Do You like the holidays?

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It has it's pros and cons. Sometimes I don't like it cuz you have a get together and your family and extended family come over. Even though it's my family I still get anxious and don't even want to talk to them. Do yall feel the same way? Plus I don't really celebrate holidays.

I abhor tradition for tradition's sake. I celebrate days that have special meaning for me, not ones that card companies and florists invented to sell their products.

I think Festivus is the only public holiday that I would consider, because its customs and schedule are DIY by definition.
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"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." - Mark Twain

I enjoy Christmas, because it means something to me. There are some holidays that I love and others that I can do, without.

no...it's too much,especially when it's a more..bigger? holiday and brings changes or different routine with it.
worst has to be christmas,as cannot escape from it and pretend it isnt happening.

am also hate school holidays,for different reasons,the school children are off and they stay out,screaming,banging things,making places even busier and noiser and impossible to cope with.

I don't care much for holidays, but I do work them and get time and a half.

rant on:
it is just family, family, family! (shudder) all my family is dead and my child was taken from me at birth so I have no family. Year after year it is just shoved down my throat again and again.

rant off:

But ya'll have a nice day, now, . . hear?

Merle

I never cared for them. When I was real little, I was too young to know it was the holidays. I didn't understand why my mother would put up a Christmas tree and then she takes it down. I can remember people coming over and eating with us but I was too young to know what was going on. I grew up with different people coming to our house it never bothered me. I can remember being bothered with thanksgiving in school when I was 6 and 7 because it was a change. It wasn't a change I liked but it didn't stress me out. It was only during lunch time it happened. Instead of going to the lunch room to eat, we stayed in our classrooms and ate food in there from our teachers who make the food. Even other special kids come to our classroom and their teachers too and we all eat. That was our thanksgiving. Our portable building was the only building with a kitchen in it.
I have always loved Christmas because I got presents and I liked the decorations. 4th of July I loved too because of the fireworks.

Sometimes I like it.

I like Christmas very much, I love the holiday atmosphere and all the Christmas lights. Most of the other holidays just give me an excuse to pig out on good food.

The holidays used to feel really magical when I was a child... Over the past couple of years, however, they've really lost their appeal. Maybe it's because I get a regular check and can buy what I want, when I want. Maybe it's just because I'm getting older. I dunno.

Except for Halloween, I don't like holidays. People come to my house and be loud, that's not fun. Or I have to go to their house and listen to them be loud, usually less fun than the first one. Most holidays are just Hallmark events anyways. I can't wait to get older so I can spend my Christmases in a movie theater the way nature intended.

There is so much that I agree with here.

Holidays for me were never about religion, although now-a-days I certainly do understand the religious connotations of the holidays much better.

When I was a kid, I think holidays were special to me for these reasons...

1) no school
2) seeing family together and happy
3) a chance to give something to someone and see them appreciate it. which offered me some self-worth as a child.

As I got older, I realized that too many holidays came with expectations.
I saw and experienced the difficulties of meeting those expectations...
-Military and President holidays... honor someone on one particular day of the year for their service to our country.

-Religious holidays (Easter and Christmas)... maybe spend time thinking about the religious meanings, but mostly... trying to figure out what to make/buy someone else. Sometimes being all stressed out because I could not figure out what to get someone but realizing how 'bad' it would be to give them nothing at all. So... buy them anything, whether or not I think they would use it or keep it.

-Thanksgiving... still not sure what the hell I'm celebrating... the Pilgrims coming to these shores? The subsequent slavery and killing, theft of lands, of the 'Indians' by these people and their ancestors? Naw... it's just another holiday to get together with family and eat more food than I thought physically possible.

As an adult... the only holiday I do anything or feel anything special about is Christmas. That's only because it is a day when other people expect things and I do not want to disappoint them. I'd rather give gifts throughout the year when I find something I think someone could use or might like.

When I give a gift, I like to let that person know that if it is something they cannot use.. .they are free to pass it on to someone who can. Of course, I don't say this when the gift I have given is something I definitely know they have wanted or needed.

So pretty much... holidays are meaningless to me.
Same thing with birthdays... they really don't mean a whole lot to me.
I can celebrate a person being alive and in my life any day of the year!
If I want to pay homage to Jesus or Allah or anyone else.. I can also do that any time of the year. It would mean the same no matter what day I did it.

I also do not remember the days when these holidays happen... never have.

Mother's day is today... I only know that because my daughter is with her mom for that.
Friday at work I mentioned Mother's day coming up sometime soon and they said, "It's always on a Sunday".
I can't recall ever knowing that, although I'm sure someone has told me this before.

Thanksgiving... I am only recently able to remember that I think it always happens on a Thursday?

Memorial Day and Labor day are the ones I think are kinda like opposites in the year, but I forget which end of the year each one is... not 'end' of the calender year, just towards the end or beginning.

Christmas...I know it's either the 24th, 25th or 26th of December.

Easter... forget it! Isn't this the one that keeps changing because of the calender or something?

My former wife used to quiz me on the holidays, especially Christmas.
I think she got a kick out of me getting it wrong... sorta like..."Can you believe this guy? He doesn't know when Christmas is!"

Oh, and this is the first Mother's Day I have ever had without my mother... Rest In Peace...

I love the holidays! However, if it's just one of those days where I'm forced to spend it with my family with absolutely nothing to do, I dread it.

I like 'em for the gifts,which means giving and recieving presents.

I like the lead up but not so much the actual holidays.
For instance I love Christmas smells- cinnamon, Christmas cake (tastes nasty smells nice) the Christmas tree etc. But I don't like Christmas day so much because of the turkey smells and roast potatoes and other traditional foods, none of which I eat or can watch other people eat.
I do really enjoy opening presents though, I just love wrapping paper, and I've always been left to do my own thing, I can take as long as I like, we open them all together which I like.

Birthdays are ok, we don't do big celebrations or anything.

Easter we don't really do anything...thats about it for holidays.

School holidays are what I hate, I can't bare the noise or the rush or the people. Weekends and school holidays make me cringe.

I have the SAME problem! It seems everyone I ask, that has a modicum of intelligence, feels the SAME unless a friend is in the group, or they can otherwise be involved. I wonder why most parents don't seem to care about that.

I like family holidays, but I have never understood the conept of fathers day or mothers day. Shouldn't children always be able respect their father. I do not hink people should be forced to celebrate them. I do think people should be able to celbrate the one they want to and do not want to. Even fathers day and mothers day.