What's your least fav. holiday...?

sailorchicDG · #1 08-04-2003, 02:29 PM

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...

Kevlar281 · #2 08-04-2003, 02:35 PM

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.

kstar · #3 08-04-2003, 02:39 PM

Columbus Day.

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

MeLikey · #4 08-04-2003, 02:46 PM

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.

sigmagrrl · #5 08-04-2003, 02:58 PM

VALENTINE'S DAY!!!

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!!*

MeLikey · #6 08-04-2003, 03:12 PM

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.

sigmanuzk · #7 08-04-2003, 04:10 PM

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.

MoxieGrrl · #8 08-04-2003, 04:12 PM

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

Lady Pi Phi · #9 08-04-2003, 04:26 PM

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.

Rio_Kohitsuji · #10 08-04-2003, 04:27 PM

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.

aephi alum · #11 08-04-2003, 06:58 PM

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.

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...

enlightenment06 · #12 08-04-2003, 07:09 PM

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

KillarneyRose · #13 08-04-2003, 07:28 PM

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Originally posted by enlightenment06
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!

steelepike · #14 08-04-2003, 07:40 PM

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

chitownxo · #15 08-04-2003, 10:40 PM

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.