<p>I do. I love the movies, music, decorating our house, and getting others gifts. Receiving gifts is nice too, but as I get older, that seems less important. Too bad my family lacks Christmas spirit.</p>
<p>I think my nana's clinically depressed, but I'm not quite sure. She's been so irritable and pessimistic ever since a couple years ago. She used to be so nice and optimistic too. On top of that my pap is off work due to an injury, and I don't think he's ever going back. To be honest I think he's gonna die soon. He's a heavy smoker, a diabetic, and obese, and he's not doing anything to improve his health. You should hear him cough. It sounds like he's coughing up his lungs. To add to that my mom is dealing with a lot of stress right now. We found major structural damage and widespread mold in our house, and my dad is in Afghanistan so she's dealing with it alone. Oh well, I guess they have too much on their shoulders to be in the holiday mood.</p>
<p>We don’t give/receive gifts, decorate the house, have people over, go to church, or do much of anything else in my family.
But I like the season. I like the snow (although it hasn’t snowed in Ohio yet, courtesy of global warming) and the lights people put up and the gingerbread cookies and the time off school.</p>
<p>I used to be REALLY into Christmas, would listen to nothing bu Christmas music starting the day after Thanksgiving and would be really sad after Christmas was over. This year, I’m definitely loving it, but not as much as before. I guess it just comes with age; regardless, I do love this time of the year. Snow would be nice this year (I live in VA, so probably not) but I really love Christmas Day, I’m like a little kid then.</p>
<p>BOY! I sure do I have the Christmas spirit! I decorated my car the second it turned Dec. 1! I blast Chirstmas music every morning on my way to school. I switched my body wash the the winter edition (and yes, I do shower to Christmas music.) I’ve got my 25 Days of Christmas shows all mapped out. I’m on it, yo! Music, decorations, shows. I’ve even handed out candy canes to random strangers. </p>
<p>I feel that I’ll never lose my Christmas spirit over the years. Growing Christmas was always the best time of year and (this does sound cliche…) it warms my heart when the Chirstmas season comes. It’s just a feeling from within. A warm feeling. A feeling of nostalgia. Christmas! HECK YEAH!</p>
<p>It doesn’t even feel like christmas time to me. There is just so much crud going on right now (school, college apps, testing, etc) that I haven’t even thought about it.</p>
<p>The period from Thanksgiving to my birthday (Feb 15) is always my favorite time of year. I do get really into traditions, only listening to Christmas music from Thanksgiving to New Year’s, decorating the tree on Black Friday, going to the same events each time. But I agree that each passing year makes it a bit less stressful. I still have lots of Christmas spirit, but I guess as I get older I have so much more going on in my life that Christmas kind of gets edged out a bit. It’s even hard to get excited about presents anymore. I just can’t think of anything I really want or need. My mom almost got me a sweater and said I should ask her to get me a coat or something for college, because “I’m an adult now, and that’s what adults get.” That seems so depressing to me, though.</p>
<p>I’m definitely in a christmas spirit! We have concerts and rehersals every night now and I’m successfully ignoring my schoolwork. And there’s so mych snow - it’s beautiful! And I have two younger sisters wo are in need of presents in the advent calendar so every second day I get a small package. And I’ve got most of the presents, my little sister is going zorbing. She’ll love that.</p>
<p>No snow here. Funny how we’re the northern most part of the state and it snow everywhere else. ugh I don’t want a wet Christmas.
And I’m half-Christmas-spirited. Mainly because of the term paper. And we can’t get to the tree cause we don’t have a ladder.</p>
It’s perfectly ok to only say Christmas spirit. If I’m only celebrating one holiday why do I have to include the others. It’s the Christmas season to me. It’s Merry Christmas. This could be taken many different ways, but that’s just how I see it. If someone wants to say Happy Hanukka that’s cool for them. If they want to say happy Kwanzaa more power to them. But it’s Christmas for me.</p>
<p>^I was referring to the title of the thread mostly, I always just say “Merry Christmas” and all that too, not “Happy Holidays” but since HSL is so diverse…<em>shrug</em></p>
<p>I think “holiday spirit” is more inclusive. Even though I celebrate Christmas, part of what makes this season special is that it’s a holiday time for nearly every culture in the world. It isn’t about religion for most people. Some type of winter festival is the most universal holiday, and this stretches back to long before the birth of Christ. Not to discount people who feel this is purely a religious holiday; they certainly have the right to say only “Merry Christmas” or “Happy Hanukkah” (although it bothers me when people get mad at hearing “Happy Holidays”). But to me, part of what makes the season special is the whole world coming to gather to celebrate hope and family.</p>