Pet hates. Christmas edition

[Winterfellismyhome]

Ill start. People who put the empty wrappers back into the Quality Street tub 😡

Rain, when the wind is behind it.
Horrible

The same sister in law who conveniently gets a migraine every year when it's time to help clean up after dinner that you've spent hours slaving over

Parties.

Them: ‘It’s smart casual’
Also them, two weeks later: ‘what are you wearing tonight? I am deciding between the sequins or the full length velvet’

After 8 wrappers
Never getting to watch the telly I want
People asking me questions

DH saying, “What did we get my sister?”

Nothing. She gets nothing. Same as she got last year and the year before when said DH decided that he’d do his family (1 sister), and I’d do mine (22 - parents, siblings and partners, nieces and nephews).

People who’s dietry requirements change on a whim (not people with actual allergies/ illnesses).

People who call bubble bath etc for the purposes of gifting “smellies”.

Makes me want to throw said fragrant selection at them.

“Stocking fillers” priced at approximately £30. My DC get a few small toys, a bit of chocolate and a satsuma.

Blue lights.

Let’s have the hideous work ‘party’ in the month of the year when everyone is skint, full of germs, burdened with social obligation and guaranteed the worst food and service of the year! Woooo!

Let’s all fuckin queue in traffic and drive like idiots to pile into the supermarket to buy stuff to binge on, from early November for two entire months. Woooo!

Feel obligated to spend time with your shit gene sharers because of older people’s lack of contraception choices decades ago. It magical or something, Better buy them all plastic consumer products no one wants or needs, fuck the planet and future generations, woooo! So magical.

The bowl of nuts that everyone sticks their hands in. Sits festering for 2 weeks .

I like christmas

Religion buggering up an otherwise fun time. Does that count? (I do get it!)

One person always has to say (usually around midday) 'well thats it over for another year'

Depressing or what, makes me want to scream !!! Let me enjoy my FULL day !!!! Not even had my turkey yet and they need to declare the day over already.

The annual whining fest. Yuletide was to break up the bleakness and darkness of winter. Try to show some joy for once in a while.

DH's catbum face that starts with the Christmas ads in early November and lasts until January 2nd.

Then the "oh, did we really need to go this mad" when I'm spending max £30 per family member when we can easily afford it, have no mortgage and significant savings.

The urge to punch said catbum face is already pretty strong...... ho ho ho.

Boxing day sprout farts
I absolutely adore Christmas. Lovely time of year for random anonymous acts of kindness l!

My Dads annual ‘enjoy this year as we all may be dead next year’ speech

Football matches on Boxing day. Living in a house with 4 football lovers and they watch it. DH has even been to a match with the kids. He remembers matches on Christmas morning!

@babymammy oh i hate that too!

Having to go on a "healthy" walk after lunch when what I really want is a nap.

Enforced joviality, ie, people who tell me it's Christmas so I should be happy. This instantly puts me in a bad mood. Well I was happy until you said that, just because I don't go around gurning like an idiot all day...

Christmas jumpers. No! Everyone bloody sells them now, you can get band ones, Harry Potter themed ones, Pusheen ones, Alchemy Gothic do one, it's ridiculous! I thought the alternative world was free from this monstrosity, until a few years ago. Nope. (I'm still not wearing one...) Hopefully this is a trend that will eventually die.

Forced fun!
Getting all the family together for once. NO... the reason we only get together at Christmas granny, is that it's forced by you. If we liked each other we would make the effort all year. But we don't and I'm pretty sure we all dread Christmas mainly due to his farce every bloody year.

Christmas- the time to bite your tongue and at least then I will have a whole year before having to see the fuckers again.

My Christmas pet hate is Christmas.

I wouldn't bother with it if I had a free choice!

Oh ive thought of another one. Glittery wrapping paper. The glitter gets everywhere

Children randomly deciding that they'd actually like something else from Santa when 'Santa' has already bought what was on their list! This year they were told that Santa is so busy he has now made a deadline after which nothing can be changed.