[LiteraryLark]

These past few years my family chose to celebrate holidays on our own terms on days that work for all of us. Today my parents and I are celebrating Easter today and I assume they'll celebrate with my brother when they see him. Last Christmas we celebrated on the 11th so we can include my brother. I'm used to celebrating Thanksgiving a week early, but Christmas was so strange because it wasn't on the day and that was the first year we did that, but it still felt Christmas-y. And what was stranger was when the 25th came we were all wondering what all the commotion was about on social media. It was a strange feeling.

Do you celebrate holidays on different days than the actual holiday? Have any of you celebrated Christmas outside of Christmas day (not including Christmas Eve, I know lots of people do that).

Yes I do. A big part of this stemmed from marital break ups and blended families. For instance, those years my ex husband had my children for Christmas, I would celebrate The Solstice (Dec 21st) instead. My children are Ukrainian by way of their father and his family celebrate Easter on the traditional day which falls two weeks after our Calendar. They are grown now but have incorporated this into their own traditions thus, Easter with me on this calendar and Easter again with them on the slavic calendar. I celebrate Thanksgiving on different days too.

Back when I actually had family to celebrate Christmas with, we used to always celebrate it right after New Years time because my mother's birthday was Jan 7th so we did both her birthday celebration and Christmas at once to make things easy.

Now, I don't celebrate Christmas and Thanksgiving at all and instead stay away from people and play video games and drink egg nogg during those times because those holidays are depressing without family.

[Baker#88]

I don`t celebrate anything anymore. I just lay in bed with my fur kids..... Been that way for a long time. I have no urge, to be near other people, family or not.

[Sunflower123]

Originally Posted by Baker#88

I don`t celebrate anything anymore. I just lay in bed with my fur kids..... Been that way for a long time. I have no urge, to be near other people, family or not.

I'm sorry you are having such a hard time. I more often then not don't want to celebrate holidays but do so because of my child and family pressure. I hope you feel better soon.

[Sunflower123]

We have to be flexible in my family because there are so many "moving parts" and it takes coordination. We always celebrate the holidays within a few days (1-3) days before or after though.

[Cocosurviving]

I celebrated Thanksgiving and Christmas traditionally. Then it started to get too expensive. I stopped working and started getting SSDI (2016) . I called it quits. My two daughters and my mom were stressing me out wanting Michael Kors. Now I do not celebrate anything no holidays at all.

[Fresia]

Because my brother & I have to work the various holidays, it is not unusual for us to celebrate holidays at different times. The most important one for us is Christmas but that is the one holiday that we both usually have to work so we celebrate Christmas at Thanksgiving when we are less likely to work and can get together; it is our "Chrisgiving". The rest we work in if we can.

[BlackPotionRose]

I don't celebrate any holidays.

[unaluna]

I dont do holidays either. I barely acknowledge my own birthday. I always felt like an outsider as a child, so its not like there are traditions that make it good for me. There are things i could do that would make me emotional, like certain foods, or going to church, or hearing certain songs, but i have tended to avoid those situations. Maybe now that my parents are both gone, i feel free to build my own life, even at this late stage, mebbe i will. I bought a bumper sticker years and years ago that read, "its never too late to have a happy childhood".

[DmitriyBronfman]

Hello! I never did this before, but I think that the important thing is the atmosphere of celebration and people who surround you

[unaluna]

Originally Posted by DmitriyBronfman

Hello! I never did this before, but I think that the important thing is the atmosphere of celebration and people who surround you

Huh! You are so right! Yesterday i made plans to have lunch next week with an old friend, using a gift card from a new friend who wasnt even born yet when i met the old friend

[laughingboy]

I don't feel the need to celebrate any holidays honestly, I just look at it as another day. Why not celebrate whatever you want, whenever you want to?

[Altarian]

Personally i only do theological based holidays to keep my family and relatives happy and to not get into a big fight over having different beliefs that they all do. If i didn't have kids or wife i would just ignore the holidays.