Ok so I know there has been some moments that we found something annoying that happened to us during the holidays. For me when we do the shopping late I mean for the food and I don't know why. Even though weeks before I do early shopping for presents and whatnot. The siblings go on a midnight shopping around asda to buy things. I am not going to lie it is fun but its something that shouldn't really be happening that late because the pudding I would most likely to want would be gone and sold and that is the chocolate pudding. I don't like the fruit one because how it is done I don't like sticky toffee pudding only the chocolate one. So has anything annoying happened to you? If so what were they? Or what are they?

I hate getting sick right before the holidays. It has happened to me like 4-5 times already and it really blows. And then literally a few days after it will go away.

I think when family members get smashed is the most annoying part. They just don't care for the Holidays after that and prefer to act like losers. (Acting high and mighty before falling straight onto their faces.)

Furret : Oh yeah that can be the worst one. And when you try to recover the cold only makes it worse... @.@

spellbound98 : Oh that's pretty sad. Those types of people are not worth being near over for. Even if you try and help see the wrong they are doing I doubt that they would listen to people. So yeah people like that are jerks. '-'

Eniitan :

The Things that annoy me on the holidays was/is:

*In my early childhood: Growing up with without Holidays (My mother was a super non-religious person), and seeing my sisters come home or post about the 10-30 gifts they got and the awesome food they ate (I went without meals quite often in those days).

*In my later childhood: Having to travel all over the State to represent my orphanage. Although, I did enjoy the presents then. I spent all month traveling around when most kids get to relax and have fun. I had many tired school days and quite a few missed ones (where I had to make up tests and homework)

*But the worst is now: Hearing people complain about the holidays. Not like what you are talking about but stuff like this:

**Families complaining and crapping on other family members. Sometimes, not even inviting the family member(s) just so they can do this behind their backs

**People fighting and killing over useless, insignificant, and over priced stuff at the store.

**People throwing fits because they don't get what they want.

Even now we got war plans on the news over terrorist attacks. People are complaining about poor folks on welfare selling food stamps for cheap gifts and spending their month's food stamps on expensive holiday foods. Homeless people (including vets) are walking around with no place to sleep and no plans/hopes for anything during the holidays. Many other horrible things that folks usually complain about during the rest of the year or ignore completely.

I may have never truly celebrated the holidays, but I was taught, from many different sources, that the Winter Holidays are about Love, Peace, and Good-Will towards humankind. Kind of like a huge reminder to us that during the darkest days of this one-of-a-kind floating rock, that we need to set aside our issues and differences and survive together.

The way that a good number, if not a majority, of humans treat these holidays is just a complete insult to the sacred and ancient meaning(s) that the Holidays stand for.

So yea that's what annoys me about the holidays. I'll take this down if it causes a flame war. I apologize in advance if it does.

The christmas holidays is a fun time of year. The only thing that annoys me is that I am at school till Christmas Eve.

The holidays for me are : 1 magical during the lead up. 2 Boring when it gets to Christmas Eve 3 A reminder as to why I never meet up with my family.

yoshirulez! : lol that's youshi for you.

WandererExiled : I am so sorry to hear about that. Wow that seems to be a lot of things that annoyed you...I am really sorry about that I do hope things are much more better now?

DylanMcKaig : Oh people that had school hate that. That's not the good thing to have is when you break up for school very late. And I see you have some other reasons as well.... :/
Why don't you meet up with your family?

Eniitan :

It's really just one huge thing. People treating people with respect, dignity, honor, and compassion, but I feel that the Winter Holidays, if not year around, should be even more so a time to do so.

Things are a lot better! After I became an adult, I've enjoyed spending Christmas with folks less fortunate (even though I've had a few with richer folks where the families were like the ones I've mentioned). Every moment was special in one way or another. I look forward to possibly sharing Kwanzaa and Hanukkah, along with many other winter holidays as my wandering feet take me further around this world.

People complaining about literally anything, and being tense all the time. I guess holidays bring out the best and worst in people. And I hear tons of arguments for and against Christmas too. I mean, literally everything can and probably will spark a fight or debate. It can get exhausting sometimes.
Personally that's why I prefer celebrating Hanukkuh, aside from my being Jewish. (Night Three woo!!! )You never hear hours of infighting and debating over that holiday.

I just wish it wouldn't be just around Christmas that people try to spread cheer, good will, and peace. As well as remembering what Christmas is all about. If we all tried to be peaceful, giving, kind, and spread good will and cheer all year long; I really think this world would be a much happier place to live in.

WandererExiled : Wow, that's really cool that you do that for others who probably can't celebrate on their own. I'm sure you about make their year when you spend Christmas with them.

