Do we have a MN Christmas threads full house yet?

Op! You've gone purple now 😂

You should all spend less time on MN bingo and more time on name changing.

When did people stop being happy someone thought of them

Probably when most people had the money to buy themselves whatever they wanted whenever they wanted, within reason, and if you don't, you don't want to be exchanging things that no-one really wants with other adults.

We don't have to wait all year to hope that someone's going to buy us a dressing gown, photo frame, box of chocolates etc etc, most of us could go and get whatever we want, whenever we want, so we don't really need others to do it for us at Christmas.

Many people have houses crammed with stuff, plus food, drink, clothes etc to a level that it causes us stress and if we don't, it's probably because we're ruthless declutterers and most things that are bought as gifts will be sent straight to the charity shop, thus rendering the whole exercise a waste of time, money and resources.

There's plenty of ways to enjoy Christmas that don't involve exchanging stuff with other people. Just get together and have a drink, food and a catch up. Go and look at some sparkly lights, go for a walk, watch some Christmas films, play some games together etc etc.

@AllergicToAMop
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Pot plant?
"Ffs, what was she thinking. I have no space for it. All plants die. Another thing to take care of"

Nice Panettone in a JL tin?
"Ugh. Like we don't have enough food. What was she thinking? X can't even eat it"

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What is the one thing you can always give without offending?
Pot plant? Nice Panettone in a JL tin?
DH and I have been married 5 years, every year DM gives PIL a nice pot plant and MIL gives my parents a nice panettone

The annual “are home made Christmas presents shit?” thread.

Cue everyone who makes home made presents getting fucking livid and insisting all their friends/family/acquaintances spend all year longing for her world famous marmalade. Cue everyone else saying they basically appreciate the thought but may or may not like whatever the gift is.

Smuggy McKnobson always posts a Pinterest-perfect picture of some little homemade cakes or something glistening in candlelight and goes “well here are the gifts I make, not had any complaints so far ” and everyone clambers up the posters arse joking about being their new mate.

As if you’d ever receive a jar of jam someone had made you anyway, open it in front of them, look them in their eager, expectant little face and say, “looks fucking foul sorry”

@CloseEncountersOfTheTerfKind I am also suffering with a flare up of a chronic illness. Many plans cancelled and feeling shitty. DD is being very nice about my inability to do anything. You have my sympathies (as does anyone else struggling).

It’s a funny thread though!

Sorry to hijack a little op, but you have set me off .

What is it with people? You cannot do right judging by the Christmas threads.

Can any of you tell me of one acceptable gift. All I see on the threads you refer to, is too much/many, too little. Taat, hate chocolate, hate this and that. Hate presents, all going to charity shops.

What is the one thing you can always give without offending?

When did people stop being happy someone thought of them?

Most excellent thread OP May I offer the following:

How do I make the dinner?
What can I prepare in advance?
What can I have for breakfast on Christmas Day?
What would you put out for a buffet?
What do you eat?
What food shall I buy?

I have just typed out - and deleted - a ridiculously grinchy answer to one of the above. No problem with people asking the question although grown adults should know what the fuck they might want to eat Just bloody read some of the squillion other threads asking exactly the same fucking question over and over again.

Always threads about CFs expecting others who don’t have kids to work Christmas shifts

I love this thread! Can we include the ones that start in August that are just:
OP: I don’t want to go to inlaws for Christmas because their Christmas is just not as good as the one I had growing up, which always seem to oddly come down to the tree?
Either OP grew up with classy real trees and hated IL’s tacky plastic one, or ILs have a silly real one while OP prefers a nice matchy fake one.
Everyone ignores the tree issue and says to alternate, racist FIL regardless.

You might think No is a Complete Sentence but other people might think you just have no fucking manners.

HAHAHAHAHAHA

I love this thread

You've summed up MN at Christmas!

Oh yes, the hosting. Pre MN I’d never heard of it. We just have people to stay or round for a meal.

And of course the MN turkey (the festive distant relative of the MN chicken) threads:

My MIL threw away the turkey remains. AIBU to think that she should have made another 25 meals out of those bones? The turkey soup alone could have kept her and FIL going until at least April.

MIL always overcooks the turkey. AIBU to think that she should cook it exactly the way I like it?

And it's obligatory for every Christmas thread to include the word "host" at least 10 times. No one ever just invites people round anymore. They host.

Penis Portions! Mil (it’s always Mil) plated up and gave dh half a turkey, ten roasties, 12 pigs in blanket and a partridge in a pear tree but only gave me two small roasties, a thin slice of turkey and half a carrot.

80% of posters will wax lyrical about the huge plates of food they had or supplied to their guests.
10% will insist OP is grabby and ungrateful and should consider herself honoured to be allowed inside Mils house even if she was serving beans on toast for Christmas dinner.

This year I expect approx 9.9% to shudder and make faces as they despair for the environment at such indulgence...
The final .1% is that muppet who comes on to say by my calculations that’s approximately 600 calories, I think that’s perfectly adequate and any more would be sheer gluttony, I can’t imagine how you could eat more !!

Not the wrong trousers but the wrong plates.
AIBU to be upset! My MIL invited me dh and 5dc for Christmas, cooked all our meals I didn't need to help but she used the wrong plates
RED CHRISTMAS PLATES I ask you how could anyone be so underclass as to use those plates!!!
I'm so angry that dhs family are so common and AIBU to be going NC after I see what they've bought dc4 for her Birthday