The Bah Humbug Thread

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Do you wish Christmas was once every two years?
Do you hate the expense?
The having to spend enforced 'jolly time' with relations you could cheerfully murder the rest of the year?
Do you hate the Groundhog-Day ness of it all?
To quote a fellow bah humbugger,
Christmas and New year is the same every fucking year. I've done it 45 times now and have had enough
The lack of snow, year after year.
I know I know
Think of the Children

There should be a support group. If you tell people in RL you hate Christmas they look at you as if you have two heads.

Tell me I'm not the only miserable sod

I think Moz is a monster for those like me who haven't seen the ad

I'm single and don't have much family, so I find all those extended-family-dickensian-Christmas adverts totally excluding. I keep promising myself I'm going to go somewhere warm and un-Christmassy one year!

lido, you should do it. Start planning and saving now.
Don't make it 'one year', one year never happens, make it next year (funds permitting)

Hi all. Every other year would suit me just fine. I just CBA.

I'm not a bah humbugger. But I do believe that december is the only appropriate time for Christmas. Maybe into early January.

Not November or October or fucking September- I'm looking at you dobbies with your Christmas cards

I have found my people!
Last year, it was great to see DS (who was 4) all excited and the actual Christmas Eve and day were bearable (okay, there were some nice bits) but generally I find the whole over the topness of Christmas tedious.

Its the blatant consumerism, forced joviality and having to spend time with relations you don't like. I also disagree with buying for people just for the sake of it, and thankfully my family now only buy for the kids, but DH's insist on it. There are a lot of them and it just gets stupidly expensive (and I don't want to buy crap either, landfill for January kind of crap.)

I refuse to have Christmas dinner - which just seems to be a roast with added stress - and would rather just use it as an excuse to buy things we actually want to eat, or would be a treat. Turkey doesn't come into those categories, and nor does feeding 10+ people!

Pre DS I spent Christmas abroad, without fail. India, Thailand, Cambodia, Morocco etc - and it was bloody brilliant!

I have quit Christmas. I buy gifts for nieces and nephews and that's all. No decorations, no bloody awful parties, no turkey. I don't have kids so I don't have to do anything. I go away every year, there are flight bargains to be had on Christmas Day.

Hello my people!

People have totally lost sight of what Christmas is about. I can't stand all the grabby "I want this and that and loads of presents.'

I have also opted out this year. Will still happily get a small gift for each of my 2 nieces, but they get spoilt rotten anyway. All adults have all agreed 'no presents'. Apart from SIL moaning about it entitled greedy cow who moans about everything we're all happy with it.

I might have beans on toast for Christmas lunch!

Can I join!