What` you`re christmas cringe

[TheCheekySloth]

Whats youre christmas cringe that is perfectly normal but you just hate it for no reason.

Mine are.
Carol singers, charades.

Christmas Eve boxes and family Christmas jumper Christmas cards or pictures.

Bows on front doors.

I forgot to add the family matching jumpers.

Family photos with matching pyjamas... the kids look cute but the dads in those stupid pyjamas look ridiculous.

also New Year's where you're expected to hug and kiss randoms wishing them a happy new year is beyond cringe to me

Families in matching pyjamas.
Christmas Eve boxes.
That bloody elf.

The threads where posters act like elf on the shelf, matching pyjamas, any advent calendar that isn’t just a picture like in the 70s, spending more than £5 on your child etc are the worst things ever make me cringe more than any of those things. These things aren’t compulsory, do as little or as much as you like.

Grabby adults 🙄😬

What others have said, except the carol singers. I raise you mulled wine. Why ruin a bottle of red?

Oh…and all the mentions of plastic tat. If you took a shot for every time plastic tat is mentioned in a 20 minute period on here on any day in December, you’d be admitted to hospital with alcoholic poisoning. 😂

Crimbo, Xmas.
Santa being presented as male when it's women who do most of the Christmas-related work.

People who moan about how other people do Christmas

I agree with bows on front doors. Also:

Flashing multicoloured lights. I know people periodically try to make them trendy/nostalgic for the 80s again, but the blue and red always remind me of emergency vehicles.

Holly Jolly Christmas. It sets my teeth on edge.

Fake snow on windows.

Things that are add-ons to add-ons to add-ons that people do as if they're ancient tradition, like 'Oh yes, in our house we put out a mince pie and a glass of port for Santa and a carrot for the reindeer. On the 23rd we make home-made reindeer food with suet and glitter and we put it in hand-tied bags with ribbons. Then after midnight hubby sneaks out and dusts the step with flour and we make reindeer prints in it and we sprinkle the reindeer food on the lawn, and we put a bit of red fabric in the chimney as if Santa got 'stuck,' and we write a little note from the Elf saying goodbye until next year, and ....'

I find make-believe tooth-achingly awful at the best of times, but I just cannot understand how anyone doesn't want to commit seppuku halfway through December with some of this stuff.

Adults who claim to be excited on 1 November like 6 yr olds and make loving Christmas their entire personality, and berate anyone who doesn't agree with them, calling them bah humbug etc. The same folk then moan about how much they hate January and again expect everyone to agree, and cannot accept that some people dislike Christmas but enjoy January. People like different things believe it or not.

Having to wear the hat out of the cracker.

Homes with trees up in November and down on Boxing Day. Tacky af

The whole thing
I don't 'do' Christmas

Those ‘Christmas spreads’ in celebrity gossip magazines, where the whole celebrity family wear reindeer antlers and pose for photos in front of green screens of Finnish Lapland, while talking about how they’re ’Stronger than ever and ready for our best Christmas yet’ or some shite like that

Carol singers who go door to door - because my mum made us do this with her church friends as children and right into our teens until we properly fought about it with quite a lot of drama, door slamming, sulking and crying (the last two being her). We were pretty compliant teens actually, but the fact that she was utterly tone deaf and sang really loudly, and the group as a whole wasn't tuneful or loud enough to compensate, just made it a hill worth dying on by mid teens.

Slade.
Christmas duvet covers.
Christmas crockery

People who try and snidely belittle what other people like to make themselves feel superior. You don’t like a bow on a door, don’t have one. You don’t like flashing coloured lights, don’t have them.
They may not be your taste but try enjoying that they bring the owner joy.

Ah but then there would be no Mumsnet!

No, thanks, I'll enjoy a harmless mumsnet thread quietly bitching about what we like and dislike.

But remember, you should support it, for it brings us all Such Joy.

I love Carol singers and Charades!

Elf on a shelf is awful, particularly when posted on Facebook.

I Refuse with a capital R!

I have never and nor will I ever wear the poxy hat from the cracker. 🫡

Stacey Solomon springs to mind!

The children threatened that if they don’t all pose wearing matching Christmas pyjamas, the pet dog/cat/hamster will be put to sleep. Joe Swash having guzzled a litre of Cider is gurning like Wallace from Wallace and Gromit, and Stacey shrieking at them all to smile for the camera or else.

Just hideous.