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Working for years in retail has ruined holidays for me. I hate everything about Christmas: the music, the decorations, all the stupid movies they play on tv.

>>41426

Agreed, it's depressing and stressful as fuck. Not to mention every cunt wants money off you in the streets/tv/work place/charities and that's before you've even shelled out money to afford xmas presents for an ungrateful bunch of fucks who don't even like them on the day.

So no, I don't want xmas to happen. The food and sleep is the only good part of the day.

I love christmas it makes winter less horrible.

>>41426
Same. It's our busiest time of year (think 3 - 4 weeks straight, 12 hour days, I actually forgot my own name at one point last year) so the whole thing can go suck it.

Everyone says "oh at least you can relax and have a few drinks on Xmas day". None of my family drink, so that's not going to happen. I fucking love Boxing Day.

>>41436
>relax and have a drink on Xmas day

Lol not when you have to be at work at the asscrack of dawn because people can't wait more than one fucking day to return shit or use their gift cards or whatever. I'm glad I got out of that hellhole

>>41444
I meant to specify the next day

I'm certainly already ready for winter break and it's not even midterms yet

I'm ready for yule-tide. I'm no christian jew.

having an "orphans christmas" this year, probably will crank the BBQ, some tunes and get drunk in the sun

I'm ready for gingerbread lattes. I don't care about Halloween or even Christmas as a holiday, but I love Christmastime.

I love eating, baking, and giving gifts, so even though I hate all the "festivities", I love christmas.

I love everyone baking and all of us sharing the things we've made. I love getting the perfect gifts for my friends and family and I love being able to make the ones I love happy.
So I am very ready for christmas.

>>41406
Are you fucking serious? It's oct 4th

>>41565
They're ready for Christmas

>>41565
>>41940
no grinches!

I love it but I don't have any family to celebrate with/I'm not close with them and no friends to invite over so I wish it was easier to celebrate it by yourself or with your anime crush.

I fucking despise Christmas.
Everything about this revolting, faux, psuedo-celebration legitimately makes me feel ill and I sick most of the way through December until it's finally over and done with.

I used to enjoy Christmas as a kid, back in the 90's in the UK before we'd adopted the American Christmas model. Now it's all about greed, people spending money on things they don't need and can't really afford, overpriced needless objects that have been manufactured for pennies and then marked up and marked up again before being reduced to create a false impression of a bargain. It's bullshut. I hate it, I. HATE. IT.

Fuck Christmas and what it stands for these days. I just want Christmas din-dins with Yorkie puds with my fam and nothing more.

>>42902
People have been saying Christmas is all about greed for centuries. This is nothing new.

>>42902
Who said your Christmas had to be like that?

>>42910
Maybe anon is just really, really old?

>>42902

Kek me and you must be the same person anon.

I know what you mean, chicken dinner with some stuffing and mince pie is all I need on the day.

To be honest, I feel as if the xmas spirit is dying. Well, it's almost dead tbh. I remember it being 1998 and I was 7, Christmas was booming! It was enjoyable, everyone looked happy. Now it's just miserable, the tv adverts force you to buy shit, every fucker wants money on the street, these german markets which come to my town every single year overcharge and it's the same pile of crap from the year before. Boots, jesus christ. I went in there the other day for make up and ended up looking at the xmas gifts. Fucking… £20 for lipgloss and a keychain in fancy packaging. You're basically getting packaging and paying for that. It's ridiculous.

All this money parents shell out for their kids and cry because toys in Argos are overpriced. Fucking hell, just go on Aliexpress and order some fake disney toys, cheaper, look like the originals most do (my cousin does this for her kids) and wrap them the fuck up. Kids don't even know the difference! They play with them, get bored and throw them across the room in 3 weeks time anyway.

>>42917

Christmas is like that in every single Westernised country these days.
Sure there are a few familial exceptions, but overwhelmingly greed and capitalism is exactly what it's about.
When I see those online videos of American's storming a Walmart or Target or whatever on Black Friday trampling and pushing and screaming and biting trying to snag a 15% off blender it makes me want to vomit everywhere.

I'm 24 btw.

>>42924

Oh Anon, it's so refreshing to stumble across another Britfag who remembers what Christmas in the UK used to be like when we were kids.

>every fucker wants money on the street

Urgh, it's like that where I am now.
I'm in Newcastle and trying to navigate my way up the main street to my university in the mornings it like trying to run a fucking gauntlet.
If you're not having chuggers follow you up the street or mormons stuffing leaflets in your face it's the homeless guys hassling you for change even though like, easily 90% of them are chancers or pissheads.
I never give money to them because years ago I was made homeless and I know for a fact that facilities and services exist for people like that. I've fucking used them myself.

The chuggers piss me off the most because if you dress poor that day they won't give you a second glance, but if that day you decide to dress all fancy-like they eye up that shiny looking new H&M bag and your overall appearance and see £££ in their eyes. I have a stunning burgundy Michael Kors trench in my wardrobe that I refuse to wear on the main street on weekends for this very reason.