http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/up...12/Scrooge.jpg

Tell me it ain't so.

Then there's having to drag a dying tree into your home. You spend 20 to 50 bucks on something your just going to throw away in a few weeks. Then you have to put a bunch of crap on it that your going to have to pack away again in a few weeks. By which time, it sheds a crapload of needles you have to sweep/vaccume up, turns excrement brown, and becomes a fire hazard. At which point you have to drag it back out, find someplace to chuck it, and sweep/vaccum some more.

Oh, and then there's having to play musical families. Have to be here, there, and somewhere else, by such and such a time. Reminds me of Thanksgiving. Big PITA. Time off i think should be to relax, not be made to drive all over hells half acre for BS social calls for people you hardly even know, while putting up with 10 times the stupidity on the road.

Whatever Xmas was supposed to be, it's was lost on me. My wife loves xmas however, so i keep my mouth shut and do whats expected of me. Seeing her smile and the spark in her eyes is worth it.

Dowly shows up in the damned places:o.

What would Freud say?:hmmm::haha:

The complaints about Christmas getting earlier every year are getting earlier every year!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh9PtXVsjrk

Best Christmas album ever made!

Neal should have made a Subsim Advent calendar. Missed a trick there, big guy! I'd have bought 5.

Artificial tree! Mine lasted 18 years. Just got a new one originally priced at $150.00 for $49.99. Nice tree. Up in flash with folding limbs. :DL

I did that for a few years then drawn the line. I told my family that I was not spending the holiday in a car for no reason at all. I see my family throughout the year. Christmas is stressful enough with about everything you listed in the previous post. Adding a roundy round in the car does not happen for me anymore. However, if anyone has the notion to drop by my house for a chunk of ham and pie they are welcome.

My wife is the Christmas person at our ranch. Xmas has been lost on me when I see thousands fly out the door for gifts. It is commercialized beyond recognition. It never ceases to amaze me watching "A Christmas Story" where entertainment was listening to Little Orphan Annie and a football was a REAL Xmas present. Not a $800.00 laptop and iPod! Things sure have changed and not always for the better. However, we make Xmas as special as we can for our kids. My Xmas as a kid were great (the football was a REAL gift back then) and I want my kids to have a great Christmas. My girls are older now. Want clothing!

Heh, so you know the tune I'm singing eh? :O:


Xmas for me pretty much stopped the instant I left home. I only remember two christmas's while in the service. One, was a huge empty parking lot outside the barracks, and a driving rain. The barracks were deserted because everyone went home for chistmas. I didn't bother. In my mind there was nothing to go "home" to. So I sat there on that cold rainy day, by myself, drinking beer and watching TV. Just another day.

Only other Xmas i remember was overseas. Commander had recalled all of us from the various construction projects in the field to celebrate xmas together as a "family". hell, those guys were more my family then my real family was at that point in my life. So we had a whole pig on a spit, and had a 4 cubic yard front end loader bucket set up as a beer trough. Stuffed ourselves, drank beer, shot the bull, good times, and a much needed break.

But the thing is, I had completely forgotten when xmas was. I didnt realize it until we had been recalled from the field. A buddy of mine used to tease the hell out of me for not knowing when xmas was. The truth is, i stopped caring. Hell, i didn't even remember how old I was or when my birthday was, let alone christmas. It all became Inconsequential trivial BS in my mind. Every day was a struggle, so i lived just one day at a time, and took things as they came, and didn't worry about meaningless dates or celebrations. In retrospect, i probably needed counseling when i got out.

Outside of that, most of my xmas experience was with my ex. I say my ex because I lived with the harpy for 7 years even though we weren't married. That left, left a sour taste in my mouth. Hopefully things will be different with this wonderful Gal I married a couple months ago. My life certainly has improved from the first day I met her.

Ebenezer Scrooge by any chance

December 1st is tomorrow, but I found this for your dog on a black friday sale.

If you hurry it could still be on sale :yep: under $5.00 too


http://cdn.flirtcatalog.com/images/p...w/SW885963.jpg

French Maid Dog Costume
Was: $14.50 Now: $4.95

I feel similarly with most of what you posted...especially now that the kids have grown up.

The bit below is 100% me :yep:

I don't have any family - none that will talk to me anyway. For me Christmas is pretty much like any other day. When I was homeless it was hard, but now? Meh.

Motion to change Ducimus' name to Steed#2.

All vote:

You still have us!:D

Too right :sunny:

I think that link is broken as it keeps sending me to some Pogues crap.

:D

You are a musical barbarian! :O:

Maybe here's something for you:
The Yobs - Stille Nacht - Silent Night in German.

http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/6...silentnigh.jpg

(Is it possible to godwin a Christmas thread? :D)

Oh boy, that's cheering. I think I'll just shoot myself now. :dead:











Just kidding, of course. You guys are great! :sunny:

I'll be hanging out at the 'Singles bars, singles bar, singles bar'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTiuu...ayer_embedded#!


Ho ho ho ho!


WARNING this is a bad bad bad video.

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Here is my all-time Christmas favorite.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHI5l...eature=related

Obvious not a music lover :yep: