List #4: 25 Things I Hate about Christmas

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1. shopping malls
2. buying a gift for coworkers in a secret santa draw
3. poor quality chocolate
4. the five pounds I inevitably gain from eating too much baking
5. almost never having snow at Christmas in Vancouver
6. the fever pitch of consumerism
7. that awkward moment when you open a gift that you really don't like
8. thinking about the mountain of packaging that gets chucked into the landfill
9. not having enough time to make all my gifts
10. ugly Christmas cards
11. getting religious carols stuck in my head
12. plastic tree decorations
13. fake Christmas trees
14. looking at first generation LED Christmas lights & getting that high-speed strobey effect
15. drunk drivers
16. getting Raffi's version of Christmas songs stuck in my head
17. receiving fewer Christmas cards than I send out
18. the cost of postage
19. having two or more events I'd love to attend scheduled at the same time
20. disposable tinsel
21. Christmas light strings with some of the lights not working
22. the barrage of constant charity appeals 
23. all the high-fructose corn syrup in Christmas candies
24. the insanity of Boxing Day sales
25. the fact that it all gets less exciting each year

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Why Monday lists? Reading the lovely Chloe's blog, Tea Swamp Park, I found an idea I had to 'steal': a list of all her Halloween costumes, with quite a few photos. She got the idea from Hula Seventy's List Project. I've decided to do the weekly lists for a year that Hula Seventy is doing.