Unpopular Opinions: Holiday Edition

doeydo · December 2013

Someone made one for Halloween, so I thought I would start one for Christmas or whatever holidays people on here are celebrating.

1. I love Christmas. I love weddings. I don't like Christmas themed weddings. It doesn't make sense to me why people would want to combine the two. I have no issue with "winter wonderland" themed weddings, though.

2. So many people get engaged on/around Christmas, for some reason. I hate when someone gives an engagement ring/proposes as their Christmas gift to their S/O. It is not a Christmas gift, it is completely different.

kerbohl · December 2013

I agree with number 2, but am unbiased towards your #1. I am getting married a month after Christmas, and I am not having a Christmas themed wedding, but I wouldn't be completely opposed.

My unpopular opinion - I am done with giving gifts to people at Christmas, and receiving gifts. I don't really need anything, and a lot of my family doesn't want anything specific. If I see something that I think my parents or my siblings will like throughout the year, I'd like to just buy it and give it to them - why wait for Christmas to show your affection with gifts? Besides, I find myself wanting or needing things in summer, not in winter. I want this time of year to just be about visiting family and good food.

HisGirlFriday13 · December 2013

1. I also hate Christmas proposals that are presented as 'gifts' -- "I got the best Christmas present this year, I'm getting a husband!" No. Just no.

2. I hate the movie 'A Christmas Story.' Like, a lot.

3. I do not like weddings during the holiday season (from after Thanksgiving to NYE/New Year's Day), because the holidays are already stressful enough WITHOUT weddings being added to the mix. I also dislike Christmas-themed weddings.

4. I hate the unreasonable expectation that, just because it's the holidays, people will forget how horribly they've treated people the rest of the year and everyone will magically come together as one big happy family. No.

pumpkinsandturkeys · December 2013

I hate that everyone acts shocked when I say that we don't have our tree up, and that FI and I haven't purchased any gifts for each other. Anyone who knows us knows that it's been a busy effing few months since we got engaged. Chill, people. I also hate friends who get pissy that we can't come to their late-December birthday celebrations. I'm sorry that you were born around Christmas, and I know you often get shafted as a result, but don't try to make me feel guilty for spending time with my family on the two days I actually have off instead of with you.

Maggie0829 · December 2013

I do not like the movie "Its a Wonderful Life." It makes me want to vomit.

I do not like how it seems like this time of year is the only time when people feel the need to donate. Those individuals in need are in need year round, not just the holidays.

I hate eggnog.

Really not a fan of Christmas music. I don't mind listening to it on Christmas Day or maybe even the night before but for 2+ months! no thank you.

chibiyui · December 2013

I love Christmas, but:

1. Also dislike Christmas proposals in lieu of Christmas presents. It makes both parties look bad.

2. If I wish you "Happy Holidays" and you get upset that I didn't say "Merry Christmas" You're kind of an asshole and are missing the point.

3 . This shortened holiday season has been a pain in the ass, Thanksgiving, don't you dare show up in the last week of November again.

erinlin25 · December 2013

every since I worked retail as a teenager I CAN NOT STAND CHRISTMAS MUSIC! Unless we are at a christmas/holiday party I really cringe when I hear it (and even then I can only take so much)...which sounds like it is becoming a popular opinion, so I am glad I am not alone!

I agree with "Its a Wonderful Life"--never been a fan.

I also agree with Christmas engagements-- at least do it a week or something before so the girl has a special day to remember it on its own.

I also cannot stand Black Friday and NEVER shop that day.

seshat303 · December 2013

I don't really like Christmas music either, especially The Little Drummer Boy. My old job played Christmas music in the lobby from thanksgiving on and it made me downright twitchy. My family also had a narrated cassette of The Little Drummer Boy that I can't effin stand.

I also hate It's A Wonderful Life and have never been able to sit through A Christmas Story. I do really need to replace my VHS of A Muppets Xmas Carol since I don't have anything to play it on.

I want to punch anyone who insists there's a "war on Christmas."

I hate live Christmas trees. They're a pain to get home, they're spikey, and they shed like mad. Then you have to string lights which is a giant PITA to me. Give me a fake, prelit tree any day.

blabla89 · December 2013

@doeydo that reason is marketing. All the Jared/Kay commercials on hulu right now just make me want to vom.

1. I hate cards that say "Season's Greetings" and all of this politically correct holiday business. By all means, wish me happy holidays and I'll appreciate it, but don't rain on my Christmas parade.

