Your MOST-favorite & LEAST-favorite Holiday (multichoice POLL - pick two)
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Really I enjoy all the Holidays listed, Christmas being the favorite.
My least favorite holiday of those listed is probably New Years. Hey guys look! The Earth passed around the sun for the x-thousandth time. Sounds like an excuse to get drunk and kiss each other at midnight.
I was on the verge of saying my least favorite Holiday was Cinco de Mayo, but the victory at Puebla and subsequent morale boost among the Mexican Army and people helped preserve the American Union. A French Mexico would certainly have been harmful to American interests, so I now find the holiday worth celebrating to the chagrin of some of my Southern friends. Oddly enough, I also enjoy Virginia's Lee-Jackson day, because I admire Lee and Jackson. Oh the life of a transplant.
Being a cynical optimist, I really can't say I don't enjoy at least one aspect of every holiday, but New Years will never be my favorite. It just seems like an excuse to keep the Christmas season alive without Boxing Day which we should have.
My least favorite holiday of those listed is probably New Years. Hey guys look! The Earth passed around the sun for the x-thousandth time. Sounds like an excuse to get drunk and kiss each other at midnight.
I was on the verge of saying my least favorite Holiday was Cinco de Mayo, but the victory at Puebla and subsequent morale boost among the Mexican Army and people helped preserve the American Union. A French Mexico would certainly have been harmful to American interests, so I now find the holiday worth celebrating to the chagrin of some of my Southern friends. Oddly enough, I also enjoy Virginia's Lee-Jackson day, because I admire Lee and Jackson. Oh the life of a transplant.
Being a cynical optimist, I really can't say I don't enjoy at least one aspect of every holiday, but New Years will never be my favorite. It just seems like an excuse to keep the Christmas season alive without Boxing Day which we should have.
V
TO be honest with you, my most favorite and least favorite is the same holiday, Christmas. The reason I love Christmas is because of the reason it's here in the first place, the celebration of the birth of Christ. Also, I just love presents. And since my birthday is in December, well I get presents then as well.
The reason I hate it, is more of the season, then the day. I hate the commercialism that the Christmas season has become. And the worst of it starts, no longer on Friday, but now, on Thursday, the very day we are suppose to be celebrating Thanksgiving. I understand retailers needing money, but honestly, there's a point were they go to far, and encroach on family time. Honestly, who really needs to go to some Big Box store at 12 P.M. Thanksgiving day to buy a pack of socks for $5 when they are regularly $5.50 not counting buying a big screen tv for a $50 sale price. And, I refuse to apologize, but this girl needs her sleep, and unless you can come up with a better bargain, you will not induce me to wait in line for an hour to wait for doors to open up at 5 A.M.
The reason I hate it, is more of the season, then the day. I hate the commercialism that the Christmas season has become. And the worst of it starts, no longer on Friday, but now, on Thursday, the very day we are suppose to be celebrating Thanksgiving. I understand retailers needing money, but honestly, there's a point were they go to far, and encroach on family time. Honestly, who really needs to go to some Big Box store at 12 P.M. Thanksgiving day to buy a pack of socks for $5 when they are regularly $5.50 not counting buying a big screen tv for a $50 sale price. And, I refuse to apologize, but this girl needs her sleep, and unless you can come up with a better bargain, you will not induce me to wait in line for an hour to wait for doors to open up at 5 A.M.
My favorite holidays are Christmas, Easter, and Thanksgiving. I do not like Halloween, unless it is one dressing up as a reformer on Reformation Day or something else. I do not like the commercialism of Christmas either, Christmas was supposed to be alternative to Saturnalia not reverse its course again it should be about the birth of Christ, whether it happened on that date or not. I recommend watching Charlie Brown's Christmas because even Charlie Brown had an issue with it and Linus knew the real meaning of Christmas. I do not like Valentine's Day because it has become commercialized and the love many times that it has focused on in the present, is not true love. The story behind this day should be told about St. Valentine and him loving a blind girl, that should be told. Not about all those cards, candy, etc. God bless.
K
Most favorite - Christmas. I love everything about it 
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Least Favorite - Halloween. I don't necessarily hate it but I don't like the way most people see it as a day to celebrate zombies,monsters, ghosts, etc. This last Halloween we did something 2 days before as an alternative in my church, but I wouldn't mind if that holiday was removed. I'm not used to celebrate it anyways.
.Least Favorite - Halloween. I don't necessarily hate it but I don't like the way most people see it as a day to celebrate zombies,monsters, ghosts, etc. This last Halloween we did something 2 days before as an alternative in my church, but I wouldn't mind if that holiday was removed. I'm not used to celebrate it anyways.
