Yep...I'm "that guy"   Freakin HATE it, it's a commercialized BS holiday that hs brained washed the masses to buying shit and if you don't your a POS.....
 I Hate this damn holiday and if Jesus is real, would hate what it has become too.  FTW!! I'm going to enjoy my buzz from tonight through Sun. Killing folks on COD!!!!  

Nobody. No one has ever brought this up before on arfcom, congratulations on being the first.

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I hate people. Not Christmas.

I've never really hated it per se, until this year. I DO believe in Jesus, and I celebrate his birth and sacrifice all year round. I DO however hate the commercialization, the hustle and bustle, the drama of it all, and mostly all the crap that has been happening surrounding my life and my loved ones around this holiday season. It really, really sucks is an understatement.

Oops...sry, I should bow down to the high post count elite....forgive me for being an apprentice and not seeing the last few yrs post on hating it....Mr. buzz kill      

Love Jesus, hate Christmas.

It is just an excuse to make me spend $1000+ for crap that people really don't need.


Steve

QFT

It's the commercialization.



I absolutely Hate it.



Every year Christmas reminds me of just how far our culture and society has gone off the rails, and by virtue of how absolutely horrified I am every year, that disgust and chaos reminds me of just what really IS important.



Whether Christmas is to you about the birth of Jesus, or not, I think it helps to focus on what's good.  Let the distasteful garbage around you...the bastardization of the holiday serve as a strong reminder to you about what's really important, and allow it to bring you peace in whatever way that is.



Breathe.



I have to remind myself sometimes.



Christmas is a wonderful holiday if you let it be.

Christmas brings out the worst in people, when it should bring out the best.  That said, I hated Christmas when I was living with my family.  Now, I just want to be home for the holidays, but I'm unable.  If you hate Christmas, it really helps to distance yourself from it.  I don't have a TV so I don't see 87 commercials per hour telling me to "buy, buy, buy."  Christmas is a lot more tolerable when you kind of distance yourself from it.

I Agree with you on this. I LIKE the fact of getting together with family/friends, but at the same time, why can't ANY day be for that. Why do we need a holiday to make us get with loved ones once a yr, then the rest of the time, bicker or not contact the.
 I try to live my life with peace, love and compassion everyday, I don't need this holiday to remind me of what it TRULY means and IS. .....'eh...I need to leave this alone...too buzzed and might say some COC shit....lol

If only I could distance myself from THIS family and be around people I actually want to be around for the holidays.



 

BAH Humbug!

Not me, I LOVE Christmas, and everything about it!

Can't wait to be in January

Fuck it, who says you have to?  You know what I have planned for Christmas?  It's gonna be about 65* here, so I'm gonna ride my bike in the morning, and I'm gonna go to a party/gift exchange with a fellow Arfcommer.  I spent Thanksgiving with my boss and his family.  Thanksgiving was pretty nice, and Christmas will most likely be too.  Don't make yourself suffer through something you don't want to.  Life is too short for that shit.  

 

I too hate it with a passion.-

Just the part about being broke!

I do love me some July 4th!

pearls before swine.  edit.  

That's a pretty good way of putting it.

I love Christmas.  I love getting people gifts.  Hell, I even like putting up decorations and listening to Christmas music...

but the mood it puts some people in is ridiculous.  If you feel like you NEED to buy people gifts, don't.  You're doing it for the wrong reason.  If you want to then feel free to create long lines at stores that I have to wait behind.

If you're some crabby, debbie downer that's just going to bitch about this that and the other thing all day then stay home.

Meh, kinda mixed on it.  Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday that doesn't involve explosives, but I like buying gifts for family, I mostly get off the beaten path stuff though, nothing from a Toys 'R Us or fucking Best Buy.  Typically I start sniping stuff around October, some times I have it for nearly a year in advance.  Lots of Ebay stuff, oddball gift certificates and antiques.  Don't really care what I get.  Although I do hate the commercialization of it, if I buy anything to support stores it's from local run hobby shops or gun stores.  I do tend to give quite a few Hallmark Mahogany cards at holidays though.  I really like the family time, but I get gifts for fun and because I just fricking feel like it, although I don't rush out to the local Target.
Didn't get that much really this year
Brother:  new repop steering wheel/horn and restored instrument cluster for his 65 Mustang project, the cluster wasn't planned but was too stupid a deal to not get it
SIL: several odd antiques for the house
Nieces: hobby-grade small r/c car(she loves my big buck stuff I bring over-I want to teach her how to drive 'em), the little one got quality wooden toys
Father: credit at the local FOB for avgas/rental time
Mother: antique oddball little Steiff bear nothing too fancy
Aunts and uncles, etc various gift cards that make them do something they like they don't do much.  Most of the places I get 'gift cards' for don't have their own little emblazoned plastic cards.  Mainly small shops around here that I like but don't really have a need to buy anything from them.
Only plastic crap I bought were fairly decent toys for toys for tots, a few pretty cool Nerf guns
That's about it.  I spend all day doing outside sales so I tend to pick up odds and ends from all over the place over time.  Christmas lets me buy shit I kind of like but don't have room for.
Being that my Christmas shopping was completed today, I promptly stopped by the LGS and finally bought myself an EAA Witness Elite Match, they've been out of stock for 6 months everywhere, just got the email Thursday they finally got some in.   Hopefully I can get the Ruger SR1911 for my Valentine's present.
 

