What holiday do you celebrate?

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Out of curiosity, what holiday do you celebrate in December if any?

I celebrate Christmas. I know I'm a bit too old to be saying this, but I still love getting presents :) But now it's more fun to give presents to my nieces and nephews and seeing how excited they get when they open them up. I also love holiday music and holiday specials and all the decorations.
 
I celebrate Christmas as well. As I've gotten older, I don't look forward to Christmas as much as I used to. The thing I look forward to most is blowing away my parents with gifts. :lew: We basically go nuts and buy each other all sorts of stuff. I look forward to that more than receiving my own presents.

And, not that its a holiday, but I celebrate my birthday too. :awesome:
 
Theres more holidays in december?
Just christmas for me. That big meal on christmas day is the best thing in the woooooooooorld. I dont celebrate xmas as a religious thing, its just a time when the family kinda gets together for once and chows down on some awesome food.
 
Christmas.

A lot of people these days see Christmas as just being for kids, whereas really it should be for the whole family. I guess that's another way that they try to kill life for adults, trying to make people have no interest and love for anything. I'm not saying that there shouldn't be a kid-focus with regards to Santa and such, as that obviously should be the case, and the Christmas magic is stronger for and around children, but I know a lot of people give up on it after that. Christmas used to be about the whole family, or for friends, and my family still keep our Christmas traditions strong even though there are no kids. It would break my Mom and Dad's heart just as much as it would upset me and my sister if all of it just stopped entirely.

Humans need special days and festivals (it doesn't matter so much what it is - though it has to mean something), otherwise we'd have a higher chance of losing track of everything, going mad, or losing ourselves. What is life if every day is the same?

So I do Christmas and I'll probably keep doing it even if all of my family and friends disappear. It would feel odd not to.
 
Christmas, but I don't even really celebrate it all that much anymore.

We go to my parents just to shut them up about not celebrating it.

Then we go to my friends for the rest of the day to hang out with her because she always cooks a wicked ham.

I used to be really excited about it, but now it's just meh. I don't really care for it. Eventually I will stop celebrating it completely.
 
Well of course I celebrate Christmas. But things work differenty. We have 2 partys, One on christmas eve(Huge supper and all that+gifts at my grandparents house) Yep the 24th is a big day for me also(Kinda like an early christmas party xD). Then we celebrate Christmas of course. Huge dinner, lots of gifts = :ryan: Also we get the whole family together. Well half of us anyway on Christmas Eve Plus Christmas itself xD. It is not about the gifts though it is about spending time with family and that is the reason they come over. So you know what that means? Double gifts and double food for me! :ryan:

Is there really anything else than Christmas to celebrate in December besides New Years?
 
I think Christmas and New Years are the main ones in December for most people.

I would give anything not to hang out with my family, especially on Christmas.

They actually asked me what sort of 'couple' gift Steve and I would like for Christmas now that we're 'engaged' and a 'couple'.

I could of slapped them in the face if they weren't my so called parents.

Seriously, we've been a couple for four years and they only acknowledge that now that we're engaged! Psychos!!!

Anyway off topic.

New Years I totally did forget about. I sort of think of January when I think of New Years, but I guess the night you go out for New Years Eve is still technically during December. So that's another thing I celebrate in December. =)
 
Like the majority of people here, I also celebrate Christmas. It's actually rather interesting actually, how I look back on my childhood years and see the immediate contrast between how I would celebrate Christmas now and how I used to back around 10 years ago. Back then my family and I would attend Christmas church services, which were surprisingly rather enjoyable in retrospect. Even my high school would have church services rather regularly, so up until last year I would attend Christmas services annually. Nowadays my family don't really attend them as often anymore. We didn't do so last year and I don't actually think we will this year either.

From what I remember when I was younger I paid so much attention to the presents I would receive. I was one of those typical wide-eyed children excited by the prospect of unwrapping the mystery present on the 25th and generally content with them for a while. In recent years, I'm really not fussed with receiving gifts at all. I see Christmas as the opportunity for my family and relatives to get together, take time off from work and catch up on how we're all doing. This does mean however, I murder my wallet going up and down the high street and internet shopping sites trying to find ideal gifts for quite a few people. The wallet-draining effect of Christmas....that's something I don't miss.
 
This would have been interesting to see as a poll. Anyway, I celebrate Christmas, but personally not in any kind of religious manner. My mother and step father do probably, but I see it as a time to spend with friends, family and good company. I really don't mind if I don't get any gifts; that has become more prevalent over the years. I'm just glad to see my mom happy and to spend time with my brothers.
 
I'm Christian, so I celebrate Christmas (religiously speaking). Christmas for me is a time to celebrate the birth of Jesus and spend some time with my family, and it usually involves a much welcome break from school. I don't have a huge family, but its nice to be able to see them at Christmas and spend some time together. We 'nosh on some tasty food, talk, and open presents so I always look forward to Christmas...its one of the few times during the year I get to see everyone.

The Christmas holiday has gotten soooooooo materialistic though, which makes me sad. I have to sit and consciously remind myself that Christmas is actually a really good thing, not just about presents, but about the bigger picture it involves.
 
