I hate how the holidays create all this extra responsibility and stress out of nowhere and then the media / culture also act like you're meant to be having such fun the whole time - eviltoast

like all the fuckin ads with the hugging families around winter. any educationally normal adult knows everyone just gets more stressed, with travel and gifts and social obligations and everything, but you’re not even allowed to…openly feel that, it seems? it’s like there’s this happiness benchmark you have to reach, otherwise you’ll feel even shittier and sadder for not having a happy holiday season

  • andrewta@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    If they go as a group to get something expensive then I don’t see the problem.

    Ex: let’s say the amount is $20 per person but six people go together to get you a $120 gift then there isn’t a problem to me. If they go together to get you a gift and the gift cost $20 total then yeah then there’s a problem.