For those that can’t stand this time of the year, my misery seeks company. What does it for you?
For me: aside from the usual family stuff:
I worked front-end in a post office back when that meant a line-up before I opened the doors to the end of the day when I had to inform the line-up that was still out the door that, yes, I was going to close on time. (Some didn’t take that well. For me it was just another Tuesday…)
It meant a lot of work with little thanks and I had to listen to the same shitty Xmas playlist over and over all day.
Edit/PS: The quick downvote sells it. Perfection. chefs kiss
All fake ,and biggest scam still around in 2025
I don’t trust merriment. I’ll take the food, drink, and occasional gift, but I can’t pretend to be jolly and ignore how the world is going.
Cat died on christmas.
But also christmas music and consumerism and religion and insincerity and various intersections thereof. And my phone automatically capitalizes christmas no matter how many times I tell it to not do that.
I can like christmas, but I experience an adverse reaction to “Christmas”. Call me a kringlephobe idc
The unrelenting mandatory consumerism just sucks all the joy out of today. I’ve been stressed all month about this and can’t even enjoy it until it’s over.
the stupid outfits and people telling me i need to like it
Christmas meant ‘family coming together’.
If you don’t agree with your family, then what’s left?
I mean it’s a good reminder that I’m not really part of my biological family anymore
I’m sorry your bio family aren’t better people. I hope you’ve found better quality humans to call your family.
Yikes!
My reaction while reading some of the comments under this post
The quick downvote sells it.
I feel like this could’ve been better as an open-ended question. I don’t hate Christmas but I don’t like some aspects of it, although not all of them are specific to Christmas.
If there was no religious connotations and the gift giving shit was done away with I wouldn’t mind.
I do like how entire communities get together and do the same things like light up the streets with Christmas lights and all follow a nice theme.
But I prefer Halloween due to the lack of religion and the only expectations are to give out candy to children.
I think I’ve come around to preferring Halloween in a way. It’s not a big thing in Australia (though I feel it’s growing) and a lot of people whinge about it being American. I don’t really participate in Halloween but the core thing here is just people having fun. And I can get behind that.
I haven’t considered Christmas to be religious in 30 years or so. To me, it’s just a time to take off work and exchange presents. Since my parents died, I don’t even have to go visit anyone. My son and I take little trip in lieu of a Christmas dinner. He likes Christmas traditions (secular) but he gets that through his other grandparents.
from 9-19 every holiday started off with my father and mother being passive-aggressive with each other. this usually continued until dad grew frustrated and began to yell or scream at me. why he targeted me I don’t know. there were two other kids. probably because they were older and would throw his shit back at him.
one year in particular he screamed at me to go burn the trash (as one did in the rural days). it was fall and was very windy. I told him it would catch the yard on fire. “just do it!” fine…
I took it out and lit it. came back inside and went back to my room because I didn’t want to get yelled at. keep in mind I was around 11 years old at the time. about 30 minutes later he’s screaming for me. I come out and about an acre of our land is on fire. it was mostly tall (dry) grass. “what’s wrong with you?! are you fucking stupid?!!” we spent the rest of the afternoon fighting the spread of the fire while he berated me. then had a disappointing dinner followed by gifts and “love” with messages like, “smile more!” and “is this not good enough for you?”
that was the day I lost all respect for my father. that was the day I stopped trusting adults.
I don’t share this to gain sympathy. I fucking hate sympathy, frankly. I share this as a cautionary tale for adults today. don’t mistreat your kids. when you’re on your deathbed, these are the things that will haunt you, and you’ll be alone to suffer without closure as your vision simply fades out to nothing.
Merry fucking Christmas.
I don’t. I mean I don’t believe, but I got no hate. Funny enough, a family member said something something about “too early for Valentine’s Day” and I couldn’t help but laugh.
Any holiday which compartmentalizes a normal human behavior, I do not participate.
If you need a day set aside to ceremonially ‘show’ your partner that you love them, or you need a day to show your family that you want to spend time, none of it is real.
Organized religion is a plague.
It’s just a celebration of winter solstice. My family is as atheist as the day is long, but we still enjoy the trappings of Christmas.
I think that was the origins of it and can be celebrated that way.
However, I feel it has most certainly been hijacked by religion and capitalism since then in certain parts of the world.
I enjoy it due to having time off, so I’ll take that :P
That it’s so incredibly hyped up. You start hearing music and seeing ads and decorations for it too early. Black Friday is a complete shitshow.
Holiday travel sucks, and the possibility of shitty weather is rather high. I avoid traveling for holidays, but I’ve had to travel around Christmas for work and it is a mess.
The expectation of gift giving. I’m big into anti-consumption and don’t want to buy or receive a bunch of junk. While this expectation is more of an annoyance to me, it has actual negative impact on people who are struggling financially.
It’s become so commercialized. I’m not religious at all, but it’s become a farce.
Christmas can be a fun little holiday if you don’t take it too seriously. Buy some token gifts for people you like, bake a shitton of baked goods and eat it yourself, watch silly movies on TV, decorate a tree or don’t, like whatever man.
