I'm starting to dread Christmas already

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I don't like Christmas either, but it isn't until after Thanksgiving that I really dread it. It is too loud, and too much of a big deal. I hate big deals. (Stores DO have their Christmas stuff out already and I hate it!) Why can't people just focus on the presents and food and not the loud good time part of it?

I somewhat enjoy Christmas. I enjoy opening presents, decorating the house and Christmas tree, baking cookies, and watching Christmas specials.

Although I do like being with friends and family during the holidays, some family members I cannot put up with for an extended amount of time, particularly a couple of my aunts and some relatives on my stepfather's side of the family. I also can't put up with listening to the same Christmas music over and over because it can be annoying at times.

What I'm not very fond of is Halloween. That's mainly because of all the stupid horror movies they like to show at Halloween.

The worst is yet to come, the black Friday bombardment of TV, radio, YouTube, and print ads.
The worst of them all is art van with his before thanksgiving sale, thanksgiving day sale, black friday sale, christmas sale, new years day sale, and the return-a-polloza. I like seeing my great aunts, but that's it with who i like seeing.

i love christmas, people make SOO much food and i get presents

I'm looking forward to it this year for some reason, cannot explain why. I'm hoping I'll reagin the innocent and naive joy I experienced as a child during such a collective worship of the winter solstice. I can share your worries though. It is a massively social time of year in which people are collectively celebrating, which is slightly anxiety-producing. You have to exchange gifts and empathize with another individual's interests, which I cannot do when my own interests are so strong. It also seems weird that one is expected to be extremely happy and optimistic all the time just because it is a different day when you are perfectly entitled to be melancholy regardless of the amount of flashing neon lights around. Saying this, I'm looking forward to it oddly.

Christmas in the Children's home was magical, even with the very tall ceilings of a manor house, the Christmas tree was so huge, it would have to bend over at the top.
The local Children from the tiny village in Kent would come to the Christmas party we had in the huge front room, paying pass the parcel and musical chairs.

What a difference when my Mother took me back, her husband would tell me to go out, when I said all of my friends would be spending Christmas with their families, he just told me to go look for new friends, so there I was, 9 or 10, roaming around the streets on my own, freezing cold, waiting until it was late enough to be allowed back home, I never liked Christmases again.

Although I am not a Christian, the aspect of Christmas I hate most is the obscene commercialism. Shops are already stocking up on Christmas 'offers' and decorated trees are appearing in businesses. Christmas should be to celebrate the birth of Christ, not a free for all spending fest getting already poor people in more debt.

Sour grapes? Yes, I long to be part of this celebration but despite being married and having family I know that it will be just another miserable time and because I have family, I cannot take the volunteer option.