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Do you actually like Xmas Day?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,172 ✭✭✭Mister Vain


    I enjoy Christmas dinner and watching the odd film while sat next to a cosy fire. Other than that its fierce boring.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,268 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    paw patrol wrote: »
    fully agree.
    It's pretty pathetic those that cut Christmas day short to get up at 4am the next day for a few bargains.
    Is a special time like Christmas not worth more than saving 20quid.

    Just heard the ad for the Next sale, starting at 6am. So what time do their staff have to be in - 4am maybe? You're not going to have a great Christmas night if you have to be up at 3am for your minimum wage job.

    Don't go shopping.


  • Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Liv Little Backache


    Wild horses couldn't drag me anywhere near a sale on stephens day


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 84 ✭✭Carlingford Locked


    It's proving a bit difficult/boring for me at the moment because I'm trying to stay sober. The only way I can see people tonight is if I go to the pub really, but that means I'll be in an absolute heap tomorrow (I'm not very good at drinking moderately).
    So yeah this is pretty boring at the moment!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 217 ✭✭Cockford Ollie


    I love doing all the cooking and cleaning and dishes while everyone else sits on thier fat useless holes making even more mess.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 790 ✭✭✭Sciprio


    I like the build up to it more than the day itself as i just pass it as a normal day. I don't dislike but i don't care either.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,973 ✭✭✭✭Mars Bar


    I love it. I expect nobody to turn up at my door and I'm not expected to go anywhere. A chill day with the parents and my sister with lots of food and drink and movies. It's great!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    Just heard the ad for the Next sale, starting at 6am. So what time do their staff have to be in - 4am maybe? You're not going to have a great Christmas night if you have to be up at 3am for your minimum wage job.

    Do go shopping.

    That's greed for you.

    Who cares about peoples arrangements this time of year when there is the almighty dollar to be made?

    The original ethos of Christmas went out the window a long long time ago and not necessarily the Christian aspect, just the one of goodwill and peace to all.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,047 ✭✭✭Clonmel1000


    That's greed for you.

    Who cares about peoples arrangements this time of year when there is the almighty dollar to be made?

    The original ethos of Christmas went out the window a long long time ago and not necessarily the Christian aspect, just the one of goodwill and peace to all.

    This greed is as much in evidence before Christmas though as after Christmas. Christmas shops in August FFS.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    This greed is as much in evidence before Christmas though as after Christmas. Christmas shops in August FFS.

    Oh I agree.

    But there is something bleakly greedy about literally receiving gifts on Xmas day and going out buying again, with the retailers cleaning up again the very next day for things that are half the price what they were 48 hours previous.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 84 ✭✭Carlingford Locked


    This greed is as much in evidence before Christmas though as after Christmas. Christmas shops in August FFS.

    Blame the shops if you like, but the gobsh*tes buying into all this OTT spending at Xmas are the fault here.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,511 ✭✭✭Purgative


    If someone says Christmas, I think:


    North Korean psychogical torture
    Stockholm syndrome
    Roll on New Year


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,047 ✭✭✭Clonmel1000


    Blame the shops if you like, but the gobsh*tes buying into all this OTT spending at Xmas are the fault here.

    Don’t blame the shops at all tbh completely agree with you about the gob****es. I’ve neighbours with decorations up since Halloween who’ll have them down by Wednesday the 2nd day of actual Christmas.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,053 ✭✭✭Eggs For Dinner


    I dislike Christmas for many of the reasons cited. However, I'm feeling a bit better after reading some of the posts here. The ones saying they look forward to spending time with the family, good food, nice drinks, quiet time etc. It made me realise that I have those things all year round and some poor sods only get it for a few days a year. So to those who are taking grumps like myself to task over our Christmas experience, the joke is on you


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,673 ✭✭✭AudreyHepburn


    Personally I love Christmas and feel genuinely sorry for those who can’t bring themselves to enjoy it for whatever reason.

    I do think there’s something to be said for taking control of your situation and allowing yourself to feel something other than misery or apathy. Life is what you make it after all.