2. I could do without gifts. Specifically I don't like people feeling obligated to give me gifts and then being obligated to give them something in return. I have enough stuff, as do most of the people I exchange with, and most of the gifts are kind of meaningless anyway. I wish my family would simplify but all my aunts and cousins just want more more more, every year.

3. I wish it would snow. I know everyone in Atlanta hates snow but I just want a little bit. Please?

triciaandkenswedding · December 2013

1 - I actually like Christmas proposals. But then my father proposed to my mother on Christmas Eve. He placed the box on the tree with 2 mice ornaments in the middle. 43 years later, those mice are still in the middle of their tree. So I grew up with that story.

2 - Hate Christmas Story. Makes me sad. Ralph was terrified of his father, bullied at school Not a happy movie.

3- I plan ahead, deal with it. So when I am out shopping and pull out a spreadsheet with gift info, who is done, sizes and what we got them last year - don't roll your eyes at me and assume I have no life - I'm too busy to be forgetting little Jimmy until December 23rd! I need it in writing.

jdluvr06 · December 2013

I hate Rudolph

KytchynWitche · December 2013

Maybe it's the fact that it's summer here and I feel instinctively that Christmas should be wintry, but I've never cared for it. FMIL (who is American) doesn't understand how I can not get the same thrill that she does from trimming the tree, painting sugar cookies, watching Christmas movies etc and I've given up trying to explain because to give her the full reasoning I would have to go into something that was very traumatic for me and that I don't want to talk about.

I dislike Christmas songs, whether religious or not. I listen to Straight No Chaser's albums during the holiday season because they're funny and a bunch of very talented guys.

I also hate the idea of the "Christmas miracle". If you've spent all year in court, tearing your family apart because you want to overturn the will where he left his mineral-rich farmland to cousin June instead of you, Christmas is not going to magically fix it. If you lost you job and are on the verge of being homeless, Christmas is not going to magically fix it. If the school art program is going to be shut down for lack of funds, Christmas is not going to magically fix it.

And I hate that every year I try to get my Christmas shopping out of the way by August, and every year I end up with at least one gift that needs purchasing in the week of Christmas when the shops are packed and I want to smack every single person I see because they are acting like overgrown 3 year olds when mommy's taken their dolly away.

CLoGreenEyes · December 2013

Thank God someone started this thread. I'm sick of the holidays.

I can't stand the movie A Christmas Story. Doesn't make any sense to me. I do, however, LOVE It's A Wonderful Life. Passionately.

Because gift-giving is not a love language I speak...like at all...I really dislike the intense pressure to buy gifts for everybody! It's bad enough with my family, some members of whom will sit there and pick apart the gift you give them ("jokingly," of course), but then for everybody else too. I love my friends and my co-workers and wish I could shower them with lots of wonderful gifts, but I simply cannot afford to buy a million things this year, even if it's little trinkets. And because most of my friends/co-workers will be giving out little gifts/goodie bags/something, I just feel like a huge grinch.

I hate the expectation to spend all my time with my family around this time of year. There's a reason we're not close.

I hate mistletoe. I hate Hallmark Channel. I hate Christmas proposals. I basically hate anything that reminds me I'm single this year.

For real, though, I'm just not sentimental like that. December 25 just doesn't mean much to me as a day, and I hate that there are apparently all these wonderful loving feelings associated with it that I just can't/don't experience for whatever reason. Love and joy and goodwill are for the whole year, so I don't understand why Christmas seems to remind people of it.

thejucheidea · December 2013

I straight up hate Christmas. I think the holidays bring out the absolute worst in people and I can't stand it.

cruffino · December 2013

Santa is not real. Why do we perpetrate this fiction to our children? Is love between actual people not a good enough reason to celebrate?

climbingsingle · December 2013

I am a dork and I love Christmas.

But I hate multiple Christmas celebrations. Can't we all just celebrate ONE DAY and have that be it? We celebrated with my mom's family this weekend. And then we're expected to go see family on Christmas Eve and then again on Christmas Day. It's just too much.

FI and I decided that we're just going to start going away for Christmas.

I also can't stand having to deal with other shoppers. Everyone is so freaking rude. Fighting over parking spots, shoving each other in stores. I hate it.

ElcaB · December 2013

I hate when people use red and/or green spotlights on their houses as part of their Christmas decorations. Dude, it makes your house look haunted, not Christmasy.

I hate blow-up Christmas decorations.

I love snow.

I actually enjoy the hustle and bustle of shopping. The crowds make it feel more festive, that is, when they're not being rude.

climbingsingle · December 2013

ElcaB said:

I hate when people use red and/or green spotlights on their houses as part of their Christmas decorations. Dude, it makes your house look haunted, not Christmasy.

