Feeling Unseasonal

[pips1]

I can see decorations going up all around me but I just can't get into the spirit myself. Am I the only one who finds it such a chore getting all the Christmas stuff out knowing it will all need putting back again covered in dust very soon?

[mccfluff]

i do nothing

[murraymints]

Fluffy...tis the season to be jolly.....fala la la la....

[EcclesCake]

I just can't be bothered with Christmas.

However we have family with us this year so I'll make more of an effort and will stick a tree up.

We never have a traditional Christmas meal as we aren't fans of turkey and all the trimmings.

And if I receive a Christmas card with glitter on it it will go straight in the bin.

The whole thing bores the pants of me and I look forward to getting back into a normal routine.

[mccfluff]

im not un-jolly, i just don;t bother with xmas or all the hype/crap that goes with it. more than happy with all the time off lazing about

[Connemmara]

I am a bahhumbug too - I do have lovely decorations and they are down from the attic but am not putting them up.

I bought a tree after last Xmas after throwing out an £80 tree out - this one was tenner and you just pop it up. Will do me rightly.

Neighbour in front of me has two sides of her house lit up and back of her rooms - never a light in her house throughout the year and she has 4 children. Totally amazes me.

[dunnitall]

Can't wait until 5th January when it will all be behind us then those who lurve Xmas can start all over again for 2014. Dislike Xmas now unlike some years back. It starts too early and is nothing but a spend fest for those who usually cannot afford it. Bah humbug indeed.

[shaneystar2]

We're bombarded with it from about the end of August these days .
By the time it gets here people are cheesed off with it .
I was in a local shop today and they were blasting out ..I wish it could be Christmas every Day ....I felt like yelling ..shut the F up !!
I like Christmas and we have a lovely family time,tree,eats ,presents etc ...but I like it for twelve days in December ,not for the three months leading up to it .
It's all become too commercialised and has lost it's meaning as a time for family and friends to get together and a celebration for those of a religious persuasion .

[pastafreak]

When I was first on my own,I made a pretense of hanging deccies but it became obvious that both me and lilpasta when she was here really couldn't be @*sed with it all. I send a few cyber cards, and keep present shopping to the bare minimum.
This year I am now experiencing my winter gloom...maybe its the weather,but its been real bad this week...I'm tetchy,and bordering on weepy. I just want the whole season to go away. Maybe I'd feel different if I had family close by....but I don't.

[lozzer50]

my 40 year old son in law died just before christmas last year leaving his wife and young kids behind. so ive got very mixed feelings about it this year. last year went by in a blurry haze ive got decs up for grandkids but it it was just me i wouldnt bother

[Connemmara]

deepest sympathies to you pasta and lozzer - know what you mean as my mother's favourite sister died on Xmas eve many years ago and for years after my mother used it to cry buckets over the whole of Xmas - that is why I hate it so much.

[Connemmara]

also my piano teacher rang me this am to tell me his 53 year old brother-in-law was buried yesterday so Xmas is so overrated as somebody earlier said - if you have a religious persuasion - aren't we forgetting that - it is all so commercialised and overhyped.

[lozzer50]

Christmas is too commercial now connemara when i was little i wouldt expect my mum and dad to go out and spend all their money on the latest gadgets, i was happy with a doll and books.

[pips1]

Hello all, I have thoroughly enjoyed reading all your replies and can't recall having received so many before. I have to say I feel sorry in my heart for all of you who have lost loved ones at this time of year (or any time really!) I will now count my blessings and try and get more into the spirit of things.

[gness]

Thanks for best answer, Pips....will forego the fee for putting up decs... ☺

I do know what people are saying about it starting too early and spending too much....but we can try not to let it spoil things for us.

After MrG and our son in law died we changed the routines and traditions that brought sad memories...we just have a slightly different time now but still have the fun they would be upset to see us missing.

We have a £20 Secret Santa for the 20+ gathering and nice but not over the top presents for the smaller one on Christmas Day.
For both of these get togethers I do my now famous Parcel Game, started when the children were young and still going with the grown up grandchildren....I do probably spend about £50 over the year gathering gifts for these games but it's worth it for the fun.

We're a big family and far flung....this is our one time all together at a happy time so we make the most of it.....xx

[pixie373]

I've just put a new fibre optic tree up. Looks lovely. I don't do decorations except blu-tacking all the Christmas Cards up. With 4 children there are usually 150 plus. I love the build-up, but i don't wait until 5th/6th to take it down. We're back to normal by New Year.

[sherrardk]

No one has to be festive if they don't want to be but I don't begrudge those that go over the top. For some people it is all they have to look forward to all year round. Personally, I hate the tree up too early (probably because I will have to clear out the corner of doom - otherwise known as the toy corner). If we've got the money the kids will be spoilt rotten (not that they act spoilt). I have a feeling that this year himself will go over the top to make up for the crappy summer everyone had.

[glenbar]

No, at the risk of sounding a grumpy old git, Christmas is certainly not what it used to be.

[mushroom25]

for anyone who has a truly jaundiced and cynical view of Christmas, just google "kevin bl00dy Wilson", and enjoy his "seasonal" fare......

:-D