    Sometimes though discussions like this actually make me feel guilty for enjoying it so much. I feel I should either be disgusted at the consumerism, bored/apathetic because it’s the cool edgy thing to do or miserable because I’ve lost someone very close this year.

    But I just don’t feel those things and I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that. Of course we’ll miss those we lost but we’re not going to mope around all day either. That’s not what they’d want for us.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 84 ✭✭Carlingford Locked


    I dislike Christmas for many of the reasons cited. However, I'm feeling a bit better after reading some of the posts here. The ones saying they look forward to spending time with the family, good food, nice drinks, quiet time etc. It made me realise that I have those things all year round and some poor sods only get it for a few days a year. So to those who are taking grumps like myself to task over our Christmas experience, the joke is on you

    Yeah that's the thing, I'm lucky that I'm close to my family and we have as good as a relationship with each other as it gets. So we always spend quality time together and holidays together etc, maybe that's why Xmas just seems like an inconvenience to us.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,785 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    bluewolf wrote: »
    Wild horses couldn't drag me anywhere near a sale on stephens day

    Me too..I detest shops. I skirted all around Limerick city yesterday & took the toll road so as to avoid the bottlenecks around the out of town shopping centres to get home to Clare to my family.
    I got all my stuff online or in the local small town earlier in the month.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,280 ✭✭✭mistersifter


    the run up to it is a pain in the hole with the traffic and the crowds and the general pressure, but Christmas day is great.

    It's a day that involves sitting in front of the tele eating good food and drinking. What's not to like?

    I don't get the "im bored" complaint. Have another baileys coffee, a few chocolates, watch Die Hard, and shut up!:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31,152 ✭✭✭✭KERSPLAT!


    Spent the last 30 odd years with my Grandad on Christmas day, won't have him at the table tomorrow unfortunately but I'll drop into the cemetery to visit. A day of mixed emotions.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 84 ✭✭Carlingford Locked


    because it’s the cool edgy thing to do

    Are you one of these people who also thinks those outlandish radical people who don't believe in God are trying to be edgy? Xmas doesn't float everyone's boat, doesn't mean we're trying to be bloody cool ffs. It's rammed down your throat every year and not all of us have kids or have any need for this manufactured season.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,673 ✭✭✭AudreyHepburn


    Are you one of these people who also thinks those outlandish radical people who don't believe in God are trying to be edgy? Xmas doesn't float everyone's boat, doesn't mean we're trying to be bloody cool ffs. It's rammed down your throat every year and not all of us have kids or have any need for this manufactured seasons .

    No not at all. I just think you could avoid the consumerism of it if you really wanted to and I can’t imagine why anyone would let it make you miserable other than that’s sort of becoming the way to be nowadays.

    Not having kids doesn’t mean you shouldn’t enjoy though.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 84 ✭✭Carlingford Locked


    No not at all. I just think you could avoid the consumerism of it if you really wanted to and I can’t imagine why anyone would let it make you miserable other than that’s sort of becoming the way to be nowadays.

    Not having kids doesn’t mean you shouldn’t enjoy though.

    I think it may make some people unhappy because they see happy families and children and all kinds of stuff on TV and they find themselves alone on these days that are supposed to be so wonderful.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,673 ✭✭✭AudreyHepburn


    I think it may make some people unhappy because they see happy families and children and all kinds of stuff on TV and they find themselves alone on these days that are supposed to be so wonderful.

    And that I completely understand.

    It’s the scrooge types out there who seem determined to dislike it or be bored by it fir not particularly good reasons I don’t understand.

    The begrudging attitude that is sometimes shown to those who do enjoy bothers me too. As I said you end up feeling guilty for loving it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,681 ✭✭✭✭P_1


    Personally I love Christmas and feel genuinely sorry for those who can’t bring themselves to enjoy it for whatever reason.

    Its statements like that that frustrate so many people. Look enjoy it if you want to, just don't expect everyone else to do so too


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,673 ✭✭✭AudreyHepburn


    P_1 wrote: »
    Its statements like that that frustrate so many people

    I can only speak for myself but I am truthful when I say it. It must be horrible to be unhappy at Christmas or to only have bad memories of it.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 84 ✭✭Carlingford Locked


    And that I completely understand.

