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Why do you personally hate Christmas? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by Dalacos@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/40632364

For those that can't stand this time of the year, my misery seeks company. What does it for you?

For me: aside from the usual family stuff:

I worked front-end in a post office back when that meant a line-up before I opened the doors to the end of the day when I had to inform the line-up that was still out the door that, yes, I was going to close on time. (Some didn't take that well. For me it was just another Tuesday...)

It meant a lot of work with little thanks and I had to listen to the same shitty Xmas playlist over and over all day.

Edit/PS: The quick downvote sells it. Perfection. chefs kiss

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[–] pyrinix@kbin.melroy.org 3 points 10 hours ago

I suppose that all wouldn’t be so bad if the “Christmas season” didn’t stretch out for so long. It’s now well underway before Thanksgiving, and I’m being conservative with that. That means at least 10% of the year - so 10% of my life, too - is spent under the Christmas regime.

Oh it's gotten worse. Where I work, like at mid-October right when Halloween is around, we already sectioned off an entire part of the store for christmas stuff. So it's no longer not even before Thanksgiving, it's before Halloween now.