To be Happy I do not have to worry about Christmas...Because I married jewish?

[Chickensoupyum]

That's all really

I'm Jewish. I still do Christmas.

So you'll be celebrating Chanukah, then?

Don't you have to worry about Hanukah instead?

No reason not to have chrimbo. Is it banned in your household then? Bah Humbug.

I'm atheist. I do Christmas. I see it as more of a cultural thing than a religious day.

What is there to worry about? Christmas is supposed to be fun!!

I'm jewish but we still do a 'watch TV and stuff your face day' on the 25th. We just dont do presents. And surely you do all the other 37 million jewish festivals with required giant meals and visiting?

What I mean it's I do not have to worry about all the 'which house (set of grandparents), presents (too expensive, too cheap), food (who is going to cook), etc.' I see my friends have to deal with.

I think I have been on musmnet for too long, soon you will all see the christmas related arguments in YABU.

Tee2072 You probably won't have the problems I have just mentioned above.

LeMousquetaire Chanukah cannot be compared to Christmas. Passover would be more like to Christmas I think.

I can't form an opinion either way.

There is plenty of holidays and whatnot that you do have to be bothered with isn't there in Judaism. We are Muslim and Christmas is a big deal in this house from a cultural perspective.

Well I suppose you can celebrate the festival but just leave out the dinner,gifting etc.

You still have a lot of festivals to be worried about. Which food will be replaced with do I have the right food? You will still exchange presents, and all gather in someone house with the right appropriateness about everything, sometime.

I know where you are coming from although we are atheists! We do Christmas in a big way in my family and increasingly it's a chore because it's soooo much work. I would quite like to opt out and fly to Mauritius for the week or something - but it's a huge tradition for us and I suppose I want the DCs to have the Christmases I had so I've only got myself to blame really.

we are Jewish we do Xmas as in 1 present from Santa but Hanukkah is still ££ as we do a present every day ie 8 x barbie for each dd .
but I do agree no faffing about where to go and eating turkey. but as we've had rosh hashanah, yom Kippur and sukkot all in the last 3 weeks I'm a bit festivaled out at the moment. but I love Hanukkah

I have no idea what you're talking about. You've obviously never sorted who is doin first night of Seder or where you're going to break fast.

Also, my husband is not Jewish.

I'm Jewish, DH isn't.

We celebrate both Christmas and Hanukkah, I, the Jew, go crazy for Christmas. So if they fall at the same time we often shuffle celebrations around a bit. I know lots of jews who celebrated both, and I'd consider us unlucky not to, so rather you than me.

You aren't dong Hanukkah how I like it done if it isn't a massive deal for you (and I do think it is comparable to Christmas-presents, games ad family time which invariably involves feeding them).

You also must be yet to encounter Pesach and the drama that is the Seder Table.

Or your MIL is dead?

Christmas is nothing compared to a Seder for 30 people where you've had to clean the house from top to bottom, swap your entire kitchen over and had a last minute trip to ikea as you only have 26 glasses and your sieve has gone missing and a mouse decided to move in to the plastic box that was full of leftover food from last year while it was stored in the loft. And then you find out that your aunt and uncle have taken offence at not being invited personally and decided to go somewhere else.

I am 37 and have to say that I have never worried about Christmas. I have only ever looked forward to it with a childlike glee.

Christmas is at my house. All welcome. Dh and I are good cooks so no big deal. I'm excited already.

I'm a Christian I love Jesus more than anything he is my Lord but I don't care who celebrates Christmas why people make such an issue about it I don't know. Just use it as a day to celebrate with your families!

What?! You think making latkes is easy??

YABU because I love Christmas; and all the hassle, schmaltz' overeating and overspending that goes with it

I'm an atheist as well, we'll still be celebrating Xmas. If that makes me a hypocrite then so be it; it's a lovely time regardless.

I'm trying to start enjoying Christmas... I've decided it's Christmas at mine this year If i'm not down to work.

Sorry I meant to say, YANBU anyway.

I'm an atheist and love Christmas.

But I'm beginning to think I should encompass all faiths, just to be fair, and celebrate everything.

One big party!

I'm Jewish, we do Chanukah and Christmas. As children, we got small presents on each night of a Chanukah and one big present on Christmas day. There is loads of 'discussion' (like Tee said) about which sent of grandparents to go to on first night Seder or to light the candles on Chanukah. This year, there was nearly a family riot because my sister and I chose to spend Rosh Hashana with our mum's side and not our dad's, lots of guilt and "this is what your recently deceased grandpa would have wanted". Honestly, it's chaos. I love it really sometimes.