Christmas nonsense that can get in the sea

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Matching family pyjamas
Matching family jumpers
Photoshoots involving the above
The Elf
Christmas Eve boxes
Hot chocolate stations
Light trails

This is all just absolute nonsense that people are being sucked into by advertising and social media #makingmemories scams.

There, you're welcome. From a Grinch.

Putting decorations up in November

Making out that putting decorations up 1st weekend in December is the law

Christmas Eve boxes

New Christmas pyjamas when the ones from last year fit

Elf on the shelf (I do this but hate it!)

Photos of your Christmas decs on SM

I adore Christmas but I would concur with the OP’s list, aside from the light trail - I am 53 and am off to see some lights myself this year.

I’m guilty of having a hot drinks station and having a pair of Christmas pjs (not matching) and I do not care 😊

Light trails are great….. for kids. Otherwise it’s 20 minutes of walking around looking at lit up trees etc for a ridiculous price .Then you conned into paying £5 for a single toasted marshmallow!! You may as well walk around your local streets looking at lights with a flask of mulled wine.

Gift sets

Excessive gifts nobody needs

Asking people if they're ready for Christmas- it's one day ffs!

Buying too much food

Having to book supermarket delivery slots in November

There will be a ‘Show me your Christmas fridge’ thread soon which I find so distasteful. Showing off your stuffed fridge ! When did that become a thing to be proud of??

I agree with matching pyjamas for the whole family, matching children I can understand but the only reason for matching family is to take a photo and put it online imo. Also agree with the elf on the shelf and north pole breakfasts. I thought a north pole breakfast sounded cute but when I looked into it it's just all sweet stuff and I think connected to the elf in some way.

Another thing I dislike is people putting their decorations up in November, then taking them down on Boxing day as they are "sick of the sight of them".

Tacky acrylic Christmas jumpers I dislike, but I'm not against Christmas jumpers altogether in theory, just the type that are overly garish in some misplaced attempt at humour and worn for one or two days only.

The whole fucking lot of Christmas can get in the sea.
Preferably the Marianas Straits.

Or trench or whatever its bloody called

Fuck off forever those that say:

"Yuck boring!"

whilst trying to sound cool.

You don't. You sound like an arse hole.

I have found my people. Hello fellow Grinches.

Xmas jumpers - the tacky flavour, your Fair-isle and Icelandic ones are lovely and practical (if spenny)
Plastic Xmas Tat in crackers
That sodding Elf
Festive Bakes/Sandwiches whatever - they’re all grim. Cranberry sauce has no place near 99.9% of food.
Christmas flavoured versions of drinks. Ruin a perfectly good baileys with cinnamon or something.
Festive PJs
Those bloody singing Santa/Snowmen things especially if they’re outside.
Mince Pies. They’re mostly mass produced ultra processed shite.
Excessive decoration from the middle of November.
Work Xmas parties - when did it become shite finger food in some dodgy venue with an “activity” for a eyewatering sum rather than let’s just have some dinner and go the pub/home or a few glasses of something in the office and a nice bonus cheque?
£70+ wreath making ”classes” (it’s some holly FFS!)
People who think “the magic” is lost when kids stop believing in a trespassing man proffering gifts. You make your own magic if you believe in such things.

Anything that contributes to the mountain of plastic waste that we drag halfway across the planet from near slave labour factories in China/SE Asia/India.

Ho Ho NO!

I’ll caveat that I do keep Christmas but I despise the over commercialisation/doing it for the ‘gram and the immense pressure that people are put under. It flies in the face of the many meanings of Christmas/Hannukah/Saturnalia/Solstice.

The Muppets Christmas Carol is one of the finest films ever made and I’ll not hear a word against it!

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Excellent thread. Please can I add -
Christmas songs played on repeat in Supermarkets from the beginning of November
Outside lights that flash
Those horrendous inflatable snowmen/ Santas, etc
'Festive' bleach and kitchen cleaner
Christmas bedding
Christmas films
Not being able to buy a going out top that isn't covered in sequins
People who post on Facebook 'All bought and wrapped' on 1 December

And you sound very uptight, perhaps you need to unclench your arse hole 😂

I love this Elf of yours, ours is far too kind. Can it hide the TV remote every school morning or is that a bit too mean 🤔

Well if it annoys them so much dont do it. It is not compulsory. None of it is.

This!!! I had an acquaintance on Insta who'd constantly moan about the pressure of HAVING to do 1st Dec box/Christmas eve box/light trails/Father Christmas visits/all the other insta shite and I always wanted to shout 'no one is making you do anything!!! No one is saying you have to do it! You're the only person saying it!'
I don't understand where this 'pressure' is coming from. No one is holding a gun to anyone's head?! There's no rule that says if you don't do it then SS will remove your kids. It's really not an issue. Just don't do it, absolutely no one cares or will notice! But people WILL get fed up of her constant moaning about 'having to do it' yet her still doing it all anyway.
(Her poor kids have everything posted online, from tantrums to toileting accidents, it's cruel. Safe to say we are no longer friends.)

Saying all that, I would like to go to a light trail because I love fairy lights and being outdoors, but I refuse to pay so much money to do so!

Why do you get to tell people what they should and shouldn't enjoy?

'Trespassing old man' 😂😂

Saw Christmas Eve boxes for dogs the other day! A new low!

I got home tonight and my neighbours have their amazing light show on for the first timethis year. Really cheered me up.

And threads like this are why I love Mumsnet as I get to see what people are really thinking behind the social media charade where I feel like I'm in a parallel Universe with all the nonsense and be kind brigade!

I don’t get the MN obsession with hot chocolate at Christmas, whether from a ‘station’ or not. Anyone would think it was some special seasonal delicacy you can only get at Christmas.

Elf with its head chopped off
Elf with a carrot stuck up its backside
Elf eaten by the dog

The idea of an Elf just irritates me. Not sure why!

I saw someone who'd posted pictures of their teenagers' brrr baskets. Another friend had asked what a brrrr basket was, the reply was "it's a bit like a boo basket".

Still none the wiser... 🤣

You’re a miserable git