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You know Christmas is over when.....

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Theredfoxfliesatmidnight · 27/12/2023 00:09

It's 1 minute past midnight on Boxing Day night and the awful On The Beach holiday ad has started playing. The one with the gross vulgar fat family and their repulsive ice cream stealing children. Christmas is over, vacation season/ Easter is upon us!!

Anyone else?

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Sandytoxic · 27/12/2023 08:57

When DH asks for the receipt of his present so he can return it.

Nicesalad · 27/12/2023 09:03

When it's 6th January.

FlatWhiteExtraHot · 27/12/2023 09:11

Unicorns41 · 27/12/2023 02:11

@Amybelle88 they had this as my local co-op on Christmas Eve 😆. Fast turn around for Easter goodies this year!!

DD works in Co-op. She sent me the picture of the Easter egg delivery on 22/12 😂

CoatOfArms · 27/12/2023 09:13

I really don't get this 6th January obsession. Most people are back to work 2nd or 3rd January. The days of working right up to Christmas eve and having 12 days off are long gone.

Alighttouchonthetiller · 27/12/2023 09:23

It's not a '6th January obsession'....It's when Christmas actually finishes, as per the bible. It's when the three Kings arrived (if memory serves).

beguilingeyes · 27/12/2023 09:25

When you've eaten all the cheese...
Back at work already, although mainly watching Gone With The Wind.

BogRollBOGOF · 27/12/2023 09:32

Christmas only started 2 days ago.

If people keep pushing it earlier, they'll be wanting the decorations down by 15th December.

To me it winds down after new year. Decorations down on the 6th. Normality really resumes when school goes back.

Until then I'm happy to keep the lights up to brighten up the gloomy short days. TBH I'd happily keep the lights going longer.

DappledThings · 27/12/2023 09:32

CoatOfArms · 27/12/2023 09:13

I really don't get this 6th January obsession. Most people are back to work 2nd or 3rd January. The days of working right up to Christmas eve and having 12 days off are long gone.

Who's obsessing? It's just fact. Christmas ends on 6 Jan and that's when I'll take decorations down. Being back at work and school is immaterial.

CoatOfArms · 27/12/2023 09:33

Alighttouchonthetiller · 27/12/2023 09:23

It's not a '6th January obsession'....It's when Christmas actually finishes, as per the bible. It's when the three Kings arrived (if memory serves).

Yes I know that. But most people in the UK aren't "doing" Christmas because they are religious. The Bible may say Christmas finishes on 6th January but there are lots of other traditions in play here too. No right and wrong way. Personally I think it's finished after Boxing Day. Maybe if the build up didn't start in early November things would be different but the idea that Christmas doesn't start until Christmas Eve is very odd to many people.

Alighttouchonthetiller · 27/12/2023 09:37

If there's 'no right or wrong way', then why worry about the supposed 'obsession' with 6th January?

It doesn't matter that you 'personally' think Christmas finishes after Boxing Day. It finishes on 6th January. What you 'personally' think about things doesn't alter actual fact.

theriseandfallofFranklinSaint · 27/12/2023 09:39

...when you're getting your shit ready for work the following day.
DH back tomorrow and I'm back on the 2nd.

Until then it's game on - food, wine, crappy (but great) films 😁

dontforgetme · 27/12/2023 09:40

For us it's New Year's Day. The stonking hangover and the realisation of work tomorrow is enough kill anyone's Christmas spirit Xmas Grin

CoatOfArms · 27/12/2023 09:42

actual fact But that's what I'm arguing.. it's not "actual fact". It's the way that some people do things which is fine, up to them if they want to keep things going to 6th January. But they aren't doing things "right" and everyone else doing it "wrong". There is no one definition of "Christmas".

HeraSyndulla · 27/12/2023 09:43

They start advertising summer holidays.

ErrolTheRednosedDragon · 27/12/2023 09:46

Nicesalad · 27/12/2023 09:03

When it's 6th January.

Unless you're an Orthodox Christian in which case Christmas Day is Jan 7th.

Doggymummar · 27/12/2023 09:47

8th Jan when you go back to work is the end. Don't have TV so don't know that advert but travel ads always started on boxing day when we did. I was a travel agent and it was the busiest day of the year.

Soccermumamir · 27/12/2023 09:47

Theredfoxfliesatmidnight · 27/12/2023 00:09

It's 1 minute past midnight on Boxing Day night and the awful On The Beach holiday ad has started playing. The one with the gross vulgar fat family and their repulsive ice cream stealing children. Christmas is over, vacation season/ Easter is upon us!!

Anyone else?

😆 I literally saw a Jet2 holiday advert on Christmas Day night. Pathetic really. So annoying lol

DappledThings · 27/12/2023 09:49

CoatOfArms · 27/12/2023 09:42

actual fact But that's what I'm arguing.. it's not "actual fact". It's the way that some people do things which is fine, up to them if they want to keep things going to 6th January. But they aren't doing things "right" and everyone else doing it "wrong". There is no one definition of "Christmas".

There is. Christmas is a Christian festival that finishes on Twelfth Night before the Epiphany. That is a fact. Not all Christian cultures have their presents etc on the 25th, many do so on Epiphany.

Millions of people celebrate Christmas at a different time, sometimes thought December and finishing on Boxing Day. Nothing wrong with that, celebrate how and when you choose. It is still Christmas today though and will be till the 6th. Regardless of what small percentage of people consider it to be so.

Hobnobswantshernameback · 27/12/2023 09:50

When people stop moaning about Christmas on Mumsnet....
Oh wait....

CoatOfArms · 27/12/2023 09:52

Christmas is a Christian festival To millions in the UK of other faiths and none, it's not though. It's a present giving, food eating, time with the family. It might have started off as a christian celebration but it's not any more for a lot of people.

DappledThings · 27/12/2023 10:27

CoatOfArms · 27/12/2023 09:52

Christmas is a Christian festival To millions in the UK of other faiths and none, it's not though. It's a present giving, food eating, time with the family. It might have started off as a christian celebration but it's not any more for a lot of people.

Yes, that's why I said millions of people celebrate it at a different time to when it actually is and consider it over now.

Which is fine, knock yourself put, take down your tree if you want to. It is still only the third day of 12 today whether you consider it so or not.

Serene135 · 27/12/2023 10:29

Thanks for the picture @Amybelle88. Made me laugh 😂

MeinKraft · 27/12/2023 10:47

When you want something to eat that isn't sausage, bacon or turkey based. I am at that point.

HelpMeGetThrough · 27/12/2023 10:57
  • Wow vulgar and fat? Guess your family is just perfect*
You know Christmas is over when.....
GoingDownLikeBHS · 27/12/2023 11:17

I know its wasn't the point of OP's thread, but interesting how that "family" is perceived, I've always thought it was styled in that way to invite derision both of the actors' appearance (which is real) and their characters (which are made up). It's never sat right with me and now OP has confirmed by their attitude that we are invited to see the family as a joke at best. Thing is, there are many people who look like that - so are they all fat and vulgar (those "other" people?)

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