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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?????

OP posts:
princessmel · 21/10/2006 10:16

Fullmoonfield and Nutcracker ME TOO
I'm still determined too look forward to it though.

katyjo · 21/10/2006 10:28

Luladoo you made me cry!! happy cry though, thanks for your post!

Kittypickle · 21/10/2006 10:35

I like Christmas but hate all the preparation that goes with it. But I think I've cracked it this year and hopefully can spend December doing all the nice bits without the stressful bits. Hate the idea of it all starting in September but am grateful all the stuff is there so I can organise myself better than in previous years. I have to sort a party on 4th Jan for DD so if I don't get organised I sink.

ilovecaboose · 21/10/2006 10:39

I absolutely love christmas and always have - I'm like a little kid again

Love seeing family, having nice dinner (which I like to cook) and playing games.

I ignore the commercial side of things.

Original poster
Charleesunnysunsun · 21/10/2006 10:40

Hurrah we are not alone

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JodieG1 · 21/10/2006 10:49

I love Christmas and everything about it. I love the cooking, family, present buying, tree decorating etc, love it!

foulmoonfiend · 21/10/2006 10:54

missybabee - I do know that and that is exactly what we have always said and -believed-! (until this year, when it was a very real possibility that we didn't have enough money to make it remotely enjoyable - and bear in mind it is also one of my children's birthdays at xmas and my dh's so double the financial pressure and potential 'disappointment factor' IYKWIM.....)
Also, my family are all going up to my sister's house for xmas and apparently there isn't room for us to stay too, so am feeling a little at them all having a jolly, cosy time without us!
However, I have just heard that I am not losing my job and dh is getting a modest bonus, so although we are not flush, we can afford a turkey

Rhubarb · 21/10/2006 10:54

I like Christmas. But in admitting that I'm in danger of damaging my 'miserable cow' reputation that I'm rather fond of! So to make up I'll just go and tell the kids that we're converting to become Jehovah's Witnesses and therefore not celebrating Christmas or birthdays!

paddingtonbear1 · 21/10/2006 11:07

I like Xmas too - we spend it with the in-laws, but they are nice, dh's cousins come and play with dd, and my dad is also welcome. Noone expects us to buy expensive presents. Good all round then

MissyBabee · 21/10/2006 11:13

hurray FMF, that's good news!

can't DH do without a pressie for his birthday? (we've not bothered with presents for ourselves before and decided just to do the family & family's kids). it's the kids xmas/bday pressies that are the important ones.

just an idea.

foulmoonfiend · 21/10/2006 11:27

we-ell, yes...but even if it's a token pressie or home made, I am a big anough brat (and child) to want a pressie at xmas and birthday so see no reason dh should be treated any different! (we haven't bought each other expensive gifts for years, but it's everything. Even making home-mdade swets ends up costing more than a box of cheap asda chocs, by the time you've bought ingredients, nice box, ribbon etc. Evrything justs mounts up cost-wise, even if you're trying to be low key and frugal. But I will stop my moaning and let you lot work yourself up to a tizzy of sparkly excitment! And nearer december, I may even join in

kimi · 21/10/2006 11:28

Love it Love it Love it.
Going to be sorting out the boxes of christmas decorations this week, seem to get more and more every year so will decide on this years colours and put the rest back for another time. (have two homes to decorate this year)

DH has a thing about christmas lights, its getting to be like national lampoons christmas vacation.

I love all the wrapping and cooking and being with the people i love.

Will also be writting the christmas letters to santa, although DS2 has just put big Xs on most of the wollies cataloge

foulmoonfiend · 21/10/2006 11:31

You can get a free reply letter from santa see
here

DarkAlleyBongo · 21/10/2006 11:32

i love it

MissyBabee · 21/10/2006 11:36

LOL kimi - my fave part of the NLCV film too!

hunkermunker · 21/10/2006 11:37

I bloody love Christmas.

MissyBabee · 21/10/2006 11:41

by then, we'll be so 'tizzied' up, we'll be christmassed out

danceswiththedevil · 21/10/2006 12:02

I love it, love it, love it. HO HO HOOOOooooooo! Christmas cd's are allowed on from 1st december and that's all I play until Christmas. I love the decorating, the baking, spending time with my family and friends. Absolutely flippin brilliant. Also love having an excuse to spoil my wonderful children rotten

joelallie · 21/10/2006 18:39

No. I do too. The shopping can make it a hideous experience but I di that online which takes away the only negative to my mind.

nikkie · 21/10/2006 18:53

I love christmas just get stressed over getting the house tidy for visitors!

Blondilocks · 21/10/2006 18:57

I don't hate Christmas itself but I don't like to see the stuff in the shops so early. Also I really really really hate christmas music!

Blondilocks · 21/10/2006 18:58

I think it is also more enjoyable when you have a child/children.

tinsellitis · 21/10/2006 19:00

I love it too, and this year will be extra special as my ds' first one. My mum has already bought a baby snowman AND a baby father christmas outfit. I'm afraid we go for commercialism in a big way tho def no themed tree thank goodness. Then we have a big family party at my auntie's house in the evening, I could never understand people who say they get 'bored' on Christmas Day, we never have time!

My particular favourite bit tho is all the run up and Christmas do's, I like to stack up as many as possible and then feel very virtuous by giving up drinking for the whole of Jan ( or as much of it as I can manage). Way hey, I can't wait!

NOMurDErousPLUME · 21/10/2006 19:16

I love Christmas.

Wilbur · 21/10/2006 19:18

I love Christmas - love the food, love getting the right gift for people, love opening lumpy stockings, love cracking open my Xmas novel on Boxing Day, love watching kids playing with new stuff. And yes it can have its stresses with family and so on, but I love the idea of taking stock of the year, rounding it off with a bang, iyswim. (Having said that, I'm having Xmas day with my sister for the first time in about 12 years this year, so I may have to revise my opinion of the wonderfulness of it all....)