Top 10 Excuses not to Go Home for Christmas

Unlike the holiday seasons of the past, this year you finally have a few good reasons not to go home. You like to call each of these reasons a ‘Christmas excuse.’ The main reason you don’t want to come home for Christmas (which you’d never tell your family), is that you’ve simply grown tired of the same things year after year. Every time you go home to celebrate the holidays with your family, everyone always has to watch all the best Christmas movies, but you know them all by heart due to how many times you’ve seen them. So, minus the above ‘Christmas excuse’, here are 10 reasons not to go home for the holiday season.

You’re celebrating at your partner’s house

Spending the holiday season at your partner’s place is a really good Christmas excuse. When it comes to deciding where to spend your Christmas, it’s really no question that you should do what your partner wants. This year, they want you to spend the holidays with their family on the other side of the country from where your parents live. This means that there is no possible way to see your family this year, even if you were to only spend half the time with your partner. You’re sure that your parents will understand, though.

Work is keeping you busy

Your job has been heating up lately so you won’t be able to make it back home for the holidays. This doesn’t bother you too much, though, since this Christmas excuse is going to pay off significantly in the near future. See, your boss let you know that you’d be receiving a very large raise soon. To keep your boss in a good mood, you’ve agreed to do some extra work over the Christmas season. While this isn’t the best of circumstances, this small sacrifice now will ensure that you’ll be well off for the rest of your life.

It’s too hard to travel

For the past few months you’ve been working in Europe as the branch manager of your growing company. Christmas is coming up soon, however, and your parents want to know whether you’ll be able to come home. Normally, you’d catch a plane and be home the next day but, this year, all the plane tickets are booked up for some reason, so you’re stuck in Europe, at least until the 26th of December. This is a valid Christmas excuse, and you parents, while upset that you won’t be physically present, plan to FaceTime you on Christmas Day.

A promise to a friend

While this isn’t a very good Christmas excuse, it is nonetheless important to you, since you promised your friend that you’d keep them company during the holidays. You explain to your parents that they have no one else in the world with whom they can spend Christmas, so you offered to stay with them. When you told your friend this decision, they couldn’t believe it, and earnestly thanked you for sacrificing your holiday season. You responded by saying that it was no big deal, since it’s important to be around people who care about you during Christmas.

A once in a lifetime event

It’s been a dream of yours for a while to meet your favorite author and get them to sign some of their books which you own. Unfortunately, the only way to see them is at a signing event which occurs the day before Christmas in Canada. Your family lives in Florida, so it’s unlikely that you’ll make it home in time to celebrate with them, making this a good Christmas excuse. You feel a little bad about your decision, though, because this’ll be the first year that you haven’t spent Christmas with them. Attempting to fix this, you call your parents on Christmas Eve and tell them you’ll be home soon.

Not enough money

It seems like this problem always pops up at important moments in your life. This, sadly, is one of those moments. You recently installed a swimming pool at your home and, by doing so, you used up what extra money you had. It was only after you had done this that you realized that you didn’t have enough money for a plane ticket back home. When you explain the situation to your parents, they offer to buy your ticket for you, but you refuse since you know that they don’t have any money to spare right now.

Too many things going on at the same time

A Christmas excuse that’ll get you out of any family gathering is telling everyone that you have too much going on right now to make it home for the holidays. Will they be disappointed? Most likely, but they’ll leave you alone for Christmas. It’s not like you lied or anything; you do have important things going on in your life at the moment. For example, you should really do that…one thing…for that person… Alright, perhaps you don’t have as many things going on as you said. On the bright side, your parents didn’t seem too upset that you weren’t going to make it home.

A pregnancy

Yeah, this is definitely a good Christmas excuse. If you are hoping to add another member to your family very soon, it’s probably a good idea to stay at home and be prepared to drive to the hospital at a moment’s notice. Sure enough, in the early hours of Christmas Day, you have to get dressed quickly and rush to the hospital. As you’re leaving the house, you hear a scrabbling sort of sound coming from the fireplace, but you’re in too much of a rush to investigate the sound.

An illness

This year you were infected with the flu which, without fail, gets you every year around this time. In the past, you’ve always been at home for this. However, this is the first year that you’ve been living by yourself. To make matters worse, this flu has made you constantly weak and sleepy, so you’re afraid of making the drive home. Like it or not, this is your Christmas excuse. Feeling bad about missing Christmas, you ask the doctor what they think, and they tell you not to travel until the illness burns itself out.

In the process of moving

You’ve had your house on the market for the past 4 months and, of course, it sells as soon as the Christmas season begins. Instead of preparing to pack your things and go home for a while to spend time with your family, you have to pack up your entire house within the month. Even if you were only gone for a few days, you wouldn’t have enough time to completely move out. This Christmas, you’ll have to spend the holidays alone.