What does a middle class Christmas look like?!

[Petitepenguin]

Just wondering if the cost of living is changing things ... I'm not mc but live in London. My most mc friends spend xmas in London up to xmas eve & head to Norfolk for xmas day & the following days. Then head off skiing to France the day before new year's.. Their run up to xmas with the kids is super busy too filled with carol services, Christmas events & art workshops. It looks idyllic.

All this letting you know is naff as hell. I do not get it. What is the point except to moisten your own fragile ego?

Your username is very posh so that’s how I’ll think of you - shivering in the airing cupboard of some enormous country house.

Well I must make my wreath now. - just letting you know!

A girl can dream.

I think I’m middle class but I’m looking forward to a boring, beige Xmas doing bugger all. Don’t have family apart from Dh and dd. So no exciting, extended family gatherings. I’ve knackered my leg so can’t ski anymore but we used to go early January every year to Courchevel.

We hire a string quartet to play seasonal tunes for four hours a day during advent. On Christmas Day we wash the Mercedes in artisan gin and the tears of peasants, then retire indoors to eat a selection of roasted game birds, assuming that the helicopter from Balmoral got through the snowstorm.

Yes I'm just letting you know that
I've made sloe gin from the sloes we picked at M's place, do you remember, such a beautiful part of the world

Jumbo cords and tea at half past three, some bought dinner in but that just won't do, a quiet one this year at 22

A dip in the lake for the Christmas break

Picked up some logs and biscuits for the dogs

Caroline is bringing a cake that she didn't make but she tries so hard, did you see her update in this years card?

Kids are all fine, cellar for the wine

Just letting you know

I wasn't sure if this thread was a mickey-take or not. Some of the posts are very funny.

I'm not 100% sure a lot of posters realise what godawful fools they sound, with all their posturing and bragging about their skiing, and shooting and west end trips to see a show. I don't think I've seen such ridiculous showing off since primary school.

You've all watched too many Christmas films and are too ashamed to admit your own Christmas may not be picture perfect.

The OP seems genuinely interested and genuinely pleased for everyone. Unless I’m missing something, it’s quite sweet.

Mercedes not posh enough, needs to be a land or a range rover (an old run around one!)

SO stupid... we have a Land Rover, on an old D plate. We only use it when we need a four wheel drive.

What’s stupid @XingMing ?

It's actually nauseating. I don't know anyone in real life who discusses what class they belong too.

Goodness, this is so funny!! It is tongue in cheek people!!
We are MC!! and live outside London, but we do lots of Christmassy things in the run up to the big day.
Our large family are all grown up now, but we host them all on Christmas Day.
We were at Chatsworth (in the rain) last weekend, it sounded nice but was bloody freezing!!
This weekend we are in Cheltenham with one son and in laws, doing the market and Dinner.
Next weekend we are in Bruges doing the markets and visiting Ypres and the Menin Gate.
The weekend afterwards we are in London at the Albert Hall for Carols and then out to Dinner.
In between we have several Christmas lunches out and a Christmas wine tasting planned.
The tree and decorations will go up around the 20th this year and stay up till 12th night.
We have all the family round on Christmas Day with copious amounts of presents and lots of booze being consumed. Board games and (hopefully) much hilarity.
Boxing Day is PJ'S, wine and chocolates with a good film.
Then we walk on the 27th and the neighbours may pop in.
We host again on the 28th and 30th. Extended family and friends we don't get the chance to see much of during the year. We love it.
In January we are off to the Caribbean for some sunshine.

Life is too short to waste and everyone does what suits them and their families and according to their means. Enjoy whatever it is that you do.

I know this is a zombie thread but do people really say they are "hosting" Christmas dinner/lunch? In my circle we would just say x and y and z are coming round or we are cooking this year. Perhaps that alone makes me not middle class although I could afford to go on holiday at Christmas and would were it not for elderly parents and a daughter who wants to be at home.

As an aside, i just did the BBC what class are you and got Elite. That suggests that it is down to activities you enjoy and job?

I think I would say ‘we’re hosting’ or ‘we’re hosting this year’. If going into specifics about who’s coming when, I would put it differently.

class and wealth are not always the same thing op.
you can be middle class with no money or lots of it
likewise, you can be very rich .. but working class.

Either way the middle class have exceptionally busy Christmases. And guaranteed they are the ones taking up most of the spaces at the free events too!

I would never say hosting but one of my sons uses that term - may be it is a generational thing.

Just do what you like (or nothing) for Christmas. it is not a competition. I have a 2014 diesel volvo estate - the most unlucky car in christendom due to S Khan slapping ulez on it - if I did a very large jump into the woods across the road I would be in a county without ulez. (Vote Susan Hall for London major next year as she will abolish outer London ulez and is the Tory candidate to unseat Khan)

IMO the OP is confusing MC with people with plenty of money.

A common enough mistake, especially on class-obsessed MN.

@GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER I don't know the mc are less likely to spend a fortune on Christmas, way more likely to go to all the free events but are very partial to wreath making workshops complete with mulled wine, prosecco & mince pies!

Lets play a game .. i will
tell you what I do at Christmas .. you guess what class you think i am !
Activites
wreathe making
food bank packaging
band party
work lunch
crafting in the pub with too much wine
fridge full of aldi cept for organic chicken for c mas day
book group meet
solstice party
christmas eve pub , carol singing
new year dip in sea

we have a 15 year old car
a low income
no mortgage
lets play guess the class😂

Lets play a game .. i will
tell you what I do at Christmas .. you guess what class you think i am

Well, so far, I'm sat on my arse drinking tea, occasional trip to the back door to have a rollie. Chemist later to pick up my codeine and maybe knock a couple of those back with a nice glass of red...... from a box and enjoy the trip.

Pretty low class I'd say.

I’m a working class born and bred Londoner now mixing in middle class (not upper middle as suggested) and that pretty much describes everyone in our east London enclave. All have Norfolk or Suffolk second homes or family, or Somerset. The skiing part is a bit more hit and miss but definitely enough doing it to say it’s a trend. I’m not doing it.

I don't have any family in Norfolk. Does that mean I'm not middle class?