What does a WORKING class Christmas look like

KateBain · 2022-12-10T16:40:46+00:00

Inspired by the thread about middle class Christmases...

FrightfullyFreezy · 10/12/2022 17:14

Come downstairs to a pile of pressies for each kid. Kids rip them open whilst parents have a cup of tea or a can of lager. Selection boxes for breakfast. Wrapping paper then stuffed into a black bin bag. Dinner prep started at around 10. Family and friends drop in at random times to either stay for a brew or a can if not for dinner. Loads of alcohol drank in dribs and drabs through the day. Dinner - turkey, ham, chicken, pie, Yorkshire puddings, sprouts, veg, stuffing etc - plated up and served to guests sat around a table in mis-matched chairs and to those who don't fit around the table sat on the settee or any other suitable surface. Radio on. People and kids getting loud and drunk and giddy. People falling asleep. Quality Streets and Roses and Celebrations passed around. More drinking. Then everyone fucks off and boxing day is spent putting the house back together before doing it all again at someone else's house.

DepIndoChridmadWidMe · 10/12/2022 17:19

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🤣🤣🤣🤣

BigSandyBalls2015 · 10/12/2022 17:21

TV on constantly.

superdupernova · 10/12/2022 17:22

FrightfullyFreezy · 10/12/2022 17:14

Come downstairs to a pile of pressies for each kid. Kids rip them open whilst parents have a cup of tea or a can of lager. Selection boxes for breakfast. Wrapping paper then stuffed into a black bin bag. Dinner prep started at around 10. Family and friends drop in at random times to either stay for a brew or a can if not for dinner. Loads of alcohol drank in dribs and drabs through the day. Dinner - turkey, ham, chicken, pie, Yorkshire puddings, sprouts, veg, stuffing etc - plated up and served to guests sat around a table in mis-matched chairs and to those who don't fit around the table sat on the settee or any other suitable surface. Radio on. People and kids getting loud and drunk and giddy. People falling asleep. Quality Streets and Roses and Celebrations passed around. More drinking. Then everyone fucks off and boxing day is spent putting the house back together before doing it all again at someone else's house.

It's scary how well you've described the christmases of my childhood!

FourTeaFallOut · 10/12/2022 17:25

Children open their presents first thing on the morning, they open more presents than the four pillars of middle class moderation, something they want, something they need, something to read, something to wear. Nobody sucks air between their teeth when an unexpected guest arrives. The main dinner is at a reasonable hour and not late into the evening when you are ready to chew your arm off.

FourTeaFallOut · 10/12/2022 17:27

Yes, to mismatched chairs and tables, I had to eat dinner on the Reebok Step with my siblings in the living room one year.

ICanHideButICantRun · 10/12/2022 17:28

A can of lager for breakfast!!!

Spendonsend · 10/12/2022 17:28

people help peel the potatoes and there is music and dancing.

bravegirltalking · 10/12/2022 17:29

FrightfullyFreezy · 10/12/2022 17:14

Come downstairs to a pile of pressies for each kid. Kids rip them open whilst parents have a cup of tea or a can of lager. Selection boxes for breakfast. Wrapping paper then stuffed into a black bin bag. Dinner prep started at around 10. Family and friends drop in at random times to either stay for a brew or a can if not for dinner. Loads of alcohol drank in dribs and drabs through the day. Dinner - turkey, ham, chicken, pie, Yorkshire puddings, sprouts, veg, stuffing etc - plated up and served to guests sat around a table in mis-matched chairs and to those who don't fit around the table sat on the settee or any other suitable surface. Radio on. People and kids getting loud and drunk and giddy. People falling asleep. Quality Streets and Roses and Celebrations passed around. More drinking. Then everyone fucks off and boxing day is spent putting the house back together before doing it all again at someone else's house.

Minus the lager (Buck’s Fizz, it is Christmas after all!) and with more simmering rage between my parents, and you’ve completely summed up my childhood Christmases

Rhutdvhf · 10/12/2022 17:29

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Athenen0ctua · 10/12/2022 17:30

DS and I would normally go to family but it will be just the two of us this year. We usually spend £10-20 on a present for each person, DS gets more from me and £50 from grandparents but we don't go overboard on piles of presents.

Full English breakfast then usually a box of chocolates, crisps, nuts etc to snack on. Presents after breakfast. Out for a walk. Cider and wine from the afternoon, Christmas Dinner at about 4pm, more cider and wine.

