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Do we have a MN Christmas threads full house yet?

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CloseEncountersOfTheTerfKind · 20/12/2019 10:33

Another thread has made me realise there are so many threads/posts about Christmas stresses and angst, and the same things seem to pop up every year. Every single year! I think we need cards and a competition to see who wins Full House first...

DH went out for his works Christmas party and has not come home yet and it's 7am - where is he?

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FairyJuice · 20/12/2019 12:01

Forgot the thread where MIL serves bigger portions to the men and insists that the last meal of the day is served at 3pm so the ops family are all starving and miserable.

AllergicToAMop · 20/12/2019 11:56

What a nice drug dealer😂

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CloseEncountersOfTheTerfKind · 20/12/2019 11:55

CHRISTMAS JUMPER THREADS

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CloseEncountersOfTheTerfKind · 20/12/2019 11:53

"Something they want, something they need, something to wear and something to read" and a satsuma is all they need and YABU to buy anything else you consumerist cunt. What would Greta say?

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CloseEncountersOfTheTerfKind · 20/12/2019 11:52

Oooh I genuinely have one of my own!

My drug dealing neighbour whose dogs are huge barky shits and the police are always parking outside my house to visit him, has sent me a card saying "love from all at No. 14" AIBU to think he is taking the piss and want to confront (a favoured MN phrase) him?

(I made up the number 14, it's actually different in RL Wink)

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Purplequalitystreet · 20/12/2019 11:51

What about " I'm worried DS/DD will be disappointed with a small pile"

Half of MN: what about a fleecy blanket/funky lamp?

Other half of MN: YABU. Your DC is spoilt and should be grateful get a satsuma

dayslikethese1 · 20/12/2019 11:50

and people expected to insane amounts of travelling whilst pregnant.

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CloseEncountersOfTheTerfKind · 20/12/2019 11:49

Basically to stop us saying things like "think yourself lucky to do shit secret Santa, I lost my job and I might be in hospital for Christmas" and everyone will think we are joyless knobs bringing everyone down, we can cheer ourselves up by recognising people like to moan about

MILs
SILs
Secret Santa
Tasteless trees
Dogs
Trifles

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dayslikethese1 · 20/12/2019 11:49

There's always threads from people who are affronted to receive Christmas cards (including people who put them straight in the bin), also ILs hosting who only serve one sprout, a tiny slice of chicken and no roasties Grin

Wherearemyminions · 20/12/2019 11:48

Oh god yes, the spare rooms ones, love those "PILs put us in DH's old room, they didn't give up their room for us" or "I always have beautiful toiletries for guests but SIL expected us to make do with supermarket own brand handwash"

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CloseEncountersOfTheTerfKind · 20/12/2019 11:42

@ssd sorry you are struggling Thanks I myself am probably grinchy and bitter as my health is poor and I'm having to cancel lots of things including letting my DC down on something important.

I think this thread is a better way for me than going onto threads with the "think yourself lucky, I would love to be able to do crap secret Santa/spend too much money/have to go and do lots of shopping" and it genuinely is meant to be lighthearted.

On that note, I'm liking all the MN classic gripes, they really are all true!

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Alsohuman · 20/12/2019 11:39

I’m looking forward to the one complaining about the state of the ils’ spare room and how inconvenient it is that it hasn’t got an en-suite with endless fluffy towels and “high end” toiletries.

CrocodileFrock · 20/12/2019 11:37

BlackeyedSusan - That brings back memories of DS and his Phonics bus toy where you had to press the letters on the side to make the sounds. "Buh-guh" was a particular favourite. Blush

BlackeyedSusan · 20/12/2019 11:33

@CrocodileFrock I found out DD could sound out and blend words when she sounded out c*nt the asterisk makes no difference when sounding out.

BlackeyedSusan · 20/12/2019 11:30

You've missed the annual AIBU to not want to travel on Christmas Eve, due date 25th, and DH has not booked a room thread.

Also the have you put the Christmas tree up

And is £500 per child enough to spend?

FadedRed · 20/12/2019 11:27

What about the threads about Christmas cards? Do you send? Don’t you send? Do you ‘hate the mess and put them (unopened) straight into the recycling bin’?

CrocodileFrock · 20/12/2019 11:26

Have we had a thread yet where the OP is annoyed because someone else's thread title indicated that Santa might not actually exist?

OP: My DS was reading over my shoulder and now he knows that Santa isn't real, you bastards!

25% of replies: If he's old enough to read that, he's too old to still believe in Santa anyway!

Bosom-hoikers: You let your child read MN over your shoulder? Tell me where you live so that I can report you to SS, you monster!

The militants: MNHQ should ban those thread titles immediately. It's child cruelty!

The over-invested: Leave notes around the house from Santa. In fact, send me your address and I'll write one for you.

Everyone else: Meh!

ScribblyGum · 20/12/2019 11:21

Not seen a trifle thread yet. I love the annual trifle thread (arguments over inclusion of jelly), despite having lost my trifle mojo.

NameChangeNugget · 20/12/2019 11:19

Very funny thread OP Grin

ssd · 20/12/2019 11:18

Fair enough if it's lighthearted, maybe I'm just in the wrong frame of mind to see it like that.
I'm just struggling a bit and your op made me feel like people are laughing about it.
Sorry to read it wrong.

BarkandCheese · 20/12/2019 11:16

Christmas and dogs. Either the OP is going to a relatives house who has a dog and wants the dog shut away, or the OP has a dog, the relatives are coming to her and want the dog sit away. Or the relatives coming are wanting to bring a dog, or the batshit variant where the dog is actually two piglets.

wanderings · 20/12/2019 11:14

You forgot Secret Santa. Xmas Wink The threads on that are endless: I received rubbish, I gave a great gift unlike everyone else, I think the whole idea is rubbish.

DS1 doesn't believe any more. What consequences should I threaten him with for spoiling things for the younger DC?

Christmas is bad for the environment, with the cards and wrapping ending up in landfill. (Will Greta become the new Scrooge?)

Now for some which I haven't really seen on MN, but which are typical of MN:
I don't want my Christian MIL indoctrinating my children about the birth of Christ, with all that nonsense about the virgin birth, Bethlehem, and the Angel Gabriel.

Boris Johnson wore a Santa hat on TV. AIBU that this is totally inappropriate, and traumatising for the children?

Why does it never snow on Christmas Day (in England at least)?

And now, everybody, here is my own personal biggest first-world gripe about Christmas: the lack of netball. Xmas Shock Xmas Shock Xmas Shock In the last week or two, players frequently miss games because they have to attend office Xmas parties, so we have to forfeit them, and then there are no games until the new year.

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CloseEncountersOfTheTerfKind · 20/12/2019 11:14

@ssd I can't tell whether you are genuinely reprimanding me or saying there is always a thread like that Blush

If it's the former, this thread was actually prompted by me saying on another thread that I'm fed up with all the genuinely petty shit when people (including myself!) have quite genuinely stressful shit going on. I suppose one persons petty shit is someone else's stressful shit though...

Also it's meant to be lighthearted not mean
Wink

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Kannet · 20/12/2019 11:08

There is always a hungry at the in-laws one as well.

Fucck · 20/12/2019 11:08

I can call HOUSE, I've got a line. I think I'm just one off a full BINGO though 🤷🏼‍♀️