Christmas..........ba humbug!

[GingerSnaps]

Christmas isn't about gift giving it's about the day that the baby Jesus was born.It burns me up when I see people arguing over gifts at Christmas time. Christmas has come down to money and it has lost it's meaning.

Here is how it plays out:One person has to buy someone else something because they would feel guilty if they didn't even tho they don't want to give them anything. Another person has to buy something the same exact price that the person that's getting them a gift is paying because they wouldn't want to be cheated out of a few cents by paying more money then the other person.

Then you have the bratty kids that make a list that is 3 pages long with specifics on how what store to buy it at and how to locate the department that the gift is located in and how much it should cost. The same kid totals up his list and compares it with all of his siblings because they want to make sure that no one gets gypped out of a present either.

Christmas isn't about going to a relatives house because you are in their will and if you don't take them a gift they might write you out of it and leave you penny less. It's also not about buying someone an engagement ring and asking them to marry you so that they will feel guilty if they say no.

Christmas isn't about complaining that you drew the "biggest jerks" name in the office out of the pool of names and now you have to find anything trashy that costs $20.00 and you don't even put a thought into it. It's not about giving your doorman, paperboy,maid or anyone else that helps you during the year a coupon book from McD's or Burger King because you should put through into their tiny gift that show your appreciation.

Christmas isn't about arguing with people that you don't know in toy and department stores. If you have to fight over a gift at Christmas then why are you giving it because hate is not suppose to be in your heart especially at Christmas. Your kid should understand that they didn't have the toy in stock so Santa brought them another toy instead.

Do you think that the wise-man fought over who was going to give baby Jesus the gold, incense or myrrh?

Christmas is about family, traditions and love. Please remember that!

The best thing that you can do at Christmas if you don't need anything would be to go to the post office and take a few of the letters addressed to Santa out of the bins and read them. Don't just look for the children letters either because seniors and disabled people are alone and need a bit of compassion as well.

I make a budget of $100.00 and I pick out a name for every pile including the family pile. I try to make someones Christmas a little brighter then it might end up being.

Another suggestion for people that are either alone or somewhat alone is to work at a shelter on Christmas eve and Christmas. Remember the holiday is about giving from the heart and not the pocketbook.

:hug: :loveya:

"May all your dreams come true"

[AntiCoup2K4]

1. Jesus wasn't even born in the winter.

The scriptures say that Joe and Mary were travelling to Bethlehem to pay their taxes, so it was obviously somewhere around April 15. :)

[xultar]

2. I'm doing BLUE lights this year. I'm having a Bluuuuue Christmas

in a Red State.

[GingerSnaps]

4. LOL

Blue is my favorite color and what a wonderful color it is :D :hug:

[eleonora]

3. Let's just skip Christmas.

I hate Christmas. I think I'm going to hang my Halloween decorations.

[GingerSnaps]

5. My Cat uses my tree as a bed

I can't take the tree away from him.

[datasuspect]

6. let's just celebrate saturnalia

everyone knows the christians just co-opted this roman winter solstice celebration to placate the pagans.

god jr. wasn't even born on dec. 25. early xtians moved it to this date in 336 A.D. to keep it line with the pagan rituals.

[marlakay]

7. I took out my blue decorations from a theme I did a few

years back. I am not much in the mood and haven't started to shop, nor do I feel like I have to. My feelings towards religion has changed over the years and I am not sure I believe in the bible any more. Like another post said christians pick and choose from it what they want to believe. Let's see, we should be loving...well at least say we do...but not the part about animals or other old fashioned things like women covering their hair.

I am tired of the hypocrisy. I believe there is a God who made this whole world, there is too much beauty in just a small wild flower to think a ball of fire started it all but the way a lot of churches twist the bible to mean what they want you to believe is too much for me now.

This election has shown it all for me. Supposedly the christian right voted for Bush but true christianity was Jesus helping the poor and hanging out with them which is more like the dems. So to me the whole thing has become nothing more than a another phony front to make people think better of themselves.

I agree with the poster that Christmas time should be about peace and helping people but how do you stop the revolving door? I want to stop the whole its about presents thing but my husband won't and it would be kind of weird if he bought gifts for his kids but I didn't for mine. I try to tell people I don't want anything and mean it, I really don't need another knick knack that one year from now I will end up guiltily selling at a garage sale. My daughter last night told me I got you the cutest thing for your house. I thought, she is sweet and loving and trying to be nice, how can I tell her please don't. I have tried to say it over and over but people are hooked on the gift thing.

[GingerSnaps]

9. We have lots of Vet's that are homeless

I would prefer to give them gifts then my freeper sister a gift.

[Lefty48197]

8. On the first Christmas, people brought gifts for the newborn King

I think the tradition has transformed to one where we give gifts to those we love and respect. We can't all be kings.