anyone else HATE christmas and find is MAJORLY DEPRESSING??

i despise xmas and wish it didnt exist

what proportion of your time effort and money at christmas is spent on yourself, excesses and indulging your immediate family. what proportion is spent on the poor and others without money or family. what do you DO for the less fortunate at christmas to show that you care??



i thought so.

nobdy on here knows me. im hoping people will read this and be inspired to do likewise.

before i did this, i was googling for 'good presents for homeless people' and 'giving gifts to strangers' to see what people did, if it was ok, what they might want and what they would use. i hope people can use mines to do the same. if everyone did this thee real spirit of christmas would gradually be restored adn it would not be the preserve of the rich and large-familied either, but would include the poor or forgotton, just as Christ had intended

Isn't that materialism though? As you like to put it. What's the difference between giving gifts to strangers, to giving them to family members.

no materialism is the attitude of people "i like christmas because i like getting presents. let me make a list of all the things i want. and if no-one gives them to me, i will buy them in the sales. oooh shopping!!'

whereas if you buy a gift for the homeless, it is a symbol of love and appreciation for soeoen who would otherwise be forgotton and excluded from the preserve of the wealthy and large familied. you are saying, all the rich people with big families may have forgotton you in their rush to overindulge themselves and luxuriate in all they have, but i have not forgotton you or not noticed you.

your gift may be the only one that some of those homeless folk recive. it is sad. you should do it. or at least buy the big issue guy a Xmas Starbucks

i HATE xmas and ALWAYS get soooo depressed this time of year. i dont know what it is, the miserable weather, the sparkly fakeness, the stress of everyone expecting everything - i dont know, i just hate it soooo much i just want to sleep and have it be over.


anyone else feel the same? why?

EDIT: if you LIKE christmas, and want to go on about how JOLLY and MERRY and HAPPY you are, spending it with loads of family and getting loads of presents, please do not post. this is for miserables only so we can consolidate the sense of bah humbug.

i am spending it alone, going church 8am then ignoreing the day. i have asked everyone to give me gifts from Oxfam Unwrapped as i dont belive in materialism. Xmas sucks. i dont drink or eat meat either.

yeah man i gave a random homeless girl £20 and £50 worth of gifts including:

fur lined boots
a new puffa coat
burberry perfume
mini toiletries gift set
tiny clip on earrings
luxury soap
a large tin of special edition biccys
thermal hat, gloves, socks and scarf
sterling silver cross and chain
personal attack alarm
negro hair oil moisturiser and an afro comb
vaseline and lip gloss
mince pies
a large 1kg bag of party cheese savories
dark chocolate ginger
2 santa hats

so yeah i donated already. i just was honest maan and said, i see you everyday on my way to work, it aint right. merry xmas and handed her this massive bag. and i wrapped that sh*t up individually into loads of small parcels, wrapped real tight with ribbon and shiny paper and ting, real nice real raw and she looked like she was gonna cry. then i shouted, Praise the Lord!! then ran away.

then im goin Tridentine Mass o Xmas morning to see The Lord.

Why cant we have 4 public hls in the middle of summer instead? xmas is miserable. xmas sales are even more sorryful.oh dear