What's your biggest complaint about the holidays?

24Hours · Post by **24Hours** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 7:22 am

The clean up? The cost? The work? The over-eating? Which one rules the suck list for you?

K.Snyder · Post by **K.Snyder** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 7:30 am

Not being able to give everyone what I would like to give them for Christmas.

sunny104 · Post by **sunny104** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 7:30 am

How expensive nuts are!

sunny104 · Post by **sunny104** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 7:31 am

K.Snyder;486033 wrote: Not being able to give everyone what I would like to give them for Christmas.

that's ok honey...:-4

:D

WonderWendy3 · Post by **WonderWendy3** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 7:47 am

K.Snyder;486033 wrote: Not being able to give everyone what I would like to give them for Christmas.

ditto for me, I love to give gifts. This year I am buying NOTHING. I can't do it at all, so therefore that is my biggest complaint for the holiday this year.

:-1

K.Snyder · Post by **K.Snyder** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 7:48 am

sunny104;486035 wrote: that's ok honey...:-4

:wah:

Oh, but I was saving all that I had to get you what you wanted for Christmas...

Psst...we won't tell anyone else.

:yh_eyebro

sunny104 · Post by **sunny104** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 7:52 am

K.Snyder;486043 wrote: :wah:

Oh, but I was saving all that I had to get you what you wanted for Christmas...

Psst...we won't tell anyone else.

:yh_eyebro

...as long as we have each other....:-4

K.Snyder · Post by **K.Snyder** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 7:56 am

sunny104;486047 wrote: ...as long as we have each other....:-4

If I don't have alot of money, I would make you something that meant something straight from my heart.

Maybe like a small boat, that we could drift along the shores of the ocean and have dinner for a couple of hours. :yh_wink

sunny104 · Post by **sunny104** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 8:00 am

K.Snyder;486050 wrote: If I don't have alot of money, I would make you something that meant something straight from my heart.

Maybe like a small boat, that we could drift along the shores of the ocean and have dinner for a couple of hours. :yh_wink

*sigh* :-4

I think we scared Frank away....:-3

K.Snyder · Post by **K.Snyder** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 8:04 am

sunny104;486056 wrote: *sigh* :-4

I think we scared Frank away....:-3

Just like my luck,..

all the good ones are taken.

RedGlitter · Post by **RedGlitter** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 8:19 am

The fake niceness.

That and bell ringers.

And things like Christmas Baskets for the needy. I guess as long as they get a Cmas basket, they don't need to eat the other 364 days of the year.

Gift animals. Those poor pups and kittens who go to the pound because they were not wanted after all.

ELF · Post by **ELF** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 8:27 am

Reindeer poop............................

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 9:02 am

I love the holidays, I don't see anything to complain about at all..........:-4

Mystery · Post by **Mystery** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 9:15 am

I love the holidays as well, and the only complaint I can think of is my inability to STOP spending

Puts me in a bind every year :rolleyes:

But that quote of yours Clancy is very true.

Mystery · Post by **Mystery** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 9:21 am

Clancy;486117 wrote: My own simple remedy ? If you don't like the idea of Christmas, don't celebrate it, but show a bit of respect to it, as I would other religious celebrations.

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that right there says a mouthful!

Imladris · Post by **Imladris** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 9:42 am

The only thing that is really annoying me at the moment is the fake carol singers coming round. I love carol singing I would welcome the real thing with open arms but this is two or three teenagers that ring the bell and then sing a couple of lines of We wish you a Merry Christmas usually getting it wrong, then petering out expecting you to hand over money for that. Grrrrr!:-5

YZGI · Post by **YZGI** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 10:08 am

All the drinking I am expected to do. I mean I am only one man. I can only drink so much. Okay I'll have just one more. Pass the wine please.:-2

K.Snyder · Post by **K.Snyder** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 11:38 am

Clancy;486107 wrote: I don't know if it's so much fake niceness. I think it might be for those that "are" Christian, a time to celebrate the birth of Christ. Maybe down through the decades others who are non believers, or those who no longer are practising Christians take the opportunity to act in a more Christian manner.

I like how on most holidays that can be categorized as predominately religious can also be celebrated by people who don't center their entire lifestyles around religion.

I know this is in contrast to the thread, but considering the conversation, I feel inclined to voice my opinion.