I hate blow-up Christmas decorations.

I love snow.

I actually enjoy the hustle and bustle of shopping. The crowds make it feel more festive, that is, when they're not being rude.

Yes! The inflatable Christmas decorations are terrible. I hate them.

pittiemama14 · December 2013

I HATE baking christmas cookies, and my mom was seriously disapointed when I told her I would not be participating this year, but I just could not take it this year.

I HATE snow and am actually happy it's pretty much melted where we live and we won't be getting anymore before christmas.

I HATE having a crazy MIL who cried like a 5 year old when we told her she could have christmas eve, and my family was getting christmas day. She wanted us to come both days and I said Hell No. Sorry but I don't want to be in the car for 4 hours two days in a row, and apparently that makes me "a heartless bitch who is tearing her family apart". Right, because you don't drive people away all by your self with your constant drunkedness and horrible additude.
(Can you tell I have some pent up frustrations lol)

audubonbride2013 · December 2013

I don't like Christmas letters. To me if we're close enough then I probably already know what you wrote in your letter anyway. They generally are overly braggy about their kids (even if these "kids" are grown adults sending their own Christmas cards) and/or give me a monthly breakdown of every single thing that person/family did that year.

JCbride2015 · December 2013

I am not religious but I love almost everything about Christmas. Say Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanzaa, whatever-- I'm just super excited about winter solstice holidays in general. I love snow, I love decorating, I love giving gifts, I love eating lots of food and seeing family.

I LOVE A Christmas Story. I played it on a loop while studying for finals for like two weeks straight, and I'm not sick of it yet.

I hate eggnog.

Fi and I are getting to the point in our lives where running around to all the parents (mine are divorced) on Christmas is getting really old, really fast. His family is getting Christmas Eve and Christmas Day with us this year because neither of my parents will be local. I'm pretty sure next year I'm putting my foot down for Christmas Day and staying home altogether.

aurorajanette · December 2013

I love A Christmas Story, but agree that It's a Wonderful Life sucks the big one.

Christmastime proposals don't really bother me. I've had a couple of friends get engaged at the holidays. They didn't have a ton of money to purchase presents and a ring, so I think for them it just worked financially.

I hate blow-up lawn decorations. Every time I see them, I have the urge to cut a big hole in them.

I work in a nursing home as the Recreational Therapy Director. I get at least 300 calls between Thanksgiving and Christmas of people wanting to come in to volunteer for the holidays so that they can feel good about themselves. It costs my company money for a background check, PPD, and it costs my time giving these people an orientation on infection control, emergency safety, HIPAA, etc. Not to mention that having someone aimlessly following my staff around, asking questions about things they shouldn't know about, and causing problems in general is hugely aggravating to them and is helpful 0% of the time.

I have to do two things to cut down on the number: (1) I implemented a minimum volunteer hour requirement that requires a commitment of at least 20 hours, and (2) I only accept about 10 volunteers for the month of December. If anyone calls after those 10 spots are filled, I politely tell them that January is a nice time to volunteer too. No one ever volunteers in January.

Other bothersome things: Every school in the county wants to do a Christmas concert here in the same two-week span. Again, no one will volunteer to come in the Spring or any other time. Also, any parent that calls asking if their child can come in and "volunteer" because it's a snow day at school and the parent has to work. We are not a babysitting agency. I do not want your grimy child running around my seniors all day!

kgd7357 · December 2013

I hate when my parents ask what I want for the holidays/my birthday (end of November) and I tell them something practical, then they give me PJs. I don't need another pair of flannel PJs. I'm 26! What I need is an electrician to fix my light strips.

I hate buying gifts just for the sake of buying them. I needed a new laptop in October, so my FI bought it then and called it my Birthday/X-mas/Anniversary(NYE)/V-day gift. Last year he gave me a new flat iron for X-mas on December 11th b/c that was when mine died. Works for me! He's getting things he needs for ski season, so he'll get them on X-mas/Anniversary, but I would have given him them earlier if he needed them before January.

I hate that the work holiday treat table is 6 feet from my desk...Somehow I haven't gained 10 lbs.

pumpkinsandturkeys · December 2013

I'd like to add to my previous bitching: I HATE holiday-themed commercials begging me to give to fly-covered children in need (or just the increased amount of the regular commercials like this). I make regular charitable donations, and the company I work for does donation-matching up to a few grand per year. Please do not bombard me with sad (and sometimes gross) images of young children in squalor. This is probably first-world guilt talking, but I can't watch them. I'm not ignoring the issue and I'm more than willing to help out... But please, change the approach of your commercials! (I'm talking to you, UNICEF and Alyssa Milano) They also make me feel like I'm a bad person for donating to my direct community rather than the other side of the world, which I disagree with. Aid is aid, and there are children here who need help, too (we just rarely hear about them).

