I usually just say "HAPPY NEW YEAR." I figure everyone celebrates a new year...and I like to make the point that I'm NOT saying ''merry Christmas."

I love Christmas always have it's just not based on religion for me it's about love and family and togetherness and being thankful for the things that you do have in your life

Its a pagan holiday so, I go all in. Decorate w/pagan symbols, wish people a joyous yuletide, reindeer, holly, red, green, silver & gold. The Oak King & The Holly King. Make Yule log cakes, gingerbread cookies, lots of orange flavors, deliver gifts on the soltice. & in the toe of each stocking, a navel orange, symbolic of the sun turning back the darkness of winter.

I just love telling cashiers "and a Merry Saturnalia to you."

Always glad when it is over. Materialism demonstrates another hypocrecy of religion. I stick to happy holidays . Keep it simple.

I always respond with “ you too,” if some says merry xmas. The celebration of Xmas with trees and gifts, etc is really a pagan tradition and has nothing to do with religion. We just do all the fun things without the religion kinda like most American families really.

It’s fine... Xmas is fun! I know Jews that celebrate Xmas because they like it better than Hanukkah so eat, drink and give thoughtful gifts. Even if someone wants to say grace you’ll live. Seems funny to me that we will travel the world to explore and enrich our own lives by learning the cultures of others but when it comes to our own culture we want to sweep it under a rock... Tradition has its place, I don’t need to be religious to eat my Christmas pudding

I feel invisible all year around, so Christmas is no special burden.

Traditionally my wife and I do as little as possible on Christmas. Thanksgiving is the holiday where her children tend to visit us, Christmas is traditionally spent with their biological father. So we take Christmas as a self-indulgent "day off".

I take it as it is meant, a happy sentiment that they mean with kindness. We 'celebrate' Christmas just as family time and we share gifts. None of us are religious now but my mom raised us Catholic so the events just have become customary. Plus it puts most people in a good and charitable mood so I will take that any day!

I celebrate it as any other commercial family fun day . Rather like celebrating Halloween .

I tell family I am sorry I have other plans and see them other times if the year. And I find a nice warm beach explore ?

I return their wishes. I get that for many, it's a big day. For me? It's a day to throw tinsel on my bike and go for a ride.

I respond to merry Christmas with 'you too' and tell them that I don't celebrate Christmas so I'll be spending the day on the couch with the cat.