Xmas version of things you wouldn't admit in real life....

[TinselTina]

I wish people would stop mentioning my 5 foot 3 height like im an outlier.
I cannt believe I married my ex. I needed to be in a mental hospital not marched up the aisle.
I dont care if my child is clever or not.

I'm fairly sure at least 4 of the tubes of gifted handcream lying unused in my drawer came from the charity shop. God knows how old they are. I'm sure the giver thought they were doing two nice things by giving some income to a charity and giving me this. But used or not, it all gets produced, shipped around the world and ends up down the drain.

Too much dried fruit in everything at this time of year.

I love it, but my raisin-hating sister would agree! Among the billions of "alternative" variations on mince pies, Christmas puddings etc, nearly all are still raisin-based.
Waitrose used to do a fantastic chocolate and hazelnut Christmas pudding but they stopped making it along with the amazing almond speculaas biscuits.

@WalkingWavy
we do a £50 secret Santa too , but to save any angst deciding what to buy someone , each person has to list 3 things if approx £50 that they like , and the buyer chooses from the list
so your present us still a relative surprise

my issue with Xmas is after hosting for yrs ( and enjoying it ) I have given myself this yr off , and not one person from the previous group has offered to host , so fuck em ,
my Christmas in future will be doing what I want , baileys , telly and lazing about

I know. Absolutely no excuse for not taking to the charity shop.

Yes, it’s called the DVLA, it’s an established process.

It's rude to comment on height whatever the height is, but what is there to say about 5'3? The average height for a woman in the UK is 5'3!

@RessicaJabbit I am not pretending though. They are shit and will continue going in the bin.

I can’t get over the amount of people that are getting so wound up about what other people do with gifts they didn’t give them.

Drop to the nearest homeless charity they'd be so grateful or womens domestic violence refuge

Another Christmas thing that can get in the bin (unless it’s due to being actually skint) “We are only doing presents for the children” stop being tight and buy gifts for people. I can’t imagine my niece or nephew getting to 18 and just stopping giving them a gift.

My dh once took it upon himself to water our big 🎄while I was last-minute shopping on Christmas Eve. It was in a large bucket of wet gravel, and I’d wrapped red crepe paper around the bucket.
We had fairly recently had new lightish green carpet laid.
Guess what happened when he over-watered it and the water ran down the red crepe paper? 😱😡

Maybe if you had read the thread you would get understanding?

But who would buy them from a charity shop. That poster has a point about the packaging being waste regardless of the product being used or not.

I only ever buy shower gel type gift sets, stuff that folk actually use. I do use hand creme but it takes me forever to finish one.
Infact I'm at the point of binning when I have too many kicking around, half used.
Just like lip bams.

I can’t stand any of it. I was seriously ill last Christmas and couldn’t go anywhere or do anything. It was great to have zero responsibilities. I’m doing well now but haven’t picked up any of the previous shit I was expected to do. It’s great!

Christmas is bloody wonderful and I’m looking forward to it tremendously, but I do feel a bit trapped by my adult DCs obsession with keeping up all the family traditions. And I’m fucking livid that my snooty son-in-law has yet again found a reason to not participate this year.

Do they have baths at the shelters? Is there a way of checking?
Otherwise I would feel a bit of a tit donating sparkly bath bombs.

You could use them as body lotion to avoid binning them. Would use them up much more quickly.

Just ring them up. Also, I'm not sure, but I wonder if women's refuges might be more likely to have baths, and the poor women who have to go there might appreciate sparkly bath bombs if so.

Or a gift set of chutneys?

"Sorry kids, it's chutney again."

It sounds daft because it is.

I have found the solution for all unwanted Christmas toiletries, including bath bombs. A charity called Toiletries Amnesty whose aim is to tackle hygiene poverty.

www.toiletriesamnesty.org/

@pictoosh exactly!! I love a certain chutney that i buy lots of when I’m passing by the shop that sells it (long way from home) but I will never reach the stage of wanting Jam and Chutney for a present.

I went freelance 8 years ago, and a BIG plus is no longer having to attend work Christmas functions!
I don't drink at work events - never have - and the event was always boring and miles away from home. I don't like having to drive in the dark, I don't like dressing up, I don't like having to pretend I give a shit about these people I'm being forced to spend the evening with. I didn't like most of them during work hours, I certainly didn't like them in my personal time!

I'm so pleased that my SIL's Christmas plans have turned to shit.

Last Christmas day, around the table, she announced her and her DH wouldn't be at ours this year (after we've hosted them and their DC every year for over a decade).

You have to elaborate; what were they planning on doing instead and how did it go to shit? I’m a big fan of schadenfreude so need to get my fix where I can 😉

Not to be tricksy, but why are you annoyed that they wanted to stay at home? There must be a reason.

Erm, it gets re-used?