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.

I'm in Scotland and I really don't get the early tree removal of some here - we still have Hogmanay and New Year to go (which was traditionally the main celebration and the 2nd is still a bank holiday here) and it's so dark and miserable for months afterwards.

It also bugs me that local supermarkets are all sackcloth and ashes from 26th December up here even though we've New Year dinners to come, all the fancy pate got eaten at Xmas and someone needs to make another massive trifle.

I'm also not interested in muesli and kettlebells when I've still got a week of holidays to go and a ton of unopened Stollen in the spare room.

Christmas jumpers , families all wearing Christmas pyjamas, Christmas Eve boxes, elf on a shelf, decorations that are put up before the middle of December, people having no idea of the real meaning of Christmas and just see it as an excuse to gorge themselves and compete to see who can spend the most on presents for their children.

To be fair, the OP did specify that the thread was for things that are ‘perfectly normal’ and that they dislike ‘for no reason’ so I don’t think she was actually calling out for snide belittling of others at all. It’s possible to have all sorts of irrational irritants without implying any judgement of the people who like them.

Mine are:

Penguins and polar bears being presented as Christmassy. They’re not. They literally just live in cold places. That doesn’t make them festive.

The fact that 99% of cards and decorations depicting supposed reindeer are of other types of deer that don’t look like reindeer at all beyond having antlers.

Candy canes.

Pigs in blankets. I’d much rather just have a slice of sausage meat.

Christmas specials of TV shows. They’re never as good as a normal episode.

Candy Canes - I like the look of them but they are pretty underwhelming .

I'm adding (this is my personal choice BTW) colours that aren't Christmas.
I don't want pink as a background .
I walked past giant baubles that were peach,teal and pink. No no should be bronze,dark green and red.
I don't like wishy washy pink/white where it should be red/white
And gingerbread flavoured everything . Coffee , hot chocolate , Malteaser reindeer . No

The fridge threads make me cringe too.

Mulled wine tastes like hot vinegar
photos on social media with family in matching pjs
Elf on the Shelf, he wants to be pushed off the damn shelf

The photos with everyone wearing matching clothes/pyjamas. And worse if they are jumping in the air. 🤮

and match matchy Xmas trees.

Piles of presents - usually photographed and put on SM with a ridiculous "Do you think this is enough?"

Christmas in November.

Influencers using it to sell some mad notion it’s the best most amazing time of the year in order to sell you stuff.

Families in matching pjs.

The endless going on about how busy people are “silly season” it’s shite if your only outing is the school nativity.

Not so much cringe as hateful disgust but you’ve started me off now so…

Secret Santa. If you can’t be bothered to put in any thought, thanks but no thanks. Shove your Ferraro Rocher up your arse.

Christmas Adverts. All beyond awful EXCEPT for this years Waitrose. How can you not love Joe Wilkinson? I want those face biscuits!!

Fairytale of New York. It’s sad that Kirsty MacColl is only known to some people for this. She was so, so, so much more.

People celebrating the "retail festival" rather than actual Christmas so decorations up in November and down on boxing day or short there after because they are already fed up with it even though Christmas has only just started!

People who put a picture of their tree/wreath or whatever and write ‘it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas’ under it. The least original caption in existence!

People who announce how many frigging sleeeeeeps it is until Christmas

Matching family pyjamas, elf on a shelf, and Christmas Eve box.( Why can’t your kids just wait for one more day?)

People who complain about others putting up their trees too early.

Piss off, Grinch, it's my home and you aren't welcome in it anyway. I don't say anything about you not putting your tree up until Christmas Eve so shut up and put up with my pretty twinkly lights in November 🎄✨

@BauhausOfEliott thank you for making this point. I have been saying it for years

Penguins and polar bears being presented as Christmassy. They’re not. They literally just live in cold places. That doesn’t make them festive.

It drives me mad. What also annoys me is the central European or east coast USA depiction of snow at Christmas. I live in a place (ireland, near the coast) which has never and will never have snow at Christmas but we do see snow sometimes in Jan or Feb. What particularly irks me is ads made locally showing kids tobogganing and making snow men. Then parents dealing with crippling disappointment. I don't mind so much when its a big US Christmas movie, i guess thats different. Our Christmas should be depicted as it is, not prrsented as a somehow inadequate version. I work with young kids and every year I have to talk to them that it's not going to snow at Christmas but it might afterwards. I hate that they are frustrated with our climate at age 3.

Can I just tell everyone about my colleague who called me a bah humbug on the 11th November because I hadn't put up my decorations yet. I work in a different section that I control and it's client facing. My plan was to fully decorate on the last week in November. She popped in to get something and made the comment. She was joking and is a lovely colleague but ffs, it was 11 November, I dont need her judgment. Also clients have different views, those who don't like it get very irritated when decorations are up early, those that like early decorations might have a preference but it doesn't upset them. I try to find the best balance for everyone.

Honestly none of it.
It's not that things don't make me cringe it's just that I quite enjoy all the cheesy, cringey traditions!

Soppy, sickly sweet Christmas films where everyone lives happily ever after (noone ever says what happens on Boxing day ).

People screeching along to mariah carey "all i want for christmas is you"🙄

The posters who wont allow FC to bring anything decent because they dont want him getting any credit ?

Competitive minimal gift Xmas
A want a need and a book to read that is it.

Until they mentioned the hundreds of over spending relatives who will drown their DC in toys

The sanitisation of Fairytale of New York . I hear it played , the hairs on the back of my neck prickle up in anticipation ...only for the censored version to rattle out .

Pales into insignificance compared to the Ronan Keating version though

I love pretty much everything on this thread apart from paper hats ("oh no, mine appears to be torn") and flashing blue lights.

Putting the tree up early, like mid November.
matching pyjamas, even writing it my toes are curling.
people getting grabby over presents and buying to receive, makes me shudder just thinking about it,

Having to say ‘merry Christmas’ or ‘happy new year’. I just find it embarrassing and it seems insincere.