Page 15 | Xmas version of things you wouldn't admit in real life....

TinselTina · 2025-12-12T11:24:10+00:00

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.

pictoosh · 14/12/2025 14:37

Differentforgirls · 14/12/2025 13:58

That is so sad - for your children.

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Get away with you.

Differentforgirls · 14/12/2025 14:37

pictoosh · 14/12/2025 14:37

Get away with you.

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I apologised.

Bananaandmangosmoothie · 14/12/2025 15:25

The Santa myth has gone to far and is quasi-religious and almost cult-like. Especially elf on the shelf.

Oldwmn · 14/12/2025 15:26

MrsB2025 · 12/12/2025 14:34

I throw loads of Christmas gifts away every single year. I feel terrible but I receive so much shit every fucking year. I don’t want presents but I can’t say that as it sounds miserable. But just tat. Clutter. Hand creams. Bath stuff (I don’t own a bath). Smelly stuff that smells like piss. I smile and pretend to be grateful every year. But it all goes in the bin.

I used to be able to unload tat gifts onto my New Year's Eve village draw, which I was in charge of 😈 but that's went west after covid so I dread what I'm going to get this year. I've still got 4 tiny pots of strawberry/raspberry jam, which I hate, but can't bear to throw them away! Smellies are the worst because I just don't use them as I don't really like scented stuff. I use Simple moisturiser which I find just as good as any of the highly scented & expensive stuff. DD is worst offender, she knows all this! Son gives me whisky and/or money. I give gift vouchers broadly in line with their interests (and whisky).

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TinselTina · 14/12/2025 16:17

I have my MIL staying and she asks so many questions. I also have a student who never shuts up in work. Im over stimulated

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TinselTina · 14/12/2025 16:18

winnieanddaisy · 14/12/2025 11:24

OP, I’m 5foot 4 and a half inches and I consider myself tall 🤣

Hahahha I have been measured officially and im defo 5 foot 3. Maybe I have short proportions.

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Calliopespa · 14/12/2025 16:21

ConflictofInterest · 12/12/2025 19:04

Obviously not something I can say in real life but I never stopped believing in Santa. I always look out for my "gift" on Christmas day, it could be a fox running past, or maybe I'll hear an owl or see a shooting star or wake up to a heavy sparkly frost. He always gets me something to cheer me up.

That's really lovely.

RampantIvy · 14/12/2025 16:53

FlatWhiteExtraHot · 14/12/2025 09:08

I’m confused by the outrage towards chucking shit gift sets away.

On an environmental level, they will ultimately be thrown away anyway. The only difference is the product inside will have been used. The plastic bottles and masses of plastic over packaging will still end up in the bin. The PP is just skipping a step. I’m surprised the virtue signallers are missing that blatantly obvious fact.

Good point. If the contents were tipped down the sink and the packaging put into recycling I don't think anyone whould have an issue with it, but just putting the whole lot on the bin which then goes into landfil is a different matter.

I volunteer with a charity that donates to the local women's refuge and unwanted and unopened gifts of toiletries are received gratefully.

RampantIvy · 14/12/2025 16:55

Am I the only one who has family that I can say to "please don't buy me toiletries", and who actually listen to me?

Zucker · 14/12/2025 16:59

Gardenalia · 14/12/2025 10:12

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.

-my adult DCs obsession with keeping up all the family traditions
-son-in-law has yet again found a reason to not participate this year

Could these two statements be possibly related? I couldn't imagine being an outsider being forced to sit through another families long held traditions. Just a thought!

Gardenalia · 14/12/2025 17:27

Zucker · 14/12/2025 16:59

-my adult DCs obsession with keeping up all the family traditions
-son-in-law has yet again found a reason to not participate this year

Could these two statements be possibly related? I couldn't imagine being an outsider being forced to sit through another families long held traditions. Just a thought!

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You definitely have a point there!

minmooch · 14/12/2025 17:43

I loathe and detest getting Christmas cards as no one mentions my son (he died nearly 12 years ago). Have not sent cards myself for 10 of those years but have discovered watercolour painting so have painted cards this year as I like an excuse to paint. Agonise over how I sign them (do I include both my sons names). This year I have signed them
just from my partner and I and not acknowledged either of my sons (living son is 28 and does not live at home). Feels weird, sad and ok all at the same time. Perhaps not signing either son is easier.

I raise a glass to my son every Christmas Day lunch, I know people understand, but I always feel uncomfortable, like I’m ruining other peoples’ day. I know this is a me problem and not them.

I hate New Year’s Eve and the forced jollity of welcoming another new year in. But I love a walk on a beach on New Year’s Day.

I can’t wait to get the Christmas Decs down (only put them up this morning 😂). They look pretty though.

Bettyboosmum · 14/12/2025 18:08

I hate that it's always Santa now and not Father Christmas.

StarDolphins · 14/12/2025 18:10

03cg73 · 12/12/2025 22:48

I caught one of the dogs licking the (uncooked) turkey a few years ago at midnight-ish on Christmas Eve when I went to put it in the oven. Too late to go buy another one and I don’t eat Turkey. So I cooked it and served it. Have never told a soul to this day

Brilliant🤣

DBD1975 · 14/12/2025 18:23

Thehandinthedark · 14/12/2025 09:19

I am absolutely delighted my PILs no longer live nearby. Last Christmas was absolutely awful - DH doing everything he could to make Christmas Day enjoyable for both of them (MIL has dementia and was extremely aggressive). We cooked dinner at our house and took everything round there, so they didn'thave the disruption of coming to us, which MIL wouldn't tolerate. MIL was threatening violence, DH was stressed and upset, DD was frightened by her grandmother threatening to punch her grandfather, FIL was on some sort of autopilot, pretending everything was brilliant and he was just going to sit serenely in the middle of everything, wearing a fucking paper hat, and eat his dinner as if everything was normal. It was truly, truly awful. Thankfully, they have moved back to be near SIL and MIL is now in a care home. DH has gone extremely low contact with his dad and sister and I am absolutely bloody delighted. This Christmas will be spent with my family - my lovely sisters, their husbands, my nieces and my mum. My BIL is cooking dinner, so DH has this year off. Everyone will be kind and funny. No-one will threatening to 'fucking kill' anyone over the sprouts. I maintain basic WhatsApp communication with FIL, to find out how MIL is doing, and could never tell him we are all over the moon that they don't live near us any more.

