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Posted on: 12/1/13 2:39 PM ET
Christmas is not for me for various reasons (said with immense restraint).

Does anyone else here feel the same? Statistically, it's probable, given that there are probably thousands of members here.

Edited to add: Apparently there are 347,108 members here.



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Posted on: 12/1/13 3:10 PM ET
Christmas has no meaning for me either. Too commercial and materialistic. I give gifts on birthdays and sometimes "just because".
  
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Posted on: 12/1/13 3:25 PM ET
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I like Christmas, but it also makes me a bit sad. My DH and I don't have children so gift giving is pretty simple. We travel during the season, and don't decorate our travel trailer. It is pretty much like every other day for us.
  
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Posted on: 12/1/13 3:30 PM ET
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Can you receive snail mail while you are traveling? Do you have your travel dates? Maybe you just pick up all your mail on your return? Just thinking . . .
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Posted on: 12/1/13 4:01 PM ET
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Wendy, We don't have our mail forwarded because we are usually camping on BLM land for the first part of the trip. We go into a town every week to get water, fill propane tanks, pick up Diet Coke :-) Otherwise, we are off the grid, and don't even have cell reception. Solar panels===>batteries===>inverter===>sewing machine! and any other power needs.

When we get to Mexico, it is luxurious. Go figure.

I'll PM you on the dates.
  
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Posted on: 12/1/13 4:13 PM ET
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I'm Jewish... it's not part of my experience in my home...it is very much all around me int he culture.The pervasiveness of Christmas was harder when my kids were little..and the Christmas was so seductive..and so not ours.

As a kid living in a place where there was a fairly small Jewish population...the insistence of adults about my celebrating Christmas...about what I wanted Santa to bring me...well it was well meaning but intrusive and slightly horrible. Do I lie?or do I say something that will make the well meaning adult slightly uncomfortable?

I know some people are up at arms about greeting folks with Seasons greetings or Happy Holidays. as someone who is not celebrating Christmas I see it as a tremendous kindness.

I don't expect the cashiers in the stores to be frantically cleaning their homes in anticipation of Passover or getting ready to for the soul searching that takes place during the high holiday season.

This is a majority Christian culture that gets whipped into a frenzy of anticipation for Christmas...one of the nice things about not being part of the majority culture...is that there isn't a vision of a perfect Chanukah, or Purim. Chanukah has eight nights..so a bunch of OK or even mediocre nights add up to a nice holiday.
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Posted on: 12/1/13 4:27 PM ET
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I am constantly amazed by people who react negatively to being wished "Happy Holidays". When I say that, or hear it, I am thinking of Thanksgiving, Chanukah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, the New Year....and yet, if "Merry Christmas" isn't specified, people who wish to be offended jump on the opportunity. Let that be my gift to them: a chance to complain. Again.

I hope each and every one of you enjoys celebrating whatever you wish to celebrate, with people you care about...or not. Your choice.
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Posted on: 12/1/13 4:49 PM ET
I'm pagan and celebrate the season of dark and returning light. Our main celebration is lighting a progressive number of candles during the darkest days of the year with midwinter at the center of the celebration. During the hour or so that the candles burn, we have a number of traditional activities that run from sharing a special box of sweets to reading A Child's Christmas in Wales on Christmas Eve.
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Posted on: 12/1/13 4:51 PM ET
I actually sit here and can say I actively "don't like" Christmas as it is. I have no religious feelings towards it, and the frenzy of the months leading up to it kind of drive me bonkers. I DO like having an excuse to give gifts that aren't welcomed with "why would you do this" or "I don't have anything for you," and I enjoy spending the time with family together. Christmas has been particularly nice last year and will be this year because it will be a quiet one with my Sir and we will picnic at Arlington cemetery with my Granddad. I have so much to tell him.
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Posted on: 12/1/13 5:56 PM ET
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Oh, you could wave to my parents who are buried there, not far from the Tomb of the Unknown...
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