Bah HUMBUG!!!!!!!!! Thank God Christmas is over.

fuzzybuddy

fuzzybuddy

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Before everybody starts calling me the Grinch, I'm really tired of Xmas by December 25th. Yeah, it's a nice season , but you have to admit, it gets overdone. The vapid 24/7 Xmas movies starting in October. The Xmas sales. Ya know, that perfect present, which is $339.97- 30% off. Then it's $339,97- 40 % Off. Then it's $339.97 50% off. And. one more time you hear about Rudolf, you want to permanently outen his nose .Bah HUMBUG!!!!!!!!! Thank God Christmas is over.:)
 

fuzzybuddy said:
Before everybody starts calling me the Grinch, I'm really tired of Xmas by December 25th. Yeah, it's a nice season , but you have to admit, it gets overdone. The vapid 24/7 Xmas movies starting in October. The Xmas sales. Ya know, that perfect present, which is $339.97- 30% off. Then it's $339,97- 40 % Off. Then it's $339.97 50% off. And. one more time you hear about Rudolf, you want to permanently outen his nose .Bah HUMBUG!!!!!!!!! Thank God Christmas is over.:)
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I thought you were a Scrooge before Christmas even started 😅
 
We like Christmas...it, and Thanksgiving are real nice family events. This year was the "inlaws" Christmas, and the kids/grandkids all scattered to their individual husbands families, and the wife and I had a couple of fun days at the casino. We will all get together tomorrow at one of the daughters house, and have our family day. We wrapped up our shopping weeks ago, and I just loaded up the truck with all the presents...so tomorrow will be a fun day watching the little ones unwrap their toys, and I will probably eat way too much of the good food.
 
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Gardenlover said:
But... but... but... Mr. Fuzzybuddy what about the Christmas music? Don'tcha miss the Christmas music?

[Said tongue in cheek] <== look pretty Christmas colors (I should have made time to make them blink) :devilish:
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I’m not really upset with you. Just has to let you know that I happen to love Christmas music. Just not ALL of it so I’m selective about what I choose to listen to
 
RadishRose said:
I am as well. Not Christmas in itself, but the looong, drawn out repetitious crap that goes on and on starting in October!
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Ain't you learned nuttin' yet Ms Rose... you don't go out to malls, or supermarkets after October..until the week before Christmas day, and you never watch any adverts on TV... that way you don't get to hear all that stuff before Christmas week :p
 
I guess I'm fortunate. Nobody forces me to watch any vapid Christmas movies (although we do have DVDs of a couple of classics that we watch every year solely because we enjoy them). I'm not annoyed by the commercial advertising because, frankly, I don't pay any attention to it. And no one has regaled me with tales of Rudolph for many, many decades. I do enjoy seeing the nice decorations and lights when I'm out driving.

I had to make a 2000 mile road trip the week before Christmas and actually had difficulty finding much seasonal music on the radio the entire way from New Hampshire to western Michigan and back.

The way I look at it, one can celebrate Christmas as:
- a grateful remembrance of the birth of the Son of God and the wonderful gift of salvation;
- a time for coming together with family and friends - even if by phone -to reconnect and appreciate anew those warm relationships;
- a time for sharing and giving and showing an extra bit of kindness to those with whom we routinely interact - and maybe some we don't even know;
- a mad festival of rushing around and shopping and entertaining and partying (not my thing, but there are actually people who enjoy it!).

If none of the above float your boat, then what's the problem? Just go about your normal activities. If there's an issue, I guess I just don't get it.
 
I'm glad it's over too, the commercials, ads, store displays, etc. start waaay too early these days, by the time Christmas gets here it seems like it already passed. There's only a couple of Christmas songs that I really like, like the one by Nat King Cole, I hate hearing many of the others. Shopping at the supermarket for the past couple of weeks has been torture with the music IMO.
 
I totally agree about the commercialism and consumerism that has been rife over in the Uk, well, in England, that is has completely wiped away all the joy of this special time in many people's views and beliefs and agree with Tommy in his post further back.

I still enjoy the run-up to Christmas and the aftermath when the tumult and the shouting dies and the New Year is on us before we know what's hit us. Let's all join hands in cyberland on New years Eve if about on here and I may well be but who knows? I might get an invite to a get together...;)(y)...I did last year
 
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