Tell me your Christmas fails

[UbercornsGoggles]

I've just been doing some food shopping, mostly stuff for Christmas. I've already amassed quite a lot and when my husband commented on it I reminded him that the first (and last) time we ever hosted at Christmas we were well fed until Boxing Day and then completely ran out of food. We were out all of the next day and by the time we remembered we needed food everywhere was closed. We ended up feeding my parents pre-packed sandwiches from the local garage.

We were crying with laughter remembering that, but I was mortified at the time.

So go on, make me feel better and share your own Christmas fails.

@UbercornsGoggles @Villanellesproudmum Everybody laughed! Seriously, the hospital staff thought I was drink for ages, because I found it all so bloody funny!

Plaster techs did me a special cast that was striped like a candy cane too. I'd love to say I was really young but alas, mid thirties!

Bought DS2 a Fortnite T-shirt about two months ago.

Can I find the fucker?

I have looked in all the places I hide things and drawn a blank.

By the time the bloody thing turns up he'll have grown out of it or Fortnite will be well and truly over.

It wasn't expensive but there's practically nothing he wants and he would have actually been pleased with it.

That would be last year I think. Elderly DF taken into hospital Christmas Eve and I had to stay with DM who has dementia. Christmas Day spent driving between my house, the hospital and DM’s. We had our Christmas dinner early evening then I returned to stay with DM. 16 year old DS went to visit his friend, drank the contents of his friend’s mom’s alcohol cabinet and was sick on her new white rug. I felt like mom of the year (not).

The worst Christmas was when I was sick when I was 6. Woke up with a really high temperature my parents woke me up and I opened a present before asking if I could go to bed yet. In their infinite wisdom my parents still took me to my grandparents an hour away whereupon entering the house I threw up on myself and had no pjs or change of clothes so I spent Christmas Day asleep in my grand parents spare bed naked and missed everything I was so upset. But spent the week in bed and had Christmas on new year

There was the Christmas I spent unconcious...my body failed there!
I was 14 and I think it was a bad case of norovirus. I alternated vomitting and passing out all day.

Everyone carried on having fun without me

Sent my mum flowers for her birthday just before Xmas. At least I attempted to. Came home from work to discover said flowers on my doorstep

Ordered second bunch of flowers, this time made sure I entered her address as the delivery one. Except I didn't. I entered an address half way down the road from where she lives (I can't remember everything FFS). I can't remember if she got them back or not.

Spent all day cooking while the kids were happily playing with touts.
Sat down to lunch and DM had drank so much wine that she started crying because Tom Cruise looks so beautiful in Top Gun🤔😂😂😂

A few years back the family decided that desert on Christmas day should be chocolate cake. 12 for lunch so two large cheese cakes.
there was so much shoved into our larder fridge that the cheesecakes were balanced on the top shelf and the one below on top of other things.
I opened the door to get them to serve up and one after the other they flew off the sheves landing upside down on the floor , breaking the serving plates that they were on. My SIL cried.
I hope I have had my disaster for this year. On Tuesday I went out to the garage to put away some of my online shop, Fridge freezer in garage held most of the Xmas food and all of the bits and pieces I had made and frozen.
Opened the door to put in some frozen peas to find that it has broken down and all the frozen food is gently thawing.
We have had a lot of turkey this week! My daughter in law has eaten her nut roasts I made and the grandchildren have had pigs in blankets two nights for their tea this week!
I actually cried, at the time and effort and food all wasted.
Curry's have delivered a new one today (Beko suitable for garages and outbuildings) so I'm going to be very busy over the next few days with shopping and cooking, unfortunately my SIL has been in hospital so my nephew has been staying so nothing much has got done!
Merry Christmas everyone

I haven't bought a single present yet and I have three children. I think I was in denial of how close it was. So panic buying tomorrow while my mum has them for 3hours.

@hazelbite I think I would have cried too, but at least you found in time and not on Christmas Eve! I don't envy you the additional work though.

@santasshoe I am in awe. I would have had sleepless nights by now if I'd left it that late. Good luck for tomorrow!

@Justlikedevon
@BalloonSlayer

Are you sure the items are at your house and not elsewhere for "safe" keeping...

Otherwise ... top of wardrobes, underneath clothes in drawers, inbetween clothing or other items so they are hidden. Under spare room bed, airing cupboard, behind sofa, car boot, underneath coats in closet. Still in the bag in the "spare" bag drawer,

ForgivenessIsDivine for next year could you either transfer money to your brother to buy gifts for your nieces & nephews? Or could you order from Amazon, pay the small fee for gift wrapping and then have it delivered directly to them? That way you're not paying double postage.

@ForgivenessIsDivine

It is not Christmas until I lose a present. Every flaming year, never mind how hard I try

Santasshoe get onto Argos and other shops that do click and collect now. Reserve your presents and pay for it tonight and collect your gifts tomorrow. It'll save you time going from shop to shop in the crowds.

One time there was a huge electrical fire at the end of our street, and the power went down, at around 12 noon on Christmas Day. The entire street left en masse soon afterwards. The power was out for a full day.
Luckily no houses caught fire, and nobody was hurt.

Yup, went to my brother's for Christmas (two hours away) when DD was about 13 and left half her presents at home!

Ran the bread sauce through the seive to get rid of the cloves. Forgot to put anything under the sieve. Bread sauce went down the plug... there is a small chance that alcohol was involved...

When I was about 15, my family was driving from one Christmas lunch at my DM's family, to another Christmas evening do at my DF's family (God knows why we used to do this!). As we were sat at traffic lights a car came flying down the hill and smashed into the back of us, pushing us forward into the car ahead. Luckily, my DF had seen him coming in the rearvision mirror and taken his foot off the brake or it could have been much worse; we were all fine, just shaken, but the woman in the car ahead had no idea what had happened, so got out and started screaming at Dad, and we spent much of the afternoon waiting on the side of the road in the boiling sun (Australia) for the police and tow truck, taxi etc. Fortunately, Dad had not had a drink yet (as driving....duh!) but the guy who hit us had, and also had an unrestrained child on his mother's lap in the car They were okay, but police had to breath test everyone, take statements etc. And the kicker was: in the boot we had salads, puddings etc to bring, which were smashed up all over the presents We arrived at my aunt's a bit bedraggled and empty-handed and then had to sit through another bloody Christmas!

There was the year my dishwasher went poof right after dinner. Stank the kitchen out too.
Oh, and last year I had all the smoked salmon starters laid out on the table. The cat was trapped in the living room. Well, she was supposed to be until some numpty opened the door.
My cat loves fish.

When I was a child our chest freezer was kept in our garage and someone broke into it and stole our Christmas turkey. It’s funny now...

Bought a joint of beef from the butchers or farmers market for Christmas dinner for me and ex p (we had no dcs at the time).. I don't know if my fridge was on the blink or something but when I got it out a couple of days later it had totally gone off! It has to be chucked and we ended up eating a frozen pie instead for Christmas dinner.

ChristmasFlary I found it.

It was in DS2's cupboard. I had been storing things there but obviously not things for him and the other DCs in case he decided to have a nose. So I didn't look in there because I knew it absolutely, positively, definitely WOULDN'T be there. It was the one place it would never be. Sigh . . .

This year I've sent DH to do the food shop. I forgot how overboard he goes.
The turkey is arriving today and it won't fit in the fridge. No chance. I'm madly freezing sandwich bags full of water in the freezer and hoping it will keep the turkey OK in its polystyrene box I have sort of fashioned with the help of duct tape.