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The most overrated holiday is


New Year's (Eve and Day)!!!

You're just flipping the calendar, for the sake of Pete.

Amirite?

If not, then what is the most overrated holiday?

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That is one of the few holidays I like.

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Perhaps you can help me see what I'm missing. What do you enjoy about it?

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It is my favourite holiday of the year. It’s all about making it through another year and starting a fresh one. It’s about the countdown (my favourite, my grandma always cried at that part and I feel like I replaced her lol), the bottle of champagne, and also the gifts. Because as far as I can remember, we received our gift around Christmas and the other half on New Year’s Eve. Christmas is more of a quiet dinner at this point while New Year’s Eve is loud festive music, crazy dances and a lot of games. Also, I’m the game planner so I always look up to having my family play the new games I can find or sometime even make up.

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That sounds like a lot of fun! We don't really have any New Year's traditions, so maybe I need to make up some fun ones!

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I’m not a huge drinker. I have no interest in alcohol when I’m alone. But both New Year’s Eve and St. Patrick’s Day are two of my favorite holidays because you can go out to a bar and be festive. I think I remember my dad saying when I was younger that Christmas was for kids and New Year’s was for adults. My other favorite holiday is Halloween.

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A holiday for alcoholics.

Let them have their fun I guess.

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Yeah. Booze, blow some loud noisemakers, listen to fireworks, promise to do better, and then 2 days later back to same ol' bad habits.

I call shenanigans!!

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Alcoholics call New Year's Eve "Amateur Night"

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Correct.
Same for St. Patrick’s Day.
Every drunk in town is riding all over the place, you’re likely to get into a car crash or get run over!

My sofa goes exactly ZERO MPH and the drinks are just fine here at home.

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Alcoholics drink every night. It's the amateurs who get drunk on New Year's Eve.

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I don't mind New Year's Day because you're celebrating surviving the last year and looking forward to better things in the one coming up. Valentine's Day is shit to me because you can show someone you love how much you love them on any day of the week.

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Oooh....I didn't think of Valentine's Day because it isn't a stat holiday. But yeah....stupid day.

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Although I like Valentine's Day, I agree that it's another one that is unnecessary. The thing about many holidays, not just Valentine's but also ones like Thanksgiving and Christmas, is that they can be very lonely ones sometimes.

And yes, you can show someone you love them any day, agreed.

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"you can show someone you love how much you love them on any day of the week."

Then why don't ya?😘

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I gave you a Christmas gift a few days ago. It's not everyday I give someone a Ghost Face Funko Pop.

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I picture of a Ghost Face Funko Pop .😑

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Labour Day. Other than some people getting a day off, what does it actually celebrate?

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To be honest I don't know what it's celebrates but I did always like the day off. 😁

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It was supposed to celebrate working class people.

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I can't agree. It's part of the holiday season. We celebrate it with oliebollen, champagne and fireworks and counting down to midnight. Also cocktails, 80s/90s music and partygames.

I choose King's Day. Going to flea markets dressed in orange to celebrate the monarchy? Get out of here.

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Yes, I'm finding I'm in the minority about my views on New Year's. 🤷🏼‍♀️😂 I guess I need to start some fun traditions so that I can look forward to it as well. It's never too late!

King's Day sounds a bit unusual.

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Not too late at all, especially with a drink in both hands.🥂

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Arbor Day

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That one passes and I don't even know it has happened. 😂 At least there's not a lot of hoopla surrounding it.

Although I do like trees.

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Christmas, what else?
What's the point of celebrating a day a few days past the winter solstice, only because it's becoming noticeable that the days are getting longer again?
It's a Pagan tradition from a time when people believed they had to burn a tree in the open to drive the cold away, today commercialized to an extent that one can barely tell what other point there is in the day, aside of shops making more profit than at any other time of the year.

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While I would not call Christmas overrated, I do believe it can be one of the hardest holidays of the year for a lot of people. The holidays are not always bright and festive.

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Well, yes in the US that's different from Europe.
If the only vacation you get in a year is a few days between end of december and beginning of january, you'll obviously value that much more than people in Europe who get something like 30 working days per year of paid vacation at any time of the year they want it.

Here in Italy it's a bit different, but even more extensive, because the summer months are usually so hot that one just can't work, which is why for example all people working in education are off work and the kids out of school from mid june to end of august and many companies choose to completely close for a month or more.

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I hate Holidays that only exist for Alcoholics so New Years and St. Patrick's Day.

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