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@mrsjustinm2b: my sister is a nurse and has to work this year on christmas.  but they have a different system than seniority for who gets off on holidays. They split the holidays into "winter holidays" and "summer holidays" and they only have to work one of each, and they rotate each year.  So this year she has to work christmas day, but she gets thanksgiving and new years day off. next year she'll have to work new years day, and the year after that thanksgiving day.  

There's so much happy peppy and sweet lovey dovey cheer!  I hate Christmas music, I hate even attempting to go grocery shopping, I hate the advertisements.  I don't do well at all in crowds, especially with more and more people wearing stinky-cat-piss fragrances.  

And is it necessary to keep Christmas year-round?  Jan/Feb: post xmas;  March/April: getting ready for xmas in june/july, ending previous xmas; May/June:  Not July, June! Get ready for July!; July:  CHRISTMAS!!!  And it's downhill from there.

I hate the people that decide because I hate Christmas, I *must* be "Scrooge" or a "Grinch", and they find humor in calling me such, thinking themselves cute and original.  

My family for some reason gets me to do the shopping, which they save for the VERY. LAST. MINUTE.  I ask them early in the season for information, so I can shop on my schedule, and avoid the crowds.  Nope.  Three days before Christmas?  "Oh did you still need..."  And they're not very helpful with it, complaining that I'm taking too long.  Of course they find my getting frustrated with them or the situation is for some reason hilarious.

I don't plan to do their shopping this year.  I'm not bringing it up.  I'm sure they will call me at the last minute, expecting me to do something about it.  Everyone's old enough to appreciate some cash.

This year I am not too fond of Christmas because I most likely will be getting laid off in less than a month, have no money after paying for our wedding, and have a lot of debt.  This Christmas will definitely not be about things.  We will be happy if we can afford to heat our home.  It will be our first Christmas as a "married" couple, so that is one cool thing to look forward to. 

@mrsjustinm2b: My mom was a nurse too and worked either chistmas day or boxing day every year. What we ended up doing was opening gifts as soon as she got home whether it be chistmas eve or christmas morning (depending on her shift). That way she was able to sleep after gift opening and we would then head to visit family after she got up, so usually around dinner time. It seemed to work ok for her.

I am kind of on the fence with christmas, I think it has gotten out of control on the gift giving aspect, but it is a wonderful time to spend with family. For ourselves we have found a pretty good routine for christmas, we spend christmas eve with my family and christmas day with FI family and then boxing day is spent when some of our extended family. Some years FI and I spend boxing day together but others we have to split up as we are wanted in two different places but I really don't mind.  It may become more difficult when we have kids but who knows. This year we are doing secret santa with FI family which is great because instead of having to buy 8 gifts each we can now just buy one each, so much cheaper.

I personally think christmas needs to be about spending time with family not about gift giving and I hope to encourage that attitude in our future kids. The joys of the hoildays are lost in the stress of spending money and getting the perfect gift.

I'm a holiday hater, but it's all the stress between families. DH is the first in the family (including extended family of cousins) to 'leave the nest' and to get married. We have meltdowns when we don't come to a holiday because we want to spend it with my family. I have to constantly argue why we need to see my family over his, then he whines, so it makes me hate the holidays.

This year, we are doing Thanksgiving with my family. We haven't for 3 years, so I won that battle. I haven't had Christmas Eve with mine in 6 years....

I hate Christmas because it has become a 2 month affair. By the time the actual day comes, I'm so tired of the music, the commercials, the decorations, the whole damn thing.

All my family's tragedies seem to fall around Christmas as well, so it usually ends up with someone in the hospital, something getting destroyed or someone dying, so it's always a toss up as to what each year will bring... just like a big lump of coal in our stockings.

I love Christmas....usually. But this year, with my dad passing away last week, I'd like to just skip Thanksgiving, the day after which is his bday and Christmas and just get to New years. I'm ready for a fresh new year. 2011 has just been a giant suckfest. I'm hoping I'm ready for it next year, because I really hate that I'm not looking forward to it.

My DH knows how you are feeling I'm sure, but I hate Christmas too since my DH has worked the graveyard shift (12-8 AM) for the past year and last year, he had to get negative attendance points against him since he called off on X-mas to be with me (he does not get any holidays off at his job). This year, we're relying on him switching schedules with someone who is off on Xmas so we can be together. It will be our first married Christmas too so it's very important to the both of us.

I also hate Christmas due to the amount of stress it causes. I never can think of what gifts to buy for people and I absolutely loathe Christmas music.