I'm going to treat you all to my unpopular Christmas opinion.

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You CAN send Christmas cards AND donate money to charity. Anyone who says they're not sending cards so they can donate the money to charity is just a Scrooge.

What are your unpopular Christmas opinions? Share here.

Die Hard is not a Christmas film
I agree with most of your posts you are wrong on this one!
Indeed, very wrong. What's not Christmas about it?

Chin up, it could be "The World Is Not Enough". It has a character named Christmas in it.

OK real Christmas trees are not worth the hassle.

Don’t get me wrong, I love the IDEA of them, but most are not attractive in shape, take up too much room, shed spiteful spiny needles which you’re still finding in your socks in February, and are a bugger to dispose of when all you are left with is a miserable brown tree skeleton.

I have battled on with them for years, but they have finally beaten me.

I also quite like those daft dangly Christmas earrings

Stuffing - taste and texture like dust bunnies

I've never tasted a dust bunny - but I can safely say you have never had my mums stuffing. It eclipses everything else, it's amazing!

I don't buy or send cards. I never have. Mainly because I'm too tight and lazy. I don't donate it to charity either.
I don't put up a tree or any other Xmas decorations because I can't be arsed.
Turkey should be outlawed, tasteless dry Shit.
Xmas tv is bloody dire. All of it. Give me my music any day.

@Ifangyow

Don’t hold back now!

Nasty, multi-coloured displays, FCs, reindeers etc should be either banned or declared legal targets for airguns, I would also include blue or piercing white lights. National Lampoon has a lot to answer for.
Even Holt, yes Holt, has got some horrible glaring 'white' lights, looks awful.
There should be a special place in hell for those who have bought from Aldi or Lidl those blow-up green arches for over the front door I laugh everytime I see one one the floor, deflated, hopefully punctured.

You can have a perfectly good dinner without causing the death of a turkey.
I suspect that won't be a popular belief. My money goes to turkey saves, and pig, sheep, cow, and chicken saves instead.

Have you seen the lights people have now that project onto the front of their house from the front garden? Swirling green snowflakes

I have a neurological problem that can intermittently affect my balance very badly. Let's just say that swirling lights and large items that wave about don't help (a substantial number of people around us have huge inflatables in tiny open plan front gardens).

I hate turkey, I'm having roast beef and Yorkshire pudding.

Mint sauce DOES belong on Turkey.

Mulled alcohol is universally awful. All of it.

Yes, even gluhwein. Bleurgh

I will have mint sauce on my Xmas dinner. And have Yorkshires.

Toxic families don't just become non-toxic because of the magic of Christmas

The common decline of inhibitions with alcohol intake just ratchets it all up.

I'm so sick of the idea that family gatherings are an ideal time to "fix" your relatives when for many, just getting through it without violence is enough

www.independent.co.uk/voices/violence-against-women-femicide-census-christmas-argument-family-death-a8689101.html

The tackier the better, in my view. Nobody ever bought an inflatable snowman with a matching Santa and thought 'this is classy' did they? Christmas itself is an overblown festival of fairylights, tinsel and glitter. My house looks like an explosion in a Christmas decorations factory and my tree has ornaments hanging on it that my children (all 20's) made at nursery school. My mum has a clay nativity set that my brother made in primary school - it has pride of place. He is 54. I don't give a fuck, and we all love it.

It's just a Sunday roast - why do people stress so much about Xmas dinner.
Sprouts are lovely
I love having 2 trees yes 1 is for tat and 1 is nice, shoot me
The Santa clause is the best film ever made
It's not Christmas unless there's crap crackers and you have a ripped hat on your head
The day after boxing day is the day to take down the tree

Actually, the phrase 'celebrating Christmas' is meaningless. I hate it. What does it mean? It's hardly religious. Even the religious bits are some stripped back stuff about a baby that's come to bring peace, which for some years now I have felt is totally meaningless to most people because it's taken out of context, and so much is misunderstood/not explained, and I say that as a church-going Christian believer. Christmas is now solely about treating yourself and your family. That's the only reason that people look forward to it. (OK, there's making gingerbread houses with the dch etc but pls don't spoil my rant.) It's about over-indulging and there being no barriers - things you wouldn't normally do (chocolate orange & alcohol at breakfast/snogging work colleagues) are suddenly allowed. It's having Christmas jumpers and crockery and aprons and duvet sets and pyjamas, because ordinary isn't good enough. That's the 'celebrating'. Bollocks to that.

"It's a Wonderful Life"is cringey

My unpopular Christmas opinion: MN becomes a pile of whingey wank over Xmas.

It always is one. That's why I read it. The amusement value.

My bread sauce is epic 😋😋

My bread sauce is epic I'm partial to bread sauce - what makes yours so outstandingly delectable (hoping for a hint).

I love this thread!!!

Although I have very bright flashy lights outside, but purely because I hate the twats who live opposite.

I would love it if you could just say ‘yeah, not doing Xmas this year, don’t fancy it’ and be treated like a normal person.

Yes kids love the presents and extra sugar but I think people are blowing smoke if they think they register anything else.

People stressing over a turkey dinner is just plain daft. You hold a responsible job but can’t work out a 200lb turkey won’t fit in your oven? You become a sweating mess over boiling some carrots? Do me a favour.

No one wants stocking fillers. No one. Wrapping socks does not make them special. It makes you look simple.

Oooh feel better now!!!!!!

@ALemonyPea "The Pogues 'Fairytale of New York' is the worst Christmas song. Utter shite."

YES! People only like it because of the swearing and such. it's terrible song and tragic and depressing tale tale...why would anyone think it's great??

I hate receiving Christmas cards from people I saw yesterday and am likely to see tomorrow. Why?

Christmas dinner is a doddle, I have no idea why there's so much stress about it. Prepare what you can in advance and just bung it in the oven.

However....
I don't agree with starters beforehand, we have lots to eat with the Main course and desserts.
Yorkshire puds are sooooo wrong on a turkey dinner (they are designed to go with beef and horseradish!)
Bread sauce made by my dear old Mum's recipe is a thing of delight.

Hate Christmas songs especially Wizard and Slade. If you've ever worked in retail you'd hate them too, I was force fed them for more than a month. Truly awful

Crackers. They are shite. They are basically just litter in a decorated bog roll middle.

I love this @Swipetounlock

Sending cards is, in most cases, ridiculous commercialisim. If you arent going to see someone, fine, it makes sense. Otherwise, nah. Waste of money. Wish them a happy Christmas instead.