What's everyone doing for Christmas? (page 2)

edward gentry

Eff.
My mother rings me up every Christmas,and on birthdays reminding me,but I feel a compulsion to punish her for the previous 20 years.
I never send her cards, and think"You sowed, now reap'. punishing her
for the Jdubs thing. Pathetic isnt it.
My kid loves Christmas, so I celebrate at home for his sake,dont want his experience of normal things tainted.
I would recommend you throw yourself into Christmas for your childrens sake,those things in your head about commercialism (in my head too)are rationalizations justifying your former witness beliefs.
Throw them out the window.

Stephanus

I agree with Naeblis: part with a bit of your hard-earned to make your boy a little happier, if only temporarily. Christmas is a great time for the kids because of all the great stuff they get, and great for the adults because of all the food you get to eat. Every year we try to invite people around who don't have family to spend Christmas with. It looks like we may get a few this year. If you don't want to go to the trouble of Christmas dinner yourself or don't know how to start, find a "worldly" friend and explain that you've got trouble with the whole Christmas concept and don't know anything about how to celebrate it: "could we spend Christmas with you?" You'd be surprised how generous and helpful people can be. Christmas is about treating your family in a very special way once a year.

"You've got the brain of a four-year-old boy, and I'll bet he was glad to get rid of it."
- Groucho Marx

GentlyFeral

Fred,

Christmas is commercialization. Or commerialization is Christmas.

If, as you claim, you really are a Jehovah's witness, and therefore a non-celebrator of Christmas, you are not qualified to address this subject.

Gently Feral
Christmas Slut

Stephanus

What is wrong selling God's word?

Absolutely everything! See Jesus' actions against the money-changers at the Temple.

BTW, Fred, are you going to take TR up on his offer? He's very keen on meeting you and showing you some true, non-Watchtower friendship.

"You've got the brain of a four-year-old boy, and I'll bet he was glad to get rid of it."
- Groucho Marx

Thirdson

We are having Thanksgiving at our house but will be spending Christams with my wife's family up north. We had a wonderful time the last Christmas we spent with them. It was my first real Christmas (I had celebrated with my son before with a tree etc previously) but that time 2 years ago was wonderful. We opened Christmas presents on Christmas day in our nightclothes, had a roaring log fire, good food, lots to drink and to sample. On top of that there were two feet of snow on the ground. (We had to drive 160 miles in a blizzard on Christmas eve though, yuk) All my life I had seen happy Christmases portrayed in movies and such, but this was as close to that as I could have imagined.

Thirdson

'To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing'

OUTLAW

Missie Eff,go for it!It dosent have to be a big production.A nice tree with a few presents.Your little boy will enjoy it,and you will have fun doing it.>>>Fred,"what is wrong selling gods word".Gods word dosen`t need to be sold.Especially by those money grubbing lying bastards!...OUTLAW

Missie Eff

Thanks for all your suggestions - keep em coming!

I'm off out to buy my tree now...

My son will thank you.

Satanus

Gently

Glad to see you around.

Fred

The wt mixes its own product in w 'gods word'. What is wrong is that after a person buys the wt product, he becomes their robot. Did you get your batteries charged this week?

SS

Stephanus

SOunds like a great time, Thirdson! The snow is a great touch - here we usually have 30 degree (Celsius) plus heat, but we still cook and eat the hot food! We don't bother with a fire, though.

"You've got the brain of a four-year-old boy, and I'll bet he was glad to get rid of it."
- Groucho Marx

GentlyFeral

Missie Eff,

A full-bore Christmas in all its glory is an indtimidating project for an inexperienced ex-dub. I grew up with Christmas, but had the good fortune to run across this book shortly after I left:

Unplug the Christmas Machine
* http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0688109616/qid=1006030525/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_7_1/107-4363322-9203761

Basically, the book lays out three valuable principles:

1. Strip out all holiday customs that are not meaningful to you.
2. Delegate, delegate, delegate!
3. If you're starting to feel stressed out, cut back; see #'s 1 and 2.

I must warn you, however, that if you have a child in the house, you probably can't get away without some gifts and a tree :)

And I'd encourage you to get the kid into thinking about what he wants to GIVE friends and family for Christmas. Even spot him a couple of twenties. My mother used to match me, dollar for dollar, all the allowance money I managed to save between about November 1 and December 15. Buying gifts for others was always my favorite part of the holiday. Mostly I bought imaginative little trinkets.

Gently Feral
thanking Santa Claus for eBay

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