smunks wrote:
I couldn't care less about getting presents on Christmas - unless it's something someone has made themself and hasn't put money into it.
The thing I love about christmas is that I get top see relatives that I'd hardly ever see otherwise.
lol wut?
You LIKE seeing relatives?
I do everything I can to avoid seeing my extended family. ;) We used to go to this family gathering thing every Christmas at my aunt's house, and it was so f*cking boring. But that stopped a year or two before my grandmother died--we saw her every Christmas morning for brunch. That was the extent of relatives I'd
want to see.
Now, old family friends are another thing. My Mom's best friend from childhood is f*cking awesome. My dad (and his brothers) were actually friends with Bruce Springsteen growing up--too bad they let that friendship die. >:( My uncle was apparently in a high school band with him, and my grandfather thought he was a hooligan and regularly kicked him out of the house when irritated.
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My family does a big Christmas, though, with the immediate members. It's actually absurd, and we are all trying to convince my parents (AKA my mother) to cut back. But it mostly has to do with her having been really poor her whole childhood, and with my family being really quite poor until I was in middle school. She feels like she needs to give us the kind of holiday she didn't have. We really just enjoy
Edited, Jul 26th 2011 9:06pm by idiggory