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Why do Xmas ads have snow in them

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longlocks · 12/11/2025 07:28

I’m 43 years old and never remember snow at Christmas. Had years when it snowed around New Year’s Day.

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Lamonstera · 15/11/2025 00:28

ilovepixie · 12/11/2025 07:44

Do you not live in the UK? There have been lots of white Christmas.

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Yes but not everywhere at the same time! OP might live on the south coast while you may live up some scottish mountain 😂

Fifthtimelucky · 14/11/2025 23:29

We had a White Christmas about 15 years ago. It might well have been 2012, which others have mentioned.

My father and stepmother were supposed to come to me for Christmas. They had given up driving by then, so I used to collect them (they lived in Gloucestershire and I’m in Surrey).

I had to phone on Christmas Eve and tell them I couldn’t come because we had had too much snow and the roads were not safe.

MooseBeTimeForSnow · 14/11/2025 19:00

Come to Canada. We had four inches of snow overnight!

WonderingWanda · 14/11/2025 18:54

When I was little I remember advent calendars and Christmas cards being a lot more traditional / religious with Nativity scenes, camels, desert scenes on them.

OSTMusTisNT · 14/11/2025 18:54

longlocks · 12/11/2025 07:28

I’m 43 years old and never remember snow at Christmas. Had years when it snowed around New Year’s Day.

Come to Scotland, it's already snowing up North.

opencecilgee · 14/11/2025 18:52

Snow usually falls in Jan/Feb

Dec 2010, we had heavy snow in London. It had cleared by xmas day though

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 14/11/2025 18:49

S/W Yorks boundaries. We’ve loved here for 25 years. We’ve had about 5 or 6 white Christmases.

pambeesleyhalpert · 14/11/2025 17:34

Or seems it

pambeesleyhalpert · 14/11/2025 17:34

Because it’s magical

CarlaH · 14/11/2025 12:44

BellaTheDarkOverlord · 12/11/2025 07:41

I remember that 2009 snow in Yorkshire! Pipes froze near us and all the water was off for 2 days.

Id love snow just for Xmas eve until Boxing Day then for it all to disappear 😁

There was one year in the late 60’s when it did start snowing just as we arrived home on Christmas Eve and it started to thaw on the day after Boxing Day. That was perfect and has never been repeated in my lifetime.

thecatneuterer · 14/11/2025 12:37

evtheria · 12/11/2025 07:41

For the vibes, bro

Best and most succinct comment on the thread.

Millytante · 14/11/2025 12:35

TodaRythm · 12/11/2025 19:06

OP, I have always wondered the same. Not that much snow in freaking Bethlehem , is there ? Also, 25th of December is right at the begin of winter, not that is the coldest month of the year.

You've made me think of my all time favourite carol, set in a freezing cold Bethlehem! ‘In The Bleak Mid-Winter’.
(According to the old pre-Christian calendar we generally adhere to in Ireland, that is indeed midwinter, as the season runs Nov- Jan, and as the climate changes, these older seasonal markers fit very well, once more )

Even when Christmas Day is all torrential rain, or even sunshine, it’s always deep snow and crisp air, in the idealised day in my head. (Not the 1963 blizzards I recall from childhood perhaps, but certainly snow is as important as Yule logs, holly, and ivy to me, in my fantasy Christmas. Proper Winter)

I don't think we need too much realism for major feast days like this, after all it’s more than just any old Bank Holiday 🙂

ICanStillSayIDontRemember · 14/11/2025 12:35

@ShowOfHands So is my local garden centre! Does it begin with an F?? What is it with the rats?!!

VimesandhisCardboardBoots · 14/11/2025 12:26

longlocks · 12/11/2025 07:28

I’m 43 years old and never remember snow at Christmas. Had years when it snowed around New Year’s Day.

I'm the same age as you, and we regularly had snow at Christmas when I was a kid. I think it depends where in the country you are. I'm in South Wales and it very rarely used to snow here, and almost never at Christmas, but we'd spend most Christmasses at my Grandparents in Birmingham, and they'd often have snow over Christmas, often quite a lot of it.

rainbowunicorn22 · 14/11/2025 11:43

I was born in 1964, and I remember a snowy Christmas. It's always on things like cards, etc., etc as it's a nice image to see whether it happens or not in real life. We do not seem to get the winters we used to these days.

pinkdelight · 14/11/2025 11:25

I’ve had several snowy Christmas Days/weeks in Lancashire. Sometimes it’s been blizzarding so bad that the drive back home on 27th has been scary. But also some nice Christmas card style snow on the day itself. Not always, but certainly not the stuff of myth.

1457bloom · 14/11/2025 11:10

Because they would look a bit shit if they had rain, despite being more authentic.

Jc2001 · 12/11/2025 19:14

GreyCarpet · 12/11/2025 07:30

The same reasons Christmas cards and advent Calendars do 🤷🏻‍♀️

Wasn't Charles Dickens responsible for creating the image of snow at Christmas? I think it's quite a nice association, even though I've never seen it.

TodaRythm · 12/11/2025 19:06

OP, I have always wondered the same. Not that much snow in freaking Bethlehem , is there ? Also, 25th of December is right at the begin of winter, not that is the coldest month of the year.

RuncibleSpoons · 12/11/2025 19:02

Snoken · 12/11/2025 08:21

What do Christmas cards in places like Australia look like?

Having spent 2 Christmasses in Australia, and it was when Christmas cards were still a thing, they typically depicted cartoon Australian animals - koalas, kangaroos, emus with Christmas hats, usually on the beach or barbecuing.

MySweetGeorgina · 12/11/2025 19:00

Snow

happy families all getting on

no money worries and as many fancy presents and food as you like

no sickness

no sadness

sometimes I think it would be quite nice to live in a Christmas add. But yeah they are not realistic in any way at all. They just try and sell you stuff: buy these chocolates and your kids will be happy, your husband will love you, the ambassador will be your best friend too… and it may snow outside which is pretty and fun as nobody has to work any shifts, hurrah

EmeraldShamrock000 · 12/11/2025 18:58

Because it snows in the North Pole. Some children are lucky enough to visit lapland, others watch TV advertisements with snow.
It was snowing in Dublin Christmas 2012, or 2011. I have photos of DD in her baby bike.

ShowOfHands · 12/11/2025 18:55

The Christmas rats are legion in our local garden centres. They look a bit like this and range from palm-sized to 6ft tall.

Why do Xmas ads have snow in them
VickyEadieofThigh · 12/11/2025 17:19

All the reasons other pp have given and - to quote Pamelaar Shipman (who wasn't talking about snow at Christmas) - "Because it's NICE!"

Netcurtainnelly · 12/11/2025 17:09

Agree, adverts, cards, etc totally unrealistic. Never shows at Christmas.