Comments on: I Hate Christmas (2007 edition)

By: Tongona

Tongona — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 19:31:11 +0000

I hate Christmas because it gives more fuel to everyone to make me feel like the worst mother in the world. I don’t put up decorations, thus I’m “taking away childhood happiness.” I don’t give my son or husband gifts on this one day so I’m not “showing how much they mean” to me.
I have also been told just this past week that my son is growing up without “good Christian values and morals” and he will hate me later on for making him different than everyone else. And what a horrible mother I am for never having talked to him about Santa much less getting his picture taken with him.
I’m forced to go to my family’s place to give, give, give to everyone and their kids because “they’re just kids and this is such a special time of the year, and their feelings will be hurt if you don’t come (meaning bearing gifts).” So every single person there has to get 3 presents from us (mine, husband and son.) It get’s expensive and causes a lot of resentment on my part because without meaing to I start doing the math by the 2nd crappy gift given to my son. He’s only just turned 4 so all he see’s is everyone else’s piles and piles of clothes, toys, shoes, toys, money, toys and his meager sippy cup, puzzle and socks. “This year has been really hard on us, you understand.”
How is it my fault my husband and I both work, and have only 1 child (meaning we have “lots of disposable money” or so everyone thinks), and we don’t go ask for presents at churches?
So I then feel guilty about being so petty and doubting my own beliefs, but after wiping my son’s tears each year and having to explain why he shouln’t care about material things and how I love him so much that that’s why I don’t want him to be like everyone else makes my heart hurt. So then my husband has to dry my tears and he gets angry at both our families for doing this to us year after year after year.
I have also “ruined” it this year because I always get the food but my arrangements fell through yesterday. “So I guess since there’s not going to be any real food, we’re going to go eat first, and you all can come around 3p so the kids can open their presents then and we can snack on the pizza and stuff you bought instead.) Well thank you so much for the gracious invitation. And again it comes down to my son crying when I said we weren’t going to go over there today, so here we go again.

By: Berengaria Navarra

Berengaria Navarra — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 04:24:46 +0000

I hate Christmas, because it brings back many bad memories. However, as an adult I hate all the fake well-wishers who go around loving everyone and wishing peace during this season. If they really want love and peace, why don’t they do something to spread it all year round? If you think Christmas is bad in the U.S. you should come to Mexico where celebrations start on December 16 and last until the 25th. You must be careful if you have to go out at night, because there are plenty people who drive after drinking at parties for 9 days. Worst of all is the tradition of holding a family gathering on Christmas Eve to gulp down huge servings of “bacalao” (Spanish style cod fish), a gook made of mole and cactus, and all kinds of sweets that can put you in a diabetic coma even if you are not diabetic. All of these eaten and drunk around 11:00 p.m. But the worst part are the Christmas ornaments and music that crop up everywhere…offices, stores, subways, buses, etc. I find this down right disrespectful towards people of non-Christian faiths.
I wonder what Jesus would say if he decided to take a little trip to Mexico on his alleged “birthday”. Would he throw all those people out as he threw out the merchants from Temple?

By: sparky32

sparky32 — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 01:10:14 +0000

By: sparky32

sparky32 — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 00:58:57 +0000

i hate christmas too i feel like victor Meldrew saying that but i cant help how i feel. Its seems all about money,money,money these days. Where have the days gone when you could just be content with a couple of pressies, a nice christmas food and abit of tv on christmas day. Why has it turned into people getting sloshed and buying way too much!
How does it make people feel when they havent got a ot of money to spend and have to watch the pennies for instance me and a friend are having a quiet christmas, couldnt afford to spend massive amounts of money or spend all day getting brassed this i think is the best christmas! We bought each other a couple of pressies which shows we care and love one another and some christmas food i think this is all you need to enjoy christmas.
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Another thing is that i dont see my family at christmas as they dont seem to bother coming to see me this may sound selfish but all i get is a card they know where i live and my number but nothing, the same with my brothers:( but i know that my family will spend christmas day together opening all there pressies and me sitting once again waiting for them to call or invite me. How sad is that?
So christmas sometimes is painful for me, what makes it worse is my family are christians ha ha ha!
what a joke!

Christmas advents of happy familys is S*** its not like this for me or lots of other people.

so i cant wait till everything is back to normal.

By: Debmar

Debmar — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 19:52:12 +0000

I hate what Christmas has become. I hate the crass commercialism and the constant lying about and perpetuating the myth of “Santa Claus.” I learned long ago that there is no such person and only priviledged kids get their Christmas wishes granted.

By: why

why — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:49:31 +0000

Oh, thank you! An outlet for my feelings at last!
Wealthmas, sorry, ‘Christmas,’ is nothing more than a festival of ebullient smugness, revelled in by those who have lots of money, many of a family and are oblivious to the feeling of awkwardness they cause to those of us who are simply not interested.

They would have us believe we are socially inadequate meanies for not wanting to go to their alcoholic drinking sessions, join in almost daily group bonding sessions (‘Christmas get togethers’) at work, fawning over each others’ inane contributions of fairy cakes, ‘wit’ and talk about buying, buying, buying.