    It’s the scrooge types out there who seem determined to dislike it or be bored by it fir not particularly good reasons I don’t understand.

    The begrudging attitude that is shown to those who do enjoy. As I said you end up feeling guilty for loving it.

    I mean I'm looking forward to having dinner tomorrow. I do think the whole consumerist mayhem that goes on every year is a bit disgusting however, you may not sign up for all that but millions do, I'm just quite conscious of things that I buy and environmental issues so maybe that's why it worries me more.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    Suffering doesn't stop at Christmas. It just makes it even more obvious how crap things are. My friend is spending Christmas in Crumlin hospital with her 4 year old. I'm sure she'd love to hear that some people think she should just stop complaining in case she upsets those having a nice time :rolleyes:


  • Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Personally I love Christmas and feel genuinely sorry for those who can’t bring themselves to enjoy it for whatever reason.

    I do think there’s something to be said for taking control of your situation and allowing yourself to feel something other than misery or apathy. Life is what you make it after all.

    Sometimes people have good reason to feel low at Christmas. It's not about them taking control of their lives or not giving themselves permission to enjoy it; it's about the very real effects of bereavement and the impact of passing the holidays without beloved family members, or of having a less than ideal family dynamic or some other issue not of their own making.

    Telling people to just take control of their situation lacks empathy and insight. Life isn't always what you make it; sometimes it's a game of managing the hand you've been dealt at any given time.

    I usually adore Christmas and I'll be doing my best to at least appear upbeat for the sake of the people around me that I don't want to worry, but I can't say I'll be enjoying myself - and that's not because I lack control of my situation, it's because the situation is outside of my control.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,673 ✭✭✭AudreyHepburn


    P_1 wrote: »
    Its statements like that that frustrate so many people. Look enjoy it if you want to, just don't expect everyone else to do so too

    And it’s statements like this that make me feel guilty for enjoying Christmas.

    I lost my grandfather in April and I miss him terribly. But I will smile and laugh and raise a glass to him tomorrow nonetheless not least because I know for a fact he’d come back to haunt me if I didn’t.

    But the tone of this thread makes me think I shouldn’t be enjoy myself because there’s so much misery out there, that I should spend the day miserable instead.

    And that makes me feel guilty as I said.

    If I’ve upset or insulted anyone here I apologize but that’s just how I feel.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,681 ✭✭✭✭P_1


    And it’s statements like this that make me feel guilty for enjoying Christmas.

    I lost my grandfather in April and I miss him terribly. But I will smile and laugh and raise a glass to him tomorrow nonetheless not least because I know for a fact he’d come back to haunt me if I didn’t.

    But the tone of this thread makes me think I shouldn’t be enjoy myself because there’s so much misery out there, that I should spend the day miserable instead.

    And that makes me feel guilty as I said.

    If I’ve upset or insulted anyone here I apologize but that’s just how I feel.

    Never feel guilty for something you enjoy doing. Nobody is going to agree on everything, the world would be fierce boring if they did. Feeling sorry for someone for not enjoying the same thing you enjoy can tend to rub people up the wrong way mind


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 84 ✭✭Carlingford Locked


    And it’s statements like this that make me feel guilty for enjoying Christmas.

    I lost my grandfather in April and I miss him terribly. But I will smile and laugh and raise a glass to him tomorrow nonetheless not least because I know for a fact he’d come back to haunt me if I didn’t.

    But the tone of this thread makes me think I shouldn’t be enjoy myself because there’s so much misery out there, that I should spend the day miserable instead.

    And that makes me feel guilty as I said.

    If I’ve upset or insulted anyone here I apologize but that’s just how I feel.

    Don't know where you're getting that from, some people just aren't into it, if you love it then good for you.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,673 ✭✭✭AudreyHepburn


    P_1 wrote: »
    Never feel guilty for something you enjoy doing. Nobody is going to agree on everything, the world would be fierce boring if they did. Feeling sorry for someone for not enjoying the same thing you enjoy can tend to rub people up the wrong way mind

    But it’s not intended to and I don’t know how many different ways I can say it.

    I genuinely wish everyone could be happy this time of year as it really is a wonderful time if you are.