I recognize the symbolism, love being with my family for a few days, but HATE the commercialization.  Just flatly hate it.

The gift giving is so over the top and so much the focus that it ruins the family gathering, etc.  Thanksgiving seems nice because there is no gift giving.

A few grins and giggles for the OP

What Have We Done To Christmas?

© Thomas L Evans

People screaming at each other, words are cutting like a knife
Savagely they rip apart any joys they had in life.
Children crying messes made.
Clothes all stained from a day of play.
Short on money, no more credit
Can't believe how fast we spent it.
Tempers flaring, horns are blaring.
Joy is gone now, no ones caring.
Rushing home tired from driving
Wife is hurt she goes in crying.
Kids are sick from all the snow
Where did all my money go.
We plan for this every year
Faking smiles, and good cheer.
Miserable for 6 months after
Tension building no time for laughter
Next few weeks we barely eat
Buying chicken no red meat
We know it happens every time
We block the truth in our mind
Once the fighting stops a while
Children happy finally smiles.
Damage done by what was said
Hardly sleep in your own bed.
Holidays they pimp with cheer
Over and Over every year
Same old feelings of regret
Stress and anger lots of debt
Is this what this day is for
Family's torn as if by war.
Selfish people plague the earth
wanting for themselves
This day's for honor of our lords birth
Not a day of for living hell
Merchandisers and big store chains
are the ones I wanna blame
It start with TV and the ads
And getting all the newest fads
their Targets mainly kids and teens
Tools for dad and mom wants a ring
Grandma needs a new microwave
Look a sale money saved
Saved for what I'll tell you a truth
Lets stop for lunch get that corner booth
We pretend each day as we go shopping
That the prices must be dropping
People fighting over Elmo dolls
Wait a day that price will fall
Order everything online
Sure we'll save a lot of time
Blizzard hit somewhere out east
Planes are grounded for a week at least.
Panic stricken what do we do
It's not my problem I'm blaming you
Presents don't arrive in time
I gave you yours now where's mine
What the hell is going on
This isn't right it feels all wrong
I don't know much about the lord
But if I were him I'd be really sore
All these people all those gifts
All the travel taking trips
I'm just asking don't get mad
Shouldn't we all feel so bad
How many of you gave him praise
On this of all his special day.
Shame on you and shame on me
Without his birth where would we be.

Im kind of indifferent. Not really into it, but whatever.

Im not going to bash the commercialization either, but it does really bother me when it goes from crass to just fucking insane. A friend of mine works for a company that rhymes with "wells fargo," and he told me a few days ago that it was the annual worst day of the year because it was the cut off date where people can no longer cash in their retirements and have the money in time for Christmas shopping. So all day was people calling in then freaking out about how their Christmas was ruined.  

what the cock is that shit?

I'll never retire.  Might as well spend my money on material goods while I'm still young and healthy enough to enjoy them.

 

i do to, the best of the best.

I'm glad there are people that are having a nice Christmas. Better some than no one? (Keep in mind that it's really effing tough to relax around this time when you had such "normal" Christmas' in the past and all of sudden you have to suffer through some serious sh*t. But I am thankful for Jesus, and for being provided for as far as basics go, and for hope for the future.)



 

I read that at one time, it was just a day everybody blew off work, and got drunk & disorderly.  Sounds good to me.

Christmas is the shit.  I approach it like the dude in Office Space.  

Christmas has generally been the most depressing holiday for me so i fucking hate it

I don't hate the holiday but I do hate all of the loathsome, narcissistic (sp) trash that ruin it with their greed and inconsideration.

Really?

Shit, I'm about as religious as a sack of doorknobs... and I LOVE the Christmas season.

You need to lighten up son, or grow a heart.

Someone drop a stinky in your stocking  

I don't really care for people outside of family and I fucking HATE the traffic and attitude that some people have. I LOVE Christmas though. Not because of gifts and shit.

I think this holiday fucking blows.

Independence day FTW.

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They ought to crucify the guy that came up with this holiday.

I love Christmas!

I could do without the commercialism and the marketing hype that goes with it.  I don't participate in that.  The gift giving has gotten out of hand.

Ideally it is a 'food' holiday, everyone gets together and feasts on a day off.  How can you hate that?

Merry Christmas!

Not sure I hate it, but I definitely don't enjoy it anymore.  Probably my least favorite time of the year.

Yep. I hate all that good will towards men.

Pretty much.

See...the thing about America is that you don't have to participate in any of this if you don't want.  Or, you can take the parts you like and leave the parts you don't.

Who here HATES Chrismas and all the crap with it?

Not me.  I like giving stuff to my friends.  And I like colored lights.  And turkey.


Jane

You speak of commercialization then run and play a video  game.......

I think that the yearly killjoys that keep saying"why can't ANY day be for getting together with family and friends?"  probably wouldn't get off of their ass to organize a get together with said family and friends. Good thing you have a day ready made for it, huh?

Merry Christmas Jane







 

i hate this time of year.  everytghing in my life that goes wrong, happens between thanksgiving and new years.