They tell us (for about three months prior to Christmas) what they ‘always do at Christmas,’ what they ‘are going to do at Christmas,’ and (after the event, for about three months,) what they did and, of course, got at Christmas. What they got. They even discuss what the worst presents they’ve ever received are. Then, they ask me what I got, and look at me as though I’m such poor thing, who must have received so little because I’m so poor, sad and lonely, when I tell them. (That is, rather than because I didn’t actually want anything, because I am content with my life, what I have and who I have. I’m not some wide-eyed 5 year old hoping for a train set.)

How many times must I be asked:

• “What are you doing for Christmas?”
Why do you want to know what I am ‘doing for Christmas?’ Is there some sort of competition; a grading system or something, applied to the way I spend the holiday?

• “Have you done all your Christmas shopping yet?”
All what Christmas shopping? I have better things to do than traipse around shops buying things for people who don’t even want them, and would probably include them in gleefully recounted tails of the ‘worst present’ they ever received anyway.

• “What did you do at Christmas?”
It’s over. Get over it.

Insincerity is rife. It disgusts me.

My work colleague is the most insufferable Christmas bore I have ever had the misfortune to work beside. She daily recounts how many people she is having to dinner, how many presents she ‘has to’ wrap, what she is getting for her over indulged family, and cannot complete a sentence, let alone hold a conversation, without mention the Ch word. She revels in goading me with her exhausting enthusiasm for this two month long celebration of her wealth. Myself, I come from a small family. We’ve always lived quietly, not making too much of a fuss about ‘high days and holidays’ as we didn’t overrate these things in the first place. We have each other, day to day. This is our family life. We are happy. If my colleague was to be believed, my life, my experience of living, is totally inferior to hers. She’d have me believe I should be doing this, that… going here, going there… getting a _______ (whatever the ‘must have’ is this year,) buying presents for a crowd of people, having a load of people to dinner, spending loads of money on alcohol, food, presents…. If this was in the last week or two before the day, it wouldn’t be so bad, but it’s every day from the beginning of November. I think she is overcompensating for something lacking in her life. There’s nothing lacking in mine. Of that I’m sure. I am content and happy with my life and small family (three of us, in total.) I think it’s the total lack of tact, sensitivity towards others, the total disbelieve that anyone could have any enjoyment out of doing something other than in the way she does things, that just makes me sick, really. It’s so enervating, day to day, having to thole this tiresome, puerile behaviour from a person I have to spend so much time with, and an adult at that; a grown woman. I put up with it. I’ve come to consider this under the “forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them their trespasses against us” heading. Oh, yes. I do try to live as a Christian. I’m not someone who hates Christ. But then, what Christmas has become is not anything to do with Christ or his teachings. What people like my colleague have turned this time of year into is Wealthmas. That’s what it is now. Christ doesn’t get a look in!

Actually, come to think of it, I think adults have forgotten how to behave as adults. I don’t mean they should be cheerless, fun free, miseries. I just mean adults. Know what I mean, anyone?

By: hcurrie7

hcurrie7 — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:29:39 +0000

I hate Christmas also, but for another reason. I hate Christmas because so called Christians say it is Jesus’s Birthday. When in actuality no one knows his birthday. It is believed to be in the Spring. A pagan holiday on the 25th was changed to be a Christian holiday by Constantine. It is peppered with pagan symbols. Like the Tree, yule logs and santa. Hey if you where Jesus how would you feel if someone was celebrating your “birthday” on your most hated rivals holiday?

I hate stupid fake, self-righteous, hypocrits who go around saying “I am not going to shop at Wal-Mart anymore because they did not say Merry Christmas to me. He is the reason for the season.” No he is not you stupid fake c**t. The devil is the reason for that day. Read your bible and get off everyone else’s ass. If these losers spent more time practicing what it really means to be a Christian and not trying to look all pious and self-righteous then maybe the world would be a better place. Spouting “Merry Christmas” to everyone sure is not getting the job done.

By: purelegend1

purelegend1 — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 12:53:06 +0000

i’m 13 and personally i cannot stand xmas. i may be 13 but im not a dumbass like must 13 year olds. so please dont just rule out my opinion because of my age like a lot of people do. I hate xmas. I hate the fact that while xmas is on and all my friends and familys are busy getting more unnessacary material objects. everyone ignores the fact that: civillians in iraq are dying, forests are being cut down, people are being murdered, people are starving to death in 3rd world countrys while we are getting more shit we dont need. excuse my language but i feel very strongly about this. i have no religious ties to xmas so i dont feel a need to celebrate it. every year it turns out crap. i’ve told my parents my beliefs and why i dont want to celebrate xmas anymore. this upsests them, so i am expressing myself here. thankyou for reading

By: p bentley

p bentley — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 21:06:58 +0000

Christmas is most annoying, with all the crass commercilism, and all those smug people who churn out digust because you happen to want to live in the real world and the rest of the time they act like total assholes.

By: Scrooge41

Scrooge41 — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 13:16:06 +0000

I so agree.It’s so commercial everyone forgets the true meaning behind the holiday.People act so phony during this
holiday kissing each others butts. I hate gathering around the table for a feast with people I really don’t like.