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What's the best thing about Christmas for you?
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For me its the time off work, Not particularly worried about Christmas itself to be honest, in fact I find the falseness and commercialisation of it all quite sickening.
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The Christmas market in Manchester is always good when it gets dark, nice stalls with gifts and great food and drink.
I liked it when the kids were kids, maybe when they have kids it will be nice again for me.
Giving my mother a nice present is satisfying.
The older you get the more you couldn't care less about Christmas.
Yes we can chat about them
Best thing about Christmas
Don't be miserable and be grateful for what you have
huh
Actually Christmas doesn't just begin early every year but it continues onwards ever more. I suppose January 7th would be the logical date, after twelfth night when all the decorations are away for another 330 days or so. However many of the trimmings of the season still remain for some time after this, such as the nuts and endless boxes of sweets. Most years my own mother doesn't even make the first cut in her Christmas cake until around mid January! Not until the end of January are all signs totally gone. This cannot be unique surely?
Why do you need Christmas to do that. If applicable.
Another thing about Christmas, apart from the incessant TV adverts, the buy this buy that culture we have, is people saying it is a good time to get together with (the) family. If it's such as good time, then why not at other times of the year. That's for those of you who have a family you want to see or even have a family to see.
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p.s. I agree (really).
Visit from Marley's ghost for you-then you can have a reggae jam and smoke some ganja!:p
BIB I imagine all the family having time off work at the same time is a major factor in this.
My favourite thing, besides the atmosphere we create in our home for the festive season, is seeing the look of happiness on my daughter's face as she opens her presents. Nothing more complicated than that. Happy Christmas everyone
Love having the kids off school for a couple of weeks too, as with all the holidays and half terms I love being able to enjoy days out with them without being on someone else's timetable.
It was very disappointing to not attend it last year because of the horrible weather (strong winds and torrential rain).