War on Christmas

[Kiyoodle the Gambrinous]

It's this time of year again...

The shops are fighting for our attention to spend the money we don't have on things we don't need...

And it's like that since mid-October...

I think it's time to fight this insanity...

It's wartime...........

The bunnies will help...




_{(gotten the idea from Chatty's post in the Interview cycle)}

[Swatopluk]

And so will the kitten (Keeper of the Obsidian Wings)

http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/kitten.jpg

[anthrobabe]

yes be ware the obsidian wings kitten ( i love OW btw)

the bunny- well that is just wrong.

I refuse to be forced into the holiday spirit until I am good and darn ready-- plus I am flat broke so can't spend anyway.

Ba_humbug!!!!!!!


I'd rather just hand out random hugs each day--- let's see todays goes to
Mental Block 

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

It is an awesome site.


I unfortunately have to be in it at work, due to being a starbucks cog.

But I good and well ignore Christmas until about a week before hand.

[Aggie]

Yep, going very low-present this year.  Mom's getting a couple of used Pratchetts, Dad's getting leftover wedding booze, and I have non-gift agreements in place with the wife (as usual) and my sister.

Also, I picked up a trick this year in Korea:  Wrapping gifts in brightly colored fabric (scarves, random cloths, whatever) instead of disposable paper.  And it's EASY!  Just put the box on the cloth at a diagonal, tie two opposite corners, and then tie the remaining two over top of the gift.  Looks really good if you use two different colour fabrics stacked for one package.

I think Mom might even be making some specific "Christmas cloths" - to be really thrifty, one could pick up some Xmas patterned fabric on clearance after the holidays.

[Opsa]

Smarty!!!!

I never have any money, anyway and I'll take a hug any day.

I put up my Christmas decorations on the last day of November, but mostly because our town holiday parade is the first Saturday in December and I want to be ready for it.

I don't have anything against Christmas, but I celebrate it my own way and involve commerce as little as possible. I think of it as a time for appreciating family (toadfish family, too) and lighting lights against the darkness- not only the long nighttime here in the northern hemi, but also the darkness of depression and oppression.

Hope burns in my heart and I won't let the cold and the dark and the dank extinguish it. I am like a headstrong child. And I don't care if there's coal in my stocking. I'll use it to keep warm!

[Aphos]

Even Santa is making war on Christmas.

[anthrobabe]

Ok- I confess- I do love Christmas----

but I'm trying to be less commercial and more-- personable as the years go by.

I've always done recycled or dual duty wrapping-- the scarf idea is a great one!  I wrap gifts in the comics section of the newspaper (on sunday it is in color), And one year when my brother was working in a movie theater he wound up with an entire box of posters for the Muppet Christmas movie (Scrooge) and some movie trailers (preview rolls) and we wrapped presents in that- it was great- we curled the lengths of film and used them as bows. I love the Dollar store-I can get cheap baskets and fill them and no one knows-- plus they can be personalized (tea for one person, snacks for another).
Oh and I cook- people think even basic homemade cookies are divine-- it's the love thing.

[Griffin NoName]

I give my whole fridge over to Brandy Butter tubs.

Already started.

Amazing what one can eat to live !!!!  (still on mixed diet at present as still in acquisition phase; I have to be careful how many tubs I buy at once from the same store to avoid arrest).

However, this is my one and only concession to the festive season. Got to keep a sense of balance.

maybe I should increase my statins

[Sibling Chatty]

I HATE the commercialization. I used to love Christmas.

We've 'pared down' to the essentials. Necessity, ya know? Last year, I gave Dan the house payment, he gave me the electric bill. Neither of us NEED more 'stuff'...good thing, too!

I've got lots of 'long time' family and even heirloom decorations--and no way to get them out of the barn, because there's no way to know which box. Of course, it would take more energy, more money, more strength...

I have a small artificial tree. My friend Kate's ashes are in a red lacquered  container. I'm going to tie a bow around her, and we're planning on asking the few people that want to buy us gifts to donate cash instead, to be able to bury Kate's ashes in our family plot. (Until then, Kate's here with me, and I talk to her a lot. She's a good listener!) Her sister, my friend Denice, thinks that Kate will like being a Christmas decoration. 

[goat starer]

and even the reindeer are getting in on the act



http://www.madreindeer.com/images/Bart%20with%20axe.jpg

[Bruder Cuzzen]

Arrgh! Christmas time again...oh well...I hope the depression doesn't last to long this time .

I don't think i'll be buying a thing this year...except maybe a big container of quality catnip for Fritz and Kitkat...and maybe a couple of roast chickens , one for me and one for Kit .

I do look forward to seeing 'A Christmas Story' , that Darren Mcgavin always cracks me up...the hounds get into the house , trashes the kitchen and eats up the dinner except for a wing...pappy curses at them  ,  " Assassins !... Sons of bitches !"  HA HA Haaaa.....

[Swatopluk]

Maybe I will watch Scrooge with Alastair Sim at last.
My wishlist consists of books only (and not a single novel)
I have also to finish this <censored> PhD thesis.

We should not forget that in the not too far past it was conservative/radical Christians that made war on Christmas and that it was a normal workday in several (US) states up far into the 20th century.

[Darlica]

I admit, I'm not participating in the war on Xmas.




I have put up some decorations in my kitchen, and some in the living room and I have lights on the balcony. Why? This time of the year is so darn dark and boring that I'll take any chance I get to at some light and colour to it! However I won't partake in the general shopping frenzy, I neither have the interest or the money for it. My near and dear ones get one present each that's about it.

[anthrobabe]

I have also to finish this <censored> PhD thesis.

you get the hug of the day--- working on your thesis is amazing-- that last bit to finish is stressful
best of luck (hope I get to see it one day-- are you going to have it put online?)