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Nov 23, 06
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Do you like Christmas?
If so why?
I hate Christmas. :finger: It brings out some of the worst traits in people and it's all commercialized and all about consumption. I can't stand looking at people lining up to BUY gifts. BUY! BUY! BUY! So the more you buy the nicer you are?? :gross: So if you also can't stand Christmas but want to give back to your fellow man/woman then click here: http://fnk.ca/board/showthread.php?p...46#post1749146 
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Nov 23, 06
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Hate it for the fact its now as most holidays become so commercialized. Most stores start putting up christmas decorations and start selling christmas stuff along with christmas music before even halloween.
I also am a little biased because i havn't celebrated a normal christmas since i guess i was 11 or 12. I've usually gone out. The one exception was when I went to Claire's house for a christmas dinner.
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Nov 23, 06
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I dont like Christmas at all. People think it's about the gifts, when it's about family. I dont ask for anything really my parents buy me things I want that I say Im going to buy myself. I buy for them even thought they dont want gifts. When your little christmas is good but now its not so special.
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As you get older though for one everything costs more since your the one buying, and nowadays its almost rude if you don't get at least a $20 or $30 dollar gift. What happened to the dinner, family and the spirit of christmas. Oh yea it got replaced by the materialistic ideals of christmas.
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I love Christmas, the only month I actually eat chocolate.
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Im so excited now as Georgia is here we can start are own Family gathering every mornming once she is a bit oilder, and then go see all the grandparents and everything. My favorite is decorating the tree and listening to the music with family or friends, people I care about. And this year we have Our own tree (we had a tiny one last year) and our having good friends come obver when we decorate it, One friend so far. Haha and Id like to keep it as a tradition to share that with these friends and actually experience the Holiday without it being gifts gifts gifts
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Nov 23, 06
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I like giving gifts. I tend to have a habit of getting folks things they'd never expect to get, yet enjoy just as much. Seeing that look on their face makes me kind of tingly inside.
Still, I could do that at any point during the year...
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That's why I just take the amount of money I would have spent on trivial gifts and put it towards other things like the charity events I am planning. At least those people appreciate the effort.
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Nov 23, 06
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Wowzers so much food enough for even 20 Kenji's. Thats alot of food.
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My family does a polish christmas dinner on the 24th instead of the 25th.
We fast all day until dinner and the dinner is meatless. Last year it was just my dad, brother and I. We just sat and ate almost everything we made. I think we couldn't move until late late that night. It was small and quiet but I enjoyed it.
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Nov 23, 06
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Blankets wil go alot furthur than giving someone a gift and having them snuff it off because its not what they thought they were getting.
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Nov 23, 06
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I like christmas when I am around my family. Its only myself and my dad out here in bc. The rest of the family is all in montreal.... My mothers side of the family is so huge that every christmas we have to rent a hall to fit everyone in there... Everyone brings a ton of food, gifts are laid out for the young one's and all. But its more about getting together. When I was in montreal 2 years ago I met 2 of my cousins for the first time. They were 18... Gonna be a quiet christmas again this year :(
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Nov 23, 06
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I'm not really big on Christmas anymore, but that probably has to do with the fact that Christmas has been the same old shit for the last 15 years. Christmas eve at my place, Christmas brunch at my aunt's place, and Christmas dinner at my Grandma's place, with a whole lot of my parents hating me in between. I blew $600 to go home for Christmas for 3 days last year, and that was about 2.5 days too long. The party the night I got in was insane, and the rest was all part of the worst Christmas ever.
This will be my first Christmas without family; I'm kind of looking forward to it, actually.
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I totally agree.. I always think of the best gifts, I love to be creative with them. I love christmas time, I love the decorations and the music and the snow just makes everything so much better. I love going away and spending time with my family in kelowna. Its always been such a magical time for me.
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Nov 23, 06
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I both like and dislike christmas. I like it when I can buy ppl things and put lots of thought into it. The reaction I get when I suprise somone with a great preasant makes me :).
However, this year I am broke. Which is ok. It happens to the best of us. I just feel like shit because I can't really buy anyone anything. So basically, christmas is making me feel like shit... so this year i hate it.
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Nov 23, 06
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She was so surprised the reaction was everything I could have asked for. Christmas can be a time thats special even to someone who goes out on christmas every year it doesn't mean the feeling isn't there.
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