Things you dislike about the holidays.

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Well here's mine...

1. Shopping

2. "Jingle Bell Rock" *any version, just ban it already*

3. Inflatable Santa's over 6 ft tall bobbing around in the front yard.

4. Eggnog *blah*

1) People encrusting the front of their houses with about thirty-thousand Christmas lights... in November. And then keeping them there until February.

2) Slade's So Here It Is, Merry Christmas. Enough of that bloody song!

3) Christmas episodes of bad sitcoms, which have already been in rotation for the past five years.

4) The endless piles of post-Christmas turkey sandwiches.

shopping,shopping,shopping....not just the crowds and expense but trying to decide what people will like.I hate to waste money but the things I like arent the things most my family likes.Sometimes I will but several gifts because I cant figure out what they will like and then have second thoughts about what I bought.This is really stressful and expensive.

It makes me more aware of how left out I am with my adopted family.They always get together but I cant afford to fly down and see them(dont know if I really would want to,as it use to be stressful when I did)I have no family in my area and am never sure if this is a good or bad thing,mixed feelings.


I like Christmas lights and eggnog and dont go into anything but thrift stores,so I am not bombarded by Christmas music.

I dont usually get "what I want" for Christmas...my boyfriend never seems to remember when I say I like something,alot of times he gets me things he can use,(we both like a lot of the same things,so it's not all bad)It was worse when I was growing up and my mom would buy me clothes she wanted me to wear(like pink sweaters)instead of things she knew I liked(like black T-shirts).Now they just send cash.


The clients(DD),I work with,get little to nothing from their families for Christmas and I feel guilty not buying them things(even though I am not supposed to)More shopping pressure,because they cant always tell me specifically what they want,so it's hit and miss and can be a waste of money when they dont like it.


over all....I hate Christmas and cant wait until it is over!! !! !

Basically I ignore it all. One year I did spend 4 thousand dollars on presents
for everybody. Oh the good old days when I had money

The foul commercialisation of it all. One great big excuse to shaft yet more money out of people. People go mental at that time of year for no reason at all.

I actually enjoy shopping.

What I don't like is that one radio station i listen too is already playing christmas music, and by the 2nd day of the Christmas Season its already put away until next year.

When i celebrate the season, Its begins at sunset on Christmas Eve and ends with the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord which is January 8th this year.

The shopping, the comercialization and the high expectations that everybody should be happy, from the begining December right up until New Year's Day. I wonder what this December will bring to me, after what I've dealt with, last December on the 10th.

Ding! Ding!

I like Christmas, except for :-

shopping -shops are always crowded and full of maniacs in a panic who leave their manners at home and elbow me out of the way to get at what they want - where is the 'spirit of Christmas' in that?

Plastic toys. Sorry any Mums and Dads here, but some little 'uns I know have the European plastic mountain on their living room floors come Boxing day and most of it is not recyclable. Christmas is not an excuse to destroy the planet. I'm buying everyone books this year whether they want them or not. Even babies. One day they'll be able to read.

Parties - oh no! every year I hope no-one invites me to a party. I hate going and I feel like Scrooge if I say no. Parties are toe-curlingly awful and I'd rather enjoy Christmas curled up in front of the fire with a good book.

Neighbourhood 'lights wars', where neighbours compete to get the most horrendously tasteless light displays. Santas climbing up chimneys, plastic blow up snowmen, which blow around flaccidly two days after Christmas and look like abandoned giant carrier bags.

I think that books are a very practical gift. I'd rather recieve a book than three boxes of chocolates for Christmas, any year.

1. Radio stations playing Christmas music all the time. Personally, I believe that if it isn't Christmas Day, they shouldn't be doing it. But then again, my favourite Christmas song is "Christmas at Ground Zero" by Weird Al Yankovic.

2. The crass commercialization. Christmas ads everywhere on TV, on the radio, in the newspapers, in the shopping malls... there's no escape.

3. "The Little Drummer Boy" in all its incarnations. 'Nuff said.

Not practical, because you could end up with a load of boring books by boring nonentities. Or a load of worthy but heavy-going stuff. No-one knows my tastes as well as I do at any particular time. The odd book is fine but I wouldn't want my Christmas swag to be full of books and nothing else. Clothes are nice, too.

the a***hole who reclines their seat all the way into my lap for 6 hours

thats what I loathe about holidays

oh and prickily heat

not had a hol for years mind you

oh no I thought the topic was holidays not "the holidays" as in xmas vacation. Spoken like a true brit.
Anyway mine are

the flu I will probably have contracted by the 24th December
very busy shops
the end of another un-productive year
tinsle rubbing on the neck...ooooooo
cold feet
face ache from smiling at the family being nice

What radio station is that? Name and format

and every three seconds a child dies due to poverty and starvation.we wish you a merry xmas and er . . .goodwill to all men.

the commercials
the repetitive playing of songs
the fact that i have no money and have to "find money" all over the house