Ven&Radio · December 2013

kerbohl said:

I agree with number 2, but am unbiased towards your #1. I am getting married a month after Christmas, and I am not having a Christmas themed wedding, but I wouldn't be completely opposed.

My unpopular opinion - I am done with giving gifts to people at Christmas, and receiving gifts. I don't really need anything, and a lot of my family doesn't want anything specific. If I see something that I think my parents or my siblings will like throughout the year, I'd like to just buy it and give it to them - why wait for Christmas to show your affection with gifts? Besides, I find myself wanting or needing things in summer, not in winter. I want this time of year to just be about visiting family and good food.

This. I'm so over the whole present stuff. It was fun as a kid, but as an adult it's just stressful. I buy stuff for people when I see something they will enjoy and give it to them - I hate the pressure to give because it's a certain date.

smalfrie19 · December 2013

Having been proposed to on Christmas (in front of my entire family and therefore essentially taking away the ability to say no without being a total heartless bitch) I HATE Christmas proposals.

I dislike eggnog

I LOVE running around to everyone's placed on Christmas Eve/Day

while I love the smell of real trees...I would still keep my fake one if given the option. Its just easier and less maintenance.

doeydo · December 2013

smalfrie19 said:

Having been proposed to on Christmas (in front of my entire family and therefore essentially taking away the ability to say no without being a total heartless bitch) I HATE Christmas proposals.

I dislike eggnog

I LOVE running around to everyone's placed on Christmas Eve/Day

while I love the smell of real trees...I would still keep my fake one if given the option. Its just easier and less maintenance.

I think you could have said no and I wouldn't judge you, it was his choice to propose in front of people on Christmas.

smalfrie19 · December 2013

doeydo said:

smalfrie19 said:

Having been proposed to on Christmas (in front of my entire family and therefore essentially taking away the ability to say no without being a total heartless bitch) I HATE Christmas proposals.

I dislike eggnog

I LOVE running around to everyone's placed on Christmas Eve/Day

while I love the smell of real trees...I would still keep my fake one if given the option. Its just easier and less maintenance.
I think you could have said no and I wouldn't judge you, it was his choice to propose in front of people on Christmas.

Maybe, maybe not...I gave the ring back after two weeks and we split..it is what it is, now.

bethsmiles · December 2013

I love both A Christmas Story and It's a Wonderful Life.

I'm not a fan of Christmas proposals for the same reason I don't like proposals on any other holiday, birthday, or anniversary.

While I love shopping for Christmas presents, I hate actually going to the store and dealing with other shoppers. Usually I get it all done online but this year I was too busy so now I need to run to the store today and pick up some last minute presents.

I love having a real Christmas tree. My family goes out and cuts one down every year and I would hate to get a fake one.

I hate exchanging gifts with my extended family. Every damn year the cousins on my dad's side set up a secret santa but we aren't close. We live all over the country and rarely see each other, especially now that most of us are out of our parents' house. It is a huge pain to try to get a gift for someone I barely know. Next year I'm going to have to put my foot down.

tmclawchick · December 2013

I guess my UO in this thread would be I love everything about the holidays. The egg nog, the cheesy music, the decorations (lights!!!!), the gifts/giftwrapping, baking cookies, caroling, the christmas music that plays 24/7, etc... I just love it all.

Side note, what's the big deal with Christmas proposals? I missed the memo on that...

pumpkinsandturkeys · December 2013

smalfrie19 said:

doeydo said:

smalfrie19 said:

Having been proposed to on Christmas (in front of my entire family and therefore essentially taking away the ability to say no without being a total heartless bitch) I HATE Christmas proposals.

I dislike eggnog

I LOVE running around to everyone's placed on Christmas Eve/Day

while I love the smell of real trees...I would still keep my fake one if given the option. Its just easier and less maintenance.
I think you could have said no and I wouldn't judge you, it was his choice to propose in front of people on Christmas.
Maybe, maybe not...I gave the ring back after two weeks and we split..it is what it is, now.

I agree that you should've said no right then, without fear of being judged. Or at least say you're overwhelmed and need time to process it before you give an answer. I would think that would be preferable to letting everyone (including ex-FI) think you're getting married and celebrate that, and then have to tell everyone it's not happening 2 weeks later (and break it to ex-FI that they're not landing a wife this year, after letting them think that married life was on its way).

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