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If you're alone for the holidays, remember, you can always volunteer to feed the homeless! Not that the soup kitchens need anyone on those days since so many people always volunteer for the holidays but don't give a rat's ass about them by the second week in January.
However, if people with partners and families (that they like) believe the single, solitary people are off happily volunteering to feed the homeless, why they can enjoy their partners and families that much the more because they don't have to think about anyone being alone because they can tell themselves that others are having a ball feeding the homeless! YAY all around!
The original purpose of the thread was to share ways those who are alone choose to spend those holidays; some celebrate alone, others ignore it, some work, others travel, etc.
Would attending Christmas Day church services count as being alone?
Would a person who spends Christmas in an assisted living facility be considered alone even if they ate Christmas dinner in the dining room with the other residents who didn't "go home for the holidays"?
Talk about schaudenfreud, or however it is spelled!
Pretty close. Schadenfreude, a German compound word meaning joy or satisfaction in the pain or suffering of others.
I have decades of experience in the Alone for the Holidays category. Here in Germany there's no Thanksgiving Day, so that's one less holiday I have to spend alone!
"It's just going to be me and my husband this year. Well, me, my husband, and my two adult children who will probably stop over. So just me, my husband, my two adult children, and probably some neighbors we always get together with. But me, my husband, two adult children, and neighbors will be all alone for Christmas."
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Originally Posted by marino760
OK, let me be the first then.
If you're married you are not alone, despite how boring your spouse is and regardless of how much you dislike him or her.
There it's done
love it ~ LOL !!! exactly.
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