11-30-2012, 11:09 PM
Ahhh, I could give a crap about a tree when it's just me. I'm not particularly hung up on the holidays in general, and I just had the "talk" with my g/f because she was ticked I agreed to work Christmas day. Don't get me wrong, I like spending time with family etc, but it can be done just as easily on one day as the next and double time and a half is a nice perk.
Pop couldn't be bothered to do Christmas decorations, so our decorations were whatever we could scrounge as kids. One year it was a bit of wrapping paper decorating the windows.. One year I took a string of Christmas lights and stapled them to a wall in the vague shape of a tree. Christmas was never about the glitz and glamour of expensive decorations/trees/sparklies because there weren't any.
And it shouldn't be...
Pop couldn't be bothered to do Christmas decorations, so our decorations were whatever we could scrounge as kids. One year it was a bit of wrapping paper decorating the windows.. One year I took a string of Christmas lights and stapled them to a wall in the vague shape of a tree. Christmas was never about the glitz and glamour of expensive decorations/trees/sparklies because there weren't any.
And it shouldn't be...