Anyone out there in myLot land stopped celebrating Easter and Christmas?

Hi! Tetchie A part of my mind want to stop doing it because of lots of preparation, a lot of time to spend buying this... and that... and a big part of my mind want to do not for myself but for my children happiness Christmas it's for children I believed this is the day they are waiting for exchanging gifts, going to their god mother and god father spending together eating together and many more activities as well as Easter egg hunting wow how can I stop it if I see them enjoying it and very happy with it. I don't want to be a hindrance to their happiness because of some reason that I want to do. Christmas are a lots of spending but I can make it simple and stop spending so much for the occasion there are gifts to give cheaper but enough for them to appreciate. I also don't want rushing to buy gift for everyone so if I found some sale in the early month or in the middle part of the year I buy it and keep it for Christmas it's a lots of saving in money and in time.

yes i still do. i have four children and though they are teens already we still celebrate easter and christmas. this is a time of the year where we can be kids again. this easter we will be going at the mall and get our faces painted. it would be a lot of fun. we still deck the halls every christmas. i do hope that as years pass by we will still celebrate christmas and easter.

Easter I could easily go without because that doesn't mean anything to me, and I don't celebrate it, however Christmas is totally different, I couldn't bare to forget Christmas, it is a lovely time of year, giving and receiving presents, being with family, having the tree and decorations up, and quality time with parents, no I couldn't give up Christmas, but Easter well that's easy for me, it's just two bank holidays onto the weekend. You can eat chocolate all year round, no different and hot cross buns can be bought all year round too. We always have a roast on Sunday so no different to any other weekend.

I believe Easter, the glamor part with the eggs and the color I can do without, my grandkids are big now and I thought they too big for Easter baskets, although my 14 year old one ask me if I had her Easter bunny yet. I think it is just something they get used to getting, the idea of Easter is to remember God and celebrate that. As for Christmas, that also is the birth of Christ and i think although some could calm it down a little bit, I believe if we celebrated on the idea of what or why we celebrate the day to start with we might not have as much hoopla as we do. I have learned to do Christmas most of the year that it doesn't creep up on me all at once. Christmas is a very special season and I don't think that the time and trouble it takes to celebrate it is. It is up to the person how much expense he puts into it. i thought the fun was running around looking for just that right present for a loved one. When you say you stopped doing Christmas, does tht also mean you stopped recieving presents too, or just stopped giving them. Guess to each his own, I am 60 years old and hope to never get tothe point that I dont want to partake of the holidays, at least in some form, we can always cut back to what we can afford. Way I see it a person has 354 days to get ready for Christmas, not jsut a couple days of a month, so if they leave it all to the end then they are stuck with the rush. Seems to me it was more of i just don't want to spend the money on others that has gotten to you, correct me if I'm wrong?????

Well sweety we all have our own ways of doing things or the world would be a boring place! I am glad that works for you but I wouldn't/couldn't stop celebrating - it is about more than the commercial side and means a lot to me! xxx

I could go with out the commercial side of Easter and Christmas. If we just celebrated the resurrection of Jesus by going to church and making it a point to love everyone that I would be happy with. My son is 13 now and he's mature enough to not miss the Easter Basket and egg coloring and hunting. Christmas is the same go to church and give thanks for Jesus love one another as he commanded us to and forget about the spending so much money on trying to buy everyone a present. Most of the time it's not what they wanted anyway and you just wasted your money.

At age 65 my wife decided she didn't want to do Christmas any more. We have 4 boys who are either married, or have significant others. This would have been no problem except the boys didn't realise we were getting older, while they were staying the same age.(Can't wait for Christmas and Mom's big dinner!) So I bought an RV, and we took off for the sunny South. And that was 10 years ago. Now we have a winter place in South Texas where we spend 5 months each winter in a spot that used to be a Citrus Grove, with Grapefruit trees in the back. We are celebrating Christmas and Easter in Texas, well away from family. But they are invited to come anytime. No gifts or presents, no big meal to prepare. I too, was sick of Christmas, and it's Commercialism. Easter is when we remember that Jesus tied his A$$ to a tree, and walked 2 miles to Jerusalem.

We are still celebrating both Easter and Christmas here. Though I did not put up a Christmas tree for the first time ever this year. We are never here around the holiday anyway. We go back home (18 hours away) to my parents house and it is all decorated up. I knew upon coming home I would have to put all that junk back away and that thought didn't sit well with me. My husband was glad too. He is not big on Christmas decorations. Halloween is his holiday.

I too have stopped celebrating Easter. Being a mom of 3, I would get the eggs and the coloring and the candy and the easter baskets every year. Then one year, I just decided not to celebrate it because first of all, I believe my children were getting bored with it and when I didn't do the usual, they didn't mention it and so ever since then I haven't celebrated and no, I do not miss it at all. Christmas, however, I still celebrate.

If I did not think it would break my kids hearts then I could definately go without easter, but not christmas, well not yet anyway. Easter just gets more expensive each year and we never really do much over easter so its not like we would be missing out on anything once the kids are grown. But I love christmas, so I could not give that up.