i see loads of posts extolling the virtues of xmas but there are a few of us out there that dont, i for 1 am one of them " the sooner its over the better"

[SeptemberMorn]

"Bah, humbug!"

[Perna]

I always get more "hopeful" that things will be different or better in some way during the season and am usually disappointed, more bored and let down than I'd like.

[jacq10]

I hear you mellors. Sometimes holidays have a funny way of making things feel so much worse

[phillygirl]

I get called scrooge relatively often. I think the dislike of the holidays started when I worked several seasons of retail hell, I mean holidays. But it hasn't got better since then. I don't decorate much, only had a tree last year, the first in probably 10 years. I'm not particularly close to my family, distance or connection-wise, I just keep to myself even if I am around them. I don't really expect any year to be better than any other; to me it's just a cold month with lots of forced socializing. Boy I am a scrooge

[Christina86]

I'm not anti xmas because I think if people like the holidays it's all well and good ...

I just dislike x-mas with the family.

[SeptemberMorn]

I try to make the best of what I'm presented with. I know that at least I'll see my oldest boy and his family. Not quite enough. It makes the absence of the others a bit harder to take, but I try to put that out of my mind and concentrate on the now.

Well I say if ya can't beat 'em, join 'em. Let's put the FUN in dysfunctional and have a family bash...we can all bring our yuckiest family stuff and have the most magnificent miserable holiday bash ever.

I'll start.

I'm bringing the drunks...What? Wait? Whattaya mean your bringing them? I have the most in my family so they're MINE all mine! C'mon Uncle Santa, let's boogie down.

[Christina86]

Teehee and I thought I was the only one who knew the "Fun" in dysfunctional joke.

Hmmm... so if Petunia is bringing drunks, I suppose I can bring ... changing my guest list here, but I'm bringing insensitive, bossy, demanding and self-centred people.

The more dsyFUNction the better...let 'em roll! They can't hurt us here! Grrrrrrrrrrrrr.

[oksomaybeimnuts]

i'll bring the ones who think that they're better than everyone else. and who think their kids are better than everyone else. i think i might have the market cornered on them.

I'll bring a huge casserole of insults. Which may include-- but not limited to : "What! you have ANOTHER job isn't this the third one this year, haven't you 'found' yourself YET?", and--- "Looks like someone hasn't vacuumed under the couch in ages" also--- "Oh I had a dining set like that, we got rid of it and got something much nicer"....

argh....

I want the leftovers so when my m-i-l says "my haven't you gotten fat," I'll know why!

[SeptemberMorn]

I'll have to bring my family at gun point or kidnap them or some other evil, secretive way. None of them except the best want to be around me. LOL

What the hey! Do we have a pied pipper in the group? We'll just leave most of the adults stuck in their crap and get all nine grandkids over here!

Oh, wait! It's the FUN in dysfunction that we want, isn't it? Ok, can we round up a posse??

can i be the incoherant bum who sits in the corner drinking your booze, eating your food and smoking dodgy roll your own smokes

[seeker1950]

I'm not decorating at all this year. Nor do I have anyone obnoxious to bring to this bash, but want to come anyway!
Petunia, you're funny!
Patty

i must confess i bought a string of xmas lights this year, not for decorating the room but to light my vivarium at night so i can watch my snakes at play, they are the right wattage and not to bright, the snakes like them, to them they are another heat scource and built in climbing frame,

i have finished buying the only 2 presents i am giving out this year, i have bought my son a mint full collectors set of wade natwest piggy banks, ( 5 in total) cost me a fortune but i like them and they can only go up in value, and my halfsisters daughter has got a book by the bronte sisters, thats about has far has i can extend xmas this year

here is the link to the wade i bought my son

http://www.piggybankpage.co.uk/wade_NatWest.htm

OH WOW mellors. HOW COOL!

Very cool. I love them.

[bebop]

I think what makes people hate the holidays (Christmas) so much now days is that Christ has been taken out of Christmas. people have forgotten the true meaning of it and has gone too commercial. so let's also put the Christ back in CHRISTmas.

[jacq10]

Ooo Ooo can i bring the overbearing insensitive spiteful mother?! ... but i mean if she comes then my dad must come also just to make things equally awkward!:P

bring them both

[Boopers]

Can I bring my MIL and drop her off. That way, I would have a decent Christmas if she wasn't around. Not being mean, you have to know my MIL. She will start telling you what to do as soon as she walks in the door and doesn't stop until you see her walking out the door. Nothing is never good enough for her.



Linda

[Anony]

I wouldn't consider myself anti-christmas. In fact, if my mind was together, I would love the holidays. But, since we are naming people who ruin the holidays, I would definitely bring my grandma! It doesn't even have to be the holidays, if she shows up, there's bound to be some sort of war!