I detest Christmas.....

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....and dread it. Some years apart from Xmas day itself I just work right through and then take a couple of days off for countryside on the days when everyone goes back in Jan. I never watch tv, no kids, wife can be endlessly stuck in a book. If I didn't have this dog goodness knows it would be dull. Luckily we go away though wifes boss said next year NO HOLS at this time. Nazi. If I don't get away I will be ill, anger, depression, tho anger mainly. This south peace stinks is a favourite quote at this time.

Xmas is the time, like UK Bank holidays when ones isolation seems a little too obvious.

Why do you detest and dread Christmas?

Something in your past?

I'm not a big fan of it either.

I hate that everyone expects me to go to church. I am a Christian but I don't do organized religion (have yet to go to a church where everyone isn't competing to be the best Christian). I also hate the gift giving thing. I mean, it seems like a waste of money for the most part. 95% of my gifts never get used. The best gifts IMO are gift cards and money since you can get things you know you will use.

It was fun as a child but I guess it's sort of worn off as an adult.

Christianity IS an organized religion. Even if you don't go to church, you're still adhering to a belief system that was designed by a larger community, and in Christianity, a much larger and much older one, than just whatever beliefs system you may design by yourself.

I'm the complete opposite, I obsess over Christmas.

I'm constantly making lists of what I want for Christmas. Constantly talking about it to my family. Constantly asking if there's any gifts I can help / watch someone wrap. Or just standing there admiring the presents. The other night I noticed that I had grabbed a gift and started rocking back and forth, while clutching it. =p But I don't have any visitors or outside family come over, and we do not attend Church-- so I have no reason not to like Christmas. =]

I tend to obsess over the holidays as well- but from a purely aesthetic perspective. It took me a week just to decorate the tree. I have spreadsheets on my various decorations and a diagram of the method used to decorate the tree. I have been painting my own christmas village because the ceramic traditional ones don't suit my style.

Me too. Too much change by the time I finnaly get used to it, it's time to put everything away. Everybody is so stressed and pushy, Christmas is too comercial, everybody expects a gift but when I ask them what they would like they go, "Aww you don't have to get me anything." If I actualy don't they seem disapointed. I used to like the gift aspect of it when I was younger but that was the only thing I liked and was labeled selfish and greedy. People were always coming into the home all the time unannounced and I was often expected to go to other people's homes. I was always SOOO stressed, agitated and grumpy during the Christmas season.
My nickname around this time of year was often Grinch or Scrooge. No one can find gifts I will like because all the stuff I collect is things you can find on eBay, you can't find meerkat or Lion King things in stores. I did not even like it as a kid. I HATE Christmas. There is nothing happy or merry about it.

Good cheer depends largely on having people to share it with. I used to love Christmas when I was a kid, because it was a serious family affair, but now that I am isolated, without friends or family, I find it very lonely - the loneliest time of year. Especially because it's also my birthday. And spending time with well meaning strangers doesn't work - it's not a substitute for having a real family. Unfortunately.

A lot of isolated lonely people find Christmas hell.

I like Christmas, even if I had no one to share it with I still would coz you get time off to chill and there's a whole bunch of films on TV.

Edit: plus, I'm not religious.

[quote="Kirska"]Being Christian means that you believe Christ was the son of God, it has nothing to do with going to church...quote]

Exactly. Being a Christian means you live a Christ-inspired life.
I deplore organized religion but I consider myself to be a Christian in the ways that I perceived Christ to be: A loving, forgiving and compassionate man.

I HATE "The Holidays" (as it is now called). I wouldn't hate it if they wouldn't start the god damn endless advertising the day after Halloween. "Give gifts this year!" "I want this, I want that.." f**k 'em all.

I cannot stand this insane commercialization. I'm not religious, but if there really is a God, he's gonna send all of the people who take part in this commercialization, straight to Hell.

I really think it's offensive to Christianity, making "gifts" and material possessions the center of this holiday.