Which Christmas tradition would you get rid of?

[Fantina]

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?

Exactly this. I haven't sent a Christmas card in years, eat dinner around 3pm and minimise wrapping. No elves, matching pjs or Christmas Eve boxes here.

This. ^

The royal family. Ugh they always turn up in the press at Christmas and it always annoys me. I obviously didn't listen to the Kings Speech but I bet that it was full of hypocritical bollux. 😅

We don't have a tree, do cards or have a Christmas meal. We just have our normal favourite meal.

I'd get rid of the Xmas run up. It should basically be a lot less commercial.

I used to live in a country where Christmas was a lot less commercial.

I also lived in the US and enjoyed thanksgiving a lot. It felt like Xmas without the presents.

The emphasis on believing in Father Christmas and people worrying their 12 year old’s Christmas will be ruined if they work it out.
It’s a fun thing to pretend especially with little ones but it’s not the be all and end all.

Elf on the shelf and Xmas eve boxes.
Xmas just seems to be getting g bigger and bigger as people want to out do each other. I’ve seen a lot more outdoor lighting and inflatable Xmas decs as people want to show off to the neighbours.
Facebook is covered with mountains of presents for kids.
Advent calendars are now bigger like getting a toy every day for a month.
It just feels like there’s no going back and I wonder where it will be in another 10 years.

We ate at 3.30 this year. Way too late. There was no time for a walk before it got dark so we had to walk the dogs with torches.

No energy or appetite for cheese or a sandwich later on, which means we have a mountain of food left over.

I will be trying for a much earlier lunch again next year.

I'd get rid of Xmas cards, the length of Christmas, the frequency of Christmas, and at about 11am on Chtistmas day, I would have cancelled it all together, it's bloody exhausting.

Cards - hate the bastards. Fall all over the place, even though I use a door rack. First thing I get rid of after Christmas!

I now use fabric gift bags and ribbon for family. Same ones reused every year. It's fantastic. Wrapping is so easy and the presents look luxurious. I'd not go back to spending hours with rolls of paper.

We all love them!

I totally understand why some may want to ban something for themselves.

I don't understand why they don't just do it.

If you don't like Turkey or eating at lunchtime have a curry at dinner time.

If you loathe sprouts then eat parsnips instead.

If you hate Christmas don't celebrate it.

I also don't understand you want to impose this on everyone else. However the exception to this is the Elf. He needs banned. Cancelled. Gone. 😛

@ZiggyZowie I'm sorry you are sad and unhappy.

But not everyone is and just because you do t like it doesn't mean that's the same for everyone - some us enjoy that stuff.

Taking part isn't compulsory. Being exposed to it is.

We have never done any of this

The relatively new ‘tradition’ of massive piles of presents for children. Not that everybody does it, I know.

Not a tradition as such, but obligation is something I'd happily remove from Christmas, too many threads about Christmas spoilt through obligations they would have preferred not existed.

I don't like the endless "in your face" advertising and pressure to conform to the ideals of the perfect Christmas, idealised by ad execs.

But we can choose to be slaves to consumerism, or not. Guess which one I am!

Turkey
Christmas eve boxes
Wrapping stuff
Cards
Presents for anyone outside of your household
Outdoor lights and decorations
Visiting family
Elf on the shelf
Santa

All of what you said is difficult to understand. What is false about it? If you get down to it surely all human culture is false?

Yours just being pedantic for the sake of it

Either that or you're thick as a plank

I understood what you was talking about anyway!

I'd get rid of it being on Dec 25th. Perhaps it could be moved to Nov 31st.

I'm not at all sad and unhappy

I'm just fed up being force fed from every angle
everything to do with Christmas from September onwards.

There is no escape and no, I can't afford to jet off somewhere.

Might as well with how early some people all of a sudden seem to have started putting their decorations up! Might as well move it to a the day after Halloween as I have witnessed people putting their tree up right after Halloween is over and shops start selling Xmas stuff at the end of summer now!

These can stay:
We do the Solstice and those parts of Christmas that originate from pagan times, like the tree, the lights and the greenery indoors.
We do presents but don't go mad.
We all like a big posh roast, with the whole family or just me and DH.
I enjoy the things like carols on the village green and a candlelit carol service in a tiny church.

We never had the elf or a Christmas Eve box, matching pyjamas or social media displays when the DC were young, and we're not bloody starting it now.
But the DC may choose to do things like that with the DGC, due to peer pressure at school and nursery?

Spending time with family?? My eye's been twitching since Christmas eve and I've just burned the mouth off myself stress-eating half a box of Bendick's in one go.