Would you abolish Christmas?

Dirty Dingus McGee

It's my favourite time of the year.I've been looking forward to having a few days off for the last couple of months.

BBDBB

abolish it? no

I'd move it to the summer when theres more daylight

looking_around

I just dislike the materialisness about xmas.

I enjoy the spending time with friends and family, but the desperate need for gifts is something that should be done away with.

Somnus

Christmas may be hard on the wallet but it's one of the few times in the year when people are so openly charitable and in good spirits.

I am a completely irreligious and somewhat of a cynic but even I can see the good spirits many people are in around this time of year. Just take a look in the Santa Strike Force thread! Incredible generosity.

So no I would not do away with it. You don't need to spend a fortune to show people you care!

zenno

Red Nissan wrote: »

Should be, work should be your life, and work should provide your life.

The only way to break that is to be the Chairman of Board Gas, CRC and so on, or not work, in which case social welfare is your life and no work.

Jezz, there is a world out there to explore, work within it, but never let work take over your life. Work for most folk is a way to earn monies to allow you a decent living, but working just to exist is depression. Unless you work in a job that you love.

Fizzlesque

wretcheddomain wrote: »

...and instead of the current hoo-hah we'd have a normal working week.

It would have the effect of saving a lot of money for many people!

I would.

No, I wouldn't abolish Christmas even though there have been years I've felt it to be a cumbersome demand. That demand being that you don't spend Christmas alone; that you find a gathering of people, family or otherwise, to pass Christmas hours with. That's all fine and well, but if you don't have a family base, after a good many years it becomes tiresome finding places to go or creating 'the place' and inviting other 'no place to go' people. Both have been wonderful and all my Christmases have been different for the last twenty years, some with family, some with friends, one on a yoga retreat on Clare Island (that was great, arrived hungover to hell, sick as a dog from the boat journey and left feeling like I was WonderWoman. Long, possibly boring, story, I'll spare y'all) and some I've spent alone. Being alone for Christmas suits me - I still enjoy other people's excitement, and enjoy meeting friends for Christmas lunches and drinks and making time to make sure we see each other before a new year starts galloping away with alarming speed.

I wouldn't abolish Christmas but I do enjoy the freedom to just let it drift on by, with little to mark it as a different type of day to the one before or the one following. I like Christmas eve more than Christmas Day - some remnant of the child I once was lurks within and she brings me good cheer on Christmas Eve.

So, what have I said in answer to your question? A long winded no. I wouldn't abolish Christmas.

[I was at one of those parties this night, this is a drunken post party ramble, thank you for reading, those that did. There will be no TL:DR in my posts. It would be like a Malteser trying to fit into an already full container]

zenno

Fizzlesque wrote: »

No, I wouldn't abolish Christmas even though there have been years I've felt it to be a cumbersome demand. That demand being that you don't spend Christmas alone; that you find a gathering of people, family or otherwise, to pass Christmas hours with. That's all fine and well, but if you don't have a family base, after a good many years it becomes tiresome finding places to go or creating 'the place' and inviting other 'no place to go' people. Both have been wonderful and all my Christmases have been different for the last twenty years, some with family, some with friends, one on a yoga retreat on Clare Island (that was great, arrived hungover to hell, sick as a dog from the boat journey and left feeling like I was WonderWoman. Long, possibly boring, story, I'll spare y'all) and some I've spent alone. Being alone for Christmas suits me - I still enjoy other people's excitement, and enjoy meeting friends for Christmas lunches and drinks and making time to make sure we see each other before a new year starts galloping away with alarming speed.

I wouldn't abolish Christmas but I do enjoy the freedom to just let it drift on by, with little to mark it as a different type of day to the one before or the one following. I like Christmas eve more than Christmas Day - some remnant of the child I once was lurks within and she brings me good cheer on Christmas Eve.

So, what have I said in answer to your question? A long winded no. I wouldn't abolish Christmas.

[I was at one of those parties this night, this is a drunken post party ramble, thank you for reading, those that did. There will be no TL:DR in my posts. It would be like a Malteser trying to fit into an already full container]

No. It's an intelligent post. Excellently explained.

zenno

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

I adore Christmas and everything about it, but as an aside there are so many in here talking about Christmas being a break/distraction from "the gloomy winter time of year" that I have to ask - am I the only one who absolutely loves winter? Don't get me wrong, summer is epic too, but this time of year is just associated with so many good times for me that when it starts getting dark in te evenings once the clocks change I'm thinking "sweet, it's that time of year again"

Anyone else? Or am I even more of a weirdo than previously assumed?

Nope. You are perfectly sane. I love the same relaxing feeling of winter when it gets dark early and the mysterious feeling of winter weather...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwPJGEMW8Vc

orchidsrpretty

Are you saying not everyone has this sort of christmas experience?

zenno

orchidsrpretty wrote: »

Are you saying not everyone has this sort of christmas experience?

Quicktime, Pift.