Christmas for me too! And I've found the older I get the more excited I get for xmas... how odd :D
 
@Stella Nox Fleuret:

I too, celebrate Christmas as well. In the same way that you do. Although I see my family all year around, I do celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. Although its fun to see my little brother's face lit up when he opened a gift he's wanted for a long time. :)
 
Ahh, the joy of Christmas. I used to love Christmas when I was younger. All the excitement and anxiousness of Santa coming down to bring us gifts. But, as I got older, it wasn't really something big for me. I do celebrate it however, i'm just not as much into it as I once use to be. Like Adri, most of the fun is on Christmas eve. We pretty much gather as a family and stay up past midnight to exchange gifts. It's still a blast though.

I celebrate New Years too. I also join in with the resolution as well just as a new fresh start. I love staying up and watching fireworks with my friends and family./ Watching the ball drop as well ^^;
 
Christmas was my kind of December holiday and still is. When I was young, much like every kid, getting gifts was always the fun part. Watching Christmas specials like Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer and The Island Of Misfit Toys, which I swear has been aired every year for the last 40 years. I remember we wouldn't celebrate Christmas in a religious manner so much, but we still would be very grateful of each other. I'm not a religious man by any means but I think even if Jesus still lived that's all he would've wanted for his birthday, just to have people get along and be grateful of one another. Although it shouldn't just be one day where we set aside of differences and accept one another.

As I got older, Christmas was still fun although presents didn't become as big of a deal to me, although gifts are fun, giving gifts also was pretty cool although I don't jump through hoops trying to get people stuff. For me now a days, I don't expect much, maybe a pack of Miller Lite and some quality time with the family, that's enough of a gift for me.
 
Argor251 said:
A lot of people these days see Christmas as just being for kids, whereas really it should be for the whole family. I guess that's another way that they try to kill life for adults, trying to make people have no interest and love for anything. I'm not saying that there shouldn't be a kid-focus with regards to Santa and such, as that obviously should be the case, and the Christmas magic is stronger for and around children, but I know a lot of people give up on it after that. Christmas used to be about the whole family, or for friends, and my family still keep our Christmas traditions strong even though there are no kids. It would break my Mom and Dad's heart just as much as it would upset me and my sister if all of it just stopped entirely.

Humans need special days and festivals (it doesn't matter so much what it is - though it has to mean something), otherwise we'd have a higher chance of losing track of everything, going mad, or losing ourselves. What is life if every day is the same?
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Well said :monster:

I celebrate Christmas as well, and it is one of the holidays I look forward to most throughout the year. It's funny, I've met a lot of people who have said they started out celebrating religiously as kids with their families, then grew out of it later; but I actually did the opposite. No one in my family was particularly religious when I was growing up except for my dad, and while he was with my mom when I was younger, we didn't acknowledge anything religious about Christmas until I was in my late teens-- when I was at my dad's on the weekend near Christmas, we would go to a church to listen to carols or something. But yeah, I never used to celebrate it from the religious perspective, but now I do :hmmm: Which makes things interesting considering I'm married to an atheist XD, but he's very patient with it, and still participates in giftgiving and whatnot.

I'm personally not as excited about receiving gifts lately, as I've grown older, because I always find that the things I want now are abstract and cannot be given as gifts (time, world peace, all my errands to be done, etc.). However, I've become much more excited about giving them than I used to be as a kid, and there have been a few times where I've given my family gifts that I knew they would love all along, and it was really exciting to see them open them and be so happy and surprised. It makes it hard to top it the next year though, which I'm having a pain with right now I'll admit :hmph:
 
I don't really celebrate anything in December. As a kid growing up, I used to wonder why we didn't have a Christmas tree or get presents but my parents told me it wasn't our religion. :lew:

Most of my extended family are Christian though so when we moved to NC, we would go to my grandmother's house for Christmas dinner and all. Even if it wasn't my holiday, it was nice to gather with my family and have a nice celebration.
 
Stella Nox Fleuret said:
I'm Christian, so I celebrate Christmas (religiously speaking). Christmas for me is a time to celebrate the birth of Jesus and spend some time with my family, and it usually involves a much welcome break from school. I don't have a huge family, but its nice to be able to see them at Christmas and spend some time together. We 'nosh on some tasty food, talk, and open presents so I always look forward to Christmas...its one of the few times during the year I get to see everyone.

The Christmas holiday has gotten soooooooo materialistic though, which makes me sad. I have to sit and consciously remind myself that Christmas is actually a really good thing, not just about presents, but about the bigger picture it involves.
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This covers much of my reply to this thread, except that I actually live with my father and brother, so I'm always around family (my mother abandoned the family though, so she is no longer in the same household, or even anywhere near us).

While I don't lose sight of what is being celebrated, I always look forward to all the presents and good food, and enjoy the decorations, music, and the holiday specials and movies all throughout the holiday season. ^_^
 
We celebrate Christmas in December. I admit I like getting presents. I am still a kid at heart. You could give me a giant Winnie The Pooh plush bear, and I'd be hella happy. However, this year might be the first year that I buy presents for my little brothers. It does make me kinda sad. I am getting older now though. I always love seeing when they open their presents, so if I get them the presents this year, It'll be hella dope. I also love the Christmas ham too. That's always good :)
 
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