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So am i the only adult in the world who doesn't hate xmas?

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Charleesunnysunsun · 21/10/2006 08:46

DP and I were discussing this last night and have decided we are the only 2 adults in the world who actually like xmas.

All i seem to hear from family, friends and people in the street is how crap xmas is, over comercialised (sp?), to expensive, or generally how they hate spending a day with the family.

I love xmas and hgopefully always will.

I suggested going out to xmas dinner at a pub so no one had to worry about cooking as we have a tiny kitchen this year since we moved.

My family's reply was, 'only is someone else drives so we can drink, after all how else will we survive the day'

bloody misrable old gits.

Does no one else enjoy,

Looking at the kids faces when they open gifts,
Spending the day with the family,
Sitting round the table for a huge xmas dinner,
Getting a little merry,
Decorating the house????

Or is it just us?????

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Radley · 21/10/2006 08:51

I'm doing all that you have said for the first time this year (except the sitting round the table, we have a breakfast bar

And I am really really looking forward to it, also, I have invited a friend who is 19 and has NEVER celebrated christmas due to being a jehovah witness until a few months ago, so I am going all out this year.

HumphreyComfreyCushion · 21/10/2006 08:53

DH and I love Christmas too.

I actually prefer all the excitement of Christmas Eve - getting everything ready.

I don't like the way Christmas seems to start in October nowadays though, and I don't like all the TV ads that start bombarding the children in September!

Love the traditional bits - Christmas dinner, letter to Father Christmas, hanging up the stockings, getting up early.

Best bit of the year!

ludaloo · 21/10/2006 08:54

OOOOOHHHH NOOOOOOOO! I love it too...love it love it love it! For all the reasons you said and more... its brill!
(hence my need for christmas chat...see my thread!!!
I'm sure it pees lots of people off but hey ho!

hermykne · 21/10/2006 08:54

since having our babies i love it now , dont like th ehype in the shops but i just dont go.
i love the buzz christmas week and the frendliness or everyone.
i also think its a good time to remind people how well off they might be comparedto others and use it as a talking point for charity donations however small.

people should cop on to themselves if they are moaning. they could have so much less.

i am not religous so that is of no concern to me its about enjoying friendships and less of the keeping up with the jones mentality.

ludaloo · 21/10/2006 08:56

We start christmas when December starts, and we finish it when December ends...we have a whole month of christmasness!!
We don't start too early, and we don't drag it out either. Just one brilliant month of it

FrannyandZooey · 21/10/2006 08:56

Oh, I love it charlee. It doesn't have to be over commercialised. You can just lock yourself in the house for 2 months and avoid all the crap

Radley · 21/10/2006 08:58

I don't like New Years eve though and never have. As usual I will be in bed about 10.30 watching a film and leave the tele on dvd so the fireworks don't wake me.

FrannyandZooey · 21/10/2006 09:01

No good point, New Years is loathsome

ludaloo · 21/10/2006 09:01

new years isn't big in our house either...it used to be before we had kids, now though they are all sound asleep and I usually have to join them!!

katyjo · 21/10/2006 09:20

I LOVE christmas!! always have, and I can't wait for this year we have our first christmas with our own child! DS will be 9 months so don't know if he will really notice, but WE will !!!

Schokofruhstucksflockenhasseri · 21/10/2006 09:21

I love Christmas too, but this is probably because I firmly refuse to get caught up in excessive commercialism, or spend it with the extended family.

No chocolate advent calendars.
Small stockings.
One present from parents per child.
Some home made decorations.
Home made or at least decorated, cake.
Limited telly.
NEVER have a themed Christmas tree.
Do not get caught up in routines like Open stockings at home, drive 100 miles to MIL for dinner, drive another 100 miles to ex husband for tea etc etc. These are just hell. They jolly well have to grow up and realise that the people who do the hard work 364 days of the year get to spend Christmas with the children.

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ludaloo · 21/10/2006 09:24

ooh katyjo...you make me feel all emotional! You'll enjoy it even more with a little one around

saltire · 21/10/2006 09:24

I love Christmas, but I also refuse to get stressed by it. When DS1 was born we made a decision that we wouldn't travel anywhere over Christmas until the children were a lot older ( like about 15). I don't get with all the getting up early to put the turkey in the oven and do all the veg. We cook our turkey on Christmas eve, i get all the veg ready then. If it's not ready at 1pm, fine, we eat at 2!

Trinityrhino · 21/10/2006 09:33

I LOVE CHRISTMAS

Trinityrhino · 21/10/2006 09:33

this year will be great with dd2 20 months she will be into it aswell as dd1.

ChildrenOftheCornMeadow · 21/10/2006 09:36

love Christmas too for all teh below reasons, but also HATE the bombardment of it before December. If I were in charge, I would change the law so that you couldnt decorate before 1 December.

Whats a themed CHristmas tree?

jajas · 21/10/2006 09:37

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saggarmakersbottomknocker · 21/10/2006 09:40

I love Christmas, but at Christmas - not at the beginning of October!

Schokofruhstucksflockenhasseri · 21/10/2006 09:58

a themed Christmas tree is when you buy one of those big boxes of decorations, so that they all match (and dont clash with the curtains, presumably)

MissyBabee · 21/10/2006 10:00

good, another excuse to discuss christmas and get excited

me too, can't stand it before december - think it's a disgrace that shops are full of it beforehand. if you start too early, you peak before the big day!

(but ludaloo's got me into christmas thinking on october 21st!!

main thing is not to over-do the pressies. i hate it when there are mountains of presents and people get stressed out that they haven't spent enough on soandso etc. it's not about presents! See ludaloo's christmas thread this morning - that's what really makes christmas. spending quality time with the kids. ooh, looking forward to our first xmas with dd.

foulmoonfiend · 21/10/2006 10:01

Hello sunny charley? How are you?

I usually love xmas (it's my son's birthday very near too) but it's the first time we have been really skint so have t say am dreading it this year

MissyBabee · 21/10/2006 10:07

oh no, don't say that FMF!

too many people spend too much money on christmas and it makes me feel physically sick! i hate overindulgence! there're so many ways to enjoy christmas without getting into the whole 'luxury crackers' over-the-top excesses.

please don't worry! it's about spending some quality time with people you love

nutcracker · 21/10/2006 10:12

I love xmas but the fact that I can't always buy what I need to gets me down alot.

princessmel · 21/10/2006 10:14

We all LOVE christmas here. My dh is crazy about it and gets so excited!!
We do LOTS of family traditions though! We go to my Mums and dads for dinner and have to sit in the same places to open our pressies. I made us keep that one up. It was really important to me when I was little.
We always have a huge boxing day dinner at Mums too with my half brothers and their families. My parents live near me so we don't have loads of travelling to do and we usually sleep over there.

We definatly dont have a themed tree! Loads of different things and colours that we just like and that we've had for ages. Also we have homemade bits on it. I can't bear it when people hide those ones at the back.

We always go to church on Christmas eve even though we are not religious. The children ( not mine, too young, don't go to the Sunday school)do a nativity and its nice to sing Carols and think about those less lucky than us. We go with my mum and sis and have done since I was tiny. Then have food at Mum and dads or here and get all excited and put carrot and water out for santa!

Gosh we do loads more but I couldn't type it all. Thats all without Tv or pressies but we do have that too.

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