Home for Christmas?

CharlieRabbit01

Will you be going "home" for christmas? by home in this sense I mean to parents/family.

I'm always getting asked if I'm going "home" for Christmas, I'm 27 and my mum and 2 brothers live over 3 hours away, I wont be going home for christmas the same as every other year when I get asked this question.

I get lots of reactions with most being why not? thats sad, Christmas is for family etc etc but I have my reasons for not going.

This year we are going to OH's mums, as last year we had it on our own which people thought was sad and depressing. I didnt I loved it, chilling in my PJ's all day eating chocolates and christmas goodies.

What are you doing?

paulineb_2

Going to my mums. She lives 2 miles away. I only have her and my brother in my family. I go to hers on Xmas eve and come back down Boxing Day.
We don't make a huge fuss, swap presents, eat a takeaway or two and my brother drops in on Xmas eve to give us presents and he gets his as well.
I live in a rough area and people party all the time at this time of year. I'd get no peace at my own house.

Savemesomemoneyplease

Yes, we will be going back to our respective families for 2 weeks. We are 3 hours away normally.

Oakie

We will be celebrating Xmas on the 27th. One of my lot is working [NHS] over the 3 festive days. So when everyone else is clearing away the wrapping paper and empty wine bottles,we will be just starting!
Merry Christmas everyone.

hawk30

We had Christmas at our home for the past two years, and are doing the same this year, albeit now there is three of us

It's great. You can slob around, create your own Christmas traditions and not have to worry about being social. I really don't miss all the travelling and living out of a suitcase.

Faith177

I'm going to my Mums on the 21st going home on the 5th she lives in Inverness.

I always try and spend Christmas at my mums as I love being with my family for Christmas.

OH has to work Christmas and works 120 miles from home so no point going to his.

We have a very chilled out Christmas jus the way I like it.

I had to work Christmas and New Year last year so was on my own I have never been more depressed.

SingleSue

I've never missed Christmas at my parent's. We go down Christmas morning and come back after Doctor Who, before the boys were born, we would stay the night so I could have a drink.

That said, they only live 4 miles away.

Even when I had to work on Christmas day (which just so happened to be eldest son's first ever Christmas), we still trooped down there until I had to leave for work at lunchtime.

On Boxing day, we used to go to mother and father in law's house for dinner and then down to my parent's, then after father in law died, she came to my parent's on Christmas day and then ours for Boxing day lunch...now she has a life of her own and although she will still come to my parent's for present opening, she goes to see her many friends for lunch and on Boxing day, the invites she has are amazing but then she is a special woman.

Phoenix7

Yes, I love going 'home' for Christmas. I live 50 miles from my parents, and now I have a family, we alternate which parents we go to on Christmas day (the inlaws live about five miles away). So when we go to my parents we go for a few days. This year it is our turn to go to my parents, so we are driving down on Christmas Eve then coming back up on Friday, and we will go to the inlaws for the day on Saturday.

My brother and his wife have done the 'having christmas day on our own' type thing a few times in recent years, especially the first Christmas after my nephew was born (1st December baby, so understandable that they didn't really want to travel with a newborn) but I'd much rather spend the day with family/friends. Otherwise it's just like any normal Sunday at home, surely?

Person_one

I am going to my mum and dads from the 24th to 27th, but I don't think of it as 'home'. They've moved house a few times since I've been an adult, I don't have 'my old room' or anything like that.

I get on well with my folks, I know they'd be upset if I chose to sit at home alone on Christmas day rather than drive the hour to spend it with them. They have sky tv too.

harrys_nan

I go "home" but to my son's home, we live 200 miles from my family so have christmas at sons house with daughter and her family coming as well. We go up christmas eve day and come back to our home on the 28th or 29th. I love christmas with my family but I think next year we may stay at our home for a change

worried_jim

I am off to Leicester from my home in Brighton in a few minutes, haven't been "home" for 18 months- will be back on Friday though.
Every year I tell my friends down here that I am going "home" for Christmas and I tell my parents that I am going to my friends and that way I get to spend all day at home on Christmas day doing exactly as I please with out been forced to sit through Eastenders, Michael f*ckin Mcintyre and arguments over Beef v Turkey. I shall be lunching on beer and Cadburys Heroes and not having to share any of them or justify how I have demolised a carton in under two hours. Bliss.