Chattycathydoll · 10/12/2022 17:30

FourTeaFallOut · 10/12/2022 17:27

Yes, to mismatched chairs and tables, I had to eat dinner on the Reebok Step with my siblings in the living room one year.

We’d get the plastic garden chairs in!!

TrotOnMinty · 10/12/2022 17:30

“You, boy. What thread is today?”

”Today sir? Today is thread 569,443 about class issues”.

What does a WORKING class Christmas look like

DenholmElliot11 · 10/12/2022 17:32

FrightfullyFreezy · 10/12/2022 17:14

Come downstairs to a pile of pressies for each kid. Kids rip them open whilst parents have a cup of tea or a can of lager. Selection boxes for breakfast. Wrapping paper then stuffed into a black bin bag. Dinner prep started at around 10. Family and friends drop in at random times to either stay for a brew or a can if not for dinner. Loads of alcohol drank in dribs and drabs through the day. Dinner - turkey, ham, chicken, pie, Yorkshire puddings, sprouts, veg, stuffing etc - plated up and served to guests sat around a table in mis-matched chairs and to those who don't fit around the table sat on the settee or any other suitable surface. Radio on. People and kids getting loud and drunk and giddy. People falling asleep. Quality Streets and Roses and Celebrations passed around. More drinking. Then everyone fucks off and boxing day is spent putting the house back together before doing it all again at someone else's house.

😀Spookily accurate.

You've obviously been there yourself.

CourtneeLuv · 10/12/2022 17:32

I'm going to have baileys for breakfast this year. Fuck it.

earsup · 10/12/2022 17:33

Kids get a mountain of expensive gifts...especially electric scooters and trampolines etc etc....all bought on the argos store card credit...and there is an extremely massive flat screen tele on full blast all day...

Mammajay · 10/12/2022 17:34

Middle class Christmas in my experience a bit boring and no excess. Working class lots of everything

BellaTheDarkOverlord · 10/12/2022 17:35

I remember one year at my parents for Xmas breakfast being on a bar stool as their mismatched chairs. Nearly got a nose bleed I was that high up from the table 😂They never had a bar either so wtf did they come from?!

BabyFour2023 · 10/12/2022 17:35

FrightfullyFreezy · 10/12/2022 17:14

Come downstairs to a pile of pressies for each kid. Kids rip them open whilst parents have a cup of tea or a can of lager. Selection boxes for breakfast. Wrapping paper then stuffed into a black bin bag. Dinner prep started at around 10. Family and friends drop in at random times to either stay for a brew or a can if not for dinner. Loads of alcohol drank in dribs and drabs through the day. Dinner - turkey, ham, chicken, pie, Yorkshire puddings, sprouts, veg, stuffing etc - plated up and served to guests sat around a table in mis-matched chairs and to those who don't fit around the table sat on the settee or any other suitable surface. Radio on. People and kids getting loud and drunk and giddy. People falling asleep. Quality Streets and Roses and Celebrations passed around. More drinking. Then everyone fucks off and boxing day is spent putting the house back together before doing it all again at someone else's house.

My childhood Christmas’. Absolutely perfect ❤️

DepIndoChridmadWidMe · 10/12/2022 17:35

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BakewellGin1 · 10/12/2022 17:36

Children bring stockings into our room when they wake and open them while we pull ourselves together.

Downstairs and we pop kettle on to boil, turn heating back up, turn tree lights on... Put meat on to cook

Usually bacon sarnies on the go in between kids dipping into selection boxes...

Both children have a Santa sack and presents scattered on a sofa each, which they open first.

Stick rubbish in black sacks

Make a cuppa

We open presents from under tree from relatives/friends

Try and make things slightly tidier

Everyone gets a shower and clothes on at some point

Kids play

Set table

Pour a gin or crack open a can

Dinner around 1.30pm

Parents visit

After that it's toys, pickies, sweets and drink with a film in the background

Much less chaotic then when I was a child as someone described perfectly upthread

ilovepixie · 10/12/2022 17:36

FourTeaFallOut · 10/12/2022 17:27

Yes, to mismatched chairs and tables, I had to eat dinner on the Reebok Step with my siblings in the living room one year.

It was a real treat to eat your dinner at the pull down grill door on the cooker perched on a stool!

Rhutdvhf · 10/12/2022 17:37

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Do working class mothers have children to different dads and middle class mother not?

Your bigoted post is a disgrace.