That turned into a bit of a rant!

What a very sad post, your poor FIL and your poor MIL, I don't think dementia symptoms are something it is possible to control.
Extremely upsetting for all concerned, still at least it won't spoil your Christmas this year.

Zerosleep · 14/12/2025 20:18

RampantIvy · 14/12/2025 16:55

Am I the only one who has family that I can say to "please don't buy me toiletries", and who actually listen to me?

No but my SIL buys the shit regardless and it goes straight in the bin 🤦🏼‍♀️

WhineAndWine1 · 14/12/2025 21:04

Bettyboosmum · 14/12/2025 18:08

I hate that it's always Santa now and not Father Christmas.

Another Christmas bugbear - He’s Santa elsewhere in the UK! He’s never been FC to me or my parents and possibly my grandparents

constantnc · 14/12/2025 21:12

I hate the current trend in school Christmas plays.....my dc school did 'cinderella'. Just a cinders panto...no nativity, no cute little ones with tea-towels on their heads or angel wings. Sad 😭 was always my favourite part of Christmas. But no, just cinderella 💩

Leftsidefacing · 14/12/2025 22:09

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 14/12/2025 09:57

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? 😱😡

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Did you manage to get it out? 😳

Imanexcellentdrivercharliebabbit · 14/12/2025 22:18

Maggiebell · 14/12/2025 05:38

To be honest I would chuck anything I didn't want in the bin. Shock horror I know. Im not a pious person like a lot on here.
Shops sell lots of shit like Brut gift sets ( who buys that old fashioned stuff that skinheads in the early 70s wore). I think its for people who have secret Santa's for people they don't really know.
Most gift sets have one thing you'd use and just fillers for the rest.
I don't care if this poster chucks her stuff in the bin Im sure a lot of people do that. I mean its not like she is chucking it in the sea. Also if she donated it to charity wouldn't the person who used it chuck the empty plastic bottles in the bin?
Anyway I wish Santa was real and Im 70 and love the feel of Christmas even if this is not what this thread is all about.

’Skin heads in the early 70s’ lol
Spoken like a true middle class Wally

All working class lads and their dads bathed in the stuff up until the mid 80s in my world - the long haired lovers, mods n rockers, quiffs and rocker billy hair do’s alike !

Skin heads lol!!!

Specialagentblond · 14/12/2025 22:28

I am actually so fucking joyful that my BIL and SIL have split up as I won’t have to look at her miserable face eating then criticising my Christmas dinner that is 10x better then the 2 that they had hosted.

I also can’t wait to serve up a shop bought meal this year

Ive also invited our friends for Christmas evening drinks and games after the ILs have left as it will be the only thing that gets me through Xmas dinner.

nayals · 14/12/2025 23:04

My PIL, they’re nice. But just very very boring. My husband’s sister is…a bit of a twat. PIL’s give us £100’s worth of tat from B&M ever year in huge gift bags and most of it goes in the bin/vinted. I hate buying for the nieces and nephews, they’ve never even got me so much as a card and I waste my hard earned money on them every year choosing thoughtful gifts for no thank you. We lie about having to visit my half of the family every year so we can leave early and just go home for cheese and wine!
My dad is a PITA who just talks about himself all the time.

NewNameforThisPost2025 · 15/12/2025 01:48

YouMightLikeCats · 14/12/2025 11:17

None of the ones in my region (that say they are currently accepting donations, which is not all of them) have listed bath bombs under "what we accept".

Can I ask if you have seen these specifically listed? Or are they assumed to be under another tag?

It looks like a good site otherwise.

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I can't remember where on the site they said they accept bath bombs. But you could try women's shelters. They might have baths. Or homeless shelters. And another good suggestion someone had is food banks.

Maggiebell · 15/12/2025 07:20

Imanexcellentdrivercharliebabbit · 14/12/2025 22:18

’Skin heads in the early 70s’ lol
Spoken like a true middle class Wally

All working class lads and their dads bathed in the stuff up until the mid 80s in my world - the long haired lovers, mods n rockers, quiffs and rocker billy hair do’s alike !

Skin heads lol!!!

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Who you calling a Wally?
First time I've been called middle class.
Im from south London and working class and was a girl skinhead in the early 70s when they were real skinheads not the plastic versions.
So you can get to fuck!

YouMightLikeCats · 15/12/2025 07:24

NewNameforThisPost2025 · 15/12/2025 01:48

I can't remember where on the site they said they accept bath bombs. But you could try women's shelters. They might have baths. Or homeless shelters. And another good suggestion someone had is food banks.

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Thanks, but I think the shelters ARE the orgs listed on that site but I went into each one's list of what they accept and none say "bath bombs" - just wondered if you had seen anywhere that said they did accept them (which would suggest it was a specific choice for those orgs not to list them... if you see what I mean!)

There are lots of things they do accept though so worth knowing about.