If you could eliminate one holiday, what would it be?

[Robb]

Grinch alert. :evilgrin:

Personally I think I'd do the most good with my newfound holiday-annihilating powers by smacking down Valentine's Day. Tension and depression head south, folks relax.

How about you?

[Not_Giving_Up]

1. Easter, hands down

We're atheists, yet a bunny brings our children eggs filled with candy that they have to hunt for once a year.

Why does the bunny bring us eggs? Why is it not the Easter Chicken?

[trotsky]

19. Easter = Pagan celebration of spring & fertility

What symbolizes fertility better than a bunny? :)

[Not_Giving_Up]

21. Well, I don't need to do any fertility dancing

So, I still say I can skip it

[trotsky]

23. LOL

I say we keep Easter for one reason only: Cadbury Creme Eggs.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

37. Easter - Christian celebration of the resurection of Jesus

Spring Equinox = what you're talking about

[trotsky]

40. Not quite.

Even the name "Easter" isn't Christian. It comes from the goddess Eostre. Christians stole/co-opted the Pagan holiday to convert the heathens.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

41. Sweet - and it WORKED!!! Woohoo!

[trotsky]

42. Sure it worked.

After they killed the ones that wouldn't convert!

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

43. I guess I shouldn't joke about that

[NuttyFluffers]

2. christmas. just abolishing the christmas music alone would be a godsend.

really, really, really don't like this holiday anymore.

once upon a time i liked it, but not anymore. after a few years of retail i was cured.

before then... i'd probably say either st. valentine's day or ... perhaps st. patrick's day.

hmm, all of those holidays are saint related, hmm... you'd think it'd have something to do with me being raised catholic. dunno, perhaps it is the commercialism or the social pressure they induce to force people to celebrate them. dunno. but that's interesting. never really sat and thought about it before. fascinating relationship.

[Archae]

3. Any manufactured holiday.

Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, Father's Day, doesn't matter, any holiday created just for giving really stupid "gifts," including flowers.

All flowers do is wither and die.
They look better in the ground.

[the Princess]

4. Christmas

It's a blood orgy of mass consumerism. It is unnecessary.

[flygal]

26. My choice too

I hate seeing how stressed out it makes so many people - bah humbug!

[JVS]

5. Presidents' day

What a retarded reason for a holiday

[Lydia Leftcoast]

8. When I was a little Democrat, we used to get two days off in February

one for Lincoln's Birthday on February 12, and once for Washington's Birthday on February 22. Unfortunately, these days can fall on any day of the week, so after the big push for Monday holidays, the two holidays were merged in 1971.

Today's kids are cheated out of an extra day off. :-)

[Zomby Woof]

6. St. Swithin's Day

The Rodney Dangerfield of holidays.

Or Purim. Fuck Purim! :D

[pink-o]

45. How can you say that?

Purim is the only (legitimate) holiday in Judaism where you're not miserable. Hanukkah doesn't really count because it's really all about Xmas Envy. I mean, Jewish kids need a break from all the neurosis and suffering, don't go all Ebeneezer on Purim!

[Left Is Write]

7. I'd eliminate "Patriot Day." Or, if there had to be a "Patriot Day"

(and I'm not sure why...isn't Independence Day enough of an opportunity for posturing "patriotism"?)...I'd move it from September 11 to another date.

I don't want to see September 11 turn into another furniture sale, barbecue, shoot off fireworks day.

[Robb]

15. I'm with you

...and I'm even a softie for mildly-manufactured patriotism. :)

[sniffa]

22. "patriots' day" is awesome

of course, you may know the hoLiday better as "marathon monday"

it's awesome because it's a hoLiday i currentLy have (most don't) and some usuaLLy throws a kick ass party on the marathon route (so it's ok to be Liquored up before noon - it's a hoLiday).

[madinmaryland]

25. Massachusetts has a "Patriot Day" on April 15.

They celebrate the revolutionary war. State holiday.

[Catchawave]

9. Not a fair question !

So close after Capitalistmas...errr...Christmas Day !

