The X-Mas thread

[hbionic]

I have vowed to change things up this year. I'm trying to bring back that christmas feeling I used to feel as a kid. After reading some of the reasons people hate halloween, I can understand why people might not feel so festive around this holiday season. I too had been scrooged but it's time for a change.

One thing I have noted that keeps that 'feeling' alive is having a tradition. Maybe because things have changed over the years, and nothing has been consistent in my life, I haven't observed any of the old traditions my family used to have...but it's not too late to start new ones. What are some of the traditions you follow during this holiday?

[Sgt PSN]

What are some of the traditions you follow during this holiday?

Binge drinking and supporting capitalism beyond my means seem to be the predominant 2 in my household. 

[rjs246]

I sort of hate this time of year. Too much family, too much pretending to be happy to see people, too much driving from place to place, too much shopping. I guess it's cliche to hate the holiday season but I seriously can't stand it.

[hbionic]

I've been like you most of my adult life...I've been like that for all holidays mostly. I even hated christmas songs for no particular reason. We don't have snow over here. There's tamales in the mix. But if I don't do christmas, then there's really nothing to really look forward to. Yes, there are birthdays, countless  of them. Random parties here and there but I was tired of being the member of The Fellowship of the Sour Grapes like most everyone else here. Sorry I asked?

By the way, I bought a Christmas counter (countds down the days to christmas). I'm going to watch all the christmas shows, and I'm going to tell my girl to farg me with a candy cane dildo....only until christmas. It goes back to old blackie after that. 

[ice grillin you]

christmas loses most of its luster after you become an adult...after that you either live it thru your kids dont care about it anymore or hate it

i just dont care about it anymore

[SD]

christmas loses most of its luster after you become an adult...after that you either live it thru your kids dont care about it anymore or hate it

i just dont care about it anymore

Couldn't have said it better. I decorate for my daughter and feel obligated to buy shtein and participate because people buy shtein for me.

[hbionic]

Those are good ways to look at it.

[Sgt PSN]

I'm going to tell my girl to farg me with a candy cane dildo....only until christmas. It goes back to old blackie after that. 

This is funny. 

And I do look forward to the holiday for the most part.  I admit though that as I've moved further and further away from my old religious beliefs, I don't get into the 'holiday spirit' as much as I prefer getting into a bottle of holiday spirits. 

Over the years, I've stripped away nearly every religious aspect of the holiday except for the gift giving.  No religious decorations go up, I replaced my star tree topper with Santa Claus, no religious holiday music or movies.  It's just a day to get together with family and give them lavish gifts to make up for a lack of attention or affection that we have failed to show each other over the previous 364 days.  Then we cook enough food to feed the neighborhood, watch some sports and go to bed. 

[hbionic]

If that isnt the american christmas spirit, I dont know what is.

You dont have to be religious to have the spirit. Religion fargs things up anyway. I too dont highlight the religious aspects of christmas...but santa claus is not christian either. He's actually a demon that gets one night of freedom per year. The christmas 'spirit' can be felt (unless you are jehovas witness of course), but its all what you make of it. It can be corny as hell, or cold and lonely, which isnt bad either, or anything in between. Mine's been dormant for years.

By the way...dont use candy on your shaft or balls. I damn near ripped my skin off trying to get that shtein off. Dont ask me what I was doing.

[Diomedes]

I like Christmas because I like giving people presents.  Every year, I manage to give someone a fantastic present that they really love. 

Other than that, meh.

[rjs246]

I'm farging awful at giving gifts. Couldn't possibly be worse. It doesn't help with my overall distaste for the season.

[hbionic]

I like Christmas because I like giving people presents.  Every year, I manage to give someone a fantastic present that they really love. 

Other than that, meh.

I was ordering drinks the other night at a bar, and there was this couple waiting...I ordered my round and told the bartendress to put their drinks on me. The couple was so thankful and amazed, that if the dude's girl wanted to blow me to thank me, he would have held her hair up while she performed.

Giving is cool.

[hbionic]

I should finish my thoughts before posting. Forgot the second half of what I was going to type.

[rjs246]

That would require some level of competence in the matter. I am utterly incompetent.

[Sgt PSN]

One thing that has started taking the fun out of xmas for me are the dreaded company/work section xmas parties.  My first 4 or 5 years in the Marine Corps, we didn't do that ish.  Then all of a sudden the section I work in or the entire farging unit wants to have a xmas party and play secret santa. 

Great.  So aside from the fact that you want me to give up my Friday or Saturday night and spend 3 more hours of my life with the idiots I work with, I also have to buy a $10-$20 gift, then wrap it and then watch as the one person I can't stand more than the rest inevitably ends up getting the gift I bought while I end up with either another travel mug or cheap ass emergency roadside kit.  Farg work xmas parties and farg secret santa.