If men were left to organise Christmas themselves

Absolutely fine especially since DD sends us her wishlist incl. links (ASD girl who absolutely can't handle surprises).

We do most things together, the only things I sort out myself is my mum.

My DH is Mr Christmas! He puts masses of effort into making it memorable in terms of gifts and decorations, planning parties etc.

He doesn’t cook (although makes amazing cocktails) and is great company.

I find the whole thing a bit of a chore to be honest. 😳

There would be no Christmas. It's women who keep it alive.

Most men wouldn't care one way or the other.

There wouldn't be a Christmas in my house

It would be just fine because my husband is amazing and I don’t know why people assume all men are incapable.

Yea I absolutely hate the way some women infantile men? Why wouldn’t they be able to organise Christmas? Is OP suggesting men can’t cook or buy items? How do these men survive at work, or in life?

These days we tend to visit one of our daughters for Christmas. When they were little DH was the driving force for getting everyone to enjoy it. He got the girls helping with the decorations and baking. He'd give them some money and take them to the shops for a present for mummy, usually most was spent on a toy for themselves. I'd do the same with them to get daddies present. We went together for the girls presents, granny looked after them while we went out. Christmas Dinner was his task as he's a good cook. We all decorated the tree. It was a really nice time, thanks for reminding me.

Oh god I hate this trope. I’m a woman who hates Christmas and does precisely fuck all for it because I have no interest in partaking. This year I’m going abroad over Christmas and leaving my partner at home so I guess whatever he does will be more than I’d ever do. If you’re a woman stressed out by arbitrary Christmas obligations you’ve imposed on yourself just STOP!

We’d go on a lovely holiday, and I understand, I really do, but I’ve got elderly parents to factor in.

Well, as DH died a while ago nothing would happen. But when he was with us it was very much a joint venture to make it special for DC and involve extended family. Whilst we miss him very much, he remains part of our Christmas and our memories and that is very special.

Food and drink would be something that can be shoved in the air fryer and a can of coke, maybe some beer or cider.

Presents-bought and wrapped nicely. We share the buying and the wrapping but my wrapping is shit.

The tree.. up and probably decorated but in the wrong colour scheme 😱

It's probably a 50/50 shared effort in this house, I take over the cooking and therefore the sorting of food either buying it or telling him what to buy. Nobody cares about what colour the tree is so I get to choose my colour scheme and the present buying is a joint effort. I usually do the stockings for the kids and the other presents I know they want, he gets other stuff he's seen and he's in charge of the parents once he's asked for my opinion.

Not much different, my husband does most of the cooking and he is perfectly able to take over any of the tasks I do and do them well.

Presents and food would be fine as DH is pretty good at that kind of thing. But the Christmas tree would likely be a twig with a bit of glitter on it, put up about 15 mins before the bedtime on Christmas Eve.

We'd have a succession of individual foods instead of Christmas dinner as DH cannot cook more than one thing at once. So turkey first, then some sprouts, next probably pigs in blankets, and so on. Not too sure where the gravy would come in. It'd be the longest, drawn out meal in history. Or he'd just make everyone a sandwich and be done with it.

hshah I come from a family where dad did it all - mum sat drinking wine and eating chocolates while he cooked

mow my husband and my dad do the cooking and I join in with the wine and chocolates and a film while we wait 🤣🤣

If DH was in charge, the decorations would not be put up until the house was spotless and they would go up mid December instead of the first weekend in December. There would be way too much chocolate and it would be a traditional Christmas dinner all prepped on Christmas Eve. He would probably get sprouts which no one likes.

All presents would be ordered online or alcohol gifts from Tesco and wrapped perfectly.

Reminds me of the Motherland episode when Julia’s husband calls from the shops to see if she wants a salt pig for Christmas 🙈

Well, I'm a single mum so the only males in the house are a 5 year old and the cat. So probably lucky we're Jewish so we don't need to worry about Christmas :) Kid is already pretty competent at menu planning though, and not at all bad at helping with the cooking.

It would be fine- although it would cost 10x what it usually does as dh does not look for bargains, put toys away in advance from the sales etc

He would do gift shopping on Xmas eve and spend a fortune, he wouldn’t wrap anything but would buy gift bags.
food would be delicious (as he cooks most of the Xmas dinner anyway) but again would be ridiculously expensive as he would just buy obsene amounts and every snack/drink that he saw.

fine if we were millionaires, but not great on a budget.

There would be zero decorations, there would be genuine shock as to why everything is closed on Christmas Day when he pops out to grab a turkey and everyone has a promise of a gift because Christmas crept up on him as a complete surprise…again.

Quieter, less stressful and a huge amount of pointless shit wouldn't get done.

DF and I are only allowed in the kitchen (a max of one of us) on XD. For these reasons:
. Carving turkey
. Taking things to/from garage as have freezers, fridge and it’s cold in there
. Making drinks

Otherwise DM gets very annoyed

My husband does one thing for Xmas, buys me a gift. And it’s always on Xmas eve and I get annoyed stressed phone calls demanding to know what to get me.

the kids would have nothing.

I don’t really care though, my boys aren’t useless like him. I could leave Xmas to my 13 year old boy and he’d have a crack at cooking dinner. He loves cooking and is already helping with that. My 15 year old is great at buying and wrapping gifts. If they could get along (they don’t) they would be able to put on a decent Xmas.

In our house we divide and conquer Christmas as a team. 🤷🏻‍♀️

It’s a shame this ‘useless men’ stereotype persists because dumb women believe it and accept it, and dumb useless men relax behind it.

My ex’s step father only did two nights a week in a warehouse, had all the time in the world, walked past shops which were open on his way to/from work. Yet still bought Xmas presents on XE.