Learn how to survive the Christmas season with these helpful tips and tricks, including avoiding social obligations and ignoring the consumerist nonsense of the holiday.
Hire cleaners, have one party to rule them all, and impose a three-day moratorium on social obligations : here are a dozen ways to help you survive the season, writes Laurence Mackin.Learn from the rich and tax-dodging, and avoid the entire Christmas charade by simply being abroad. Or, better yet, tell people you are abroad and stay at home, fattening yourself on ham sandwiches behind closed doors, without having to fill a single social obligation. The. Dream.
As a dad, I’ve discovered children make the entire Christmas thing so much more intense and expensive, so it’s probably best to forestall the issue by not having them in the first place. If you do have children, you can always play down the whole significance of December 25th. Act like St Brigid’s Day is a big deal as a misdirection tactic, then just never mention it again once you are in the clear in January.There’s always the option to simply ignore the whole Christmas thing, as typical consumerist nonsense built on an outmoded and frankly sexist, heteronormative view of the family uni
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