Oh, so sick of the happy holidays instead of Merry Christmas!

I don't know about you, but I am sick and tired of hearing happy holidays, from tv ads to local people. What is wrong w/people......ugh!! Can you imagine telling your child a hh bedtime story, decorating the hh tree or baking some nice hh cookies.........ugh!

 

Yes but I think Holidays included the Jewish holiday soon to start and Kwanza the day after CHristmas and New Years day.

 

One of my doctor's is Jewish so I don't think anything about saying happy holidays. I have a friend who hates to hear it though. I usually say Merry Christmas.

 

This is absolutely true.
One of our social studies lessons this week is about how everyone celebrates the holidays differently. Happy Holidays is appropriate, because you can't tell by looking at someone which holiday they are celebrating. 'Happy Holidays' covers them all- including New Years, really- without offending.

 

not to mention all the blended families that celebrate more than one HOLIDAY.

 

I say Merry Christmas to people that I know well and I know celebrate Christmas. I tend to say Happy Holidays to strangers and to people that I don't know that well. To me Happy Holidays means have a good time during your celebration whatever one that is and I also use it as in all inclusive through New Year. Kwim?

It doesn't bother me which phrase people use. I am more bothered by the rude people I meet out shopping and around town. The other day my husband was asking for a price check on an item at check out because the item scanned without a discount. The guy in line behind my husband called him an idiot and threatened to fight my husband! This guy could have taken his stuff and gone to another line! The other lines weren't even that busy. Last night I heard a lady treating her elderly mother just horribly. Everyone in that particular family including the kids were very crabby and ill mannered. I wish everyone would just be nicer to each other.

 

I usually say Merry Christmas for Christmas because this is what I am used to saying. But I do not mind if people tell me Happy Holidays instead.

 

Our neighbors are like this. The wife's daughter is Jewish, like her dad, but the mom and her husband are Catholic. The child was even sent to weekly Jewish classes- and I know there's a more proper name for them.

 

It would cover me, too.

Although we do Christmas... and neither Merry Christmas nor Happy Holidays offends me --- I say both just depending on whichever falls out of my mouth at any given time LOL.... Bodhi Day (A Buddhist Holiday) is Dec. 8.

 

I tell people "Have a Great Holiday Season".

 

I say Merry Christmas, unless I know that the person would be offended. Even the secular people I know do Santa and all, so clearly, Christmas is not an issue. There are many people who see Christmas as a secular holiday with religious beginings. Every single holiday started with some religious culture. People still celebrate much of it anyway.

 

I agree with this completely. We are not Christians, but celebrate Christmas, complete with a trip to the tree farm to cut our tree and trips and letters to Santa.

 

People I know I say Merry Christmas and at the store if they tell me "Happy Holiday" I look them straight in the face smile and say "Merry Christmas" they usually smile back and say this time Merry Christmas

Some have told me the store managers say they have to say that or people get bend out of shape "politically correct" but they say if you say Merry Christmas back to them then they are allowed to say it back.

Sam

 

I have dealt with this at a few different jobs. I am sad to say at one of the places we couldn't even say "Happy Holidays".

 

Well, i for one dont know what the big deal is. We celebrate Christmas, so i say "Merry Christmas". If someone else celebrates hannukka, then i would in no way be offended if they said "Happy Hannukka". I just think it is alot of political correct crap. I mean why on earth would it insult someone to say Merry Christmas:roll:. It is just another unjust persecution on the Christian faith. I dont agree with the stores forcing their employees to say happy holidays, when they celebrate Christmas or Hannukka, or Kwanza or what ever their faith may be. JMHO

 

This is standard at many of the stores around here. The employees are told to greet people with Happy Holidays or Seasons Greetings.

 

It doesn't bother me either way. Why should we get so offended when people say happy holidays instead of merry christmas? To me it just adds stress to your life---there are many bigger issues to stress about!

What would you think, say, if Laja went around getting mad at people for not wishing people a happy Bodhi Day? To me, that wouldn't make sense! Why should people be "required" to say Merry Christmas when they don't celebrate it?! At least people are saying something nice and not being rude or mean! I'd rather hear people say happy holidays than yell at or threaten me!

 

Ditto. It doesn't bother me either way. Actually Happy Holidays to me means Merry Christmas and Happy New Year together. But it doesn't matter either way to me.

 

The only time it bugs me hearing "Happy Holidays" is when someone is too ignorant to not want to even say "Merry Christmas" because they protest what the holiday is all about with so much hatred. I don't know if I make sense. I myself, have no problem saying Happy Hannukah (I am part Jewish myself) or Happy Kwannza, or what have you. I don't even mind people saying it to me. It's really the intention behind it that matters to me. If the intention is love, then it doesn't bother me. If the intention is "I hate Christmas so I'm saying Happy Holidays", then it irks me. It really all depends to me, but mostly it doesn't bother me.

 

This is the stuff that gets me irritated. Someone should be able to say which ever they want without someone getting bent out of shape. Honestly....if someone is THAT upset over me saying Merry Christmas, then phooey with them. They have too much time on their hands them getting upset over little things, IMO.

If someone said Happy Hannukah to me, my first reaction would be "How nice, someone thinks that much of me to tell me to have a Happy Hannukah". I would consider it out of love, not spite. Geesh.:roll: