'Would you cancel Christmas?' poll

koexelek

torbrex wrote: »

I already did over 30 years ago and the only problem I have had is getting other people to accept the fact.

This is the problem. You can't really opt out unless your friends and family are also prepared to do so


I enjoyed Christmas when I was a small child myself, and when my own kids were small , but the rest of the time I have found it a to be a very expensive, depressing, tedious bore.

nettienoo70

kevanf1 wrote: »

I get very depressed at Xmas time. I don't really know why but I think it is because of the hassle and the commercialism shoved down one's throat. I'm not religious and certainly not Christian but if I 'celebrated' (I do participate for the sake of my family) anything I'd be more inclined to go for Yule/Winter Solstice and just enjoy some feasting.

i just carnt be @rsed with all the faff

duchy

It's a bit of a stupid question really.
Most people don't care what OTHER people are doing on 25th December anyway. I could celebrate it in January or August if I wanted to-it wouldn't have any impact on anyone else except the people I chose to celebrate with.

brizey47

I voted to cancel Christmas, when I was a lot younger it was very much a family occasion but now it's turned into a retail nightmare with everyone spending lots of money they can't afford on presents that nobody wants which are relegated to the back of a cupboard within a few days never to be seen again. When my Mum died three years ago in the bottom of her wardrobe were presents we and other friends and the family had bought for her over years and years, unwrapped but never opened.

YES LET'S ALL BAN CHRISTMAS BAH HUMBUG!!!

ilydavies

Voted to Bring it on! I love Christmas -- has to be the best time of the year!!!

esuhl

ilydavies wrote: »

Voted to Bring it on! I love Christmas -- has to be the best time of the year!!!

Whaaaaaaat....?! :eek: Better than the time of year when you can sit outside in short-sleeves with your mates at nearly 10pm watching the sun setting knowing that, by the time you awake the following day, it will be warm, bright and sunny? Surely not!

If I could migrate hemispheres every six-months I would, even if it meant never celebrating Christmas again!

richardsonjones

I think the response to this poll is really sad. Maybe my hormones are still all over the place but, having had our first child this year, I can honestly say I've never looked forward to Christmas more, despite the fact that money has never been so tight and most of the usual 'trappings' (expensive gift giving, a big family feast, tons of decorations etc) have gone right out the window. There will be none of the usual excess of Christmas for us - lunch will be nothing more spectacular than we'd have on any other Sunday and almost all of the gifts are home made and cost only a couple of pounds each, but I am really looking forward to spending the day with the family celebrating our baby's first Christmas. We're really lucky in that - money or no money - we have a great family who we get on really well with. I appreciate not everyone has that and that Christmas CAN be a stressful time, but it doesn't HAVE to be.

SkintMish

Are you joking???

You dont 'cancel' the birth of Christ.

Even putting that to one side and considering only in terms of the commercial holiday, Christmas ie. the big elaborate festive crap, the exchanging of gifts, the break from work, the chance to go home and re-convene as a family unit, watch christmas tv, watch kids excitedly open gifts, have a christmas dinner, etc.

Its the only warm thing in the coldest season and marks the end of the year. Without it they'd be a gaping void and endless time with dark days (literally) and nothing for children to look forward to in Winter.

You'd all miss it and I dont even want to think of a year without it.

roxanne.s

i would cancel christmas... for those who want to celebrate and who have happy families then of course they can, but i hate the way that christmas is forced down your throat even if you don't want to celebrate.

i have a mental illness (probably due to my 'family') and all christmas does is remind me of how i am nearly 30, single, living alone in my council flat (because i am unable to work) with my cat. i have friends, (a few in similar positions) and we all try to come together at christmas to make the day bearable. i say the 'day'... its not just the day, its months of christmas celebrations, adverts, movies, in the shops, etc.

i'm not the only one in this position, i just wish society was more considerate of people who don't have family, don't have money, don't have homes, don't have their health. the idea of 'christmas' just seems to forget that, and you can't have the 'perfect' christmas unless you tick all those boxes. i wish this wasn't the way that it was portrayed so that people who are less fortunate aren't made to feel so bad about what they haven't got.

i'm not asking for sympathy btw, for those who are lucky enough to have family around them, maybe just take a moment to think of those who don't.