If you don't celebrate Christmas...
By thyst07
@thyst07 (2079)
United States
December 24, 2010 5:09pm CST
What do you do? I decided a few years ago to stop observing Christmas, but I've still had to show up at my family's Christmas celebration to keep from offending anyone. Now I no longer have that obligation. I've thought that it might be nice for my husband and I to still do something special and create a new tradition for ourselves, but I also don't feel like we have to. So I'm just curious- if there are others out there who don't observe Christmas, do you do something else instead? Or do you just treat it like any other day?
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@maezee (41988)
• United States
25 Dec 10
It kind of sucks hwen you don't celebrate Christmas, just because of how little stays open on Christmas. Maybe the movies will be open, maybe the gas stations.. But that's about it. If you do something, it has to be at home or at one of the few businesses that stay open over the national holiday. I celebrate Christmas, however, tonight's Christmas Eve, which I am not celebrating on. It feels like today should be something special, since it's Christmas Eve after all, but really, I am sitting on MyLot, doing laundry, and running to the l iquor store - like any other Friday night ( ha ha ). It's really nothing out fo the ordinary - the celebration itself with your family or friends or loved ones that make it memorable (obviously). There's nothing wrong with not celebrating it. We (as a family) always have so it would be weird to have it any other way.
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@goodhunter (334)
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24 Dec 10
I know people who do not celebrate Christmas because of their religious beliefs but in the same time ride with the sprit of Christmas. They give gifts and cook just to go with the tide of people who observe Christmas.
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@thyst07 (2079)
• United States
25 Dec 10
Part of our decision not to celebrate Christmas includes not giving material gifts, because we don't want to participate in or encourage the type of consumerism that is so much of a problem. I like the idea of just cooking a nice meal, though. We actually did that a couple days ago because we had a turkey in the freezer and we felt like it.
