Community weekly poll: What are you least looking forward to this holiday season?
- 11/29/05 1:24 PM
Wrong Forum, Sorry
by Mitteemo - 11/30/05 1:57 AM In reply to: What are you least looking forward to this holiday season? by Marc Bennett
Oops! I was looking for the one that said What I Most Look Forward to during the holiday season. Sorry, backing on out to another forum now...
Not a favorite of many friends
by KellyRas - 11/30/05 3:39 AM In reply to: What are you least looking forward to this holiday season? by Marc Bennett
Many of my friends seem to have lost loved ones (family & frinds) during past holdidays. Trying to keep them "up" is draining, but necessary. It's what I do - I'm a Pisces.
Why I hate shopping
by msadavis - 11/30/05 3:59 AM In reply to: What are you least looking forward to this holiday season? by Marc Bennett
It's not the buying of gifts I hate as much as the stores with continual sales every other day. Just when you think you got a good deal, the following week it is offered at $10 less somewhere else. Or the fact that in order to get a good deal, I have to drive from store to store to purchase various electronics, when if one store had all items on sale instead of one, it would make it much more enjoyable.
It's amazing ...
by petit - 11/30/05 4:20 AM In reply to: What are you least looking forward to this holiday season? by Marc Bennett
how we're all under the boots of commerce!
At the time of writeing this, 47% most hates the shopping part of the holidays. Still, the season is prime time for business. So hate it or not, we *are* shopping never the less.
That's western mentality for you!
Cheers!
Shopping - it's already done!
by dinoaur - 11/30/05 4:22 AM In reply to: What are you least looking forward to this holiday season? by Marc Bennett
The last package arrived yesterday. Online shopping has kept me out of malls for years - and saved me a LOT of money. Now I can relax and enjoy the season.
(Sorry if I sound smug....)
Holidays Dislikes
by Cad_1.0 - 11/30/05 5:26 AM In reply to: What are you least looking forward to this holiday season? by Marc Bennett
There are two things I dislike about any holidays, one is they are not long enough and two is the holidays are not paid but should be by federal law.
There is an additional item though not related and that is having to long into this forum, the log in should be automatic, so sometimes I don't post because of it.
Shopping
by dscarn - 11/30/05 5:26 AM In reply to: What are you least looking forward to this holiday season? by Marc Bennett
It is hard to believe but as a woman, I really do not like to shop especially around the holiday season. Too many people pushing and shoving you around, the wait in the lines to buy your purchases, and dealing with the morrons in the parking lots.
I have been doing most of my Christmas shopping online, easier and faster.
Dawn, Tampa, Florida
Eating- Too much temptation
by melley01 - 11/30/05 6:00 AM In reply to: What are you least looking forward to this holiday season? by Marc Bennett
I can never resist all of the yummy goodies during the holidays. I always must have a little taste of each one because some of these things only come around once a year (pumpkin pie, egg nog, homemade cookies and fresh rolls, besides when else do I have time to bake). Nevertheless, I refuse to deprive myself. I don't think any food should be off-limits (unless for health reasons). I just hate that I have no willpower during the holiday season. Oh well though, I'll just be putting in a few extra hours on the elliptical come January. If you ask me, its worth it.
Shopping terror
by famartinez - 11/30/05 7:01 AM In reply to: What are you least looking forward to this holiday season? by Marc Bennett
Trying to decide what to get who on a budget is always the terror of the seasonn.
What Part of the Holiday Season do you least like?
by ejp53 - 11/30/05 7:04 AM In reply to: What are you least looking forward to this holiday season? by Marc Bennett
I put other because there is no part that I least like. I really do enjoy the gift giving and receiving. I enjoy the bountiful meal that my family brings in and we love every morsel of it in the Private dining room here in our retirement setting. I look forward to seeing my children, grand children and yes my great grandchildren. What a joyous season when we can pay tribute to our Lord for his coming among us and proclaing the way to his kingdom.
Earl J Prignitz
Eating
by emmay - 11/30/05 7:06 AM In reply to: What are you least looking forward to this holiday season? by Marc Bennett
The easy availability of all the delicious treats is a temptation I have trouble ignoring.
Resentment & stress
by Sandi Rhoads - 11/30/05 7:16 AM In reply to: What are you least looking forward to this holiday season? by Marc Bennett
I love everything about the holiday season, but it DOES get rather stressful when there doesn't seem to be enough time to get everything done.
I resent the fact that Christ has been taken out of Christmas and the ''traditional'' songs and religious emphasis is no longer allowed in public places. Christmas is to celebrate the birth of Lord.
I resent that fact that Christmas is now all about parties, gifts, and what ''I'' am going to get out of it''. Greed has overtaken consumers and businesses.
I think that people who don't celebrate Christmas for the right reasons, should have a seperate holiday of their own where they can party in the manner they desire. Let the Christians have their celebrations and have a ''Winter Holiday'' or equivalent for those who have no ''religious'' convictions. I will gladly work during their holiday, and they should work during mine.
Right-on
by twcullison - 11/30/05 8:58 PM In reply to: Resentment & stress by Sandi RhoadsJust have to say ,I like the way you think. But it will take Christians getting off their backsides to get Christ back in Christmas. We have been silent for to long.
T'is the Reason for the Season?
by benoddo - 12/1/05 11:09 AM In reply to: Right-on by twcullisonCall it what you will, but Christmas, at first, was a compromise between Christian religious leaders and the masses of Christians themselves who celebrated the highly popular pagan festival of the winter solstice. December 25th was chosen by men as the birthday of Christ. So whatever the reason to celebrate the season, or the solstice, we do not need the shallow, meaningless exchange of unwanted or unneeded merchandise to mark the occasion. Christmas should be a festival where family and friends separated by time and distance gather to renew their bonds as it is the season of renewal.
This idea of gift giving grew out of a poem written more than 1800 years after the birth of Christ. ''T'was the Night Before Christmas'' was written by Clement Clarke Moore in 1822 and his story of toys for children on Christmas has been perverted to become the commercial nightmare that it is today.
To give you an idea how bad it has become, the Coca Cola company whose image of Santa Claus first published 60 years ago and had since become the ''standard'' by which we picture Old St. Nick, refuses to use that image this year in its advertising. Are they afraid of offending anyone? Hardly. Are they afraid that they may lose sales of Coca Cola to the non-Christian people of the world? Perhaps. This sounds more plausible since most corporate CEO's live in their ivory towers out of touch with the rest of the world. But I don't think that the Japanese, Chinese, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, Shintoist, or atheiests will refrain from drinking Coke because a picture of Santa Claus is on the package. Heck, I'm not Jewish and I love a bagel with lox, and pickled herring among many other tasty treats that bear the Star of David or the Kosher symbols.
At a time of year that was celebrated as a time of peace and unity, we argue and stress over trivialities such as symbols of the season. Commercialism and its ill begotten offspring - political correctness - is dividing the cultures rather than uniting us.
Thanks Wal-mart!
Days off from school
by throstur - 11/30/05 9:23 AM In reply to: What are you least looking forward to this holiday season? by Marc Bennett
thank god for christmas... school makes me depresssed or however the **** you spell that
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