to think Christmas should be cancelled this year?

[AKMD]

It would save people going into debt to buy shiny presents that they can't afford. It would save family squabbles over who does what, when, where and how. It would stop Coke from advertising using the wrong coloured Father Christmas.

Proper Christians could celebrate Christmas in April instead.

AIBU?

YABU, I do not get into debt, I dont squabble with anyone and I happen to like Santa just as he is! I love Christmas :)

Desperately you've just made me all home sick, I used to live not very far from Hamsterley and have really happy memories from long walks there. Wanna go back now.

It wouldn't matter if you cancelled it a new holiday would spring up called Johnlewismas or Debtmas or somesuch. We would be forced into buying shedloads of tat and wouldn't even have a day off work. It would be rubbish.

I would like a plum coloured Santa to match my front room.

I'm going to be pedantic and say Red Santa actually has nothing to do with Coke, he was created in 1863 by cartoonist Thomas Nash. Coca-Cola wasn't brought out until 1894, sorry don't flame me. i'm quite a boring person in real life too.

Also i love crimbo so YABU

isnt father chistmas saint nicholas? i love thes fact in his hayday he might have been a tanned greek adonis! my stocking indeed ;)

i love christmas so much so i still feel that joy and excitement i had as a child. im bitterly against this winterval shite.

id be very sad if there was no christmas. i dont and will not get in debt for xmas people take the piss as im buying in june for xmas, but i cant afford it any other way.

YABU...Christmas is the best time of the year! I'm soooo excited-if it gets cancelled I will spend the entire month of December crying in my room

Christmas is not obligatory.

2 of my most unfavourite phrases in the world (and I have many)

"I hate Christmas"

"Christmas is too commercialised".

Eeeeeek, both make me stabby-stabby.

(If you hate it -and hate is a strong word- fine. But let those of us who enjoy it in peace to, well, enjoy it)

And "it's too commercialised" -Straight from the Crap Book of Cliches. I sometimes say innocently what do you mean?
and 9/10 times they can't answer!

I pick the things about Christmas that I enjoy, and ignore the rest. I don't get into debt. I take minimal notice of advertising. I do my best to avoid the things that will raise my blood pressure, and spend Christmas day alone with DH, having a lovely meal and each others' company.

I don't obsess about the 'perfect' Christmas, because that would be ridiculous, and probably where a lot of people have difficulty living up to the images advertised. I think if more people thought about what they wanted from their Christmas that was achievable they would like it better.