Does the coming holiday week fill you with excitement or dread?

Asked by Dear Abby

632 Votes

Does the coming holiday week fill you with excitement or dread?

56%

Excitement Excitement

44%

Dread Dread

56%

Excitement

10 Comments

Elizabeth Evans

Although cooking is stressful and so are some family members, I love celebrating the birth of Christ and remembering the true meaning of this season.

Abigail Clugston

for my daughter first Christmas my wife and i went big not only on gifts but decorations too

Carolyn Morris

I Just LOVE Christmas !!! It's Just Magical !!!

kaycstamper

I love holidays and decorate my home accordingly, even if only my dog and I see it. ;)

Michael Stafford

If by holiday you mean Christmas, I get excited. Question should be worded better. I have never known anyone to celebrate just a holiday, each have have a name and time of year.

Michael Stafford

WHICH HOLIDAY ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? CHRISTMAS? NEW YEARS? EASTER? 4TH OF JULY? NATIONAL BEAVER DAY. IF YOU CAN'T SAY THE ABOVE WORDS THAN SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH YOU.

Haley Charnock

i have a famliy to feed so yea

Joyce Koch

I like the shopping and baking and family gets together

Jane

Christmas is warm and sweet.

Carolyn Hess Hammons

Christmas Is My Favorite Holiday Of The Entire Year

44%

Dread

10 Comments

Heidi Miller

Family issues! All holidays are at my husband's mother's house and our grown children and small grandchildren are all expected to attend. Daughter is not coming. Husband is beyond himself...

Harley Anderson

I try to limit contact with family to Arraignments, Public hearings and Funerals.

Natasha Prim

Dread. Did I get all the gifts? Did I do this? Nope don't like em.

Jenn Repp

While I still have some childlike enthusiasm about the holidays, the stressors of being an adult seems to bring slightly more dread than the childlike enthusiasm.

Scooter Jones

Just too much hassle.

Marjorie Long

5 years ago my two youngest grandsons (3 years old and 21 months old) were murdered by their father who went on local news and blamed my daughter. Needless to say not very good memories for this time.

Virginia Pactwa Witting

I think Christmas has become fraught with expectations of perfect gift-giving and decorating, in neither of which I excell. Plus my mom and my first husband passed on at christmastime. Sad memories.

CASSANDRA JUGEAT

dread, holidays bring me no joy after the incident

Christina Roca

I was raised by a super abusive person who did not believe in Christmas, people give to each other, not Jesus Christ. Christmas is too commercialized and people's expectations have become selfish.