Does the Christmas season make you feel?
925909
Happy!!!! and excited!
928152
YES.\n\nSEVERAL YEARS AGO, AT CHRISTMAS TIME, SOME FRIENDS AND I WENT TO THE STORE AND BOUGHT FOOD, HYGIENE PRODUCTS, AND OTHER NECESSITIES AND WENT TO THIS MAN'S HOUSE.  IT WAS PRACTICALLY FALLING DOWN.  HIW MOTHER WAS BED RIDDEN, AND HE WAS VERY POOR.  WE DELIVERED THE MERCHANDISE TO HIM, ALONG WITH SOME MONEY.  HE WAS VERY APPRECIATIVE FOR THE GIFT.
711792
It's become a lot happier since having kids.  Before, it really dragged on me to feel obligated to be "merry" and "jolly" and "forgiving", etc., when I just wanted to get through as I would any other time of year.  But my two young boys are royally jacked for Christmas, and their enthusiasm fires up mine.  But yes, we'll really take it on the chin come the January credit card bills.  Yet to see them happy and enjoy things I didn't as a child, will make up for it in many ways.
986560
Of course.  Shows what real Christmas is like...at least at my house.\n\n*sings* Christmas time\nYou force a smile\nEveryone is joining in the group denial\nFolks behaving infantile\nFamily Christmas time.
730116
Yeah, it's a great time of the year.  Winding down the year.  Commericals all over the TV & RADIO.  Coldness in the air.  Lots of clothes - bundling up.  The visuals at public places and at homes (xmas lites and decos).  The smell of new flavors at Starbucks.  The Pine scent in the house.  Yeah.  Great times.
861777
I think lots of people are sad, frustrated or disappointed at Christmas. For many it;s the most stressful time of the year. Families often are at odds about everything from religious beliefs, what time to eat dinner and how many toys to get for the kids. Lots of people spend way too much money and spend the rest of the year paying off credit cards. COmmercials and social mythology tell  us that "everyone" is happy this time of year, but I don;t think this is true. At least you admit your feelings.
921648
I do.  My family was never that close and money is always way too tight for me that time of year.  \n\nI still love the holidays, I just  try to relax and enjoy some holiday time at home as much a possible.
747133
Well I think that the true spirit of Christmas still exists, you can feel the excitment in the season, but it is also very commercialized.
864610
every year i love christmas more and more because every year i appreciate so much more everything it does. bringing loved ones together, having an excuse to tell them how much you love them all, being able to sing all the time all those songs that everyone knows the words to, decorating the tree, checking out everybody in your streets lights. i love it all. my mum has never liked christmas which is unfortunate and my best friend banned me from singing carols until november but they cant escape christmas and its not something to escape its to celebrate christs birth and family and everything!!!!!!
861846
everything.  i love christmas.  the decorations, the cold weather,  the christmas dinner, baking cookies, shopping for christmas,  wrapping presents, the christmas music, seeing adorable little kids all dressed up to take pictures with santa at the mall,  decorating the christmas tree, being with my bf on such a special day and being with my family and friends.  seriously everything.  i like trying to make it a good day for everyone i know in whatever way i can.
861743
I like it. Very nice specially the last one\n\nChristmas is such a beautiful day.\nIt's the feeling of giving that makes it that way.\nThe gifts are all open, and the day is now done.\nThe best thing of all is that Santa DID come!\n\nAdd something for snow and Jesus
346588
is it Christmas already?
772647
Good for you. \n\ni applaud you. *clap* *clap* *clap* *clap*\n\ni am glad that some people still feel the true spirit of Christmas, instead of the crazed buying spree type views that the stores want you to use.\n\none more *clap, clap, clap*
933474
The smells are the best for me.  It seems like a home really smells like a home at Christmas time.  The smell of baking and the smell of the trees and pomades bring back comfy feelings of home.
470602
its from childhood.I get Sunday blah,s,its a quite day,nothing going on,its not really depression just a lonely feeling.Think back and remember how the Sunday nights were spent as a child.We have refered sadness and its sorta like when someone die,s say at christmas or holiday and that time of year,every year it comes back to you with a sadness or empty feeling.Sometime we cannot even remember but rest assured it is from a former memory.
911067
Honestly, I'm not a holiday person, at least for holiday sake, but I do enjoy the Christmas season because I like how homey my wife makes my house.  I like the cinnamon and vanilla candles, I like the good grub and eggnog, and I like when there is snow. I do, however, get tired of all the commercial chaos and the feeling like you need to buy someone something.
728836
i am so with you but part of mine i think is because i am kind of depressed and i have no cash..   but the holidays have become all about money   you have to buy for this person or that one and if you decide to not buy for someone they get you a gift so you feel obligated ect and as for turkey day its just as bad i have it at my house and no one gets along and most of my family doesnt want to help they just show up eat and leave  i hate the holidays i cant even make my self decorate anymore... and thats sad because i can remember as a child my favorite thing was to sit on the couch with the x-tree lit in the dark and just think about how calm and quiet and peacful it was... bla im turning into the scruge