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I know I haven’t posted anything for a while, and well, my faith is on a continual lapse-relapse cycle…it’s awful, but I’m dealing. Anyway, I’m posting now to tell you that I am boycotting christmas before it’s too late.
At an early age, I was indoctrinated into the belief that Christmas was about presents. I was “taught” that christmas was a time that santa came and gave everyone presents, then everyone had dinner and when the family left, my immediate family would rant and rave about so and so and gossip about their hair, choices, outfits, you name it. It got pretty vicious. Every year I asked for a hamster, eventually, it became the only item on my list to santa/parents. When I was about 10, they gave my sister a hamster, she didn’t even want it. I was crushed and that ended my want for presents. As I got older, I still attended the festivities, however, I noticed that I became this so and so that everyone gossiped about, even my own mother would chime in with her 2 cents.
Now, I am married and live with my dh. I work as a cash manager to support my education. I have NEVER in my life detested christmas more. People are so incredibly rude. They want, want, want to get that present/decoration at the lowest cost and if you ring in an item that is 4 cents higher, they scream bloody murder until they get it. Numerous times I’ve almost quit because customers are so rude. They’ve forgotten what christmas is about apparently.
Also, splitting the holiday between dh’s and my family has been terrible, almost every year I would go to my place, he would go to his. This year, I’m going to his place christmas eve and morning, and then we’re going to my parents for dinner. His parents are thrilled and have always been understanding. My mother, on the other hand, was so mad that I wouldn’t be there they entire day that she hung up on me…enough said.
SO I’m boycotting christmas next year, staying home, not putting up any decorations, not buying any gifts, it’s a meaningless holiday now. I understand that christmas is about Jesus, and it’s great for those who celebrate it as such, but for the rest of the world, I wish them bah humbug…
At an early age, I was indoctrinated into the belief that Christmas was about presents. I was “taught” that christmas was a time that santa came and gave everyone presents, then everyone had dinner and when the family left, my immediate family would rant and rave about so and so and gossip about their hair, choices, outfits, you name it. It got pretty vicious. Every year I asked for a hamster, eventually, it became the only item on my list to santa/parents. When I was about 10, they gave my sister a hamster, she didn’t even want it. I was crushed and that ended my want for presents. As I got older, I still attended the festivities, however, I noticed that I became this so and so that everyone gossiped about, even my own mother would chime in with her 2 cents.
Now, I am married and live with my dh. I work as a cash manager to support my education. I have NEVER in my life detested christmas more. People are so incredibly rude. They want, want, want to get that present/decoration at the lowest cost and if you ring in an item that is 4 cents higher, they scream bloody murder until they get it. Numerous times I’ve almost quit because customers are so rude. They’ve forgotten what christmas is about apparently.
Also, splitting the holiday between dh’s and my family has been terrible, almost every year I would go to my place, he would go to his. This year, I’m going to his place christmas eve and morning, and then we’re going to my parents for dinner. His parents are thrilled and have always been understanding. My mother, on the other hand, was so mad that I wouldn’t be there they entire day that she hung up on me…enough said.
SO I’m boycotting christmas next year, staying home, not putting up any decorations, not buying any gifts, it’s a meaningless holiday now. I understand that christmas is about Jesus, and it’s great for those who celebrate it as such, but for the rest of the world, I wish them bah humbug…