How have you Ruined Christmas in years gone by?

[TheQueef]

I don't mean the Christmas day super hangover, we've all done that.
Have you ever made such a bollocks of it that it's spoken about in hushed tones?

Mine was a fairly tame temper tantrum at Dbro who left his wife and three kids the week before Christmas.
I was banging the shopping away and lambasting him for being such a huge prick.
Took the wrapping off the frozen turkey so it'd fit the freezer.
Christmas eve got the turkey out to defrost.....of course I'd thrown it away and saved the wrapper
No one was allowed to mention it.

Anyone else?

[ilovespinach]

There was the year I was engaged and was celebrating Christmas with my parents (now dh with his). My parents had been pressuring me about our wedding plans for a while but I had been fairly noncommittal. They took me out for a Christmas Eve meal and the drink was free flowing. I then admitted that we were planning on going to Vegas and getting married without family. They took huge offence. Christmas dinner was awkward.

[sueelleker]

@timeforanewstart

Went abroad for xmas last year with family first time ever and xmas day ended up in bed with sore throat , aches pains etc and stayed in for rest of holiday

In retrospect, do you think it was THE VIRUS?

[ChristmasUserName2020]

@Grooticle

In the late 90s, my brother and I were both away from home at university. Our family has always invited “waifs and strays”, as my mum puts it, to join us for Christmas. We both happened to have university friends whose families were abroad, so both invited them to come to our family Christmas, without bothering to discuss it with each other.

They were both from former Yugoslavia, from communities that had attacked each other during the war there, and my brothers friend maintained that my friend’s family were actually in one of the militias and had killed his friend. It was .....uncomfortable.

😂👏😂👏 This is my favourite! Our cat once ate the Turkey and we had burgers. It was the same cat who a few days earlier had eaten purple tinsel and had glittery poo for about a week 💩 💩 🐈 🐱

[FrenchFancie]

Ex MIL accused me of ruining Christmas the time OH came to my parents house rather than go home to his. He went back to Mummy the following year and we split up that spring, but I often wonder how his new wife navigates that issue.

Other than that, it was the year a stray cat broke into the kitchen and started to eat the bloody turkey as it sat on the side resting. Turkey dinner without the turkey!!!

[timeforanewstart]

@sueelleker tbh I have wondered if it was , no one else became ill though in the family , but I did stay away from all in bedroom and my dh bought me food
Would of def been a test scenario if happened now

[Fluffycloudland77]

I think Yugoslavian militia Christmas wins the thread.

[plominoagain]

Well there was the Christmas I took the turkey out of the oven , turned round and fell over the dog , who had this habit of laying down behind anyone who opened an oven door . The turkey got catapulted down the kitchen floor and aided by the basting juices and sage leaves , slid the length of the hallway , whilst being pursued by said Dalmatian , with enthusiastic but clueless greyhound cheerleading alongside . Whereupon DH threw himself into the melee , rugby tackled the fugitive bird away from the spotty jaws , crying “ I didn’t spend £35 on a turkey to feed the fucking dog “ and we rinsed it under the tap before putting it back in the oven for a quick blast to be on the safe side .

MIL fortunately was too pissed to notice !

[dubyalass]

Plominoagain, that gave me a good laugh!

I ruined Christmas last year by losing my shit at my family after they did the sum of fuck all to help organise it and then got tetchy with me when I asked them twice to take something out to the compost. They got the full mental load riot act read to them. The sad thing is, I had planned Christmas alone this year but stupid fucking Covid has put paid to that and so here I am again about to repeat the experience because apparently they want a Christmas dinner but aren't prepared to give any thought to organising it. I'm not going to do anything this year, they can fuck off.

[x2boys]

Being in labour all day Xmas day and having a rather traumatic birth at 5.50 am boxing Day wasn't the best Xmas tbh .

[weegiemum]

In 2011 I was coming down with a very rare neurological disorder (was in hospital on 1st Jan) and so dh cooked Christmas dinner. He's usually a great cook but it all went horribly wrong and is indeed spoken of by the children in hushed tones as "the year dad cooked".

[TheQueef]

I like the former Yugoslavia Christmas

[Grooticle]

Yeah the Yugoslavia Christmas was awkward at the time but to be fair it has given us much joy looking back on it over the years!

[SwanShaped]

@ShirleyPhallus what the hell is dishwasher salmon??

Also, hilarious thought of tripping over the dog and flinging the turkey down the hall

[LadyJaye]

The year I brought norovirus home from university.

That was a fun Christmas.

[MrsGrindah]

According to my MIL, I’ve Ruined Christmas this year by still being married to her darling only son.

[ShirleyPhallus]

[quote SwanShaped]@ShirleyPhallus what the hell is dishwasher salmon??

Also, hilarious thought of tripping over the dog and flinging the turkey down the hall[/quote]
Tah dah

allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/2191/salmon-in-the-dishwasher.aspx

[Sanblasamor]

Mine still angers me. At Dms and db complained about every single item that was placed on the table by poor dm who had cooked everything for us all. The potatoes weren't crispy enough and she hadn't made enough. The beef wasn't rare enough, gravy too runny, roasted carrots underdone, Brussels overdone. No one else was saying anything so I lost it and snapped stop being so rude and ungrateful fgs!! He stormed off and wouldn't eat with us and I was glared at for ruining the atmosphere while we all ate in silence!

[CountryLadyLane]

I havent really ruined christmas but many years ago when I was about 20 my family and I went to the village pub before the big meal... I was at university and hadnt seen many friends and neighbours for a long time and was enjoying many a wine and good catch up... I had to be helped home by now DH and a younger sibling (I have 3 younger sisters- relevant) got home and went straight up to my parents bed (why! I had a bed of my own available)

About an hour later now DH came to the room where I was snoring away and me dinner wad ready and I told him quite roundly to Fuck Orf! He then said I was ruining christmas for my sisters...one of whom was 10...

Family were actually very kind about it all and my christmas dinner sorted me out an hour or so later 😅

[CountryLadyLane]

Goodness my spelling in there **and told me dinner was ready

[Bluebellbike]

Christmas 1975 when I was in hospital having suffered a brain haemorrhage on 9th December. Aged 15. Became conscious on 31st December. Proper ruined Christmas for my family.

[GaryWilmottsTeeth]

not ruined, but one year we came downstairs and found that my db had staggered in from the pub and vommed into the Christmas Tree, which made present opening a bit stinky

[FadedRed]

@Strawberrypancakes: I’ve got tears in eyes for your three year old!
My DD got flu on Christmas Day when she was tiny and missed the whole thing - we ‘recreated’ the day a week later when she was better.

[SwanShaped]

@ShirleyPhallus holy crap just why??! That’s so funny.

[CodenameVillanelle]

I snuck down with my brother one year and opened all our presents whilst parents were still in bed...that wasn't the best Christmas!! He persuaded me they had said we could but as I'm 2 years older I was held responsible for being the one who should have known they would never have said that!!

[Sallycinnamum]

We had a horrendous new year's eve a few years ago.

My best friend and her DH had an absolute appalling bereavement and we invited them both and their young baby to stay.

At 8pm my 6 month old projectile vomited exorcist like all over the living room so I spent the whole evening upstairs looking after her.

Despite everything we did manage to toast the new year in but we all came down with it two days later.

After that I never took my young children to soft play before a significant event again as it was the only place my DD could've caught it from.

We can laugh about it 8 years later but it wasn't quite the relaxing night I wanted for my poor friend.