I like how an overwhelming religious celebration can be celebrated by all who just simply enjoy their likeness what it is they are celebrating.

You don't have to be christian to enjoy Christmas, all you have to be is a relatively thoughtful person that just likes the joyess atmosphere of what it is the holiday brings out in people.

For religious people Christmas is a time to celebrate Jesus' birthday,..but for people not so religious, it's just a good time.

Sheryl · Post by **Sheryl** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 11:39 am

I honestly hate having to get all the toys out of their packaging. I spend 20 minutes wrestling the crap out of the box, then another hour undoing all the little twist ties they have connecting the toy to cardboard. And don't even get me started on the the whole army men toys. Come on, how many freaking guns, grenades and all that crap does a 2 inch plastic soldier need

RedGlitter · Post by **RedGlitter** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 12:33 pm

K.Snyder;486271 wrote: I like how on most holidays that can be categorized as predominately religious can also be celebrated by people who don't center their entire lifestyles around religion.

I know this is in contrast to the thread, but considering the conversation, I feel inclined to voice my opinion.

I like how an overwhelming religious celebration can be celebrated by all who just simply enjoy their likeness what it is they are celebrating.

You don't have to be christian to enjoy Christmas, all you have to be is a relatively thoughtful person that just likes the joyess atmosphere of what it is the holiday brings out in people.

For religious people Christmas is a time to celebrate Jesus' birthday,..but for people not so religious, it's just a good time.

I like how you said this, K.

K.Snyder · Post by **K.Snyder** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 12:39 pm

RedGlitter;486369 wrote: I like how you said this, K.

Is there a "What do you like about Christmas" thread?

I bet that it would surpass this thread in replies within the first thirty minutes, what do you bet?

RedGlitter · Post by **RedGlitter** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 12:41 pm

I think you're right.

Why not start one now?

Red · Post by **Red** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 1:10 pm

the ***** they put on the box every year

Red · Post by **Red** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 1:19 pm

Clancy;486401 wrote: You mean you don't like the Morcombe & Wise Christmas re-runs, the Queens speech, and the cloying old films ??? :-2

Neither do I.

well obviously queenies speech is THE highlight of my day! :rolleyes:

K.Snyder · Post by **K.Snyder** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 1:24 pm

The only thing I can see wrong with a religious holiday being practiced by non religious people is if they try and impose their belief that the celebration itself should cease to be what it was to begin with.

What you have is what you get, and to change Christmas from anything other than what it is to people who passionately celebrate it personally is the real unfavorable thing to do in my opinion, and that much I can agree on.

K.Snyder · Post by **K.Snyder** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 1:33 pm

Clancy;486389 wrote:

But sometimes I think religious ceremonies get used. For instance. Hatches Matches and Despatches (births marriages & deaths) Each one of these services people will invariably call on the services of a preacher , padre , minister , priest ...call it what you will ....

I see it as tradition more than anything.

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 1:47 pm

Christmas for me is still a religious festival, with family.

I'm sorry it's been turned into a stressful buying fest

I'm sorry people feel they have to go into debt to fulfil some kind of social expectations

I'm sorry that all this makes people tired and cranky and unkind to each other

I'm sorry when parents pass on to their kids this feeling that love means giving big expensive toys nobody really wants or needs just because, as the admen said, 'every other kid will have them'

I'm sorry when people use Christmas as an excuse to eat too much, get drunk, be obnoxious at office parties and all that

I'm sorry that Commerce has hijacked the meaning out of the original Holy Day.

You don't have to be like this!!!!!!!

I think we're lucky to have holidays, and from there, it's what you make it.

K.Snyder · Post by **K.Snyder** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 2:18 pm

Clancy;486424 wrote: Fair enough, but halloween is traditional too, but no one would want someone dressed as Scooby Doo to perform their marriage service

I see your point, but I would add that there is nothing affiliated with Halloween in comparison to that of marriage being an event of love, compassion, and bearing child much in the same that Christmas represents an overwhelming idea of love, kindness, and that of celebrating by giving that very same child the most expensive, and numerous gifts of all Holidays as a means of showing such love.

Obviously Santa, has some things he likes to give out too. Which goes to show you how popular Christmas really is and should be.

guppy · Post by **guppy** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 2:39 pm

all the dog gone good food and candy and cookies and deserts and snacks,....

(i'll suffer through though......:wah: )