To think people are just plain INSANIO about Christmas?

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In many different ways.

So much upset and pain and worry and strategising.

It's not good.

I love the telly, slobbing out and food part of Christmas. Last year we had a lie in every day of the holidays, it was brilliant. We are going to my parents this year, so I just bring some food and sit on my arse. Good times.

I hate the mad rush around the supermarket, the shops are only shut for two days max, get a grip on your heads people!

And I'd never heard of elf on the shelf before either, sounds bobbins to me.

Greeny - picking up my cheese sounds like a christmas board game right there

I cannot have liquorice allsorts in the house.

They call to me.

They have to be bought at the very last minute.

I used to love Christmas. I'd be so excited I'd be shitting tinsel throughout December and beyond.
Then I got married and acquired some in-laws and now I absolutely hate it.
Thanks for that MIL.

I get christmas presents on christmas eve. Now dd is older there is not the frantic effort to get a tellytubby or whatever, and the shops are quiet. I don't post anything as I give presents for people far away when I see them before or after the day.

Christmas dinner is a piece of piss to cook, just takes prep.

Thankfully I don't have any tossers for dinner, I remember a dark day crying in the kitchen when I was 24 or somewthing and xmil slagged off my pasrnips.

Haven't read the whole thread - Ivor's comment about serving LASAGNE for Christmas dinner just completely blew my mind. I almost hyperventilated at the thought of turning up somewhere and getting lasagne instead of a delicious roast dinner.

Ivor, you are INSANIO

And yes, if you hadn't already guessed I am one of those people who goes nuts over Christmas - bloody love it!

What it elf on the shelf and hampers nonsense?

I do so love your new name Getorf.

My dear aged mother lives next door to a rl Morris Man (the Hampshire chapter). He does bit and bobs of diy for her for which she is grateful but buried not too far beneath the surface is a certain scathing for the fact that he is a Morris Man.

says nothing as comes from Maurice Dancing household

Haha, this thread makes me
We're having a baby this year. So we are going to put up our own christmas tree, go to my parents for the morning, IL's for lunch, then I'm going to come home and get roaring drunk because I missed out on my 21st birthday this year!! And I'm not doing sod all else

You utter boozing bastards! S'not fair!

How do you get reindeer footprints in the snow?
.??
Do they sell amputated reindeer legs that you make hoof print with now?

I like veg prep too :)
Dancing around the kitchen to Xmas tunes and peeling carrots.
Marvellous.

Pigs trotters might do it Bad.

Hmmm....yes. Or goat?

yes, but not sure you can get goat's trotters at the butchers.

Oh!
Yes.
Butchers.
Right.
So not just hopping into a field and dismembering one then?
I suppose that wouldn't really be in the spirit of Xmas would it?
"And lo it came it be that the mad bint jumped over the hedge and hacked at the goats hind leg with her best carving knife. The Shepard was verily pissed off"

...do goats have sheperds?
Is it just sheep?
Sheep!!!
Sheep have hooves!
Don't they?

Yanbu forusing the lovely word insanio

Oh no, not at all, anyhowsies

I might buy a tree this year

WTAF is a Christmas duvet?

Is it rude?

No sheep don't have hooves do they Bad? I have never heard of a sheep's hoof. Is it like a camel toe?

You can get various goaty bits in Brixton market. I can just see some prosecco-ed up yummy mummy staggering around in the garden trying to make dear little Santa's reindeer hoofprints with a gory dismembered goaty leg.

I assume a Christmas duvet looks like this vile example Sole.

I absolutely adore Christmas. It's bloody wonderful.

I even love the tacky decorations. I love Christmas socks, Christmas pyjamas, Christmas duvet covers (for the children - although I'm so tempted to buy myself one this year to be Granny Christmas!), Mince pies, Christmas cake, turkey with all the trimmings, the traditional trifle, Advent calendars.

It's soooooooo blooming good! Every last bit of it.

However, I hate hogmonay as much as I love Christmas. It's a piece of nonsense.

I don't know sparkling.
You see, this is the sort of stuff, at 40 years old, I feel I ought to just know, you know?
Off to google sheeps feet.
Bluestocking...what a lovely alternative John Lewis ad that would be! :)

We always have a stress free christmas

Tree and decs put up around 2nd week in Dec by my own children and the mindees - I don't rearrange anything, just leave whatever they have done (has been a touch hit and miss lol)

Then we start on christmas eve with a trip out somewhere, come home and have chocolate and alcohol, boys in bed (new pj's of course) then pressie wrapping.

Christmas day we get up, open stockings, mooch about for a bit, eat croissants and drink champagne, grandma comes in to open pressies, drink more tea/coffee, eat more chocolate, open more pressies. Play with stuff, watch tv. Mid afternoon/early evening we eat whatever - usually cold meats and salad with new potaotes and more chocolate (oldest son has pizza :)) then we slob some more.

We don't invite anyone in (except grandma who stays for an hour or two then goes home), we dont go out (unless we have a new outdoor toy), we dont get dressed (unless we are going out), we dont cook (unless you count the pizza lol), then we have showers and go back to bed. Lovely!

We have done this ever since we had the children. Its the one day each year that we are all at home together with nothing to do and we love it. When the boys were small we did all the reindeer footprints, santas magic key, mince pies and stuff for FC. We always had a "party tea" of the childrens choice and then we had a romatic dinner for two when they were in bed. Now they are teens they are up later and we might play a game or two.

Christmas is what you want it to be.

YY to the goat leg JL advert. The goat could be reunited with it's legs at the end awwwww.