to get less and less interested in Christmas with each passing year?

[VestaCurry]

Just that. I've gone off it.

YANBU

It's just the same crap every year.

We are starting to go into the 'what is the point?' stage. DCs are teenage so like the presents but without the great excitement. Grandparents are getting on and less able to cope generally so celebrations with them are much more muted.

Perhaps it all perks up when Grandchildren arrive?

Either that or I am going to start looking at going abroad.

It does get a bit flat when they turn into teenagers.
The whole mad excitement thing has gone.

Oh I Kwym. I've ound it difficult to get excited about for a while now, but this year it's better for some reason - I think it varies and if you have nice things to do and people to be around, it can be really nice still.

But I think it's called growing up. I'm sure my children still find it exciting. Whether they will when they are teens is another matter but I know I did.

dc's are 11 and 9, the youngest still believes in Santa which is sweet. I think I'm just getting a bit jaded with the passing years! Dc's have no surviving grandparents now, dh and I miss our parents and the dc's miss them too. I think it's just that inevitable passing of time thing. Of course we have each other and we love making sure the children have a happy Christmas.
Maybe seeing Christmas goods being put on shelves as soon as Halloween stuff came down didn't help. It really hacked me off!

Kids are grown, I am 60 and newly divorced. I am having Christmas Day off - all alone with the cat and the telly - while young adult kids and Ex go to Ex's brother.

It sure is shitmas.

Dc's now 17 and 19. I used to manage a smile. Not this year, I'm in fact on housework strike right now. And they're such fussy eaters, I'm going to tesco express for the bits. OK I have the lamb (their request) in the freezer and chocolate and stuff hidden from the gluttens Just a 'poshish' sunday roast here.

LOATHE IT

And I'm christian

Thesilvery that's sounds lovely.
It will be just me, DP and cat here.
No turkey - nice roast lamb lunch.
And no pressure to even get dressed.
Lovely.

Another Grinch here. Just me going to my aged parents. They are lovely and there'll be lots of booze and food but I feel a huge pressure to 'entertain' them when it's just another day. And if I see another happy sodding family advert with millions of rellies round a heaving table, I may commit a murder.

Nothing like celebrating Christmas as a single, childless 40 year old to make you feel like you've fucked up! Irony is, I love my life / job / friends / singleness the rest of the year!

Am always invited to my noisy best friends house (in laws, kids, fun) and my parents always say I should go if I want. But the guilt of the two of them on their own would kill me. And it will be a nice day. Just not a fun, noisy, chaotic in a good way day.

And breathe...!

shandy can you not compromise and see parents in the morning/for lunch, and then go off to your best friend's in the afternoon while they doze off in front of the TV?

Parents live on other side of the country, unfortunately. They moved when they retired. And can't have them at mine as my place isn't really big enough.

But thank you for thinking if solution - I appreciate it!

oh :( and high speed reliable train services not good on Christmas day!

Indeed. But can't resent the train drivers having a day off much!

Oh good, you are all here!
Loathe the entire palaver, the enforced jolliness and the shopping orgy for tat. It is such a stressful time with adverts and programmes always banging on about the 'Perfect' Christmas, how to set the perfect table and so on.

We are in the middle of epic fail Christmas, no tree yet, dh seems glued to the chair house like a bomb went off and it is pouring rain.

You're very kind for thinking of a solution but my flat is too small to 'host' Christmas really. It's 2 bed (don't live in a shoe box!) but I can tell they feel uncomfortable here. And they'd never do a hotel on Christmas Day unless there was a reason - like grandchildren to visit. Don't get me wrong, they're lovely and accommodating and forgive me anything but I know that'd make them miserable.

Next year, I am going to tell them in, say, July that I'm going to friends an they should speak to my Aunt about going to hers. They're not doddery old fools just yet so I'm going to implement it whilst they can still get about!

Irony is, when I've been in relationships I've often spent it with 'his' family and they've / I've not given it a second thought! But it seems much harder when I'm single.

YANBU

DD is 10 and this is our first non-Santa Christmas. It's still lovely and exciting, but in a few years she's going to want to stay in bed til midday then text her pals for the entire afternoon.

Once she's grown, I don't think The Grinch and I will bother. I think we'll go to Malta for Christmas, and to hell with Tesco and the shit weather.

YAnbu I have a 19 and a 14 yr old my 14 yr old said the other oh it doesn't feel christmassy I think as they get older they lose that ARGHH IT IS CHRISTMAS thing , sigh

til midday then text her pals for the entire afternoon.

That is whay my 2 do last year i was awake long before they stirred,

I dislike it too and don't join in the hecticness nowadays. Prob will be on my own Xmas day, depends whether OH is called out to work. We have no decorations or tree up, and prob will have steak and chips for lunch. Just another day.

YANBU.

I fell nothing but jaded these days during Christmas.

Actually I am starting to hate it. :(

I can't bear the whipped up frenzy for one.stupid.day.

Here too.

I hate the thought of Christmas from October onwards.

Our two grown up DCs have left home so there is just DD10 and us. My Dad died, mum is in a home and has Alzheimer's and DHs parents live abroad.

For years we had the big family Christmas here and everyone came to us. Last year we went away and the two years before that we went out for lunch with another family in the same position as us, no relatives around.

I feel sad that DD does not have the same sort of family Christmases that the other two had and I do try to make an effort for her. But still, it isn't the same, and I really hate, hate, hate it!

There I've said it!

Can I join? loathe it

Quite relieved to have company on this.

Muffin - your post has really made me laugh !

'Shopping orgy for tat' is a fabulous quote I'm going to bandy about!

Im going to wrap today could see it far enough tbh I know im being a miserable moo about it but feel really jaded,

will go to my parents for dinner and I do love them and here is the but .... Dad will be drunk and blethering rubbish,
dd1 boyfriend is coming and dad will say the same things over and over to him about he knows his dad/uncles 3rd cousin
mum will be faffing about like a loon throwing turkey on plates and my sister will say nothing untill she has had a few and i will be slowly seething at dad while knocking back wine ,

sigh I do sound ungrateful but Id just love to go out for dinner and then come home and watch Christmas telly with the DDs with Pjs on ,