Trying to get people to Quit the Xmas gift plague

A real present is one that is hand made by the giver, or something that person KNOWS the receiver has wanted for a long, long time. A gift for the sake of a gift is meaningless and pointless.

 

Christmas is far too much about the gifts, I'd be happy not getting any! For me, it's about sharing time with the family as it's the only time we're all properly together. And the food. Gotta love the food.

 

Family, greasy food, consumerism, and superstition. I guess if you lead a practical, healthy, sporting life with your buddies, you`re fucked.

Or, not fucked. Christmas is way too asexual for me. Everything asexual disgusts me. Yuck!

Edit: If you like Christmas, I`m betting your libido is lower than mine. Period. :biggrin:

 

If you dont want your family to get you a gift just ask for a handjob. At least if they do give you what you want it will be something you can use

 

I`m told Santa and fat, mouth-running, soap opera-watching, overly made up, wedding-ring-slangin`, co-dependent aunties secretly like jizz. :2thumbsup:

 

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Cheers Glen.

 

I fucking love the winter festivities, whether they're called christmas or just a big party. I love the tree, decorating, making gingerbread, presents, the big family meal, and I even like some carols. If some religious nutter or some melodramatic hippy tries to take away my modest gifts and wintery fun they can lick my arse.

 

I think having one day a year to celebrate and buy things for your family is nice...

I enjoy giving gifts to people to show I care and appreciate all they do in my life.

I also enjoy Thanksgiving and Christmas because of the feasts...food brings us together.

 

In lovelyxmalia, GlenGlen and SuperPsychMe we admire principally the depth and energy of the human mind; in BBAD, the divine instinct.

 

I don't mind Christmas much bc it makes my kids happy. But overall the spirit of spending too much and getting presents isn't whAt I really like about christmas. I like knowing that I can help someone less fortunate than me, have a better Christmas. Last year I gave gifts to kids whose parents were in prison. And in january volunteering to go help orphans in Ghana. So I guess I don't just do it at Christmas. But if people give a little more th an they receive that would be a good thing I think

 

I understand where you are coming from and I can see by most of the responses that not too many replies were made by those who fully read your OP.

1. Gift giving through guilt or obligation is awful. My wife used to buy little gifts for everyone; aunts, cousins, babysitters, kid's teachers, etc. This was an incredible drain on the family finances, time and mental health. It took me about ten years but I have broken her of this. In our family we buy big ticket items for our kids only. I always ask for nothing but my kids always want to go shopping for daddy so I ask for socks or pajamas or some practical item of apparel that I need. I take my kids to get something for my wife like a relatively inexpensive piece of jewelry, perfume or something for the kitchen. My mother in law is exactly like me and wants nothing but when pressed asks for bubble bath. For my mother I send her a fruitcake or jams & jellies. We don't buy for ANYONE else. If my wife wants to show little tokens of gratitude she gives Christmas cookies.

2. I avoid malls, Walmart, Target, etc. at all costs, ESPECIALLY at this time of the year. I cannot stand retail places. Fortunately we can get all my kid's gifts at Best Buy or on amazon.com.

3. I don't listen to commercial radio much so I avoid the overplaying of Christmas songs.

As a result I have grown to love Christmas. I love it for the peace of Christmas Day, where it seems like the world pauses. The kids are happy with their new gifts, I eat my favorite foods, drink the best alcohol, listen to Christmas music and watch the 1951 version of 'A Christmas Carol' with Alistair Sims. It is my favorite day of the year.

 

Thank you for reading and understanding. You summed up my thoughts more eloquently than I presented them. Christmas is more of a mood and time for me. At 65 I have few needs. I'd much prefer a note saying that someone donated to a good cause in my name. That tells me the giver knows me well.

Over the years I've accumulated a fair collection of frog themed items...hand carved frogs painted frogs, frog books...at that level of inexpensive gifts I'm very happy. they are silly things in a way but also say the giver knows me. A good new rubber froggie for the bathtub and a quiet day = good christmas.