For those that can’t stand this time of the year, my misery seeks company. What does it for you?
For me: aside from the usual family stuff:
I worked front-end in a post office back when that meant a line-up before I opened the doors to the end of the day when I had to inform the line-up that was still out the door that, yes, I was going to close on time. (Some didn’t take that well. For me it was just another Tuesday…)
It meant a lot of work with little thanks and I had to listen to the same shitty Xmas playlist over and over all day.
Edit/PS: The quick downvote sells it. Perfection. chefs kiss
All fake ,and biggest scam still around in 2025
I mean it’s a good reminder that I’m not really part of my biological family anymore
I’m sorry your bio family aren’t better people. I hope you’ve found better quality humans to call your family.
the stupid outfits and people telling me i need to like it
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The quick downvote sells it.
I feel like this could’ve been better as an open-ended question. I don’t hate Christmas but I don’t like some aspects of it, although not all of them are specific to Christmas.
I give away a lot of my money. I give gifts to people I know all throughout the year, I let them use my resources whenever I can. I even hand it out to strangers when I can.
Why am I obligated to do so on this particular day of the year? I do it every other day already.
Yikes!
My reaction while reading some of the comments under this post
Christmas can be a fun little holiday if you don’t take it too seriously. Buy some token gifts for people you like, bake a shitton of baked goods and eat it yourself, watch silly movies on TV, decorate a tree or don’t, like whatever man.
I really don’t like getting presents in company. I’m an Autist and don’t react as people would expect, so masking sets in which is very stressful.
so masking sets in which is very stressful.
Pretending to be happy sucks. (…the energy right out of me.)
Mimicking looking happy and grateful.
“Say cheese!”
“Why?”
“Because it makes you look like you’re smiling.”
“Oh…”
Yeah that’s where the misunderstanding starts. Meta style!
Not every Autist is identical (or rather everyone is wildly different) . I mostly have no issues understanding things like that and I can be a master of sarcasm. However this makes it all the worse when it hits and flies over my head with random other stuff: but that was so obvious. Sigh.
I’m (probably) not an autist, but same all around. Hate watching people open my gifts as well because I feel like I’m pressuring them to act a certain way. Exchanging gifts is miserable.
Now take that discomfort and dial it up a few hundred percent, maybe throw some resulting body issues in there and being ill a week thereafter.
The point I am often trying to make is: the separate issues are sometimes easy to understand (and that’s good) but the resulting issues are underestimated because of this.
Please do not take this as a aggression to your valid post, but I often feel this needs to be added.
Me sharing my discomfort was not intended to discount yours. But in the same vain, don’t discount my feelings either.
Oh, nono. All fine! It was not meant that way.
However, vein. Scnr 🤣
My in-laws are the absolute worst with this. Everyone sits in a circle and opens gifts one at a time. Makes my anxiety spike just thinking about it.
Are there any holidays or celebratory rituals you do like?
Well it also has its advantages. People are on vacation and in general it’s less busy so that’s an advantage.
Anything where I can just be. There’s no fixed time for that.
I hope you get some being time for yourself then!
Thanks!
The “less busy” thing varies by location.
Where I live easter is a real shit show. We’re just over-run with people visiting from out of town. I always thought it would be a daft time to go visit the city or something but… turns out everyone has left the city to come visit my town.
Yes, of course. Munich is mostly always busy so I’m lucky (and also chose to and of course it would also be more expensive) not to live in the center.
An avocado, thanks…
You’re not alone in hating Christmas, though for me it’s different: it’s the stress of having to celebrate, be happy, and get people presents. I don’t want to be forced to or pretend to be happy, I have nothing to celebrate, and if I want to give someone a present I don’t need to wait for Christmas (and if I don’t want to give a present, I shouldn’t be required to).
Basically, Christmas is just another way to make people spent a lot of money with the pretense of it being “the happiest time of the year” (for someone else).
I had the right not to be happy, don’t mandate that I should be happy during Christmas.
I had the right not to be happy
I rather like that.
I decided long ago that Christmas and birthdays just wasn’t for me. Easy enough when I live alone.
I don’t decorate, don’t eat anything out of the ordinary, don’t dress up. It’s just a normal day, that passes without much ado. Hate is too strong a word, I just ignore it.
Same here. Xmas, birthday, new year : all just ordinary days for me. Back when my mom was still alive I visited her for Xmas (and many other times) to make her feel better, but other than that I’ve not celebrated it for decades, and my mom died half a decade ago.
This pretty much sums it up for me, I don’t specifically hate Christmas but I don’t celebrate it.
I do loathe winter as a whole though. Weather is shit, the lack of day light hours, and just general miserable nature of this time of year can fuck off.
Winter is hellish. I’m not sure what I hate more, the cold or the lack of light. You should try taking vitamin D, our bodies make it from sunlight but we’re not getting that this time of year. It helps me.
i hate having to come up with ideas on what to buy for people who already have everything. all just because we are brainwashed by capitalism
I mainly just focus on buying people nice edible treats. Biscuit boxes, chocolate, turkish delight, fancy coffees or teas.
I buy experiences and consumables. No more stuff.
the same shitty Xmas playlist over and over all day.
This pretty much sums it up. Music is a big part of my life, and to hear it be so… corporate and someone-has-a-case-of-the-mondays vibed makes me sick.
i hate any kind of repetitive stimuli with a (probably autism-related) damn near uncontrollable incandescent rage.
certain tracks give me genuine panic flashbacks to when i worked retail and had to hear the same ~10 pop renditions of carols over blown out ceiling speakers for 8+ hours at a time while old women were hurling verbal abuse at me for their favorite salami being out of stock
I’m kinda done with it taking up a third of the year. You start seeing Christmas decorations and shit hit store shelves before Halloween.
When my dad was a kid, my grandparents did absolutely nothing for Christmas - no decorations, no tree, etc - until Christmas Eve, then they went all out. Then they’d pack it all up the day after Christmas. I feel like if the Christmas “season” was only a few days, I’d hate it much less.
I reserve some time between ~Dec 20 and ~Jan 10 for bright colored sweaters, visiting relatives, exchanging gifts particularly for the kids, rich food and strong drink…I live in the Northern hemisphere, it’s the beginning of winter, it’s cold and bleak and the days are short, spend a bit of time doing something to keep your brain inside your skull.
Why are we selling 8 foot tall inflatable glowing candy canes in early October?
It’s shameless corporate horse shit disguised as shameless religious horse shit.
