Are You A Christmas Person?

[TWR]

Do you enjoy all the hype, or do you think it's getting out of hand with the costs?

[Patsy33]

No. Yes..

[davegosling]

No, and I have no idea.

[murraymints]

not this year... usually I look forward to it, but it does all start too too soon these days..

[Mamyalynne]

I love Christmas, don't concern myself with hype and don't spend what I can' afford.

Bring on the sparkle,glitter and twinkling lights.x

[Mamyalynne]

^ I can't afford

[dannyk13]

No, not since the kids grew up

[Tilly2]

I think it's a special time but I don't go mad.

[Voltage]

nope not at all

[woofgang]

I don't think your question and the following comments actually go together.......I am very much a Christmas person, love the lights and finding gifts for the people I love, the special food and the daft TV. I am not sure what you mean by hype? I don't chase the perfect Christmas and don't spend more than I can afford....but yes I love Christmas and yes I am a Christmas person

[choux]

Ridiculously out of hand, TWR.

If only I could turn the clock back to enjoy Christmases of my childhood. It was much more of a make-do-and-mend time. Often there would be second-hand gifts which had been given a new lease of life. We would have to repair the decorations before we could put them up. No extravagant foods and far less alcohol. No visits to shows or theatres, just carol concerts. But a great time for family life, dear friends and brisk walks on Boxing Day. We survived every one of them with ease and great enthusiasm.

[emmie]

don't know really, enjoyed it as a child but it pales as you get older, though like Minty its my birthday on the day..

[dunnitall]

Don't like Xmas now. It's the hype,the commercialisation of it all. People planning things from January fgs! Buying cards, making them....buying presents....where is the Xmas spirit in that? It used to be from beginning of December....we would get into the spirit of things then...shops were decorated accordingly at that time...no months leading up to it.

It has been spoilt for me and I now detest the months leading up to it. If people knew how it used to be...more meaningful and special....it was So Much better. Also people didn't get into debt for the next year paying it all off......sigh.

[Jackdaw33]

I think Oliver Cromwell had the right idea when he abolished it.

[kvalidir]

Yes, although I'm not a Christian, so many festivals take place during the Christmas period that it's a time when people of most persuasions are happy and warm towards one another so I love it. We don't spend much on Christmas presents, I usually buy something I think someone will like as I see it throughout the year and only get child family members really proper presents. It shouldn't be a commerce fest and children shouldn't think it should be either :)

[Islay]

It only gets out of hand if you let it get out of hand!
I was brought up in a house where Christmas had to be perfect and if you did not show enough surprise and joy then a strop would be thrown and the rest of the day miserable.
We learnt as very young children to fake enjoyment!
Now I get involved but I keep a lid on it and don't go over the top even with the kids.

[Mamyalynne]

I read a lot about the commercialism spoiling it, but surely that only happens if you as an individual or a family group let it in to spoil your long held traditions.

Yes, there's more glittery tat and singing Santas etc but we buy them if we want to not because we have to.

[Eleena]

And you TWR?

[ummmm]

It's the TV Adverts, the constant 'must have toy' being advertised, the constant xmas films and cookery shows.

I like spending time with my family and the dinner...but that's about it.

[mikey4444]

Used to love it as a kid, along with all my brothers, and Mum and Dad, and assorted Aunties.

But its not the same now of course. I shall enjoy Xmas Day but the rest of it just seems to me to be a never-ending spend-fest.

[ummmm]

The amount of food people buy is shocking.