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.

This office gift exchange among 8 coworkers is pointless and I've already taken all of your tat to the charity shop. Who the fuck thinks Prophet Song is something to read over the festive break??

I don’t want to Zoom.

Actually, I did say it out loud, and everyone laughed and ignored me.

I m trying hard not to care that I m not the favourite child since Dad died. But it's hard when I try to keep everything together and do what I can and I get a 15 minute call on Christmas day coz my mentally ill sister has monopolised my mum again.

Yes I know it's pathetic when we are in our 50s.
Wine will probably help.

Your child may have seen some adversity but there is just no excuse for their relentless rudeness and you've had plenty of time to work on it and nip it in the bud. Enough

Fucking shut up about the "global coverup"

No I really don't want to talk to family in Australia on zoom. I like them well enough, I just CANT BE ARSED.

Your child misbehaves for attention, the sulking and rudeness is absolutely ridiculous. They are spoilt and are becoming increasingly rude and obnoxious, they are falling out with friends from school because of it and will struggle forever if they don't learn to suck it up when they don't get their own way.

I find it hard to sit across the Xmas dinner table, smile and pretend.

you abused and neglected and gaslit me so badly in childhood that I am still in therapy 20 years later. But you hero-worship my brother, which is difficult to see.

i pretend for the sake of my kids. But I won’t be sorry when you’re not here any more.

that felt so good to write. Thanks op

Seriously, just fucking try with your grandchildren. Yes, they’re autistic but, no, that doesn’t mean they’ll bite you. To ignore your grandson and to not speak to him for the last 6 years because you don’t know how to speak to him is fucking shameful. And no, I don’t forgive you for coming to my mother’s funeral and not speaking to my son then. Or accusing me of not caring for your son/ my husband of 20 years at that funeral. This is why I have nothing to do with you.

Nope, I don’t forgive you either my abusive father and stepmother. For years you abused me. As soon as you started on my daughter I called time. So I simply wish you were dead and the fact you both outlived my amazing mum is proof there is no god. I hope only the worst for you.

Yes, I’m sad that my brother, my first son and my mum are all now dead. And no, I really don’t know how to be authentically happy on Christmas Day. This faked version is the best I’ve got. I just get through the days and hope things improve some day.

What did you get @Hoppinggreen ?

Someone bought me The Lovely Bones one year. I don't want to read about a girl who was murdered.

I'm not weird for not going to the staff parties.
I have social anxiety and find these things hideous.
I have pretty much been like this for 40 yrs.

When I said I didn't want to do Christmas dinner I meant it.
I've cooked thousands of meals as it's my full-time job so don't moan when you had to cook it while I walked a 2 mile trip to take DMS hamper who also moaned I was too exhausted to pop round last night after work.
Not everyone wants to spend all Christmas eating too much spending too much and moaning about it all of January Gaaah!

I shouldn't have had to ask...

Elley123 · 28/11/2024 18:00

Just for once I would like someone else to invite ME for Christmas dinner.

This 100%

Can you not just fuck off out of my kitchen and let me do the cooking? Not only would the food taste better, there would be less waste and the place would actually be usable immediately afterwards, not covered in jars and packets and teabags and stuff left out uncovered to go off/dry out/spill everywhere.

It took under 2 hours to get it from health hazard to sparkling on Monday evening, it's now Wednesday and it looks like I've never been in there.

Just buy me a little tiny something and wrap it up. Please. This autumn has been so utterly crap. I want to be cheered up for 5 minutes by a silly sparkly trinket. Leave the house and go to a shop when I am at work.

I cracked up at “I was hoping to be dead before I was cremated” - bloody hell that is funny, sympathies to you…..

Discipline your fucking kids, SIL. That is all.

No, you didn't think hard on what to give me for Christmas.

Just admit my older brother is your favourite and receives all the recognition for doing one thing that I should get for doing everything else.

Thanks Op, very therapeutic

If you aren't sending Christmas cards then you won't be receiving them either from me. Yes I am petty enough to be keeping notes from last year.

I have been sending your family samosas for over 10 years (it might be nearer 20). I have always sent vegi samosas so why do you think I would send meat this time?

Yes I know your grown up children include one vegetarian and one vegan.

No this is not a 'peace offering' I still do not want to be in contact with you but I know your kids like the samosas.

Please stop sending me random Not On The High Street gifts direct from the seller, with no gift wrap or label in the weeks prior to Christmas.

Now I know I'm being ungrateful here, but my oldest friend does this for every birthday and Christmas. Just seems to pick a random item I'd have never looked at twice and shipping it direct.
So inevitably amongst the myriad of parcels arriving I end up opening it on December 5th and seeing exactly what it is and the receipt. It feels so impersonal and thoughtless. I get no real surprises from anyone and I'd love to have something under the tree that felt like it had been really thought about (absolutely this isn't all on DF!)

Look, I know your whole family find toilet humour utterly hilarious, but could you please shut the fuck up about shit and farts, at least during the meal?

It would be really nice if just one of you asked if I was ok. Instead of either ignoring me or treating me like your fucking slave.

That’s not good enough @Twiglets1 you need a proper analysis that shows when you get them: dates sent and received. That way you know who only sent one after they received yours. I knew someone who did this, she’s now sadly dead but it was hilarious when she did it.