I celebrate Christmas for both gift-giving and religious purposes. I enjoy having family together, even though it can be a pain. I especially enjoy cooking Christmas dinner for everyone. Being only 21, I've only had the last 4 years to do this, but I'm getting much better at being organized in a chaotic kitchen LOL. I hate having to buy everyone presents though, I never know what to buy and I tend to get very frustrated!

No, my family hasn't for many years now.
But we use the day to have a fest still - there's nothing else to do and any excuse to have the yummy foods we don't normally have!

I'm not religious, but I love the "family reunion" feel of Christmas (and Thanksgiving) and always make an effort to see my family. We're not really into gift-giving either, but we love to make a nice meal and hang out on the holidays.

We celebrate with a focus on Jesus being the reason for the season. We also exchange presents and have lovely family celebrations.


FYI: The X in Xmas is used because X is the Greek symbol for Christ. It's not to remove the Christ from Christmas.

We celebrate it for the presents and family. We all call it Christmas- not X-mas, and we don't say "Happy Holidays" either. Though we aren't particularly religious, most of our family are.

We celebrate it for the closeness of family and gift-giving. There's nothing really religious about it for us.

I was raised Baha'i, but my mother has always celebrated Christmas because she never had much while growing up (her memories of the holidays involve her mother trying to commit suicide near every single year). My mother in 'holiday mode' is something to behold ...

I am quite aware of the religious aspects, and even admire it. Celebrating Life is better than death (like Easter). However, my family's been very close so, like EJ said, it's the 'family reunion' aspects I enjoy. Plus the traditions my family has are wonderful to me - getting a tree when it finally cools down, decorating the outside of the house, cooking with mom, baking treats to give to people, the yearly parade, the walking the neighborhood at night to see the displays, etc. I really loved it when I did it in Montana because the weather was more appropriate. Here in Florida, people tend to put lights on the palm trees in their yards.

Plus I just love the blingy decorations of the season. Everything just seems so much prettier.

Master doesn't celebrate Christmas (not close to his family and being a loner, plus his dad was especially drunk and abusive that time of year), so he asked if he could join my family for next Christmas (he'll have vacation time by then). I'm really looking forward to sharing my traditions with him.

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We celebrate Christmas not x-mas and spare me the Happy Holidays tripe. If your Jewish I'm happy to tell you Happy Hanukkah. If you your not christian the most logical celebration is New Years which you see for many Asian cultures. I don't think 'adopting' Christmas makes sense - you wither believe it's real or you don't. If you do Merry Christmas, if you don't Happy New Hanukkah or Happy New Year - there's something for everyone.

yes i love christmas i woke up singing today "whats this , whats this, theres white stuff everywhere whats this whats this theres magic in the air whats this ???!!!!" love the nightmare before christmas ,love the christmas door town jack goes into and love all things elves and pixies out on a fresh blanket of snow with a pink sky ahh i love it!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've always loved Christmas. I celebrate for both religious reasons and the gifts, as well as "family time". I enjoy both giving and getting gifts and decorating of course! I call it Christmas, most of the time, because that's what I was raised saying Christmas, but I might use Xmas once in a great while.

Yes, for both purposes. I like the Christmas tree the most, though. All the twinkling lights = warms me soul.

I celebrate Krampus-ness.

I celebrate Christmas, but not for any religious reasons. It was what I did growing up and I enjoy having the tree and having family get together and giving presents. As my cousins and I have all grown older and more and more of them have done something to get the "black sheep" label, it's no longer me and my siblings who get talked about behind our backs because my mom was the black sheep. It's nice to me that we're all on the same level and can finally start admitting that none of us are perfect so there's no point in trying to pretend. Christmas on my side of the family is us getting together, eating, doing some presents, and hanging out. My husband's side of the family is a little more religious than mine, so there's more of a "family gathering" feeling than a "everybody hanging out feeling." At least to me anyway.

we only celebrate the gift giving. we used to go to church every yr on christmas eve, but i haven't been to church in over 4 yrs.

I celebrate it because of my beliefs, family, gift-giving, and all the above. Christmas is an awesome time!

I love Christmas. I always overdo it though. I go so far to ensure my children have their dreams come true wether it's a new toy or riding the fire truck around the neighborhood. Christmas was always so hard on my mother and I didn't get a lot of things so yeah my kids get everything I can give them along with the need to do for others less fortunate and share in our family gatherings.

They have Christmas stuff already up in Target gets earlier each year.

yes, we celebrate the birth of Jesus in my house.

My family celebrates it for both reasons.

christmas is for the family