just perfect by whatever shitty toy ended up under the tree when they were six. I hate how watching a bunch of greedy, snot-nosed brats go into a psychotic rage over the sheer magnitude of Stuff that their parents throw at them is supposed to make me feel “joyous” and “warm” and “nostalgic,” even though Billy is tackling the cat and gnawing through my goddamn calf to get to his new Nintendo Wii.
I hate how everyone asks for my money at Christmas and tries to guilt me into it.
I hate how everone remembers poor people and homeless people for two weeks and then promptly forgets about them again.
I hate how the news articles in every goddamn paper are always the same: Nov/Dec: “Buy this shit! Eat this shit! You’re a bad person if you don’t!”
Jan/Feb: “Excise your fat ass and get it out of the debt you’ve shovelled it into!”
Nov/Dec: “But buy this other shit! You need it too!”
I hate how the Christian right won’t shut up about Christmas; how they’ve made the holiday into their own poltical agenda that they shove in my face every chance they get.
I hate HSN and QVC and I hate that out of my measly 14-channel cable selection, I somehow get BOTH of them.
Santa can suck you know what. I HATE CHRISTMAS!
Maia
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November 22nd, 2006 at 2:21 am
yeah … christmas is a pretty damn ****ed up holiday
i agree totaly with you
and wish i could just not celebrate it
December 4th, 2006 at 11:15 pm
Bah humbug
By the end of October I’m usually already counting down the days to Christmas. One hundred, ninety-nine, ninety-eight… This year, I’m not. I’m in no mood for Christmas. The advent calendar (despite its daily chocolatey trea…
December 9th, 2006 at 9:48 pm
I couldn’t agree more with you more. I thought I was the only
one on the planet who hates Christmas. I’m sick, sick, sick, of all the superficial cutsie little raindeer, snowmen, Santa Clauses, jingle bells, etc. Oh, excuse me just a moment while I wretch. I mean, driving by some houses looks like the light
monster walked by and threw up all over the place. A very few are done well and are attractive but the vast majority are gaudy and asthetically unbalanced.
I also hate all Christmas songs. I would much rather plug in Metallica or AC/DC then listen to any sugarcoated, dime store, elevator-sounding Christmas song.
I vehemently resent all the expectations and demands placed on me at Christmas. I’m not poor but I’m not rich either, and I have bills to pay. There is an endless list of things I am expected to spend my money on - gifts for everyone, tips for all my service providers, food, Christmas Cards, interior and exterior decorations, lights, etc, etc, etc. It is financially irresponsible to buy gifts for everybody at the same time.
Christmas has become the antithesis of itself. It is supposed to be an attitude from the heart of sharing, reflection, and spending time with the ones you love. For those who believe in Christianity it is supposed to be a quiet remembrance of the Biblical Christmas story.
Instead, everybody rushes around going through the motions out of a sence of duty. They want to appear as though they have the Christmas spirit but instead are just mindlessly complying with all the demands and obligations that bombard us from every direction. They use up an unbelievable amount of time and money on Christmas stuff.
Most of the traditions make no sence to me either. Why the hell would I want a tree in my living room? There is no freeking
Santy Clause, OK? Why should I send a card to someone I don’t communicate with the rest of the year just because I am related to them? To me it is just overwhelming crass commercialization and a waste of my time and money.
Wait, I’m not done yet. I’m 48, single, and my family is literally on three different continents. All my friends are married and have their own families. They are overwhelmingly
busy this time of year and have no time for me. So, Christmas for me is always a boring and lonely time. I HATE CHRISTMAS and can’t wait until it’s over. Humbug!
Kevin Kime
Waukegan, Illinois
December 12th, 2006 at 8:17 pm
Thank You, I was starting to think I was some kind of freak for thinking this way!! How does haveing a stupid tree that likes to kill my vacuum, being guilted into going into dept have any darn reason for what the celebration of this time of year is about. And yes the Christmas lights some people put up does make you want to puke.
December 20th, 2006 at 9:34 pm
Well said! Power to Christmas haters!!!!! One day we’ll rule the world!
