Do we have a MN Christmas threads full house yet?

@CloseEncountersOfTheTerfKind YABVVVVVU to actually answer the door. This is MN basics 101.

YANBU😂 I wear pj bottoms as lounge wear so I theoretically accept all deliveries in pjs😂

No you’re fine. I had to answer the door in my thin dressing gown last week to UPS guy. He took it well fair play. Always remember they would have seen it all by now.

A real life fun one of mine is my MIL burnt something in her oven Christmas day.
It was a burnt on sugar/honey combo from the carrots and parsnips.

We visited boxing day and was informed of this around 5 in the afternoon after wondering why no food was being made.

I had to scrub the oven then cook things for everyone myself her dry turkey and chips as that's all they had.

We have parents v non parents Christmas stress levels ✅

I myself have tipped all the fruit out of my fruit bowl and filled it with Quality Street and Roses

I use our fruit bowl to make the trifle in.

You read for the snark/humour and nonetheless pick up helpful tips...Mumsnet in a (seasonal) nutshell.

@DoloresTheDonkey

Oh yes, apologies if it wasn't clear that I'm not making fun of you! It was obvious why it was in quotations!

Incidentally Christmas Eve is my favorite too!

Have we had the 'I'm annoyed that DH/Parents/Children/wider family don't help with Christmas preparations and when they do they don't do it exactly how I want. Not only that but they don't AIBU to think they should be more grateful for (insert lots of self imposed jobs or details)?"

Is there, at the very least, a stunt pineapple in your bowl of chocs OP?

I've now learnt from a thread on here that people have a system for wrapping paper designs and actually care about what order the presents are opened in .

I've just used the paper I bought in the sale last year and would have thought that the average DC faced with a pile of presents would probably just go for whichever looked most interesting/exciting to them first?

I can imagine their DMs grabbing presents off them if they picked up the 'wrong' gift to open to ensure that presents aren't opened out of turn.

On Wednesday we're getting engaged (this bit is actually true) so am I AIBU to expect him not to shove the ring up the turkey's parsons nose (arse) as a surprise to moi because I do not want an arse tainted ring and I think if this transpires he will get said ring up his own parsons nose and Christmas will be ruined so he can gtf on Santas sleigh and ring a ding ding off into the deep blue yonder!
One really has to be discerning about these matters you know!

I had to laugh yesterday at the advice to open the present and throw it straight onto the fire.

Probably not the best advice ever unless someone has given you an actual log

This is one of the funniest threads I've read on here in years!

Chester (drawers)

Fucking gold 🤣

I use our fruit bowl to make the trifle in. We don't have that much fresh fruit in usually and it mainly lives in the fridge.

Might have missed it on this thread but we did have the can I leave Christmas lights on / a candle burning.

Already done. Generally it's a no to leave lights on

OP yes to the fruit bowl full of chocs

{runs off to tip fruit in brown bin, we all know it ends up there anyway it's only for show}

@KatherineJaneway There was a big thread recently about leaving an Advent candle burning; I haven't seen one about lights on the tree this year.

I've thought of some more! I haven't seen them this year, but they've definitely been in previous years:

AIBU to actually put coal/potatoes in my child's stocking? Where do you buy coal these days, or will a lump of barbecue fuel do? (Lots of replies saying that some parents do put a potato in with the gifts, and occasionally cunning children ask Father Christmas for coal.)

Political correctness gone mad about not upsetting non-Christians, by saying things like "Happy holidays", "Winterval", "School winter celebration concert" instead of "Christmas Concert", etc.

Might have missed it on this thread but we did have the can I leave Christmas lights on / a candle burning.

OP AIBU to be dreading preparing Christmas dinner for the first time? I'm finding it daunting anyway but guests include a vegetarian, a fruitarian and somebody I suspect might be Jewish but don't like to ask.

Competitive. Mumsnetters immediately leap in to say there's nothing to it and they'll be serving an amuse-bouche of caviar, twenty different main courses, five puddings and a selection of cheeses crafted by artisans from yak milk They crafted their hand made chocolates back in October. Tinkly laugh.

Competitive Dieters then jump in to say they will be doing all the above but will only be permitting themselves a couple of sprouts and a lick of one of the chocolates because there's an obesity crisis.

Concerned mumsnetters will suggest random recipes knitted out of tofu and grass.

Chilled Mumsnetters will tell her it's just a roast dinner with crackers and they can all just eat whatever's on the table.

One random poster will slag off the OP with a degree of vitriol that appears entirely uncalled for, then slink back to say sorry, wrong thread.

One person will enquire Is that you Sharon?

Love this thread. I got told off on the booze thread last night and called sad and lonely. I was actually happy as Larry with my Aldi champers (grin)