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What's your Christmas first world problem?

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Squarerootofpi · 23/12/2022 19:55

Three supermarkets and not one of them had normal mince pies. They all had something dodgy added like icing, frangipani, marzipan, brandy butter or some other weirdness. I may write to my mp.

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youatethecurry · 24/12/2022 18:17

I bought loads of food but now I've got Covid and can't taste it 😩

AdventFridgeOfShame · 24/12/2022 18:18

We were going to have venison stuffing, fairly unconventional but would make DH happy.

We are now having beef jerky stuffing because DH puts weird unlabelled bags of meat in the freezer. How the heck do you make beef jerky stuffing?

PollyEsther · 24/12/2022 18:21

DS2 stayed up all night last night, for absolutely no reason. So he’s already in bed asleep, which has ruined my chance to get a picture of all the children in front of the tree like I do every Christmas Eve. I might wake him and drag him down to do this anyway.

Allthegoodusernamesareused · 24/12/2022 18:22

stbrandonsboat · 23/12/2022 19:57

I've had to eat a full packet of red cabbage out of the freezer in order to make way for Yorkshire puddings.

The abdominal pains have stopped now 😂

Frozen Yorkshire puddings are a first world problem all on their own!

TheBirdintheCave · 24/12/2022 18:23

Prepare yourselves 😂

My husband cannot spray lacquer our new handmade placemats because it's raining 😂

Allthegoodusernamesareused · 24/12/2022 18:25

@redred4321 that's awful 😔 I hope you have a lovely Christmas in spite of this.

Nothingbuttheglory · 24/12/2022 18:28

NannyGythaOgg · 23/12/2022 20:48

Dissolve 300g caster sugar in 150ml water over a low heat. Leave to cool and bottle for future use in cocktails. Store in the fridge

Suckrose and akwa!

Mmmmdanone · 24/12/2022 18:52

I couldn't buy parsnips anywhere. No fresh or frozen in asda, sainsburys etc etc. I was so upset. Woke up this morning feeling sad over a parsnip free Xmas dinner (then realised there's a fruit and veg market in the town centre and they had parsnips- first World problem over!)

Squarerootofpi · 24/12/2022 20:29

Another problem has arisen. Wanker neighbours have just come home and are stomping around keeping the kids awake. I need them to sleep immediately because I've done no wrapping and have a mountain to get through. May the fleas of a thousand camels infest their pubic regions.

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DuckWithOneWing · 24/12/2022 20:32

I can't get the NORAD Santa tracker to work

Squarerootofpi · 24/12/2022 20:35

AWaferThinMint · 24/12/2022 18:12

With my dad I miss him criticising how I peel veg. 🤣 honestly, he only did it because he knew it annoyed me and it was always a laugh.

Th bugger bloody died though. So now I just tell myself off for doing veg wrong!

Aww, sorry to both of you for your loss. My dad would always make me source a ridiculously expensive turkey. Organic, free range, pedigree, raised by nuns, enormous whopper of a thing. I'd have to drive that bloody thing across England in a family sized cooler because the ones near me were better than the London ones. I miss him, the difficult bastard.

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AWaferThinMint · 24/12/2022 20:44

Dads. Hat would Christmas be without memories of them making life difficult!!

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