January 2nd, 2007 at 12:37 pm
I hate Christmas because the prices increase and come Boxing Day the prices come down, so this year 2007 I am buying no one a Chrissy present until Boxing Day and my nine year old daughter agree’s with me. I feel for Kevin as I know what it feels like. I am divorced and my ex and I have turns spending it with our daughter and when she is not here it is so dead. I married late at 36 and then had my daughter but the marriage was a mistake and so we split and had many lonely years of christmas by myself. So I still hate Christmas and New Year but when my daughter is with me I make the best of it for her.
February 16th, 2007 at 3:28 pm
Christmas… I seriously do’nt think anybody can truly lay out it’s true meaning anymore…..just a time of year of greed and selfishness….
November 5th, 2007 at 3:46 pm
I love my family, but I hate Christmas. First of all this is the most Pagan Holiday we celebrate. Helllooo, what does Christ being born in the Summer have to do with a gift giving, prize gouging, child frenzy that creates selfish brats, have to do with Christianity! My grandchildren have no idea what it means to give, because its the getting that is focused all the time. I love giving to them during the year, but at Xmas…BAHHHH HUMBUG. Take them to a homeless shelter and let them give one gift! Teach them that this is a fake holiday that puts people in debt for the year or more. Let the rich people act like asses on the 25th!
November 25th, 2007 at 2:39 am
I hate Christmas. I hate all the fake “cheer” the hype, the buy buy buy mentality. I hate the workplace at Christmas. I hate the f%*#n! Christmas parties, the drawing names for people you wouldn’t buy a gift for in the first place. Save the money you spend on parties and stupid gifts and give us a bonus instead- or a raise!! I hate the fact that people ’sign up’ on a list that they’re a needy family, I hate that these needy families turn in their Christmas lists for toys & games more expensive than I’d buy my OWN kids!! I hate that people look down their noses at me for not participating in this idiocy!!!! It’s not that I’m not a Christian — I AM– but the celebration of Christmas is so far removed from the original meaning it makes me want to scream!! Every single errand I do from now until January will be a huge PIA b/c of the HYPE MENTALITY!! And what is up w/the crap idea– “spend money to help the economy”???? What if you’re barely making ends meet NOW?? How is MY going into debt going to help the economy?? ‘Tis the season to spend for no reason, the season to push ahead of the little old lady in line w/one item, the season to grab the last x-box, the season to acquire more debt that won’t be paid off in a year! I hate the over-eating over-spending overly solicitious mood of Christmas. Giving expensive gifts at Christmas makes about as much sense as giving chocolate candy at Easter. Christ was born on Christmas– Chirst rose on Easter (or that’s what we celebrate) so how did it get so twisted & perverted???? Christmas is nothing but another excuse for conspicuous consumption!!! I’m tired of the selfish brats (already!) in the stores rudely grabbing things and asking for toys & games! I agree w/the above poster– let them get a gift they want & then take them a homeless shelter to give it to a kid their own age!! I am never happier than when it’s just a plain old month again w/out the hype that starts earlier and earlier every year.
December 5th, 2007 at 7:25 pm
I hate Christmas! I’m tired of spending money. I’m tired of picking names to spend more money for Christmas. I love Christ, I love my family, I love spending time with my family, I love having time off work. Does anyone get the point. What Christmas has become in the US has totally disgust me. Damn Santa and his damn elves and reindeers. Damn them all. They started this gift giving shit!
December 12th, 2007 at 3:59 am
You know, I didn’t used to hate Christmas. In fact, I used to look forward to it. But it’s just gotten to be less and less enjoyable each year and continues to do so… so why am I ostracized when I have reached the tedious yet inevitable conclusion that Christmas is not a good thing for me? Most people I know feel the same way but continue to delude themselves, clenching to a mislead hope that it will be all better next year… clearly the product of years of conditioning. Let us apply a little logic and sound judgment, by method of good reasoning… Christmas is simply impractical.
I think this blog answers some of the reasons why.
