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I almost feel too tired to bother with Christmas traditions this year. It's been a busy year, and since July most of our free time has been spent on home improvement projects. It's hard to pull away from that to think about holiday traditions.

We didn't get our Advent wreath put together, or our Christmas lights put up, until just this week. I've barely started Christmas shopping. Wife and I have kind of agreed not to worry too much about giving each other gifts this year (though we still want to do something).

We'll be leaving to go visit my parents in about a week. Perhaps the change of pace will be good for us. My wife volunteered to decorate their home for Christmas. We also are planning a Christmas party when we return, the Saturday before Epiphany. Advent is breezing by, but perhaps Christmas will be easier to attend to.

How is everyone else feeling going into Christmas?

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Laeserin 1y ago

I have a headache.

Laeserin 1y ago

And my husband and my son and BIL spent all day clearing out the old house and it's still not done and I'll probably be spending Christmas vacation painting it. 😭

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

i hate the lights, i hate the decorations, i hate the stupid music, unless it's from the 50s or older, and currently my local hardware store they have shoved christmas shit all in front of the hardware stuff so it's hard to find things in there that aren't christmas decorations

i also personally believe that it's not the birth of Jesus because he was born in summer, they don't hold census in winter, and the old celebration has to do with the death of the sun god, starting on the solstice, and 3 days after that, it's a big orgy where everyone gets drunk and fucks their neighbour's partners and shit

and it literally decries a central ritual of modern "christmas" in the book of Genesis no less (nailing a pine tree to the floor)

it's not christian

and there's a whole back story also to do with Charles Dickens A Christmas Story kicking off all of the false piety of the season

so, yeah, just sayin'

DanConwayDev 1y ago

"Kind of agreed not to worry to much about giving each other gifts" sounds like a recipe for miscommunication.