If you let the pressures get to you it is no wonder that you won't enjoy the holiday.   If you spend your time worrying about the commercialism and feel pressure to decorate, bake cookies or buy tons of gifts - then you are celebrating for the wrong reasons. Sinsull made a good point about the items that appeals to Sinsull. If Sinsull loves the smell of pine and baking cookies, then that should be part of Sinsull's celebration. As guest pointed out, you make your own tradition.

I enjoy decorating the house for the holidays. To me, it isn't a chore. I love putting up lights on my home, and putting up a wooden Santa Claus in my yard that my late uncle made over 50 years ago.

Christmas isn't a humbug, people are. You make of it what you will. If you choose not to celebrate, that is fine.