my most favorite holiday is halloween

1. it's only one night of the year

2. it requires minimal organisation

3. you can celebrate it on your own, without feeling too bad you don't have any family and friends around to celebrate it with

4. the kids are cute when they come trick or treating, and their costumes are fun to look at

5. it's the perfect excuse to blast songs like thriller, monster mash or ghost busters

my least favorite holiday is christmas

1. I don't have family or friends, so when you're sat alone on christmas day feeling sad, it just feels like a regular day.

2. I think kids these days are really greedy. rather than having 1 or 2 presents, they have to buy the whole toy shop, just for it all to be thrown in the corner after a few days- it's a waste, and people could enjoy those toys- people who don't have anything.

3. it takes forever to organize. unlike halloween, it can take up to a week to put up the tree/ decorations, only to have them all down again 3 days later- and that's without finding money for the food and the gifts.

4. their is nothing at all christmassy about a king or a queen getting up to do a speech. you don't want to hear that when you're sat their eating your christmas dinner. you want christmas music or a movie.

5. it gets earlier, and earlier, each year- until the music starts playing in like june and july, so by the time december rolls around you're sick of it.

to clarify, I'm not a grinch or a screwdge. christmas has good bits, but when you're on your own with no one to share it with, it doesn't feel as festive as it should

and christmas should be about being with people who you care about