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Which Christmas tradition would you get rid of?

186 replies

Fantina · 26/12/2023 23:46

For me, it would be wrapping presents. I know they can look pretty and when I make an effort, mine do. But it feels like such a waste of time and paper. I’d like to normalise not wrapping them and using gift bags with whispy paper instead.

what would you get rid of and why?

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MuckyPlucky · 26/12/2023 23:52

Turkeys! Huge, vile, no-one likes them.

BelarusianDoll · 26/12/2023 23:56

I'd get rid of the pressure to have a giant Christmas meal and wine at lunchtime (I'd have it in the evening instead!) No one wants to feel stuffed and bilious that early in the day surely?

ZiggyZowie · 26/12/2023 23:57

All of it. - turkeys, presents,cards

It's all so false

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theduchessofspork · 26/12/2023 23:58

Gift bags and Christmas dinner in the early evening are quite normal aren’t they?!

Maybe Christmas pudding for me

TheChosenTwo · 26/12/2023 23:58

@BelarusianDoll we have ours at 5pm, an early dinner! I’d be done in after a big cooked lunch.
I’d ban presents for anyone who wasn’t my child or dh. Totally unnecessary.

Precipice · 26/12/2023 23:59

All of it. I would like to get rid of Christmas altogether. Leave it just to the devout Christians and have them leave the rest of us alone.

headache · 26/12/2023 23:59

Elf on the Shelf - so glad the DDs are too old for it now
Christmas Eve boxes
Matching pajamas (not that my DC would ever dress the same)
Present hauls on social media
Brussel sprouts

theduchessofspork · 26/12/2023 23:59

ZiggyZowie · 26/12/2023 23:57

All of it. - turkeys, presents,cards

It's all so false

What does that actually mean?

JamSandle · 26/12/2023 23:59

I'd get rid of turkeys so everyone could have a vegan Christmas.

ShippingNews · 27/12/2023 00:04

Fantina · 26/12/2023 23:46

For me, it would be wrapping presents. I know they can look pretty and when I make an effort, mine do. But it feels like such a waste of time and paper. I’d like to normalise not wrapping them and using gift bags with whispy paper instead.

what would you get rid of and why?

I've used bags for years - you could be doing that now !

Rudolphtherednoseddog · 27/12/2023 00:05

Cards - fairly pointless in an era of electronic communication and social media, anyone I regularly communicate with knows our news anyway and more distant acquaintances can see it on Facebook if they care to. So one year I stopped spending money just to send a piece of paper with a pretty picture, “Happy Christmas” and our names on it to everyone, the world kept turning, so I just never started again.

MrsP80 · 27/12/2023 00:05

Meeting up with extended family....

ZiggyZowie · 27/12/2023 00:07

theduchessofspork · 26/12/2023 23:59

What does that actually mean?

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Like it says- all of it, what's difficult to understand ?

LaviniasBigBloomers · 27/12/2023 00:10

BelarusianDoll · 26/12/2023 23:56

I'd get rid of the pressure to have a giant Christmas meal and wine at lunchtime (I'd have it in the evening instead!) No one wants to feel stuffed and bilious that early in the day surely?

Then change it! We eat at our normal dinner time, always have done.

OchonAgusOchonOh · 27/12/2023 00:12

Fantina · 26/12/2023 23:46

For me, it would be wrapping presents. I know they can look pretty and when I make an effort, mine do. But it feels like such a waste of time and paper. I’d like to normalise not wrapping them and using gift bags with whispy paper instead.

what would you get rid of and why?

I got rid of wrapping paper toys year. All presents in gift bags with some wispy tissue paper. I also took the gift bags back from family members to reuse next year.

slaybell · 27/12/2023 00:13

Turkey, cards and the little bastard elf on the shelf

Guavafish1 · 27/12/2023 00:14

buying presents

cerisepanther73 · 27/12/2023 00:15

@Fantina

The need for one size fits attitude regarding Christmas 🎄 that it has to be a traditional roast with all the trimmings or if you are vegetarian it has to be a nutroast dinner...

Christmas can be a mix of traditional and your own take on what you feel Christmas should be like or either 🤔,

I would like to celebrate a more pagan type of Christmas such as more emphasis on the Solistice at Stonehenge or somewhere similar in aspects elsewhere ect...

ExplodingPuppies · 27/12/2023 00:15

Christmas Eve box.

This isn't something we do, but it seems like a whole load of unnecessary added pressure and money.

SusanKennedyshouldLTB · 27/12/2023 00:24

ZiggyZowie · 27/12/2023 00:07

Like it says- all of it, what's difficult to understand ?

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How a turkey is false?

Mariposistaa · 27/12/2023 00:53

headache · 26/12/2023 23:59

Elf on the Shelf - so glad the DDs are too old for it now
Christmas Eve boxes
Matching pajamas (not that my DC would ever dress the same)
Present hauls on social media
Brussel sprouts

Agree with all these (except the sprouts - love them). Nasty, tacky and commercial rubbish.

MrsHughesPinny · 27/12/2023 01:05

Christmas pudding and mince pies, I’m not a fan.

I love the rest of Christmas though, especially the lights and decorations and a lovely big Christmas lunch!

MissBuffyAnneSummers · 27/12/2023 01:10

The feckin Elf.

Everything else I enjoy

MissBuffyAnneSummers · 27/12/2023 01:11

Precipice · 26/12/2023 23:59

All of it. I would like to get rid of Christmas altogether. Leave it just to the devout Christians and have them leave the rest of us alone.

Asking all those who hate Xmas - why don't you just not celebrate?

It's not compulsory

MorrisZapp · 27/12/2023 01:14

Cranberries in any format