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Originally Posted by rustylady  Christmas isn't my favourite season. Always seems a let-down, everyone expects so much. Hasn't been the same since the children were little, when they were satisfied with simple things. |
Christmas is/can be what you make of it surely? (I have no small children - or large ones!) I too hate the over-commercialisation of xmas, but love tinsel & tat. I love giving presents but they don't have to be gold-plated. I keep meaning to go to church and sing xmas carols on xmas eve, but I'm normally too tiddly, so we watch the services on tv. (I'm not religious btw I just like all the ritual. Might burn a yule log or two as well!)
Previous years we've made paperchains from old magazines and had an impromptu game of football with the used xmas wrapping paper. Gone for walks and pub visits on frosty new years days - it doesn't clear the hang-over!
I'm sure folk on here do lots of things thats in the spirit of xmas that are simple things?