I kinda like Christmas, even though I’m an atheist. I just don’t understand why some people go crazy about New Year’s though.

Fun fact: nearly every christmas decoration in the world in now produced in Yiwu, China.

Christmas just feels like souless capitalistic consumerism. My relationship with it is pretty complicated due to growing up in poverty and how it has shaped my feelings on getting things. I don’t think it’s overrated though, i just think people think more people liek christmas than they do cause saying you don’t like christmas in public is socially unacceptable. A good amount of people hate christmas cause they find it very stressful.

I love the aesthetics and ambiance of Christmas. Warm colorful lights and decorations. The festive feeling and using reefs and such to bring color to an otherwise horribly gray and depressing season.

I HATE all the obsession with gift giving and shopping and buying. Basically, the way capitalism wormed its way into it.

Essentially, I like all the parts of Christmas that were basically stolen from other religions. I hate the aspects from Christianity, which were the easiest to use to inject capitalism into it (presents).

I think it should just be about bringing warmth and color to an otherwise cold and drab season. Where I’m from, there’s more deciduous trees than coniferous so all the trees loose their leaves. The sky is most overcast. With nothing but bare, dead looking trees and overcast sky, everything becomes gray and depressing. Due to the angle of the sun it’s like, daytime is “perpetually 10 am untill all of a sudden it’s 3pm. Then you get off work and by the time you are home it’s night.”

Christmas lights and such combat that drab depression. I just wish the holiday was more about JUST being with friends and family and bringing some cheer and warmth. Instead of all the shopping and “literally kill someone for the last TV on black Friday” type shit. Fuck presents. It’s too much of a focus when it SHOULD be like, a minor side thing. Little fun stuff not the main focus.

I work in a grocery store, so I’m assaulted by Christmas music for a whole month straight. That already puts me at odds with the season, and add into that seasonal depression and not being remotely Christian, Christmas just means less than nothing to me, really.

Are there any good holidays in the U.S?

It all seems like the same day of consumption with a different outfit on depending on the time of year

I worked in retail so you can probably guess my opinion on Christmas.

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Aesthetically it feels weird in the southern hemisphere, with all the fake snow and fireplaces while it’s blazing hot.

But coming from a catholic upbringing it was a great moment to be forced to interact with all them relatives at least once a year. Nowadays I don’t celebrate it much, so it’s just a holiday for me.

I can understand hating it, though. It’s a social convention forced upon all of us with no regard for us actually enjoying it. You can’t easily “opt-out” of Christmas if it’s important to people who are important to you.

I’m conflicted about Christmas.

I love the idea of Christmas, that is a midwinter festival that involves community, family, food, and colourful lights to brighten up those long December nights. I love that it has the power to bring people together even in the darkest of times (I learned about the Christmas truce of WW1 at a very impressionable age). I love giving someone a thoughtful gift and seeing them light up with joy. I’m even a sucker for going to church and singing Christmas hymns and reading the story of Christ’s birth even though I’m not religious.

I detest that it is an orgy of consumerism. I detest that it’s just another empty vessel to sell crap. I detest that for two months there’s never ending pressure to buy this or that, the advertising pressure that it’s not Christmas without buying a bunch of garbage that nobody cares about.

I still come out on the side of loving Christmas but it’s in spite of its modern incarnation, not because of it. I absolutely understand people who hate Christmas, it’s been hollowed out and transformed into just another capitalist festival of consumption

I feel like Christmas just drags on forever. There are so many celebrations that I can’t miss without upsetting someone.

Multiple family celebrations with family members that get close to a panic attack when something isn’t perfect.

Mandatory fun times at the company.

Friends inviting to get-togethers that I would like to join but often not have the time or energy left and saying no and making excuses is draining too.

All of that during flu season.

I LOVE Christmas. Growing up, my family used to spend the week at my grandparents’ farm. All my aunts and uncles would make the trip, and it was the only time of year I’d get to see all my cousins. The farm itself was in the rural northern prairies so it was like something out of a storybook with all the snow and festivities. We’d see the northern lights almost every year, and it was remote enough that we could hear them. We are a musical family so we’d sing lots of carols. I’ve got a fondness for the religious ones. I’ve always thought they had a haunting, ethereal quality to them when compared to the secular ones. The only downside was that I don’t like Anglo Canadian food that much. I’d have to live off mashed potatoes and cookies until we got home and I could return to my usual diet of curry lol

Halloween is the only good holiday, at least of the ones we celebrate in America

suburban winter sucks, holiday music sucks, consumerism sucks

lots of things to dislike about how christmas is without earning a visit from three ghosts.

No you’re not the only one, I high-key hate it