What's your least fav. holiday...?
 

What is your least favorite holiday? I'm talking real holidays not Secretary's Day or something to that effect. (of course if you have a legitimate reason for hating Secretary's Day feel free to post)

Mine is Christmas... It's just too commercial now. It stresses me out to search the stores high and low for the perfect present for friends and family. Christmas really brings out the worst in people (especially if you work in retail and have to deal with these people - you know what I'm talking about). This year I'm letting everyone know that I won't be participating in Christmas. Don't get me anything and I won't get them anything... I'll be much happier that way.

Anyways, this is all just my two cents...

Halloween…I used to love it but with age it just doesn’t seem so special. Maybe I will start enjoying it again when I’m that dad with the flashlight.

Columbus Day.

'Cause dude, if Columbus "discovered" America, I'm going to "discover" your house.

I agree with Christmas... I must admit I loved it when I was a child, the innocence of it-- leaving cookies, carrots, and milk out for Santa and Rudolph... and all the toys! I usually just want money because if my parents try to get me clothes or jewelry on their own, I usually don't really like the stuff and end up returning/exchanging which is a big hassle. I used to like decorating the tree, but the last 2 years my parents had to nag my sister and I to do it.

VALENTINE'S DAY!!!:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:


THE PRESSURE!!! THE STRESS OF TRYING YOUR DAMNEDEST TO MAKE SURE YOU HAVE PLANS AND A DATE!!! THE COMMERCIALISM!!! THE WRINGING OF THE HANDS WATCHING THE CLOCK TICK BY AS YOU AWAIT THE FLOWER DELIVERY GUY! THE PANIC AND WANING HOPE IN EACH WOMAN'S EYES AS HE WALKS BY HER DESK TO THAT OTHER GIRL'S DESK!!!! IT SUCKS ASS AND I REFUSE TO BUY INTO IT!!! I HATE THAT DAMNED DAY!!!!!!!!!!!! I WISH IT WOULD BURN IN HELL, THEN TAKE A FLYING LEAP, THEN DIE A SLOW, PAINFUL DEATH!!! DAMN YOU FOR MAKING SINGLE WOMEN FEEL LIKE COMPLETE AND UTTER LOSERS WHEN WE ARE ACTUALLY COMPETENT, BEUATIFUL WOMEN!!! I HATE YOU, VALENTINE'S DAY!! GO TO HELL, YOU GO TO HELL AND YOU DIE......!!!!!!!!!!!!

OK, I'm calm now :)

* Note, I exaggerated for effect, but I mean every word I said!!*

sigmagrrl,

This year, I was dreading Valentine's Day being that I'm single... and the day doesn't hold special memories with me being that my ex-boyfriend and I broke up the day after Valentine's Day (although it was 2 years ago and I'm completely over it). But my friends were like you have to come out to the bars... and I was skeptical just because I didn't want to feel like a single loser... but I went and I had the best time ever... and one of my guy friends (who I had a little crush on) ended up being my Valentine by the end of the night! Sounds corny, but the next morning I walked him out to a beautiful morning of snow falling and went back to bed thinking that even though I'm single all is right with the world.

Valentine's day, Easter and Thanksgiving.

Valentine's Day is so lame, I mean why do we need a day to remind us to love our significant others, meanwhile making those who have no one feel like shit.

Easter and Thanksgiving are the most boring of all holidays, no presents, food that we wouldn't eat on any other day, and a sucky football games with the lions and cowboys . The only bonus is that we get out of school for like a week for each.

Here's another vote for Valentine's Day. It's way too stressful!!!

Here's my vote for Valentine's Day.

I have vowed never to celebrate Valentine's Day. If you love someone you should tell them everyday that you love them. You don't need one "special" day to do it.

Sorry everyone that is patriotic, but I despise the Fourth of July. Sorry once again. This is due to my birthday being on the 6th..it sucks to be a semi-firecracker baby.

There's another reason why I dislike the 4th, but that's an entirely different thread.

I'd say it's a toss-up between Christmas and Passover. I know it's a weird combination, but hey :)

Christmas has just gotten waaaaay too commercialized. When I was little, it was about going to church, Santa and presents, and a family get-together. Now the Christmas decorations come out around October and it's all about spending money and making sure your kid isn't the only one in the neighborhood without the hot new toy. :rolleyes:

The trouble with Passover is that I have to spend it with my in-laws. They are nice enough people - when taken in small doses with copious quantities of adult beverages. Last year my in-laws invited themselves to our house for the first night of Passover and demanded that we go to them for the second night - not one, but two fabulous back-to-back nights of dealing with my mother-in-law. She and I weren't on speaking terms for a while afterwards...

Christmas

I'm not Christian and I don't celebrate it; and it gets annoying around Christmas time because there is an over-saturation of Christmas commercialization and propoganda

I hear you on that! I'm a Christian and the over-saturation and propaganda get on my nerves too because they have so little to do with what we're really celebrating.

