What do you HATE about the holidays?

[Spartacus]

I hate the pressure of trying to get good gifts, without going bankrupt. I've got a few ideas, but I need to come up with a lot more, and soon.

I do my gift buying and thinking about it throughout the year
clip articles from periodicles etc. and save them to buy gifts
i.e. earlier this year the wall street journal had a review of electric knife sharpeners
most everybody can use one of those as they have only really come out recently

 

[jnevin]

traffic and my dirty car

 

[gotmilk]

relatives who kiss your ass

 

[musclemom]

Just tryin to bring some postive vibes to a NEGATIVE thread.

Actually I put some things that I hate about xmas in my post but I removed them before I posted.

Sorry my adding a little cheer to a thread makes you

What's wrong with a negative thread? What's wrong with venting your spleen a little, seems to me that's the whole point of this thread, that people like to know they're not the only ones who aren't exactly bursting with warm fuzzies.

There are enough of us for whom the holidays can't pass quickly enough. It's been my observation that in dysfunctional families the holidays just provide the outlet for someone to unload on someone else.

My husband, like SoKlu, has worked in retail for 30+ years, he's been feeling disgusted with holidays for years. If you have Christmas rammed down your throat 40+ hours a week beginning mid October, you're pretty fucking sick of it come December 25. It's like the world's longest foreplay with the worlds worst orgasm, because there is just NO way one day of presents, meals, or whatever is going to give you sufficient pay off, all you can feel is let down.

As for your K message, I don't appreciate the assumption that I'm unhappy because I hate the bullshit of a consumer driven society.

IMO, if you truly love people, you don't need some bullshit holiday (which Christmas is, it's just a perversion of Christianity made palatable for Pagans), to give them a gift. If you truly want someone's company you don't need some horseshit reason to share a meal with them.

 

[all the whey]

What's wrong with a negative thread? What's wrong with venting your spleen a little, seems to me that's the whole point of this thread, that people like to know they're not the only ones who aren't exactly bursting with warm fuzzies.

There are enough of us for whom the holidays can't pass quickly enough. It's been my observation that in dysfunctional families the holidays just provide the outlet for someone to unload on someone else.

My husband, like SoKlu, has worked in retail for 30+ years, he's been feeling disgusted with holidays for years. If you have Christmas rammed down your throat 40+ hours a week beginning mid October, you're pretty fucking sick of it come December 25. It's like the world's longest foreplay with the worlds worst orgasm, because there is just NO way one day of presents, meals, or whatever is going to give you sufficient pay off, all you can feel is let down.

As for your K message, I don't appreciate the assumption that I'm unhappy because I hate the bullshit of a consumer driven society.

IMO, if you truly love people, you don't need some bullshit holiday (which Christmas is, it's just a perversion of Christianity made palatable for Pagans), to give them a gift. If you truly want someone's company you don't need some horseshit reason to share a meal with them.

I hate it when people start shit in a pleasant holiday discusion.

 

[Spartacus]

I guess for retail peeps it's like for a bartender new years eve
amateur night
I bartended 12 years and new years eve is the worst
all that volume and not near the equivalent in gratuities
wednesday night before thanksgiving is similar

 

[chesty]

Pretty much every thing!

 

[jenscats5]

Gotta agree with Musclemom - I miss my mother (died 12/7), grandmother (died 12/18) and father (died 12/24) who are all passed now - the anniversary of their deaths is sad enough, but the month of Christmas is just a killer.

I can't stand the commercialism & don't "get" why I have to bust my ass going to a crowded mall to bitch at some poor sap working at the stores to spend too much money on an ugly purple sweater that the recipient won't want or like anyway. If I want more crap, I'll buy it myself, same goes for everyone else.

Buy me a beer & I'll buy you a beer & we'll call it even.

 

[eddymerckx]

no one wished me a happy hanukkah

 

[all the whey]

no one wished me a happy hanukkah