    And I really do have the upmost sympathy for anyone who is unhappy.

    I’m not being snotty or lying or trying to belittle anyone when I say that and I am truly sorry if you took it that way.

    This is why threads like this make me feel bad.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,717 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    I love Christmas. I'm not religious. More spiritually, with scientific basis, inclined.

    Going to call up home tomorrow. My brother be there. He is in the Freeman on the Land, flat earther stuff and is now born again Christian. He doesn't believe in Christmas. Should be interesting listening to his sermons.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,047 ✭✭✭Clonmel1000


    But it’s not intended to and I don’t know how many different ways I can say it.

    I genuinely wish everyone could be happy this time of year as it really is a wonderful time if you are.

    And I really do have the upmost sympathy for anyone who is unhappy.

    I’m not being snotty or lying or trying to belittle anyone when I say that and I am truly sorry if you took it that way.

    This is why threads like this make me feel bad.

    Not liking Christmas and being unhappy don’t always go together. I’m at best indifferent to it at worst dislike it but I’m certainly not unhappy. I would just rather for example Easter or the June bank holiday weekend to mid December consumerism darkness and **** weather.?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 217 ✭✭Cockford Ollie


    All the family in the room together, looking at their phones. Wonderful time of the year.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,946 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    Boring old day. Reminds me of a Sunday with extra trimmings hehe


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 917 ✭✭✭Mr_Muffin


    Friends, family, plenty of food/drink and no work. What's not to love


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,047 ✭✭✭Clonmel1000


    Mr_Muffin wrote: »
    Friends, family, plenty of food/drink and no work. What's not to love

    Sounds like any Sunday to me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,511 ✭✭✭Purgative


    I'm an auld fecker. I used to love Christmases eons ago when the postman, the neighbours, the gard ffs - would all pop in for a whiskey.


    It was a lovely time that you only trully appreciated, once it was over. :(


    Now - pah


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,558 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    I'll tell you tomorrow

    It'll all depend on the kidos and whether they fancy not being a pain in the ass


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,511 ✭✭✭Purgative


    lawred2 wrote: »
    I'll tell you tomorrow

    It'll all depend on the kidos and whether they fancy not being a pain in the ass


    That's unfortunate terminology, given another popular thread on this forum.:o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 688 ✭✭✭UpCork


    I like Christmas. I love the run up to it and I enjoy the period after it. But I have to say I don't love Christmas Day.

    I find it can be stressful and for years when I was a child, we used to go to my Granny's house. She ran Christmas Day like it was an army boot camp, so it sapped a bit of the fun out of it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,088 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    Little fella is having a good day which is the most important thing for me, but personally.. Meh!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,785 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    Got out for a walk post- dinner which alleviated the cabin fever. Glad I did, perfect day for a walk and I could stop into the local church to enjoy the crib and peace and quiet. All good so far :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,681 ✭✭✭Try_harder


    Here is the post dinner lull


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    Sounds like any Sunday to me.

    Most people don’t meet their extended family on any given Sunday.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,639 ✭✭✭andekwarhola


    Yes but there is a time when I just want everybody to have left and you're vegged on the couch with a drink


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,122 ✭✭✭killanena


    Im only enjoy it for the first time today.

    I don't have any of the fond memories a lot of people have of Christmas growing up but I love seeing the excitement in my nearly 3 year old daughter when she opened her presents and full of beans all day playing and making everyone laugh 

    When we are back at home, daughter in bed. Just a few drinks with my OH and dig in to some junk food. I'm back to work for 3 days starting at 8 tomorrow morning but I've 4 days off then again. Could be worse 


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 254 ✭✭forestgirl


    Christmas day is lovely for children and adults when everything in their life is good but it's a very very difficult and sad time for parents who have lost children and children who have lost parents and other family members also.A lot of people have pain of some sort and put up a show.Its very difficult for all the sick people physically and mentally.I have no experience of the empty chair around the table yet and if I do I think mine will be empty to because no way would I be able to sit there


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,670 ✭✭✭jonnny68


    Xmas day itself is mind numbingly boring and drags in, xmas eve drinking session with friends is great and stephens day is always a good session.


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