Things I haven’t said out loud this week. Christmas edition

[YorkieTheRabbit]

We know you’re dropping hints and not very subtle ones either. No we haven’t seen you for sometime, I’m sure you do enjoy coming for a meal.
No we aren’t planning on inviting you over Christmas, if we can do a quick present swap, fine but no more.
I’m sick of catering for your family, coming to us for a meal doesn’t mean you don’t need to eat all day before you get here.
You all turn up, absolutely starving, the last time you came it was beyond ridiculous

You could always TRY INVITING US for once, even for a takeaway.

How about looking after your own kids (one with food allergies and the other severely SEN) on Christmas Day instead of expecting our parents in their 70's or my kids to look after them while you sit on your selfish arses drinking all day. Maybe a little help with washing up/clearing plates would be nice too, you're not the fucking kind and queen!!!

In sorry you hate the gift I bought for X/ that I bought the same thing you bought but you said I should think about something myself and not ask you what I should buy.

My 5 month old does not need a toy advent calendar, a card calendar, a countdown to Christmas of any kind as she DOES NOT KNOW WHAT CHRISTMAS IS. It is so wasteful.

No I'm NOT taking her to see Santa because she's 5 months old and doesn't give a shit!

Stop buying generic gift sets and giving them to us. We'd rather not have anything. If you CBA to be thoughtful then don't waste your money.

I can't use the random tacky Christmas bath sets you keep buying me, as I keep telling you. I hate them and they hate me.

BIL and SIL you are the most selfish and ungrateful spoilt brats I have ever met and it breaks my MIL's heart that she doesn't get to see you or her grandson on Christmas day because the other side of the family always come first. Shame on you. Your son will miss out on all the love they want to give.

There are too many lights on your tree. I'm sorry, it gives me a migraine every year.

When I was told "You have to come because it could be MIL's last Christmas," I soooo much wanted to say, "OK, if you can promise me she'll be dead this time next year, I'll come." And if they protested that I was being tasteless, heartless, etc: "You started it. You talked about her dying, I didn't."

I just made other excuses & stayed away & had a much better time than I would've if I'd gone there.

You can't expect my adult dc to visit you on Christmas Day after they lived their whole childhoods having you favour their cousins. My youngest has never even spent an hour alone with you!. After All of the holidays, day trips, sleepovers or trips to the park that you organised for the favourites and excluded my dc from have left a bitter taste in their mouths.

You reap what you sow.

I don't want any fluffy socks from Primark. I haven't worn the last 10 pairs you bought me. Actually l said it out loud but l still get them year after fucking year

Look. I've stopped in shops and said 'this looks nice.' I've pointed at things and said 'that would be useful for my hobby.' I've showed you pages on the internet and said 'one of these would be a really good buy.' I've told you I'm a size ten every time you've asked.

So don't bloody ask me what I want for Christmas because you weren't paying attention or looking or listening or even hearing a word I said on all of those occasions. You KNOW what I want for Christmas because I've fucking told you every time we've been anywhere near a shop! So I'm not repeating it again, just try actually LISTENING to me for once!

Another!
You have been on two foreign holidays this year plus weekends away and you’ve another trip booked. Absolutely this is your choice HOWEVER, don’t keep complaining about not having any money and you don’t know how you’ll manage to get all your Christmas shopping.
It’s not up to us to help you pay for it.

I’m fed up of everyone being asked to do piles of scratch cards after dinner. You all take it so seriously that I can feel the change in the atmosphere and I’m pretty sure you intended it to be a bit of fun? I get you want to spend winnings on nice things (us included) through the rest of the year, regardless of whose cards are winners, and that’s fine but it does make it even less fun. It’s the only scenario where I hope I don’t win big!
Also, I’m glad I no longer have to pray for no alcohol in my Secret Santa gift from work. I don’t drink, and did keep saying that. It’s not like it was the only thing in the bag, but it’s still wasted on me.

