I dont want any more THINGS.
For Christmas all I want and need is love and respect.
Not another stupid item.
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It seems like love and respect is too much to ask for from some people.
Thats why Im a grinch during Christmas.
1.The expectation that youmustbe around family.
Many people have very dysfunctional and abusive people in their families.
I get constantly berated at work and out and about how Ishoulddo this or that with family.
2.Im at that stage in life where I have lost many people I love.
There are a lot of empty chairs at my table AND I MISS THEM.
Every commercial and holiday special is a reminder of ones who are no longer here.
But heaven forbid I BE SAD.
Heaven forbid I want to cry and smile and laugh and grieve.
Heaven forbid I be anything other than plastic and perfect and joyful and all the rest.
Heaven forbid I be human.
3.When are you finishing school?
Why are you single?
What are you doing after graduation?
All this from people who speak to me only during Christmas.
This person got me a gift this year?
I have to get them one back.
Youre not doing it out of selflessness and love.
Youre doing it because youre told to when you were a child and were reaping the benefits.
This one singular aspect of Christmas drags the rest of the holiday down.
Spending time with family?
But this obligatory celebrating of spending money ruins it for me.
I work next to a mall.
Pain in the ass to get home with all the morons out buying presents.
6.Everyone is always stressed out regardless of how hard they give a shot to be festive.
Family dinners should be about coming together, right?
7.Those poorly written Hallmark movies.
They have the same plot lines.
8.I hate the materialism that goes into it.
I love the family aspects of Christmas but that gets drowned out.
9.I dont have any family or close friends so its a lonely time for me.
As it were, I work in a job thats 24/7/365 and have to work on the holiday.
People always ask me if Id rather be doing something else on Christmas.
I would, but its not an option, even if I had the day off.
10.It lasts two fucking months.
11.There areso manyextra people out and about.
And theyre all so focused on themselves that common courtesy is pretty much non-existent.
12.The mountains of waste it produces.
13.Its just that my routine is always fucked!!!
Every business like doctors offices, government, etc are always not giving a shit either.
Everyone has the holiday, family, and travel on their minds.
You have to wait for after New Years for everything to get back to normal and get shit done.
I just really hate the holidays!!
14.Im a shite gift giver and it stresses me out.
16.Having to pretend that my family is the picture perfect family we look like in our Christmas card.
We can never seem to make anyone happy.
Last year I tried to leave my sister-in-laws at 9pm after being there for 11 hours.
I said I was tired.
You wont know what tired is until you have kids.
Firstly, people with kids dont have the monopoly on being tired, thats not a thing.
If youre tired too lets all go to bed!
Made me feel like trash.
And I used to love love love Christmas…
18.I dont want any more THINGS.
For Christmas all I want and need is love and respect.
Not another stupid item.
It seems like love and respect is too much to ask for from some people.
Thats why Im a grinch during Christmas.
19.The MURDER of millions of trees.
Christmas time is super stressful b/c it brings back bad memories and the idea of what family should be.
Its like having a cut reopened every year.
I find it distracting.
25.I dont mind Christmas in general but I am so sick of people obsessing over fucking Christmas trees.
All I see on Instagram is people getting and decorating their trees.
All I hear about on Facebook is We got our tree!!!
I really dont care.
Its just a tree.
A tree decorated with pretty lights and baubles.
Why do people freak out about it???
A fake tree??????
You dont want a REAL LIVE TREE IN YOUR LIVING ROOM???????
27.I hate buying gifts for adults.
To me, Christmas is 100% a childrens holiday.
I adore getting gifts for my own kids, love buying stuff for my niece.
I enjoyed buying things for my cousins when they were little.
However, gift buying for adults is just a chore.
My husband wanted a gaming computer last Christmas, so he went and got himself one.
I needed new boots, so I went and bought them, etc.
Gifts for adults just end up being impersonal crap candles, sweaters, gift baskets, etc.
or things, for the most part, I neither like nor would use.
I think wed all be happier for it less time shopping, less money spent, less household clutter.
Yep, Im a total Grinch.
It makes me very reluctant to engage in them whatsoever.
29.Collecting food for the needy during the holiday.
What about the rest of the year?
Are people not as hungry?
30.I wish people happy holidays and they get all up in arms about its not illegal to say it!
What a shame you should say merry Christmas, blah blah blah (I work in retail.)
It used to be every club, meet-up I was in did something for the holidays.
Usually one of those white elephant exchanges.
Yeah cheesy but also fun.
Over the years those groups dissolved, or changed.
Now all the groups Im in are doing nothing.
You ask why and its the oh everyone is so busy around the holidays line.
The thing is not everyone is.
Okay fine you are busy (or suck at time management).
Plenty of others look forward to these events.
We dont have the giant family, and the In-laws 3000 miles away, or whatever.
How do I know?
Because these events used to get everyone come out of the woodwork to attend them.
Uh yeah I can go to a tree lighting by myself and feel like crap all on my own.
I dont need to get a website for meeting people involved in that endeavor.
I also hate it when they play holiday music in August but thats probably been covered in this thread.
33.The noise.The noise.NOISE!!
Thats what he hated.
In all seriousness, I fucking hate Christmas songs.
That card gets acknowledged for 2 seconds before it is surfed into the recycle bin and forgotten.
35.Getting Christmas cards from people that I forgot existed.
36.People driving around in the mall parking lot looking for a parking spot.
Just trying to find a closer spot!
37.The exchange of equal amounts of gift cards.
Oh heres a $50 to a restaurant you enjoy, oh you got me one too?
Well that was productive…
38.I hate receiving gifts.
That money could go to something actually important.
Spend it on yourself, pay a bill, donate to charity.
Do everything but get me a gift.
39.People spending money they dont have to equate it to happiness.
40.I think what I hate most about Christmas is how fake it all is.
41.Teaches kids that rich kids are better because Santa gives them better presents.
I dont need a reason.
You never hear the end of it.
Nevermind people could come visit us.
Most Christmas music is garbage but people like it, I assume for nostalgic reasons.
The few good songs you only need to hear like twice and be done with it.
Its too stressful, its expensive.
Id rather stay home and cuddle my pets.
44.Because I am from Florida.
We dont do snow, snow men, snow angels, yellow snow, any snow.
We do however receive thousands of snow birds that make living here harder.
We dont do caroling.
We dont do hot cocoa and slay rides.
But we also have to listen to the cheesy music for 2 solid months.
Then the day after Christmas actually begins (its a 12 day feast!
), all the Christmas stuff goes into the trash.
Then you realize it wasnt about baby Jesus at all.
None of it feels right.
45.I grew up with divorced parents so Ive never thought of Christmas as a happy holiday.
46.That every place that I actually want to go to is closed.
I dont know how to process that shit.
I dont know what the hell is wrong with me, but being treated with kindness tears me apart.
But for the life of me I dont know what to do when someone treats me real nice.
Its not worth it.
49.The Christmas season seems to get longer and longer each year.
I was already seeing/hearing Christmas ads around Halloween.
At least wait until after thanksgiving ffs!
50.Music in retail stores.