P.S Hey kids, Santa was the invention of Coca-Cola’s 1930s advertising campaign… HIS NOT REAL!!!
enjoy your day ;)
Vadim
December 12th, 2007 at 8:14 am
I am in a really bad mood today and all the Xmas stuff going on around me makes it worse. I went on the internet to find some anti-holiday sanity and came across this site. I signed up and look forward to talking about other things I hate! But getting back to the topic, Xmas is more trouble than it is worth. For various reasons I will be participating (notice I did not say celebrating) the Xmas holiday to an extent, but I wish I had the guts some of you do on here who do not celebrate it at all. Like several of you, I hate the commercialization and materialism most of all. Sure when I was a spoiled greedy kid I loved getting lots of presents. Now I look back on it and think how stupid it was for them to spend so much money. Nowadays toys cost several times what they did back then, but most every middle and upper-class parent I know of still go overboard, and plenty of those who cannot afford it go deep in debt. I hear several people every year say they spend hundreds, sometimes thousands on Xmas presents for their friends and family. Sick! Also, I am an atheist so the spiritual aspect does not appeal to me either as it did when I was a kid and still a believer. Actually I don’t hate everything about Xmas–I enjoy that rare sincere image or expression of what Xmas is “supposed to be about”. But that maybe happens once or twice during the holidays.
December 14th, 2007 at 3:00 am
UUUUggghhh I’m choking in Christmas at the moment.I have a mother who lives interstate and she starts going ballistic in November. By the time Dec rolls around, I get about 10 whiny”but it’s christmas…” phone calls a day. I hate the fact that I send her a huge package everyyear because I feel obliged. I know for a fact she only stores things I send her away in her wardrobe. This year I sent a stupid hairbrush with a face on it. Why? Why? Also some anaesthetic creme. That I shouldn’t have sent- it’s wasted- I should have eaten it. I only do it because I feel guilty as she’s all alone.
Then my 7 year old. This year I really feel like telling him santa is a lie. Why should he go sit on some fat stinking drunks lap anyway? And toys? He doesn’t even play with the ones he has.
I want to drag him away from all the crap commercialism- sudan, ethiopa… show him what life, sharing and giving are about - instead we’ve been invited (because we’re alone this year) to share it with some big extended family.
Can’t do it, can’t do it - How can I cancel the christmas crap once and for all - not live a lie and still show my son the true meaning of things?
December 14th, 2007 at 11:13 pm
Good things about christmas: I get time off work, I usually see my entended family. Bad things about christmas: everything else. Leaving aside for the moment the capitalist hype and the nonsensical “christmas spirit” (that let’s be fair none of us has felt since we were about 12 or less)… what am I supposed to get for my 90 year old grandma? What? She’s got cash, she has everything she wants. I am happy to be able to say the same for the rest of my family, if they want something they’ll usually go out and buy it. So what is all this in aid of? Buying someone something useless and getting something useless in return? Great, well what a waste of my time and money. If I wanted to waste my time I’d be at work and wasting my money? Forget it. The shops are packed, things are out of stock… if it’s one thing I hate it’s people following a religion and utterly missing the point and that’s what so many do at christmas. At least before I found this wonderful blog I knew I wasn’t the only one. My friend has to endure christmas with his disfunctional family every year. Inevitably he gets annoyed and then they all get annoyed and upset that christmas has been ruined? Who cares? Why even bother I say.
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December 18th, 2007 at 4:11 pm
I used to love Christmas. My mother loved Christmas more than anyone I have ever known. But she’s dead now. I guess fir a long time I tried to keep her love of the holiday alive by trying to keep up the traditions for my own kids, but they don’t seem to care. They are like animals running around the house screaming and fighting. Every year Christmas seems like more and more work and less and less enjoyment. And people (not just kids) are so greedy. My secretary got her Christmas “gift” from our firm the other day–750 bucks they gave her (and remember, this is not a bonus, this is a gift, so they did not have to give her anything at all). She was pissed–said she thought she “deserved” at least $1,000!! This after taking four weeks of paid vacation, plus a week of sick days, plus three funeral days this year, plus leaving early and coming in late whenever she feels like it. Whatever, greedy beeyotch. Now she is mad at me because I tired to point out the unreasonableness of her position.
Here’s another example of greediness–the garbage people left us a Christmas card hanging out of our garbage can this week–they signed their names so we would know who they are—I guess they want a tip! I didn’t know their names all year, I don’t need to know them now!! Same with the newspaper carrier (who I tip every quarter when the bill comes anyway). Everybody has their freakin’ hand out!
I feel better posting this and reading some of the other posts, at least I know I am not alone.