christmas is a horrible holiday. consumerism and annoying family and fake plastic christianity ftl. closest I ever came.e to actually killing myself was christmas eve 2011
In fact, my dad (my parents are divorced) came for Christmas last year... and my grandparents, knowing he's a conservative, gave him this shoddy little wooden thing that looks like a bus stop with tacks hanging out of it all over (so it was kinda sharp and dangerous)... but the card simply read "because everybody deserves a tax shelter"
It's not about consumerism and materialistic desires. It's about being together and showing that despite our differences, we're all human beings and deserve to have a nice Christmas.
Srsly.. if some random person showed up for Christmas at our house, we'd always have a spot ready for you. The menu is prime rib and au jus and yorkshire puddings and cheesy potato hotdish and roasted root vegetables like every year. Please join us.
I appreciate the invite Snow guy 
but with all due respect that meal sounds terrible
I think it sounds good except for the prime rib, but if the prime rib were the main course I probably wouldn't be able to eat it.
I live a lot closer to you, and my family's Christmas dinners feature Italian seafood dishes and various bread and cookie recipes passed down from my great-grandmother, who came to Western Massachusetts from the Mezzogiorno about a century ago. The consumerism is kept to a minimum since we only ever ask one another for books and sometimes CDs, and if I had to compare the Christianity involved to a material it would be either hardwood or slightly tarnished copper.
