Top 10 Worst Things About the "Holiday Season"
Ah yes who doesn’t love the holidays? It’s a special time of year for many filled with memories family “fun” and chaos in between. The holiday season includes anything from Thanksgiving to New Year’s, but Christmas is probably the most recognized during this holiday season. Don’t get me wrong I love Christmas as much as the next guy, but you’d be lying to yourself if you think there’s not problems with it.Why is Thanksgiving skipped? I love Halloween, I really do, please don't get me wrong folks. But it isn't even a state holiday much less a federal one.
Everyone claims to LOVE Thanksgiving so much and it is many people's favorite holiday. But once Halloween is over, kicking off the holidays, guess what? Well, time to put Christmas up.
Can we wait until after Thanksgiving? I mean, maybe put your tree up if you can't wait. Why not decorate for Thanksgiving? Some people throw up some inflatable turkeys or have some uncarved pumpkins.
I wish Thanksgiving was held about as high up as Christmas, but whatever. Oh yes, and don't put Halloween and Christmas decorations together. Thanks.
Look, I love my family, but that doesn't mean things can't get awkward. No matter how hard you try to avoid it, you will get hit with "How's school? How's work?" "When are you getting into a relationship/How's your relationship going?"
That's not even getting to the adults arguing about politics, the economy, work, and any other current topics. I get it, you want to catch up, but stop asking me a million times. I love spending time with my family that I don't see too often, but forgive me for wanting to sprint out the door the first chance I get.
I suggest that all advertising should be banned, and that all businesses should find alternatives.
I hate how commercialized it is. The world just makes it so fake nowadays.
Charlie Brown fought against it back in '65.
Someone please tell me I'm not alone on this. Christmas music ranges in quality from okay to makes you want to rip your ears off.
You have your holy Christmas music, then you have your happy bubbly Santa songs, then there's the romantic songs, and then everything else that doesn't fit in one of those categories. Every year, I find my tolerance for Christmas music declines. Driving in December becomes a nightmare when you have to listen to nothing but Christmas music on every radio station ever.
I actually want the commercials over the music. Because yeah, all I want for Christmas is to listen to "All I Want for Christmas is You" by Mariah Carey 50 million times. A moment of silence for anyone who works in retail or grocery and is forced to listen to this nonstop for their entire shift. I feel your pain.
If you need simple groceries like toothpaste or cereal, be prepared for the most difficult shopping trip of your life. If you need one little item from the store, you'd better set aside 4-13 hours because everyone is aggressively shopping for Christmas presents until literally seconds before Christmas.
That typical grocery list will be the most difficult and painful store experience possible.
So many Christmas products shoved in your face, annoying Christmas music playing 24/7, whining kids begging for their parents to get something they want before Christmas, shoppers themselves freaking out about trying to find the perfect gift. IT'S TORTURE.
Agh! I told my sister I love the show Criminal Minds - my favorite is Dr. Reid because I love Matthew Gray Gubler, and she gave me a shirt from CSI. I cried, but I still love her. She doesn't watch either show, so I get it.
Oh, a jacket? Yeah, um, thanks dude...
Ugh, dear God, I hate these so much. Apparently, everyone and their mothers and grandmothers like to take a ridiculous amount of family pictures and then proceed to waste time making and sending Christmas cards to like 40-50 people.
Can someone please explain the point of Christmas cards? Yeah, thanks Aunt Susan. I don't want to immediately throw it away, but I'm also not collecting these things as evidence to track down a criminal in a murder mystery. Don't even get me started on the Christmas morning pajama picture. Yeah, apparently no matter how old you are, your mother will make you do it.
Maybe as a kid, this was fun, but nowadays, it's just kinda boring. Like, oh, let's just look at complete strangers' houses to judge their dedication or lack thereof to decorating their house and making it the best on the block for 30 days.
I wouldn't want someone looking at my house for no reason, but to each their own I guess.
I was very worried I was gonna go to boring light shows with my aunt, little brother, little cousin, and my mom. But luckily, Home Alone was playing! (One of the only movies I like during the holidays because it doesn't focus on Christmas too much.) And my fun cousin was there, so I didn't have to go!
Traveling can be stressful already, especially at an airport. Now, amplify that stress by a million and you get this chaos: "FLIGHTS CANCELED, FLIGHTS DELAYED." It makes any other time look civil in comparison.
Everyone has the same goal and everyone is selfish and wants the least amount of problems to deal with. But it's an absolute mess because of weather and/or people being idiots and/or selfish and/or all of the above.
Oh, so you just got done with Christmas and you're stressed out and need a day to recover? That's too bad because reality doesn't care. The world doesn't stop, so get up and get to work! You had your break, now back to reality.
Nobody cares about December 26th or 27th, it's all over. Take the tree down and put it all away for another year.
I just don't take it down until I feel like doing it.
I love my cousins, but I usually dread spending Christmas with them for this reason. It gets overwhelming, especially when they think they're just gonna get everything they ever wanted. Then they spend the rest of the holiday miserable when they don't.
Even in November, everything is Christmas-themed. Christmas is December 25th. On, let's say, Easter, almost nothing is Easter-themed.
This is especially scary this year because, considering how bad 2020 was, I feel like this year was completely wasted.
I hate New Year's Eve. It's so loud.
Remember when you were a kid and you could be in your pajamas for three days in a row eating cookies and watching Christmas movies all day? Yeah, gone are those days. Reality is, just because it's Christmas, the world doesn't stop, so you still have to go to school and/or work.
And if you have to work on Christmas or Christmas Eve, well, thanks for taking one for the team, but yeah, that sucks.
Yup. Exams can really suck the Christmas spirit out of you.
My family does this to me every Christmas, and they know full well I DON'T LIKE IT!
Look, I appreciate the thought, but maybe get a receipt just in case? How hard is it? Otherwise, the thoughtful gesture turns into, well, enjoy a shirt two sizes too big or too small that you'll never wear. By the time you take it back, you'll get maybe $5 in store credit if that.
Pro tip: If you buy clothes as a Christmas present, ALWAYS always always get a receipt in case the person wants to return it.
I just buy my own clothes and give them to my mom to give to me.
