I definitely think spoiling kids makes holidays more fun.  I think I would make a big fuss if I had any children in my life.  But I certainly don't envy parents of today because of the ridiculously expensive electronic gifts they are supposed to buy every year; I can't imagine how anyone keeps up, especially since…

Hope our fellow commenters here take note of this plea.

I don't understand why taking the effort to post mean things.

Take a peek at the author of this articles prior pieces. 

Tell them you sit and watch the Yule Log for 25 hours straight.  It’ll confuse the hell out of anyone and they’ll just stop the conversation dead.

Not to get too metaphysical, but I know what you’re talking about. Sometimes the best and most exciting plan is being left alone for 24 hours to just decompress. Doing nothing IS, actually, doing something.

Agreed. The worst part is when you realize you’ve made a mistake, apologize for it or clarify your point, and people don’t read it: They just react to the original post. Forgiveness? Understanding? Fuggedaboudit.

Shit man. I really just hope the best for so involved here. I’m on the other side of a vicious battle with trauma induced mental health issues and suicidal thoughts that I honestly didn’t think I’d survive. So much is what is going on with both Pete Davidson and Ariana Grande bring back my own memories so I'm not…

Poor Pete. Social media can be a disaster. Even on this site I have commented and been slapped in the face y another poster. Something like “you should just kill yourself”. It stung for a second, I can’t imagine what it would be like if it was hundreds of people a day, every day.

I hate xmas and it stresses me out. It doesn’t help that the family I do have in the area can’t get their shit together until the last minute so I might not know what the plan is until a couple days before.

Is anybody else sick of being asked what wonderful, special plans they have for the holidays? My partner and I live alone, and both of our families are in other states. He doesn’t talk to his family at all. My family is across the country and is mostly toxic, so I do not see them for holidays. We don’t have friends…

Job update: I can’t remember if I mentioned this last week, but I attended a virtual career fair and chatted with HR in Cleveland for twenty minutes, during which she scheduled a phone interview for this past Wednesday. It went very well and my application has now gone to the pharmacy manager at the Clinic’s main…

Any recommendations from those of you who experience episodic mental health issues? I haven’t had any major flare-ups in a few years, but late-November and early-December this year have been unpleasant. I have a strong support system which includes my family physician, and there is a treatment plan back in place. I’m…

In the space of a year:

so it all worked out in the end!

My family are champs at that sort of gift. It’s usually something incredibly specific, yet completely unrelated to me or my interests, that they are none the less very excited to see my reaction to. I’ve gotten more than a few things that were like “It’s the expansion pack for a Mr. Beer brewing kit! Do you love it!?”…

My parents had gone on a beach vacation in the summer a few years ago, and they bought back nice gifts for my siblings and their families, like hoodies, candles, ornaments, and gave them out at Christmas. And for me, oh boy, they had “saved” for me their USED little bottles of hotel shampoo and conditioner (there was…

Not a gift for me, but for my husband from his mother. I don’t know why she regularly gives him the odd gifts. Over the years, she’s gotten him an adult Batman onesie with a cape on it, manila file folders, and those plumbing snake things for when your drain is clogged. We struggle getting along with her, but I know…

A $20 gift card to Outback Steakhouse from my (ex)partner’s parents. I’m a vegetarian and I’m allergic to their most famous non-meat dish(the bloomin’ onion thing). They knew both of those things. I couldn’t figure out if I was something they were just lazily regifting or if they went out of their way to get me the…

My mother in law, who I love, and I think was just being a bit oblivious, once gave my husband 100$ then told me she was going to pay a person to come clean my house for me. I definitely told her no thank you, on the spot.