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.

I think Christmas cards are wasteful on the environment. Its just a marketing gimmick.

I love my mismatched christmas tree decorations!

So many of them have meaning to me. Things that have been made, things that my children have had since they were young things that belonged to my grandmother.

On the other hand, I think tinsel almost always looks dreadful on a tree. I have seen it done well, but that's rare. VERY rare.

i love mn tat.my adult child with sn loves it.

I have the money to treat my DC at Christmas and will do so. Not mountains of plastic tat, but thoughtful gifts for children who don't get spoiled by it at all. I enjoy the planning and preparation and even keep organised with a spreadsheet. /nerd

The person on fb who is now panicking that their child is counting down to Santa and 'don't we know how haaaaarrrrrddd their year has been and they've got nothing for the children'. But had their nails done two weeks ago and bought make up they wouldn't normally wear and have now given up on.

Why didn't you spend that money on the children then?

Although I do also feel sympathy for them as my mental health is often shot so sometimes a little treat is a longer term pick me up. It's hard to find that balance sometimes.

Doesn't mean you need to add unsightly tat

For some people the feelings behind the unsightly tat is more important than a perfectly coordinated tree.

I hate writing & sending Christmas cards so I don't 😀

Yes the charity cards as 'gifts' complete with the virtue signalling cards. The party piece of my in laws, as I've said many times on here (not to them) until I did exactly the same one year. Personal gifts restarted the next.

I always had a perfectly themed and lovely looking tree and decs growing up

How dull

Another one from me is tinsel. Cannot stand the stuff!

It just looks tacky and cheap and belongs on things like TOWIE.

I haven't written any Christmas cards AND I haven't donated money to charity. I have bought stuff for Salvation Army and Cash For Kids though. My reasoning isn't concern for environment, it's just that I'm not bothered about receiving cards so don't see the point of sending them out.

There is nothing wrong with not making Christmas a marathon of running around like a headless chicken to please crowds of family members etc.

All the Christmas gluttony (endless snacks, endless booze) is very OTT.

I agree with the gluttony. It's like everyone forgets that actually most shops are only closed for one day. Yet they buy enough food to feed a small army.

In a few weeks time when snow hits hard, there will be people moaning their cupboards are empty and they can't go shopping/the online grocery shop can't be delivered.

Get a few tins in with your Xmas shop people!

It’s one day.

Instead of using at as a "teaching moment", i haven't bothered to put up a tree this year, because I can't be arsed to keep my one year old from trying to eat it every five seconds

'Luxury' Mince Pies. By that I mean mince pies containing over the top ingredients that just don't belong there. Pecans, orange, lemon, cranberry. You get the picture. Supermarkets please just keep it simple. The originals are the best.

Oh and brandy butter and/or sauce. Horrible

I love tinsel, the more the better. And any fucker trying to tell me it's not environmentally friendly can sod off, most of my wonderfully gaudy tinsel is 20 years old and will still be draped, pinned or stuck everywhere for the next 20 years too

The film White Christmas is utter shite.

If you want to eat pizza and sausage rolls as we have done many a time for Christmas dinner, then you can, without impunity.

Everyone, without exception, looks a massive twat in a Christmas Jumper.

I have to stop going in Sainsburys and Morrisons from the end of November as the "Christmas Music" makes me want to punch people. I also only listen to Radio 4 for the same reason.

i have donated to stonewall but still have told people this is the last year im sending cards so please keep the card for next year,
I just hate it when people think that the shops are closed for ever and have to buy so much.

It's funny how people pick on Christmas cards as the pinnacle of all global waste. Funny how the thing that takes a little time and effort is the big bogey man. Be honest! You (general you) can't be arsed and spouting a load of flannel about donating to charity instead sounds a lot better.

When Christmas jumpers first became a thing, I was as sneery as the next person.

Then a year or two ago I had a Scrooge-like epiphany... Why the hell not? They are fun and rather than looking like "massive twats", people look festive. In fact you can look "tasteful" if you prefer as even the finest shops sell seasonal apparel.

I wonder how many who say they are ‘donating’ actually do it.
We do both, slightly less expensive cards and a donation to two charities.
My unpopular Christmas opinion is to insist that, in a sense, Santa is real...

For the most part Christmas dinner is shit.

Bad points about Christmas dinner:
Turkey - dry and tasteless
Parsnips - I once slept with a guy with a tapered penis and, just saying
Stuffing - taste and texture like dust bunnies
Christmas pudding - rank
Sprouts - unless I'm cooking them (in which case they're amazing ) poor buggers are boiled half to death and taste like farts

Good points about Christmas dinner:
Pigs in blankets
Cranberry sauce. It's the only thing that makes turkey bearable

Also all external Christmas lights look shit. It's like a weird middle class competition on our street, with us ruining the ambience by having sod all outside.

I made Christmas dinner for my family and mother yesterday. It was a pared down, exclusively Aldi, open a packet from the freezer or a jar job. The only things I made from scratch were the bread sauce and the roast potatoes. It tasted fantastic and everyone was happy and full.

My unpopular Christmas opinion is that spending hours and hours and hours planning and prepping and cooking and stressing the fuck out; cooking starters and fourteen different vegetables including twatty sprouts and chestnuts in Marsala wine (wtf???), potatoes four ways and three (THREE!) different types of roast meat and drizzling shit all over your parsnips like a total crazer , stuffing or rolling everything else with pig products does not repay itself with the pleasure gained from eating it.

Level 11 Christmas dinner is complete madness and reduces Christmas joy. We (the mugs that cook it) have all been sold a lie.

Die Hard is not a Christmas film
I agree with most of your posts you are wrong on this one!