A user of this :

I'm Nomadic, so I travel around and stay with whoever is willing to accept me into their homes. A lot of these are really poor folks who have really good values and virtues. Some are well to do people who, for one reason or another, accept me in their home. I enjoy all the experiences, even though some make me loose a little hope for humanity. A few Christmases were even spent in Hobo Camps. Those were my favorites because the homeless shared everything without attachment and sung songs around the fire. The pinnacle of what I feel Christmas is all about. I figure it takes those with nothing to truly appreciate what we all have.

WandererExiled : Yeah that's pretty much true...and I know for a fact there are some decent people out there in the world who will never do that in a way. And I am glad that things are a lot more better with you.

A user of this : That I can understand. That's why people would much prefer to do that. Its not too much to ask with what you said on your post. But for people in real life its too much to do. Which hence why causes a lot of arguments. '-'

There are several things I dislike around the holidays but I will try not to go all "grinch" on everyone in here. I'll go ahead and list off a couple things that annoy me -

1. The way people act in the stores/malls/etc. People during the holidays are rude for some reason, even though they are buying presents to give to other people. A situation thats supposed to be happy. Never understood that.

2. Family and blurting out rude stuff. The Holidays mean that you most likely are going to be forced to hang out with people you normally wouldn't want to. Also, this means that they are going to blurt out rude/weird things or start spouting off some crazy thoughts regarding politics/current events/etc. Everyone has that family member!

3. Spending tons and tons of money on stuff that nobody needs. I enjoy the whole togetherness that supposed to signify the holidays but the more that time goes by, the less that people actually participate in that thought process.

The music in the stores. It's like they put it on repeat over and over again. It hurts my head just thinking about it!

My family going to our Uncles house. I don't want to get to personal but our Uncles family isn't exactly pleasant, yet my family goes every-year. Me and my sister have since stopped going but my parents still go, even though they really don't seem to enjoy it.

For me, the most annoying thing is not getting to talk to the people you want to over the holidays. That's what irks me. Either because they don't want to show up, or other people are talking to them, and there simply isn't enough time.

For me, these festivities will always be about us as a family coming together, and even more so back to unity under Yahova since we only keep Thanksgiving, Independence Day, and all of the Hebraic Feasts. If I can't see and speak with my family though, then it's like more than half of the meaning is gone. I like seeing my cousins and such who sometimes have to come from out of state! XP

Jordanv78 : I can really agree a lot of things on your list there that are true. None of the people when they do that have no sense of respect to show to other people which is quite annoying at that. Its Christmas. Instead of being rude to others you should be happy in a way. >.>

Kuti_Kat : I don't blame you for saying that I love Christmas songs but not a lot of people can handle too many repeat of one song. I mean I can but others can't because it would be really annoying to them. :/

DARKANINE : Oh....I can understand that. You and your sister are doing the right thing. Why bother go to someone's house if a;all they are going to do is put you down for no reason. I do hope that your mother and father stop going for their own sakes as well...

Sword legion : Yeah that can happen at times and it is not really nice when it does. If you want to see your family for the holidays then you should be able too. '-'

I really hate when flights get delayed during holidays. People losing days of vacation or even work days for the smallest of the issues.

For what I stated above, I hate flight controllers, or however they are called (they simply don't have my respect anymore to be called the way they should). Back in 2010, I lost a full day at the airport, with some people losing way more than that (thanks to British Airways for stepping it up and force their flights to take off before the day was over), and all because they simply didn't want to work.

This year, it almost happened again, if it wasn't because this time it wasn't the airport at large, just one of the companies. However, our return flight did get delayed. First was the plane not getting in time, probably because the weather conditions didn't allow it, and then because some maintenance works. Everything led up to a delay of 2 hours, and considering the flight was scheduled for landing at 10 PM, it was a big delay for most of us.

I guess during christmas gift hunting is usually not that fun. Mostly because while I don't have a ton of gifts to buy, I do it just a few days before christmas and it can be kind of hard to figure out something to get that the person would actually like.

Otherwise the stress. I'm usually pretty relaxed around christmas (can't really speak about other holidays because that's really the only one I actually celebrate) having time off from school and when I bought gifts, but my mom is often stressed since she's in charge of organising it every two years (she and my older brother take turns hosting it) and even when she's not hosting it she's usually still pretty involved in it added that she's still very busy with work. So her stress usually affects other things and makes me kind of stressed as well, understandably a reason she doesn't look much forward to it, the actual preparation for it anyway and is probably the only reason I have to dislike it.

going to my moms side of the family who has too many kids and some ADULT family members basically bullying me for my social anxiety, these things irritate me