I don't really like Thanksgiving because I detest turkey and all the trimmings and it irks me to have to put all that effort into preparing something I don't even like!

Well Valentine's Day is a bad one all it does is steal the thunder from the celebration of my birth.

A toss-up between Easter and Christmas.

My second job (the one I work with Sunnygirl) is in freakin' gift wrap. Our corportate thinks it's a real swell idea to send out free gift wrap cards to our credit card customers. Which wouldn't be all that bad, except everyone saves them until the last three days before the holiday to get everything wrapped. People will come up to our counter and look at the wrap and ask us if that's all we have. Oh, no, we're saving the solid gold stuff for you. It's in the back. They all think they can wrap gifts better than we can, and nothing is more annoying than wrapping presents and being told a) to take off the price tag five times and b) how to fold the item in the box. Then you've got the idiots who run in on Christmas Eve and wonder why we're out of things.

Easter stinks for me because it is my sister-in-law's holiday. I get dragged every year to her and my brother's house to be tortured by her side of the family, who are a poor man's version of the Osbornes, complete with the stoner brother-in-law, anal retentive sister, and two children trying really hard to portray teenage agnst (I did it so much better in my day!). On top of everything else, my sister-in-law is a terrible cook, and I usually spend the rest of Easter with severe intestinal distress.

I am not a fan of Easter, Christmas, or Valentine's Day. Easter I never get to go home to see my family anyway so I'm always stuck at school by myself, Valentine's Day just sucks, and Christmas is so overdone it drives me crazy.

I do however looooooove thanksgiving even though I don't like any of the food we make. It's still fun. :)

Since I am open every holiday except Christmas for at least Half a day it is tuff!

Christmas espec. since I have no family who live near. To drive 3 hours to and 3 back, that leaves about 3 hours with my dad and brother!:(

Well and usually beat when get back home!:(

You all have valid points, but I swear I can't think of a holiday I don't like. I love Halloween, Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter...I guess I can thank my mom for that.

I like most every holiday, but unfortunately due to the unstable nature of my childhood, each holiday has a bitter memory attached to it so it's really hard to truly enjoy any holiday to its fullest. About the only holiday I don't really have mixed feelings about is the 4th of July. Kick back in the driveway, grill some burgers and hot dogs, drink root beer floats and attempt to set the house on fire with firecrackers. Good times, good times...

Valentine's Day
 

I hate Valentine's Day with a passion!!! Worst excuse for a holiday ever! If you love someone, you shouldn't have to wait until one day of the year to tell them that. It puts pressure and stress on people that are single and makes them question their self esteem and self worth. Also, I have a childhood trauma with Valentine's Day.

New Years. I dunno. I like New Years but it's not that big of a deal. I generally don't do anything fantastic and it's just another night of drinking and dancing but with a countdown.

I've also never been a great fan of Valentine's Day only cuz I've never had a wonderful valentine...or even when I did the whole event wasn't great at all....

I hate Valentine's Day with a major passion!!!!! I have not celebrated it since 1990 and I won't ever again, even if I have a boyfriend or husband. There is nothing like that stupid holiday to make single people feel guilty about not having a significant other. Besides there are 364 (365 for leap year) other days to show a friend or relative how much you care?

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Thanksgiving.

I hate turkey, I hate stuffing, I hate cranberry sauce, I hate almost all the Thanksgiving foods. I don't like football that much, I think parades are boring . . . and do Americans really need an excuse to eat MORE?

My favorite Thanksgiving was the one when I was in Mexico and nobody was celebrating it. :p

I think the concept of Thanksgiving is great, but the rest of it, I could do without.

Turkey for me, turkey for you.

Love to eat turkey from my big brown shoe.

:p :p

Gobble, gobble, goo and gobble, gobble, giggle.
I wish Turkey only cost a nickel!

OK, Chandler Bing! LOL

Sorry to hear that...I love Thanksgiving! A whole day dedicated to shameless, guilt free binging!!

Valentine's Day. It sucks.

Valentine's day, for all of the reasons that everyone has said. Why should people wait one for one specific day to say they care? That's horrible! And all the pressure if you're single, or in a new relationship, or just getting out of one? No thanks! This last year, a bunch of single sisters and I spent the day at the bar and partying with everyone we knew. We had much more fun than any other sappy filled year. It's now our tradition!

I feel so honored! I've been graped by the Grapist!!

Any holiday that doesn't get me off work with pay sucks.

AND there's pressure even when you're in a long term relationship. My ex was sick and I guess I pushed for us to still go out to the fancy restaurant we had reservations for... because I thought big holiday, big night. We didn't even talk during dinner and our year and a half relationship ended the next night at a club nonetheless!

So I didn't say Valentine's Day before, but I do think it's way over-rated... a lot of expectations could end to a huge let down.

Well said!