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When it comes to Christmas, what sort of person are you?

December 03 2017

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It's December and Christmas is fast approaching. Christmas decorations and Christmas carols have been in shops since the day after Halloween. What sort or person are you when it comes to Christmas? Do you get excited at the first sign of Christmas decorations in shops or do you roll your eyes, thinking it's way too early? Do you deck your entire house and workplace out with Christmas decorations from floor to ceiling with hundreds of lights flashing outside your house or do you maybe put up a tree and leave it at that? Do you throw yourself at the shops with a beaming smile on your face as you go about your everyday shopping as well as Christmas shopping or do you avoid shops at all costs, only going when really necessary and avoid eye contact with anyone so you can get what you need in minimum time? The past few years, I've been on the more negative side when it comes to Christmas. I notice most of my friends are proudly posting pictures of their Christmas trees. I meant to put mine up this weekend but didn't get around to it. Maybe I'll get around to it during the week some time. I hate the business of shops at this time of year, not to mention struggling to find a spot to park, so, yes.....I'm guilty of being that antisocial woman who swiftly sweeps in and out of shops, quickly buying what I need and hoping I don't bump into someone so I can get out of there quickly. I'd even wear a disguise and dark glasses if I thought it would help in not being recognised. But I do love the Christmas parties. I'm not a total grump throughout the entire holiday period. Come Christmas eve, I'll be relieved that I got everything done on time and I'll be excited about catching up with family and, in this case, friends that I'm planning to visit between Christmas and new year. I think, in my case, I find that the Christmas decorations and carols are put in my face way too early and I'm a bit over it by December.

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  • RHP

    RHP User

    7 years ago

    has always been a favourite celebration for me... It involves a lot of tidying and reorganising here which is a good thing. Christmas music is playing. I bought several new cds this year, most of them pretty much for free through vouchers for buying cat food. I could handle a $1.68 for postage each. Saved Flybuy dollars are being spent on drinks. Hams and turkey are in the fridge and freezer. Lists are being made for our favourite foods to get through the 'business closes down for Christmas' period. Lights are being hung, indoors, no outdoor displays here... No attracting unwanted attention. Christmas will be a quiet day, same as most, spent enjoying ourselves and preparing for a visit from our nearest and dearest near the end of the day. This year, I said my first Merry Christmas to a woman in the store at the cold sliced meat section yesterday, after I busted her watching us mucking around trying to chuck the numbered ticket into the teeny tiny dish and not hearing the staff member speaking to her. Life can be a laugh, I've always felt Christmas is the best season of the year. Peachy

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  • RHP

    RHP User

    7 years ago

    Now that things wind down a bit for the year, not particularly concerned with Christmas itself. More just the opportunity for more time to catch up on the to-do list and try to get a good start for the next year ahead. - Posted from rhpmobile

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  • RHP

    RHP User

    7 years ago

    Now that things wind down a bit for the year, not particularly concerned with Christmas itself. More just the opportunity for more time to catch up on the to-do list and try to get a good start for the next year ahead. - Posted from rhpmobile

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  • RHP

    RHP User

    7 years ago

    Of course, the aspect of getting together and enjoying family and friends is great, but the overall xmas celebration is more harmful than good. While we feast and indulge, and spend billions on worthless crap that will end up in landfill, thousands of people are starving to death. Much of crap we buy is made in sweat shops and at the expense of horrific exploitation. The mountains of waste we create in this celebration of materialism is just insane. If everyone spent half of their presents money on healing those that need it instead of fattening the profits of corporations, then I would get on board. Xmas today isnt just devoid of meaning, its actually an expose on the ignorance of our species. - Posted from rhpmobile

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  • Haleakala

    Haleakala

    7 years ago

    And that's long enough. I enjoy Christmas but hate the extended hype. - Posted from rhpmobile

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  • lovman8

    lovman8

    7 years ago

    But I'm with Wicca and think it starts far too early, and I'm sure the trees would enjoy another two or three weeks of life. Maybe christmas eve would be a good time to break out the decorations?

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  • Sawadee

    Sawadee

    7 years ago

    Bloody hell, didn't we have xmas just a few weeks ago ? Seems we just pulled the Xmas tree down and here it is again ? But seriously , thankfully my family realise its all about a get together with presents now a thing of the past, except for the kids who being kids ' deserve it... On the plus side , I really look forward to seeing the family over the break , plus the Xmas party's my clients invite me to every year.. I had 4 last year which are always a blast... Must admit but , as much as I look forward to Xmas coming , I just as much look forward to it going...

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  • RHP

    RHP User

    7 years ago

    ...that will lay under the Christmas tree on the Eve with a strong home-made GrogNog and mistletoe hung in all the inappropriate places. Kiss me on Christmas eve and wake me in the morning! Jingle my bells and hooooo, ho ho!

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  • RHP

    RHP User

    7 years ago

    ...makin' a list,checkin' it twice,gonna find out who's naughty or nice../#. Hold it, Santa...I'll give you $50 for that list? ...jingle this!

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  • inspirit

    inspirit

    7 years ago

    Run for hills. - Posted from rhpmobile

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  • RHP

    RHP User

    7 years ago

    ...it would seem my ''auto-typo settings'' are working perfectly! Dear Santa, please bring me a full-size Scarlett Johansson elf with nothing on it...and a keyboard that doesn't make meatsteaks.