I don't celebrate Valentines Day and I said Christmas was my least favorite. I don't know if it really is, I enjoy spending time with family that I don't get to see very often. However all the hype with Christmas is a lot and can be overwhelming. Thanksgiving I've always liked because I enjoy cooking for others and sharing a meal with loved ones.
Christmas is my favorite, truly because I love snowy weather. I have, lately, gotten completely fed up with how commercialized Christmas truly is. I also am fully aware that Christmas isn't truly when Jesus was born, though we use that time of year to celebrate His birth. I do like the fact that Jesus Christ gets to be spoken of so openly at that time, but it is sad that He isn't the one spoken of most often. Usually it's Santa and Rudolph and Frosty and the like. I love A Charlie Brown Christmas, though. When you hear that the t.v. show producers didn't like the Christian part of the show and wanted to cut it but didn't have enough time to do so, it gives the show a whole new perspective. I love it when people stand up against common thought and standards and say, "Yes. I love Jesus Christ. And I don't care who knows it. And guess what? He loves you too! And I'm going to make sure you know that as well."
For least favorite, I picked New Years. I love having the day off from work but it is truly the most pointless holiday to me. Like the world needs an excuse to get completely inebriated and kiss strangers. I didn't even think of Valentine's Day, though it used to be one of my least favorites (as did Christmas at one time, but for completely different reasons). I think I have disliked every holiday at some point in my life, except Easter. There is just too much wrapped up in that one for me not to like it, though I do, again, realize they took Passover and Jesus' death and resurrection and combined it with a pagan holiday...but, same argument as Christmas arises. It is a time when Jesus can actually be openly spoken of and even the most intolerant in the US will listen...if bitterly. Anyway, I stopped disliking Valentine's Day in a two step process. Firstly, I turned it into "Moose Need Love, Too" day and would send Moose-ism to friends and family. I like Moose. Ultimately, I learned that there is a Name Your Own Holiday day in March, I believe, and so Moose's Day was born. Then, I decided that I have the best Valentine ever! Jesus Christ is amazing. If I ever feel unloved, I don't need a holiday for Him to show me just how loved I am. So, Valentine's Day is for Him.
You know, even if I was in a relationship, I wouldn't want to celebrate Valentine's Day. Too much pressure. You expect too much and too little is delivered or you expect too little and so give 'too little' and the extravagant gift you receive makes you feel like a heel. Yes, they say it is the thought that counts, but we all can agree this is rarely the case. You either feel like you over-gave and thus feel ripped off/bitter or you feel as though you under-gave and thus feel shamed/sad.
Or maybe that's just me.
I have, lately, gotten completely fed up with how commercialized Christmas truly is. I also am fully aware that Christmas isn't truly when Jesus was born, though we use that time of year to celebrate His birth. I do like the fact that Jesus Christ gets to be spoken of so openly at that time, but it is sad that He isn't the one spoken of most often. Usually it's Santa and Rudolph and Frosty and the like. I love A Charlie Brown Christmas, though. When you hear that the t.v. show producers didn't like the Christian part of the show and wanted to cut it but didn't have enough time to do so, it gives the show a whole new perspective. I love it when people stand up against common thought and standards and say, "Yes. I love Jesus Christ. And I don't care who knows it. And guess what? He loves you too! And I'm going to make sure you know that as well."For least favorite, I picked New Years. I love having the day off from work
but it is truly the most pointless holiday to me. Like the world needs an excuse to get completely inebriated and kiss strangers. I didn't even think of Valentine's Day, though it used to be one of my least favorites (as did Christmas at one time, but for completely different reasons). I think I have disliked every holiday at some point in my life, except Easter. There is just too much wrapped up in that one for me not to like it, though I do, again, realize they took Passover and Jesus' death and resurrection and combined it with a pagan holiday...but, same argument as Christmas arises. It is a time when Jesus can actually be openly spoken of and even the most intolerant in the US will listen...if bitterly. Anyway, I stopped disliking Valentine's Day in a two step process. Firstly, I turned it into "Moose Need Love, Too" day and would send Moose-ism to friends and family. I like Moose. Ultimately, I learned that there is a Name Your Own Holiday day in March, I believe, and so Moose's Day was born. Then, I decided that I have the best Valentine ever! Jesus Christ is amazing. If I ever feel unloved, I don't need a holiday for Him to show me just how loved I am. So, Valentine's Day is for Him.You know, even if I was in a relationship, I wouldn't want to celebrate Valentine's Day. Too much pressure. You expect too much and too little is delivered or you expect too little and so give 'too little' and the extravagant gift you receive makes you feel like a heel. Yes, they say it is the thought that counts, but we all can agree this is rarely the case. You either feel like you over-gave and thus feel ripped off/bitter or you feel as though you under-gave and thus feel shamed/sad.
Or maybe that's just me.