Otherwise, get rid of all of them with connections to Hallmark :boring:

[NightTrain]

10. I'd have to say Christmas.

Not that I have anything against Christ (the original hippe liberal!), but the crass commercialism of his birthday makes me physically ill. I'd love to see Christmas return to being a simple religious holiday for the Christians. The rest of us could ignore the day completely!

[Sanity Claws]

11. Halloween

I don't like the dressing up

[wellstone dem]

28. Absolutely

and it only gets worse with kids, you have to dress them up too. I hate it.

[eyesroll]

12. Sweetest Day.

I think it used to be about orphans.

Now, it's about Valentine's Day Lite. I'd never even heard of it until I was in high school, on a pre-Homecoming Dance dinner date, and some guy tried to sell my date a rose to give to me in honor of this "holiday."

I still really don't know what the hell Sweetest Day is...

[gollygee]

18. I agree with Sweetest Day

It's like they haven't milked enough out of Valentine's Day.

[MissBrooks]

13. Halloween.... or Valetine's day...

Both of those are a waste for me.

I don't like being "forced" to be romantic one day a year. It's stupid and puts too much pressure on a relationship.

IMHO..

[jellybelly]

14. Labor Day

[Champ]

16. Easter

[Beer Snob-50]

17. Martin Luther King Day

only because I used to work in banking and we lost two holidays (during nicer weather) to take off MLK day (during the winter months). Also, I haven't bought an MLK tree yet and am feeling the pressure.

[NewJeffCT]

20. we need more holidays - or, at least we should do it like the Chinese

In China, everybody gets like a week off for Chinese New Year (in January or February), and then another week for Labor Day & National Day (May 1 & Oct 1, I think)

How about a week around July 4 & around Thanksgiving?

[sniffa]

24. fLag day

cuz i hate murka

[Bertha Venation]

27. Columbus Day

We don't need a day off to celebrate a murderer.

I'd replace it with Gandhi Day. We should celebrate the date of the Mahatma's birth! October 2.

[Z_I_Peevey]

29. How about 500 Nations Day?

Or something in that same spirit.

[ronnykmarshall]

30. None!

I work for a bank and we get a butt load of days off!

[La Lioness Priyanka]

31. personally i think americans do not get enough holidays

[ProfessorGAC]

33. Yeah! What She Said!

The idea that we just don't close down industry (that which is "closeable" anyway, between Dec 24 and Jan 2 is silly. The economy would move along just fine without that week, and the winter enervation of the workers would be reduced significantly.

It'd be good for everyone.
The Professor

[La Lioness Priyanka]

36. i think so too...we need more holidays...then people esp the right

would be less worked up all the time...

[FarLeftRage]

32. Valentine's Day

It was only useful to me, whenever I had someone to share it with... and that was like only 2 or 3 of my 46 years.

Now it is of no use...

[amazona]

34. I would never eliminate a holiday

And personally don't understand the bitterness against Valentine's Day. Why does it take away from single people if lovers and marrieds have one day out of the year -- and not even a whole day -- to celebrate their love?

[RaleighNCDem]

35. Mainly because the marrieds and lovers spend all day asking us what we...

are doing. Then when we say nothing, we get the look of pity. I'm not against the holiday, but I hate the pity. It doesn't upset me to be alone on Valentine's Day otherwise.

[crispini]

46. I'm with you.

If I got to pick, Valentine's Day would be toast.

[FarLeftRage]

39. I did not mean to sound cynical

I guess I should not put over my own failure on a single day that was meant for other people, as well as myself... sorry.

[Darranar]

38. Columbus Day. Mass murderers and imperialists don't deserve...

holidays.

[Lady Effingbroke]

44. Boss's Day.

[WMliberal]

47. I live in racist Virginia, so I want to eliminate 2/3 of a holiday.

Just to stick it to the blacks, our lovely and compassionate GOP changed MLK Day to Robert E. Lee-Stonewall Jackson-MLK Day... :eyes:

[Midlodemocrat]

48. Festivus

despite its name, it is NOT a holiday for the restivus.