The BAH HUMBUG thread, whats wrong with Christmas

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Too much stuff. I already have too much stuff.
 
I always look at Christmas as a very special time. My son and daughter both spend most of the weekend here at the house and yes it becomes crowded and messy. But its family and I cherish it. We are blessed with 2 grandsons and just last week we found out that there will be a 3rd grandson in May! Yes I spent money on presents that I would rather have used for car parts and I receive things that I really could have done without. But also each year I learn how important family time is and and how priceless the family time has become.
Tomorrow it's back to work but this weekend the wife and I will sneak off to be by ourselves and to get charged up for the next year.
Rod
 
Just lost a good friend to a stroke. RIP Mike!

 
Just too boring for me anymore. No one in the family feels the need to exchange gifts anymore. We get gift cards for the nieces, nephews, and grandkids, but that’s it. Wife and I don’t even exchange gifts. I kinda miss the way it was 20, 30, 40 years ago. Piles of gifts under the tree, the expectation, and the ripping open of all the gifts and then a big turkey dinner with all the family. There’s just no excitement to it anymore. Plus missing all the people that have passed on, sorta takes the fun out of it. Just all part of getting old I guess.
 
For me its all the garbage. Everything we buy was packaged yet we must add another "prettier" layer. Those who don't haul away their own, recycle and such, wouldn't understand my gripe.
Our local place is always closed on Wednesdays. So this year they are closed Sun., Mon., Tues., and Wed. There will be a long wait there tomorrow ( in the pouring rain ). I have had to bring paper and plastics back home with me because that compacter was filled. Wish me luck
 
MileHighDart said:
Just too boring for me anymore. No one in the family feels the need to exchange gifts anymore. We get gift cards for the nieces, nephews, and grandkids, but that’s it. Wife and I don’t even exchange gifts. I kinda miss the way it was 20, 30, 40 years ago. Piles of gifts under the tree, the expectation, and the ripping open of all the gifts and then a big turkey dinner with all the family. There’s just no excitement to it anymore. Plus missing all the people that have passed on, sorta takes the fun out of it. Just all part of getting old I guess.
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Family is just not what it use to be. After my parents passed, it’s almost impossible to get everyone together. I bought my two grandsons one present, and gave them money for their savings account. They already, like most kids, have so many toys, you can’t hardly walk through the house. I keep telling my son, don’t spend any money on me. If I want it or need it, I got it. Time with them is all I care about.
 
if your over 15 and have a mind ===== bah humbug, it's f&^%ing commercialism gone haywire and its almost impossible to ignore. "What do you want for Christmas?" I'll tell you what I want ====
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===and its FREE.
 
I had to wave due to the fact I might be losing my job, then my househouse....3 years to retire.....hated not being able to give like I usually do.....in limbo
 
Here's one I found out yesterday
This was the first year we hung stockings by the fireplace
(Our fireplace is a gas unit on a thermostat, so it kicks on when the room drops below 68 and off at 70)

Turns out putting chocolate in the stockings was a bad idea
 
Decade ago, back in SW Ga., my mother would invite all the relatives over for Christmas dinner. Probably 30 people, aunts , uncles, cousins, and some more distant claimed relatives. What a feed. There was the dining room table that sat 8, then the kitchen table that 6 could get around, people on TV trays ( remember those?), and the rest putting that plate on the hood of some car! Then years went by, aunts/uncle died off, cousins moved way away, and one Christmas it was my mother, me and the wife. I had finally graduated to the BIG table! But what a let down and depressing it was!
 
Got this for X-mas, it surely helps with most situations that I encounter through out the holidays....lol.

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After another year of my wife cooking and me helping for all the relatives that come over and bring nothing, make a mess and leave. Some come from out of town and stay at our house We told them if they want Christmas with family they can do it somewhere else. They got a little upset and said our house is the only place we’ve done this it’s tradition. I told them tradition is changing next year we are going to spend Christmas in another city, state or country and not with all of y’all. My wife asked how I could tell them that and I told her that the bottle of Makers Mark helped. After they left my wife asked me “So, were are we going, Norway?”
 
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