Who else just doesn't care about Christmas anymore?

[ImBigBob]

Growing up, Christmas was always awesome because "YAY! TIME OFF FROM SCHOOL!" "YAY! PRESENTS!" It was always awesome.

These days... I just can't care. I don't get much time off from my job, and if there are games I want, I can just buy them with my own paycheck. "Getting back with family" isn't so excited when you don't have any siblings, and I talk to my mom and dad on the phone once a week anyway so there's very little to catch up on. These days it just seems to be an excuse for my mom to stuff me full of fatty food that I'll spend January working off.

Maybe I'm a unique case due to not much family, but for how many people has Christmas just gotten dull?

 

[krazykidd]

Well a lot of people are more jolly . Also don't you have friends you can soend it with instead?

OT: i personally don't care for xmas . Too much stress . I gotta pretend to get along with my family ... And my girlfriend's family ... And my baby's mama ... Yeah xmas sucks . Then i have to buy gifts for eveyone and their mother. So i'm poor as a ************ . T'is the season to be drinkin' .

 

[hazabaza1]

Growing older fucking sucks.
I mean, yeah, I still like Christmas, but the childlike innocence... that glee... Santa... all gone. All fucking gone.
/sob

 

[FootloosePhoenix]

I want to have the same joyous Christmas spirit I had when I was younger, but I have to work awfully hard to rev myself up into even a little merriment. That's been happening with every special occasion since I've hit around mid-teens, though. Birthday? Meh. Halloween? Meh. Thanksgiving? Meh. Easter? Meeeeeeeeh. I guess I'm just becoming a jaded little *****. I'm still in high school so I'm bloody well looking forward to the time off, as well as the presents and assorted delicious food, but the holiday itself doesn't mean much to me.

There is a bright side to this, though: I don't drive myself up the wall with anticipation, so the holidays don't seem like they take an eternity to arrive like when I was a kid. In fact the past few months have been going by pretty fast to me.

 

[Mr Fixit]

I still like it, but my family & I are not doing anything to celebrate this year. Buying gifts for everyone gets harder every year & none of us really want anything. We're all adults & want to not be completely broke when next year starts.

 

[BathorysGraveland]

I don't really care for it either. I mean, sure, having dinner with family you don't often see and getting gifts and shit is nice, but besides that? Meh. The holiday itself doesn't interest me. I loved it when I was younger though, for obvious reasons.

 

[Fluffythepoo]

Stopped caring about the jesus's birthday and presents part of Christmas, but i have an extended family in the hundreds -all live close- so Christmas is quite an event

 

[TakeyB0y2]

Not just Christmas, my ability to care for pretty much ANY holiday has up and left me. To me, all I see them as hassles. Days that the people around me have been brainwashed into believing that if your friends/loved ones don't exchange money for material goods for you that means they don't like/love you.

That and I also tend to feel bad when it comes to the gift giving. I'll admit that I'm not a very creative gift picker-outer. That, and I don't have a lot of money. It actually hits me in a bad spot to have people spending $100+ on me when I can barely afford to get them something for $20. Being a starving college student sucks :l.

Also I work in retail, and a retail store in particular that is horribly understaffed even on our busiest days, has discount offers that require us to do frustrating and time-consuming things to keep track of them, sales constantly ring up incorrectly on our registers, cash registers that are well over a decade old and can't do really ANYTHING (and I constantly have to explain to people that, no, we CAN'T look up items in our store or other stores with our registers or with ANY piece of equipment unless we have the 12 digit UPC number, and even then all we can do is look up the price).

Sigh... Vent vent vent.

 

[Andy Shandy]

Up until today, I might have agreed with you. I wasn't particularly "feeling it" so to speak, in comparison to the younger years, where I could be excited from about a month away from the actual day (although I'm always excited on Christmas Eve. In a big part due to my little brother's enthusiasm about the whole thing. It's infectious)

However, my family got the news today that my little nephew that was born 8 weeks premature, would be getting out of hospital. Today. When everybody thought he wouldn't get out til about his due date (mid January). So I'm full of cheer and all that good stuff, and I can guarantee that'll continue through my brother's birthday (23rd), through Christmas, through my sister's birthday (26th) all the way through to the new year.

And as one of the little things, I love the Community Christmas specials =D

 

[Bellvedere]

Yeah I still love Christmas.

At the moment I'm pretty indifferent about it all but a couple days before I always get really excited. I'm a pretty late waker usually. On Christmas though I'm normally awake before 4am. When I was a younger it was terrible because my parents have this "it has to be light outside before you wake everyone up" rule.

I also live quite a distance from my family and while I talk to them on my phone it will be great to see them again. And my puppy!!!!! (who's actually a really old dog now).

 

[Smolderin]

I still love Christmas. It really is the best time of the year. The air gets cold, just the way I like it, I get gifts, and everyone seems to be in a happier mood. The childhood innocence and excitement is gone which is a shame, but I still maintain my love for the Holiday.

 

[manic_depressive13]

I haven't looked forward to Christmas since I was ten. I don't like my family, I don't like the practice of gift-giving and I don't like that everyone's so fucking cheerful.

 

[Rawne1980]

I have kids, I have no choice.

(Sorry to bring up the army thing again).

I've only had 1 Christmas with my kids so far, I was away for the rest, so I am looking forward to it.

 

[Gennadios]

Pretty much everyone I interact with on a regular basis is in the same boat. So I can point to 6 people.

We're all near-our-30s blue collar serfs coming off of "useless" Uni degrees though. The entire holiday season for us just means holiday pay and extra cash.

 

[KefkaCultist]

The time of year that my parents spend all their money on a mass amount of shit I don't ask for causing us to go broke?

I'm so excited [http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/250x250/31172139.jpg]

I don't want to come off sounding spoiled here, but in truth I am although I don't ask for it. I put like 5-6 items that aren't terribly expensive on my xmas list, but I'll end up with like 30 presents under the tree and no food in the fridge. -_-

 

[redmoretrout]

I'd be willing to wager that no one over the age of 18 without kids of their own really cares about Christmas

 

[CpT_x_Killsteal]

Yaaaay Christmas /sarcasm

I have to get along with my sister who basically terrorized my mother and I for about a year when she moved back in with us, and I have to go back and forth to my dad's house to spend time with him.
Then there's buying presents which is fucking durrrrrrr because I don't know what to get anyone that doesn't cost less then a shit ton.

 

[MeChaNiZ3D]

It's not special at all anymore, but it is an excuse to do lots of eating and swimming. So I like that aspect of it.

 

[Pink Gregory]

I think people become tired of it when they feel that they're forced to do things; like people who don't get along with their families, but have to get together with them because it's the done thing. I've only had a job over Christmas one year since finishing college, so I can't account for enforced jollity and tacky decorations (because we didn't do that in the staff-only areas).

To hell with societal norms.

 

[Bat Vader]

I am pretty sick of Christmas. At work they play Christmas music religiously which really gets on my nerves since I hate Christmas music. I buy whatever I want with my own money which kinda makes me mom a bit angry since she wants to get me something but doesn't know what. I hate how fake people act around Christmas. Everyone goes around with fake smiles on their faces pretending to be all nice and cheerful.

At work today I was able to get out of doing secret santa. My sister tried to get me to participate but I kept saying no. Main reasons I don't want to participate is because I have no idea what anyone likes there and even if I wanted to ask my my social anxiety keeps me from doing so. Plus, the idea of someone insulting or making fun of me because I got them the wrong gift really frightens me.