To think people are just plain INSANIO about Christmas?

[HullyEastergully]

In many different ways.

So much upset and pain and worry and strategising.

It's not good.

Ooops apologies to fellow-Scots.

that should be hogmanay

Since I hate it anyway it doesn't matter really!

I'm all braced for the Great Christmas Cooking Battle with DB. He goes for quantity, I go for quality. It's not his kitchen; it's my kitchen.

I might suggest it to them for next year sparkling.
Have googled sheeps feet...they are actually cloven hooves, like deer.
Deer!!
And then after you have butchered its leg you could hack their antlers off and put tinsel and pretty lights on them!!
Genius.

I'm so happy about this thread cos I nearly started one the same but thought I'd be slaughtered. I heard someone banging on about hr Xmas table ffs it's one bloody meal and did you know that people actually discuss purchase and wear Xmas pjs.
I am soooo tired of it that thus year it will last precisely 2 days Xmas day at ours quick trip to pil for Boxing Day then finished. Back to bloody work and normality. No ten day old turkey for me I say

Errr, maybe a potato print reindeer foot rather than rampaging around the countryside cutting off random animals legs?

Cheeky.
Well, yes.
I suppose you could

:)

I do quite a good line in rampaging :)

I'm looking forward to it.

Start the day by going to parents where all my siblings and their husbands and children will be.
Will be greeted with champagne and presents and full on festive music throughout the house.
Will then be going on a festive winter walk with all the family and dogs.
Come back and eat and drink lots.
Feel sleepy and then retire to my house where there will be just relaxing to be done.

Is the main difference between the Christmas Frolickers/Fretters down to the sheer amount of alcohol...?

Christmas used to look like this:

Drinking
Shagging
Drinking
Shopping
Shagging
Eating
Sleeping.

Then my twenties ended. Like a door slamming shut.

You shagged in your twenties?

Show off

I think that if I'd joined MN in October or November, there is no way I would have stuck around.

Every year with the Christmas Eve hamper. If my DCs need new pyjamas, they get them for Christmas, not as some sort of a warm-up for the main event.

Nothing wrong with a tastefully festive Christmas duvet

Can't believe that not one person has mentioned the QUEEN! Did nobody else's parents make them watch the Queen at 3pm on Christmas Day?

Am impressed by the amount of Christmas Day drinking. I always manage to get too sloshed on Christmas Eve (despite every year vowing not to) to drink in earnest on the 25th until at least 3pm

This year have realised that visiting 'rents will be far more relaxing than airily inviting everyone to ours and finding self catering for 12 plus dogs and infants

So, when do put your decorations/tree up? Every year we have the same flippin' argument - DH & kids want the tree up from 1 Dec, I would prefer Xmas Eve. We usually compromise & put the blasted thing up when kids break up

I love Christmas but hate all the hoohar that goes with it on mn all the competitive over/under spending, Christmas hampers, Christmas duvets, bloody playmobil and lego advent calendars and now I hear of December 1st presents. I suppose next year it'll be Boxing Day presents or why not dec 27th presents?!

Hmm I must think on and 'pick up' some booze...

Decs go up in the first weekend in Dec round our gaff

No, we were never forced to watch the Queen! If truth be told in my home there was a mad dash towards the TV if she accidentally appeared on our screen.

We don't "do" monarchy.

Insanio? well thats a first by me.. Don't really wish to hear that one again, its as bad as my dad with 'coolio'.

I LOVE Christmas. Mainly because I had kak Christmases as a kid and always wanted ones like the films so I always strive for traditional perfection for my own kids As OTT as I probably do go, I refuse to buy 'Christmas duvets' or 'Christmas pjs'.. mainly because they can only be used for one frigging month and then will go away for 11.. Its stupid. I am guilty of eots though, and Christmas Eve (non-Christmas) pjs in a little hamper

I shall be ignoring it. There will be no presents to open, no need to get drunk unless I want to. There will be no family arguments, no falling out and no hangover.

I was so pleased last year to find a kebab shop that was both open and delivered.

Around the 27th/28th I will buy some nice food that has now been reduced.

Says the woman already wearing her Easter frock...

Easter frock is cos I am ahead of the curve and was annoying MaryZ

Our tree goes up whenever there is a spare weekend. This year we are away 20-22 Dec before the dinner for 21 and 7 people staying at our house (shows off uber relaxedness) so prob weekend before that. We get it from a place that has reindeer, how cool is that?

Hilly would those events you mention be festive ones?

wot events?