I don’t mean to sound like scrooge, but…. I just don’t do Christmas. All the hype seems so out of place for a one day celebration. We should give and love every day of the year. So pardon me if I don’t get all gushy. I like decorations around all year so don’t add much to the mess for Christmas. When I buy a gift it has to be given right away not held for a ‘special’ occasion. So lately when I hear “Only X more shopping days til Christmas.” I think, YEA! Only X+2 until it’s over.
Having said this…
Well put! I totally agree! Wonder what they guy whose birthday is being celebrated would really think about all this hype and excess??
Don’t think he’d go shopping.
Merry Christmas to you Gaelyn! Our Christmas will be spent watching grandkids tear paper off presents and squealing with delight and on to the next present! Always fun!
Now that sounds like fun.
Merry Christmas!
I like the Christmas season but don’t especially care for Christmas Day itself. I have trouble with the abrupt transition from full blow Merry Christmas to okay lets put everything up.
I totally get why some people just are not into it.
I get more joy watching others enjoy the holiday season. Glad you understand.
I’m with you. I don’t exchange gifts with anyone for Christmas. I will enjoy the ham dinner with fellow volunteers however. 🙂
Sharing a meal with friends is the best gift ever. And I will be doing that too.
Merry Christmas!
I loved Christmas in the old days with apples and nuts on the tree and outside for the animals too, sweet cookies ( we never got them any other time of year) and mainly home-made presents that had taken a lot of thought and effort and candles to light up the dark Christmas night. Papa playing the violin and big brother a trumpet, younger brother the piano and all of us singing well loved carols. The younger ones saying a Christmas poem under the tree and handing out treats like apples and nuts to the red-nosed carollers who trudged through deep snow.
Papa read the Christmas story from the bible and everyone had just one or two presents, something useful like hand knitted socks or a vest and a small doll or a book.
No food was ever wasted since there was barely enough to go around but always there was an ample supply of love to eke out any material shortcomings.
I don’t send Christmas cards anymore but show my appreciation of my friends i other ways. No overeating or partying, just a lovely quiet time to reflect on the bounty of having life and the means to support it and as always praying for peace in the world and good will to all mankind.
Have a Happy Christmas and share it with the birds, they are always hungry.
I truly love the image of your Christmas past. I grew up with the ‘give me’ and continued that tradition with my own. But no more. In the last years I refuse to ‘buy’ into it. Instead a quiet time with a few friends over a shared meal. I will feed the birds Arija. Happy Christmas to you.
100% with you. And when I get a gift like a candle, I burn it very soon after. None of this ‘keep it for later’ business. I love your decorations….
So nice to hear I’m not the only one.
Kelly & I are the same. Christmas is just another day for us. No fuss, no muss, no bother. We do put up a few colored lights & that is about the extent of it. I think I spent Christmas last year painting my bedroom. Always glad when all the hoopla is over. If your travels bring you down the mountain into our area, stop by:))
Thank you for the invite. I’ll have lunch with a few friends that day. But do hope to stop by before I leave the country.
Agree 100%…..I put out 3 things that I have had for years and that is just right for us!….I went out to lunch with my mom and sisters and nieces on Sat and we had the best time….it really felt like Christmas! We don’t do any buying anymore….Have you read the book Saved by Ben Hewitt? The last two chapter totally described me now…I am done accumulating anything…except memories!
It’s really about the love of friends and family. Since the fire I’m not collecting any more except like you say the memories.
Christmas is just another day for me, much like a Saturday or Sunday. No decorations put up so no need to take them down. Rarely join any Christmas dinner pot lucks or family dinners (a few cousins are now family, mostly scattered around the world). I have also ‘celebrated’ Christmas in enough foreign countries that treated it as just another day that what we do here in the US seems un-natural in many ways.
I totally agree with the ‘un-natural’ part of a US Christmas.
I am so tired of the commercialization of Christmas, too. It has been a few years since I even put up decorations and a tree. Call me Scrooge, as well.
Welcome to the club.
I hear ya. I used to become more excited about it but it was when I had kids and really……they are what’s fun about it all. After they are gone, it’s a bit blahhhhh. I haven’t had a Christmas tree since the last kid left and that was about 1995. Or maybe before. The nice thing about Christmas is everybody gets to celebrate it the way they want to.
Yea, it seemed more fun with the kids.
We could not agree more. We are in the UK for the sake of my FIL. When there is just the two of us, Christmas day will be like any other day of the year other than it may be an excuse to say cheers a few more times than usual 🙂 All the best for 2014. Diane
It’s really about family. Happy New Year!
Merry Christmas Scrooge! Celebrate any way you like and as often as you like! I’m tired of all the commercialism but I do love Christmas!
Merry Christmas to you and Gus.
Don’t worry. She calls me and Gus that as well because we are with you on this celebration silliness. I’m going to take this to the darkside for just a moment……
When my Grandfather died and was gone for that first Christmas back in the 80’s, it never was the same again. I realized at an early age that it wasn’t about the crap that collects dust that we get…..but it’s about sharing that time with the people we love……and that is the only thing I like about this “Christmas”. I don’t believe in that stuff anyway…it’s witch craft! “Christmas” to me is like a glorified family reunion….that’s what’s most precious! And as I’m getting older…..it’s even better minus the kids:) So yeah….maybe I am a grinch, but I like it that way:)
New Years is way more exciting!:)
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Christmas is what we make of it, what works for each one of us, what doesn’t. For me, it’s about coming together and taking the time to remember how much we have and even though we try to remember and “live it” every day, sometimes it takes 1 special day to bring it to light again. I love the colored lights, the carols, the gatherings – people have really busy lives and for some, it takes a holiday to stop and live in the moment. I do agree though that the commercial side of holidays is ridiculous, but again, that’s only if you let be, right?! Cheers ~
I agree with you to a certain extent. I believe in good to all everyday. Joy and Peace!!!
But we didn’t have much for Christmas when I was a child just love and happiness. I tried to instill that in my children and hope I did. I asked one of my daughters when she was grown up why didn’t they ever ask for lots of stuff and she answered by saying because they knew they wouldn’t get it so why bother. We laughed. ‘Twas true. So I am for warmth and light to brighten the winter days and keep the love going.
Merry Christmas to you. Smile–dammit!!
MB
I am smiling. 😀
Merry Christmas!!!!!