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.

Its not really a sunday dinner.

Sundays i use gravy granules. Sundays i have max 3 veg. No sausages bacons. Rarely stuffing. Never a huge piece of meat that will last forever, but also take the whole of my oven to cook. A never do i cook sprouts on a sunday and on. Christmas day i cook 6. Yes, i literally buy six (it tickles the checkout staff) and if I find a poor soul that likes them (about 2/12 of our family) they wont moan on forever.

Wanky posts all over Facebook “the Xs aren’t sending Christmascards this year we’re donating to charity instead” why splash it all over FB?

My cards cost 74p from the Cancer Research shop (I gave them a donation too as they were so cheap), my old aunties love a card.

Maybe I just keep things simple. It's just a roast dinner for me.

I make bread sauce, sausages wrapped in bacon, and my own stuffing in advance and freeze them ready. I don't do hundreds of vegetables.... just sprouts which we love, carrotts, peas, sweet potato roasted along with crispy roast potatoes. And I always do proper gravy so it's really no different for me. And I have a huge turkey butterfly/crown so it's just like a joint of meat.

I send cards to my elderly aunties and uncles and my mum and dad. Once they're gone though, that's it. Nobody else gets a card in the post. They get a social media merry Christmas from me and my family. I generally donate a few quid to Crisis at Christmas and we always do The Rucksack Project in early December.

It's not wanky to help the homeless and less fortunate.

The lights where an amazon glitch for under £5 my Facebook tells me.

I hate mince pies and Christmas pudding as foil ceiling decorations are chavy

stop lieing to kids-why is it we teach them not to lie then do it ourselves about santa tooth fair y etc

also whats xmas about die hard the xmas works do? ffs

Rousette please could you share your mums recipe? I love bread sauce, but mine last jas a certain something

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Hi @RickOShay... there is no recipe but I can just say what I do!

I make breadcrumbs from a stale-ish uncut loaf. (not sliced, that makes horrible bread sauce!) I peel a smal to medium sized onion and stud it with lots of cloves. I simmer the whole onion in milk for about 10 minutes. I then add breadcrumbs, salt and pepper. I leave the onion in there because it adds to the taste. When I'm ready to serve it, I reheat it and add some double cream to taste, and a couple of ounces of butter.

Sorry there's no measurements, but I just add enough breadcrumbs to make it the consistency I want. It does tend to thicken after a while, so I start off with it slightly more runny.

My DH absolutely loves bread sauce!

Tbh I don't think a tooth fair is a place for kids. I agree.

Thanks Rousette
I don’t do the cloves, so will use those this year. I love bread sauce it reminds me of my Granny. who I wish I had asked so many things, but I was too young when she died to realise how much she knew.
Hope you have a lovely Christmas.

I send Christmas cards to my elderly Aunt's, 3 of them & my parents.

I'm not overly environmentally conscious but the excess card giving angers me! My kids school is a prime example. The headteacher sent every child a Christmas card, 270 cards from one person. Nonsense! Then the kids give to each other. 30 kids in a class giving 29 cards out to end up in recycling at best, up to 870 cards per class!

I refused to let my kids send them this year and donated a book to the school library instead.

Other than that, I love all things Christmas! Elves, bedlinen, multi coloured badly decorated tree, Yorkshire pudding with dinner, love all of them!

Merry Christmas everyone!

Oh, I do donate to Shelter every year, but they waste a lot of the donated money by sending me endless letters through the year. Email me people, us ether money to help the people you're raising it for!

@RickOShay.....It's the cloves that make it! My Mum would have no doubt been a similar (or even older) age to your Granny (I'm old!) and I think bread sauce was a thing back then! I always think of her when I make it and it would've been her 100th birthday, and by coincidence, me and my sister were both making bread sauce for Christmas, on that day and remembering Mum, there are certain things that just get passed down and become tradition!

Just read the first few posts and I'd just like to say a big fuck off to you.

This year my son is very ill. I have practicality given up work, my other kids have had to cope and Christmas is barely on my agenda.

So I took a minute to donate to a relevant charity and posted on FB to say we'd donated to X and weren't doing cards.

If you think I should sit down and waste my time with my kid sending out a load of landfill you're an idiot.

Because the OP totally applies to your specific circumstances.
And after that post I don't even feel like being nice despite your circumstances.

Because the OP totally applies to your specific circumstances.

Actually, I think it (and several subsequent ones) do. I also think the poster is justified in ranting against the sentiment in the OP.

Or do you think only the shitty rants in the other posts are allowed?

noeuf.

Noeuf you’re having an awful time and if telling us to fuck off makes you feel better then I whole heartedly approve of it

Im all for a good fuck off if it makes you feel better

Thanks guys, I DO feel better for saying it.

Lweji I'm genuinely shocked at your response. I can only imagine your life is a bit shit not to find some spare empathy.

90% of gifts exchanged between adults are completely unnecessary. If the person wanted X, Y or Z, they would have bought it for themselves.

And unless they specify the exact item, it will almost certainly not be to their tastes or requirements. But specifying the exact item makes no sense either, because there's no thought or effort by the giver and no surprise for the recipient.

Apart from little tokens between couples and perhaps for parents, I really don't understand why you'd bother. Most of us are drowning in unnecessary stuff and yet most people seem to think that foisting more on others is a nice thing to do. It's really not.

And I mean a bit shit like mine is, because I'm finding it hard to care about other people's problems too.

So, if it is, I genuinely hope it gets better.

I agree with the op.
I also buy charity cards.

I think it's such a shame that cards are not sent any more.

My life is fine, but maybe the OP's isn't that great, which is something to consider before being personally offensive towards her.
You could have got some sympathy for your shitty life without the personal attack.
Tell life to fuck off, not people. At least when it's clear they mean people who don't have good reasons not to bother with cards and don't know you or mean you personally.