Here are my holiday pet peeves...

[xultar]

People with xmas wreaths on their car's front grill :grr:
People with red xmas bows on their car's front grill :grr:
People with battery operated xmas lites in their back window :grr:
People wearing xmas ornaments as earrings :grr:
People wearing tinsel type garland as necklaces or scrunchies :grr:
Newspaper gift wrap :grr:
Lights that chase and twinkle :grr:

Do you have any?

[flamingyouth]

1. The holidays themselves

[xultar]

2. I hear ya!

[sbj405]

20. I'm with you flamingyouth! nt

[commander bunnypants]

3. hey I love newspaper wrap

CB


:crazy:

[xultar]

5. NP I only like for Birthdays. Not Hollydays. n/t

[KurtNYC]

4. Pop / Rock Christmas songs

the mall soundtrack

[Nevernose]

6. Baby Jesus with a lightbulb up his ass

The plastic nativity scenes with the lights inside -- baby Jesus with a lightbulb up his ass. They're just so ... I don't know what the word i want is. Tasteless? Tacky?

I'm not a big fan of nativity scenes anyway, but when they're electric and made out of plastic...

[xultar]

21. Yet, the Madame Trusseau Wax one is getting dissed. I don't like

nativity scenes @ all unless they are @ churches. Why anyone would want to simulate the birth of Christ on their front lawn and have a neighbor's dog piss on Jesus is beyond me!

[Jessica]

7. Those gigantic blow-up snowmen in ppls' front yards ...

I don't know what it is - but they make me wanna scream! And I like the holidays ... :shrug:

[2sheds]

10. Our neighbors have one ...

and, when it's windy, the snowman blows around kind of randomly, and we say "Frosty's been hittin' the sauce again". Occasionally he's not fully inflated for some reason, and that's pretty creepy, too.

[xultar]

19. I was gonna post that originally but I didn't want to offend...I HATE THEM

They never stay inflated. Plus, all it takes to decorate is blow up a giant doll! PUHLEEZ!!! Why not blow up balloons and put them on the xmas tree.

[madinmaryland]

8. All the f**'n commercial to get you

to buy crap that you would never think of buying.

The diamond commercials.
The luxury car commercials.
The Pat Hiban Real estate commercial.
The toenail fungus commercial they show during the national news.

[truthseeker1]

11. Yes! The diamond commercials are so gross

I saw one yesterday that said....."Imagine all the resolutions she'll make..."

Yes, give so that you'll get. That's what it's all about. :puke:

[xultar]

25. We have Dental Implant commercials, the Bubbas are tryin to go Metrosexual

on us so they can't be distinguished from the rest of us.

[truthseeker1]

9. holiday music played too early

- people who send greeting cards and just sign their name; no pictures, no news about how their year has been....Hallmark exists for these people

-parents or in-laws who pressure you to come visit them for the holidays, but don't consider coming to visit you

- people (sheeple) who embrace all of society's "traditions" but don't create any of their own

- how about the fact that Christians celebrate a false date of Christ's birth?

[jedicord]

12. "parents or in-laws who pressure you to come visit them..."

Amen! All my family thinks it's "too far" to come to my house. Yeah and the distance to their house is far shorter!

I've become a Grinch on that now. Last year we stayed home. Screw 'em. We actually had more fun and my son got to play with his stuff all day.

[truthseeker1]

16. We did the same thing last year....

They live in Montana, we live in LA. My dad looks down his nose at spending Christmas in LA. Well, that's fine. Where you are geographically is SO much more important than who you're with. Whatever....

They hate that we live here anywhere (they're RW fundies) and are determined to convince us to move up there. They hate CA and the big city life and liberals and environmentalists.... Shall I go on? We mix like oil and vinegar.

And the funny thing is... they raised me partially in northern AND southern CA! What do they expect? I became attached to the place.

[xultar]

23. I heard holiday music in a store the Tuesday B4 Thanksgiving and

I saw Holiday Decorations for sale and on 11/01....WTF is that all about!

[Padraig18]

13. The lighted, plastic candy canes with lights strung in between...

A newspaper carrier's nightmare! Two of ours have aleady tripped over the damned things, because you can't see the DARK GREEN CORDS AT 5:00 A-FREAKING-M!

:grr:

[cheezus]

14. people who are bitchy about the holidays

[xultar]

22. Yeah Mee tooo ;)

[TlalocW]

15. Here are mine

I also hate the giant blow-up decorations that are showing up for not only Christmas but Halloween, and I'm sure they have them for Easter, St. Patty's Day, and 4th of July or soon will.

Those icicle lights - the ones that you string across your roof as usual, but every few inches or so, a string of lights hang off perpendicular to look like icicles (I guess). If you're going to bother putting up lights, I want garish lights of every color out there! :)

However, I must say that the holidays are pretty much stress-free for me as I only have to go out to the stores once or twice for gifts as I buy everything else on Ebay months ahead of time. :)

TlalocW

[truthseeker1]

17. I am buying a lot from eBay this year too

and making some gifts too. I refuse to set foot in a mall. Not me, huh uh. No thanks. Having to go into Bed Bath & Beyond last weekend was bad enough!

[TlalocW]

18. It makes things a lot nicer

I hate fighting the crowds, and it gives me more time to make Christmas cookies. Also I buy from individuals and not corporations. And finally, I piss off my older sisters by emailing out my percent complete for shopping which I have in a spreadsheet (yes, I'm a nerd).

Last night I was talking over IM with my sister. I haver her daughter's name this year for a family gift, and I called her and talked with her for a few minutes to get her gift list then went on Ebay, found exactly what she wanted (a KU Jayhawk welcome mat), and since it had a Buy Me Now option, I bought it then told my sister what I had just done. Pissed her off. :)

And to save on shipping, I'm arranging for her to go to the guy's house to get it since he's in Wichita, and she works there. It would be a waste to send it to me in Tulsa just so I can carry it back through Wichita on the way to my mom's house just to the east of Wichita.

TlalocW

[sbj405]

24. People that can't understand that not everyone celebrates Xmas

I'm not Christian and I don't believe in the corporate Christmas. Was telling my friend about my plans today (which are essentially nothing) and she was giving me the spiel about it being a day to celebrate and I shouldn't be alone, etc. Screw that. For a large majority of the world, it's simply another Saturday.

[xultar]

26. True DAT! n/t