We are canceling all plans for the holidays this year. No Christmas, thanksgiving, Halloween

[Anonymous]

Ridiculous.
Why can't the kids go out trick-or-treating for Halloween, no money needs to be spent.
Can be zombies in old clothes, for eg pants a bit too short - cut them in shreds at the bottom etc.

[Anonymous]

OP here - Halloween is easy to write off (we’ll just turn off all the lights in the house and hide downstairs, may leave the dog upstairs to scare away unwanted visitors). Thanksgiving is also easy - we are going to order Chinese and tell the kids the pork is turkey and call it a day. It will be topped off with a fortune cookie. Christmas will be the hardest - as the celebration is nearly a month long. No music, no decorations, no mention of 🎅🏻

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not us. I love the holidays. Nothing can stop them from coming. They will come without ribbons! They will come without tags!
They will come without packages, boxes, or bags!

Maybe, OP, they don't come from a store.
Maybe holidays, perhaps, mean a little bit more.

Exactly. OP’s post made me think about all the people who celebrates Christmas during wars, plagues, economic depression. Read Little House on the Prairie, Or Little Women. And wasn’t Thanksgiving basically started to give thanks for having survived a truly horrific year of illness and starvation (check out Linus’s retelling from Peanuts!). I just can’t imagine what OP thought the holidays are about.

[Anonymous]

Why would you do no presents and no decorations.

It's smart not to plan travel or gatherings, but everything else is a choice you are making to be sad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here - Halloween is easy to write off (we’ll just turn off all the lights in the house and hide downstairs, may leave the dog upstairs to scare away unwanted visitors). Thanksgiving is also easy - we are going to order Chinese and tell the kids the pork is turkey and call it a day. It will be topped off with a fortune cookie. Christmas will be the hardest - as the celebration is nearly a month long. No music, no decorations, no mention of 🎅🏻

This is so weird, unnecessary and borderline emotionally abusive. Because you’ve had a shitty year, you have to take it out on your children?

[Anonymous]

We’re opting out of a traditional Halloween, but we will do a pizza-candy-hot cider dinner with DC and then watch the Charlie Brown Halloween movie.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here - Halloween is easy to write off (we’ll just turn off all the lights in the house and hide downstairs, may leave the dog upstairs to scare away unwanted visitors). Thanksgiving is also easy - we are going to order Chinese and tell the kids the pork is turkey and call it a day. It will be topped off with a fortune cookie. Christmas will be the hardest - as the celebration is nearly a month long. No music, no decorations, no mention of 🎅🏻

This is so weird, unnecessary and borderline emotionally abusive. Because you’ve had a shitty year, you have to take it out on your children?

Weird. Your kids can attend a house of worship and see decorations for free.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not us. I love the holidays. Nothing can stop them from coming. They will come without ribbons! They will come without tags!
They will come without packages, boxes, or bags!

Maybe, OP, they don't come from a store.
Maybe holidays, perhaps, mean a little bit more.

Exactly. OP’s post made me think about all the people who celebrates Christmas during wars, plagues, economic depression. Read Little House on the Prairie, Or Little Women. And wasn’t Thanksgiving basically started to give thanks for having survived a truly horrific year of illness and starvation (check out Linus’s retelling from Peanuts!). I just can’t imagine what OP thought the holidays are about.

I think OP thinks holidays are about travel and splashing out a lot of money.

[Anonymous]

Cost of Thanksgiving--

$20 for a meal for a family of four

Have kids pick up some fall foliage outside and place on
dining table and around house--free

Nice Thanksgiving with decorations for $20.

[Anonymous]

OP --you are sounding scroogelike.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP --you are sounding scroogelike.

Seriously. Wth?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are using the money we normally allocate for these festivities for a new home away from the city. The kids will not be celebrating this year. They seemed Fine with this. No decorations, no special trips, and no presents. The year has been such a bust, why celebrate it.

God bless and good riddance.

[Anonymous]

Does anyone think this is the same OP as the one from the “how to tell children life as they knew it is over forever” thread?

[Anonymous]

I'm thinking about a pinata for Halloween instead of trick or treating. Kids still get to have some fun, get candy, but don't have to interact with strangers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone think this is the same OP as the one from the “how to tell children life as they knew it is over forever” thread?

She probably counts the asparagus spears out exactly for her executive dinners.