Can't you see I'm really poorly with flu after catching covid from you the week before so have been poorly for 13 days now so no I don't want to arrange your mother coming to us for Christmas right at this moment (or at all)

This is the mother in law who's last words to DC 2 years ago were don't you ever shut up?

Sorry but no.

Another from me..
Please don't question me for spending too much of my own money on our kids then ask me to get them a present from you on Christmas Eve because you've done fuck all then not transfer the money! I've bought it all by then.. I've given up trying to involve you!! I've learnt the hard way you can't plan ahead for your own kids 🙄

It is not too much to ask that you take a fucking shower before dinner as you are expected to do every evening and most of all because you fucking stink as you refuse to shower properly and wear dirty clothes. It’s just disrespectful.

So I really really hope you buck up your ideas before bringing your literally and metaphorically stink to Christmas, for everyone’s saké.

Thank you all for those who wished me well. You are all lovely!
I was fortunate to be in a position to get a grip. Those tough years have taught me me resilience and I've taken charge again now.

I really wanted some flowers or one gift to open. I know that’s immature and ungrateful of me so I didn’t say it. I’m just writing it here to let go of the disappointment.

It’s my birthday so at least now I can prepare myself that there won’t be anything at Christmas.

The best present you could give me would be a week away on my own somewhere quiet by the sea.
I don't want to host a Christmas lasting 4 bloody weeks. I ve been ill as hell with a cold and cough that s probably a chest infection and I ve been at work all through that for the past 3 weeks because I work in a school and don't want to let them down (and because it gets me away from the house where I do all the cleaning for nothing).

If it wasn't for the cats I d shove all the things I need in the new car I m buying and bugger off.

I don't eat meat and I don't care about Christmas dinner but I bet my house I ll be the one clearing up the kitchen while you watch crap on tv and get pissed.

I DON'T CARE that my sister s workshy husband has got a terrible cold. EVERYONE HAS but can't stay in bed all day.

If you actually ate proper food and dressed normally you wouldn't be so bloody cold and putting our heating on to 400c to fry us alive. I was hoping to be dead before I got cremated.

And if you let my kitten escape I will murder you Xmas or not!

Thanks that felt good to say

Ha!! Yes!!!! 🙄

Christmas is in December, it’s also the same time for everyone so why do you want to go place and then want to come home because it’s dark and busy.

Stick yer secret Santa up yer arse luv.

No, we are not "really excited" about spending a day with you and the rest of your incredibly dysfunctional family. DH is only doing it out of a sense of duty and the children and I are coming to support him because we love him, not because we enjoy being bossed around and told how to enjoy ourselves by you. Every year you try to arrange us all like we're supporting characters in your personal production of The Waltons Christmas Special or some such kitsch. The fact is the big happy extended family exists only in your imagination and virtually nobody actually wants to be there.

Oh and your electric toothbrush is actually really really loud and annoying and the way you then hawk into the sink like a dying pterodactyl is making me heave

You decided not to take DN in. that was the right choice for you and I understood that and wholeheartedly supported that. We chose to take him in, and you supported that. That does mean that you cannot backseat parent from over there.

No, our Christmas ways are not what his Mummy would have done. It’s what I do with my children and he’s now part of our household so he’ll be included with a stocking and pile of presents the same as my kids. It’ll be a loud, busy couple of days and he will love it.

if you’d stoped to looked you’d have seen we’ve actually incorporated the three traditions that she said in her letter with her will were the most important to her so it’s not all been “thrown aside”.

@ARichtGoodDram

You sound lovely. Hope you all have a terrific time over Christmas, it sounds fab.

We know it’s Christmas in a few days, we also know we’ve heard more from you in the last week than the previous two months.
No we aren’t inviting you over Christmas, we can’t be bothered to listen to your drama or the constant bickering.
It won’t even to cross your mind to invite us to your house. No, you all want to come here, enjoy our hospitality but never consider reciprocating.

😂😂