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.

the blue flashing lights. As now, my child that it really caused an issue for , is now an adult with a child of his own.. people have NO idea how hard those lights are for epileptics. We had to change our room with our son every christmas season for about 14 years. Our big bedroom with the walk in closet and massive bathroom, became his for 2 months a year. He was very happy as we switched out his twin for a queen bed lol. please PLEASE reconsider flashing lights. its not the blue...its the flash

Aww I love Christmas. But some of the tv ads are cringeworthy & on way too early. I can’t be doing with Elf on the Shelf - we sell all the paraphernalia where I work & the actual elves give me the willies!

Christmas Eve Boxes, North Pole Breakfasts, Matching PJ/ jumper photo shoots, rip off prices at Christmas markets etc, constant Christmas music from November the 1st, also Christmas trees up before December.

I think the thing I hate most is Christmas trees so overloaded with landfill bound tat that you can’t see the tree.

I do actually like Christmas and as a Christian find Advent such a special time of reflection and waiting, it just makes me sad the cost to people who can ill afford all this stuff and the effect on the planet.

My children’s Christmas experiences were modest in comparison but no less magical, and they took pleasure in seeing the same baubles and decorations being brought out again each year. Each of them usually received a new bauble each year and when they left home they had a box full to start their own collection.

Those stupid bags of hot chocolate or ‘hampers’ costing £25+ that have a fivers worth of chocolate bars and a mug all bought from Poundland. Usually found on Facebook marketplace place.

I love Christmas and am generally fine with all the silliness, the one thing I can’t bear is when people are materialistic and grabby about gifts so, photos of piles of presents on social media (and one FB friend who posts a picture of all the kids presents on Boxing Day calling it a “nice little haul”) and on here, posters who claim to be “worried” or “stressed” because they can only afford [insert a several hundred pound figure] on each child this year and posters who have already started complaining that friends or family don’t plan on spending enough on them.

Adverts that show a ‘family’ Christmas meal with a table with so much food it’s obscene. We have a ‘family’ Christmas meal but it’s just a roast with a few extras, not something that would feed the entire homeless population of Basingstoke!

Not sure "tacky" is quite the right word but I'd put the "tree up in November" people with the "I just loooove Christmas! I'm just like a big kid I get sooo excited!!! I watch Elf 3 times every day I love it sooo much!!!!" people.

And taking down the tree on Boxing Day implies that it's all over once the presents are opened and the turkey is carved. Obviously people can do what they like but Christmas Day is the 1st day of Christmas, not the last! In fact my favourite part of Christmas is those lovely family days between the 25th and the new year.

Christmas trees up before December
People who change colour schemes every year - bad for the environment
Elf on a Shelf
Christmas Eve boxes
Family matching pjs
I don’t hate crackers but they are quite pointless
Bayliss & Harding
Brash outside flashing lights which clearly will affect neighbours
People who moan about Christmas cards - you do you
Muzak in shops
A lot of Christmas adverts - too try hard

Not Christmas but writing 'you're' instead of 'your' really makes me cringe

People who take themselves too seriously on Christmas...won't play games, won't watch a bit of crap Christmas telly, won't indulge in the food, won't wear anything vaguely Christmassy...if they're gonna have a stick up their bum I'd rather they not come

Ooh yes, this!

Because Boxing Day is still Christmas. The Christmas season ends on 6th January.

I really don’t like the massive inflatable outdoor displays, I have been fortunate enough never to have one near enough to hear it but the compressors make an appalling noise. I think I would be driven to cut the cable if there was one next door.

Mulled wine
Christmas Jumpers
writing Xmas instead of Christmas

The wider Christmas season actually goes on until Candlemas on 2 February (which us why many churches will have their nativity scene on display until then). I wish we had a tradition of leaving a few lights up until then, not the whole tree hut a few lights to cheer us through January.

I love almost everything about Christmas except for:

Blue Christmas lights.

Paper hats from Christmas crackers.

@SchnizelVonKrumm we have left a few lights up till Candlemas the last few years, I find it helps us through the dark evenings and we have less of a post Christmas slump.

Most of it. Definitely charades and the obligatory board games.

Actually I just want to do parkrun, open presents, eat dinner and then sit and read a nice book that i hopefully got for Christmas. No forced jollity.

• Decorations up in the middle of November
• People posting pictures of their Xmas dinner and it looks like the sort of thing you would get on school Xmas dinner day
• ”From our little family to yours”
• Xmas cards signed from pets
• Ditto Xmas presents for pets

Edit because I have more!

• People who put an apostrophe in Christmas cards signed from families e.g., love from the Smith’s
• Inflatable Christmas decorations for outside
• Overly “done” Christmas trees
• Secret santa

Decorations up before December.
Outdoor lights that flash, especially the blue ones. Like living in an ambulance. Or a pub kitchen.
Candy canes.
'Santa Claus stop here' signs.

That we are expected to like and buy the abomination than is an 'easy peeler'. It's a stupid patronising name for an inedible so-called fruit which tastes of nothing. What's wrong with satsumas?

Indeed. I thought asking people to leave their trees up until then a step too far!

Gift sets. Just a lazy option for someone you don’t like much.
Secret Santa in offices. Never ends well.
Ditto party food at work.
Wearing a paper hat. No. Not even as a kid.
That creepy as fuck stupid skinny gurning elf. Yuk. Yuk. Yuk. Glad it wasn’t a thing when my kids were little; repulses me.
Christmas headwear like a hat in the form of a turkey. Deeply unfunny and desperately tacky.
Baubles with swear words written on them; just not in the spirit is it.
Women in Mrs Christmas outfits. Stop it.
Silly Santa hats on anyone.

I love that this thread contains an ad for festive dog food to " bring joy to your dog's bowl at Christmas". We have always had pets, down to one cat just now and adored them all. But I never,and will never, spend money on advent calendars and stockings for a cat! It is insane. If current cat is lucky,he might get a bit of turkey chucked his way. He doesn't get presents to.open because,you know,lack of opposable thumbs and stuff. He'll find a nice box or bit of wrapping paper to sleep in and he'll be happy.

🤣🤣🤣 Same x

Before MN, I’d not heard of people sharing pictures of the contents of their fridge. I don’t like that