The "I'm Doing Christmas Because THey're Making Me" Bah Humbug Grinchy Thread

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So, it's put the dadburn Christmas tree up day in my house.

I've prepared adequately this year. I have all of my beloved anti-Christmas music on, including most of Bob and Tom's contributions over the years and every South Park Christmas song ever written ("The Most Offensive Christmas Song Ever" is my favorite) interspersed with the two actual Christmas songs I like ("So This is Christmas" and Bing and Bowie's "Little Drummer Boy" medley). Instead of Christmas cookies, I have pizza rolls; instead of eggnog, I've got beer--Pete's Wicked Red for those who are interested. All of our family Christmas traditions are staring at me from totes I dug out of the attic...and I'm sitting here gnawing on a pizza roll and swigging a beer wondering to myself if fishing line will be strong enough to keep the tree upright during feline incursions this year.

Bah humbug and yes, my heart is two sizes too small.

*sigh*

Oh well. Nothing for it, I guess. *Adam Sandler's Hanukah Song 1 just started--that cheered me up*

OJ Siimpson...not a jew.

Love that line.

Oh well--let the feeding frenzy begin. I wonder, should I hang a stocking for the soon to be son-in-law this year or can I just pretend he doesn't exist until 2009?

Already had it with the 'holiday spirit?' This is the thread for you. Shout out.

Merry f***ing Christmas--courtesy of Mr. Garrison from South Park. Ho, ho, ho...
 

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Sorry I can't share the sentiment, but I don't want you to be lonely in the thread.

I'm actually in the best Christmas spirit I've had in years. Yesterday I went to my folk's house and helped her put some decorations up, as is our annual custom (being 6'4" with stretch-arms means I can reach certain places that pops can't reach without a ladder). I usually sort of loathe the process because mom is picky and overthinks it all a little much, but I really enjoyed it this time.

I even volunteered myself and my brothers to help with outside decorations and putting the tree up this Saturday. Muwahahahahohoho!
 

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Merry Christmas, Celina!

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Fa-la-la-la-laaaa, la-la-la-laaaaaaaaaaaaa!

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Here, we've got Minnie Mouse caroling. How can anyone not love that?
 

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My favorite song is the Twelve Pains of Christmas. It brings back so many childhood memories of listening to Dad speak to the Christmas tree while he put it together.
 

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Does this help Celina?

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Yep. I have that one. Our Christmas party every year is billed as an "Anti Christmas Party"--we play all of the warped carols we can find, put out a huge spread of food and booze, and, if there's snow, build anatomically correct snowmen in the front yard and hang lights on them. It's great fun.

*We also give presents and good cheer, but I gloss over that part*
 

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Celina - I'll be your supporter. I am almost throwing up sick over the push in our society to spend, spend, spend on needless extravagances and gifts at Christmas. It's gotten to be more about quantity than quality - and by quality I mean spending time with family and friends. Times are tough and people still manage to go in debt to keep up with traditions. We should take a look at what the holiday means to us, and give only as much as we can.

I love Christmas, don't get me wrong. I just been in a personal battle with the extravagance, commercialism, and competitiveness it inspires in so many people.

*takes deep breath*

Thanks for letting me rant.
 

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My main gripe is the YOU HAVE TO BE HAPPY AND CHEERFUL, YA FOTHERMUCKERS! I'll be in a crappy mood and not enjoy myself if I want to, doggammit.
 

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My hubby's a grinch this year, and I'm kind of neutral. We're in the middle of a lot of...stuff...and so it makes it hard to enjoy the holidays. He travels a lot, so I'm not decorating. What's the point? We don't even celebrate at our place. So yeah, I have no enthusiasm, nor am I a grinch. It's just another day.
 

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I'm with you Celina. One year, our little fiber optic tree stayed in the box. We brought everything up from storage, but never bothered to take the tree out of the box that year.

I just don't get excited about spending money and giving gifts. And it's harder now that Hubby and I have been together for a while. We don't really have much interest in stuff, plus there are mounting expenses that make spending money very unappealing.

I'm looking forward to some time off together. But the whole forced holiday cheer thing doesn't work with me. I don't do cheer. I also don't do much in the way of relatives. Don't buy into that part of Christmas either-- if I don't like you the rest of the year, I'm not going to pretend I do at Christmas time.

I had thought that I might have more Christmas cheer after I left retail, but I'm just not a cheery type. I'd rather a quiet gathering with a few friends and/ or family who know me well-enough not to interrogate me on why I'm not partaking in most holiday foodstuffs (or better, I'm at a gathering where I know I can eat all the foods!). No pressure on gifts or getting along. Small group.

The best Christmas present for me would be a quiet day at home. Snow outside so it looks pretty, but not so cold as the chill invades the house. A new book or three. Reliable internet. Hubby. No where to go, nothing to do (except winky winky). But this sort of quiet pleasantness is not part of the holiday spirit.

I hate commercialism. I can't stand most of my family. The decorations seem pointless (no kids, so what difference does it make). And the Christmas music is insidiously cheerful. Not to mention the fact that mankind is still dreadful towards one another-- a fact that eleven years in retail shows is even more prominent during the Holidays. Last but not least, the militant assertions of some sort of PC/ unPC anti/pro religious stuffs.

I think I'll hibernate. Do porcupines hibernate?

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(And this year, looks like I'll be moving. Yea.)
 

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I'm generally a grinch (sorry to disappoint SF) but that's more because I'm A) perpetually broke, B) perpetually overworked, C) not a Christian so I get REAL tired of the whole thing really early (like before Turkey Day) and D) massively turned-off by general expectations.

My daughter will put up a tree at some time because she likes to do that kind of stuff. There's no point it decorating the house because there's no way you're getting our fat butts onto a ladder and anything set in the yard is just going to become a doggy urinal. Having to have the "cheery holiday face" on at work is enough to make anyone puke.

I'm happy to get into the new year without straggling someone.
 

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He's just toooooo cuuuuute!
 

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Well, I hear you and all the talk about hating Christmas, which is easy to understand, especially this year because there seems to be a bigger push to spend, spend, spend and many people just aren't in the FA LA LA mood. Cheers, good will toward men, blah, blah. There's too much pressure to BE HAPPY.

What did Linus say? "Christmas is run by a big corporate conglomerate" or something like that.

All that said, I am looking forward to getting the tree this weekend and decorating it and spreading pine roping over my fireplace mantel and watching my husband put up what I call the "Stupid Tree" in the TV room with all of his sports ornaments (Derek Jeter, for one). This year we're adding Joe Namath - yay.

BUT: I like decorating for Christmas and making everything homey and traditional. I hate to sound all Tiny Tim but I think it really is about spirit and a frame of mind.
 

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I just don't have time for Christmas this year. I haven't even bought a Christmas card! I've been so busy. The only present I'm even half way ready to buy is my daughter's PC - which has been promised since August, so I'd better deliver. It's sitting in my 'basket' over at Dell. I have my WIP to work on; this place (which is worse than being addicted to any substance you can name); plus changes in the work place that means I now have to take on a spinal surgeon as well as my cardiologist - and my son is making his local theatrical debut, which requires getting him to shower twice a day! (Have you tried that with an 18 year old?) Christmas is being very inconsiderate in happening at this time of the year.

But I do love putting up the tree, and that will happen next weekend. Once those decs go on, I'll be ready. I always leave it until the last minute, but I'm no Scrooge really - I do still love Christmas. But it's also quite a sad time for us, as my father died very suddenly on Christmas Eve in 1974. For a few years after that we were all a bit jaded with Christmas. Glad to say, I got my enthusiasm back when I had my kids.