Ahem - ‘vacuuming’ is technically correct, as the generic term for the noisy, whizzy, sucky-uppy floor cleaning machine is ‘vacuum cleaner’. However, as Hoover was one of the first companies to commercially produce an affordable vacuum cleaner, ‘Hoover’ turned into a verb and now we’re all at it.
With regards to Christmas:
The annoying types who give presents when we’ve agreed not to.
A child who wants to live entirely on Quality Street ‘because it’s Christmas.’
The way that my family seem to think Christmas appears as if by magic (don’t worry - I already know the standard MN response to this about how I should put my foot down, everyone else’s family does everything, should never have married a man who doesn’t really like Christmas etc etc).
The hideously stressful present panic where I picture a roomful of curled lips and turned up noses, amid a clamour of voices asking for the receipt. (Never happens but it worries me every year.)
For the wrappers - I don’t wrap presents from Father Christmas. He leaves them, attractively arranged, on an armchair in the livingroom to be exclaimed over first thing in the morning. I wrap presents for DD from us, and presents for relatives (which we exchange and open in the afternoon of Christmas Day).