My Worst Christmas Ever
By Susan
@HazySue (39264)
Gouverneur, New York
December 7, 2018 1:29pm CST
Years and years ago, when I was 8 years old, I had the worst Christmas ever. Two days before Christmas I started feeling a little bad. I developed a fever and my stomach started to act up.
On Christmas Eve I ended up miserable and in bed all day. Bu the end of the day I couldn't move without throwing up. My head was pounding, my stomach was aching, I felt like dying.
Yep! I had the flu. I couldn't even get up to open gifts on Christmas morning. What a horrible Christmas for someone who was still young enough to be excited about the arrival of Santa.
It wasn't until the 4th day after Christmas when I felt well enough to get up and unwrap a few gifts. It just wasn't the same. Not only did I still feel kind of bad but the excitement of Christmas had come and gone.
What was the worst Christmas you remember having?
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@1creekgirl (40497)
• United States
7 Dec 18
I'm so sorry, I know Christmas is always a sad time for you.
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@Mavic123456 (21898)
• Thailand
8 Dec 18
my worst Christmases when we have to go and visit our very rich relatives … and see them exchange gifts and we have nothing under the tree.
those were the days ..
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@deazil (4723)
• United States
9 Dec 18
@Mavic123456 I'm glad the time finally came when you no longer went to their Christmas parties. 
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@Mavic123456 (21898)
• Thailand
9 Dec 18
@HazySue we are poor relatives... who visit rich relative to spend Christmas to be able to eat good food and ask for a little gift usually money.
but it's fine because time came we didn't go to their Christmas party anymore we have our own family party... we do the same as they do.
it means we no ask for their small amount of money anymore...
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@just4him (305965)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
8 Dec 18
I'm sorry you had a bad Christmas that year. I don't recall a bad Christmas. I had some slim Christmases with only one gift under the tree for each of my kids and us. We didn't have a tree one year, but I made one out of ribbon. It looked pathetic, but since my kids were toddlers and didn't understand about Christmas yet, it was good.
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@GardenGerty (157546)
• United States
23 Jan 19
We went to my grandparents. My cousin was there. She received every gift either my brother or I wanted, and a few more to boot. Seeing things under the tree, thinking they were for us and she got them all (yes, we each got one or two things from our list) was hard. She especially rubbed it in to my little brother. Her mom worked hard and spent big trying to make up for the fact that she was an only child with a single parent. That would be worst as a kid. Next worst was when my first husband was terminally ill. Christmas was the last time he tried to eat anything by mouth and he choked on it.
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@ThreeTeddies (2038)
• United Kingdom
17 Feb 19
That would be the one just after my father lost his job. We had no money. Our Christmas dinner was chicken curry out a tin and all I got as a Christmas gift was a tin of toffees. When I had eaten them all I turned the tin upside-down and made a drum out of it. I was 8
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@1creekgirl (40497)
• United States
7 Dec 18
I guess our worst was the year our teenage son was rebelling against us and God and didn't come home one Christmas Eve, nor was he here Christmas day. It took a while, but God helped him grow up and rescued him. Now he's a fine father and son that we're very proud of.
I'm sure that was a terrible Christmas for you when you were too sick to enjoy it.
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