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  • RHP

    RHP User

    7 years ago

    I used to love it when my son was little his birthday is also this month.He believed up until he was 12.Now I have an expensive teenager and most of the Christmas spirit has gone. I work in retail and people are so grinchy and cranky.Which doesn't help with my Christmas spirit. It is all so commercial and its not just Christmas.Once it is over we then have Australia day, valentines day, then the easter eggs come out. It never stops.

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  • RHP

    RHP User

    7 years ago

    I am the annoying Christmas friend 😁 I keep the spirits 🥃 he he alive! I get the tree out as soon as I can, the indoor and yes, the outdoor Christmas tree! Lights, music, my Christmas dinner set, menu planning, functions and social events. Even have a Christmas advent calendar for a Christmas task each day. Michael Buble, Griselda family Christmas movie, even love wrapping 🙄 I suffer OCD ( obsession over Christmas decorations) but I hate tinsel. Loves it! Get out there, have fun, it only cums once a year 😉 - Posted from rhpmobile

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  • RHP

    RHP User

    7 years ago

    I think we’re all getting Grinchy, all sick of the hype trying to milk each and every dollar out of it, and the rest! This Black Friday crap 💩 was really relentless. Our website hosts were counting down for two months, and spewing forth articles after articles about getting involved! It’s not our market, but even if it was I wouldn’t have wanted to be involved in that rat 🐀 race! I’m not religious now, however, it’s easy to see how the Christ has been crossed out of Christmas 🎄 and Jesus would have hated it, he probably would have fire 🔥 bombed the stores, burnt down the TV stations and cyber attacker the advertising agencies! Of course the paegan festivals celebrating the end of the year, winter solstice etc, all get chucked into the mix. Probably one of the worst things for me, because I hate TV 📺 I listen to radio 📻 and every single program is banging on about doing the best turkey 🦃 the finest desert, why fish 🐠 is wonderful for Christmas, how to take the drama out of family gatherings, and how there is too much hype about Christmas!! Ha!! As if they are not adding to it!! I like to go away at Christmas, have 3 weeks rest in a beachside country town, and avoid the competition about who’s having the best Christmas!! Yes, Christmas is for little children, unspoiled by trash TV mainstream pop music and the rediculous ads! It’s like the movie Polar Express with Tom Hanks, once that bell 🛎 stops ringing, the magic is gone! M_D4 - Posted from rhpmobile

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  • RHP

    RHP User

    7 years ago

    hearing Christmas music in shops. I walk around swaying to it "Rocking around the Christmas Tree at the Christmas party hop Mistletoe hung where you can see Ev'ry couple tries to stop" 🎶 🎷 🎹 What can I say, it fills me with joy, love it. Agree re spending millions on worthless crap, overkill definitely 👍

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  • RHP

    RHP User

    7 years ago

    for the chickens and turkeys whose days are numbered 😟

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  • RHP

    RHP User

    7 years ago

    It is totally up to you.! No one said we have to listen or watch or do the same as every one else. I don’t watch TV. I couldn’t care less how other people spend Christmas 🎄 Both my family and my husbands family did a Kris Kringle for the adults with a spending limit. Now we only make it about the children. Every Christmas Eve I serve traditional polish food and teach myself a new recipe. Santa hardly leaves any presents in our home, but family and friends matter the most. Being thankful for what we have and who we have in our lives. I don’t want my children to be focusing on an imaginary friend who just leaves a pile of stuff. We buy gifts to donate to worthy causes and teach them about other less fortunate children. They must also clear out toys they no longer play with to pass along. Each child also chooses a gift to give to their siblings. Every year we take a family photo by the tree. We share Boxing Day with our closest friends. You can make Christmas fun! Or be a grinch. It’s how we choose to enjoy it. 🎄🥟🍹🍒🍮🎁🎊🎅🏼🤶🎄 - Posted from rhpmobile

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  • RHP

    RHP User

    7 years ago

    it's fun for kids, but since I'm not receiving any toys now - though I think tracking shows one of the 3D Printers i ordered coming in around Christmas, so that's like having some Lego to play with... But besides the niece and how excited she gets, and the dogs - I'm only looking forward to the kilos of prawns. I don't get all worried about "crass commercialism" or any of that, I like having stuff and things, it's just that it becomes a waste of time and money "here is your $50 worth of things you probably don't want, and I'll receive the $50 of stuff from you in return... yay, now we both have $50 of stuff we don't quite want". "OK, now the exchanging of unwanteds is out of the way, lets do the compulsory gathering with people we're related to but don't want to spend time with". (On this count, I'm lucky, besides Mum, Dad, Sister & niece that is all I have to bother with, no extended family - but with girlfriends families it was just bleh... and you know the other sides are thinking the same thing too.) Last year I told my sister not to get me anything, and I gave her an early Christmas card containing the gift of "convenience" - I reckon it was a winner.

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  • PatchworkGirl

    PatchworkGirl

    7 years ago

    It’s sentimental I know, but I just really like it. Christmas playlists, featuring the Tim Minchin song my first lines come from, The carol of the bells Pentatonix version, and Growing a beard downstairs for Christmas by Kate Miller Heidke. Love Actually. Decorating the tree with decorations that reflect our family story. Finding the tight book for every person I am buying gifts for. This year I may not be able to decorate my tree, but I’ll Berkshire the people I love - especially because it is the first year I’ll get to spend Christmas with my love!

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  • lovebitten

    lovebitten

    7 years ago

    It's different now my children are young adults, but it's still wonderful. I love buying presents, cooking, going to midnight mass, and seeing my beautiful family and friends. My little family and I have had lot of hardship so seeing another year gone and culminating in a lovely celebration is literally life affirming. - Posted from rhpmobile

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