Things I don't care about on Xmas day

[BrendaandEddie]

what I will wear
If each kid has the same amount of presents ( really? Yours count?)

Any television Christmas specials/Christmas soap episodes
Downtown abbey
The queens speech
Christmas pudding/mince pies
Turkey
Pigs in blankets
Sausage meat stuffing
Starters or special breakfasts
The need to Choi down on chocolate all day or the constant eating
Eating by a certain time

We usually dress up as we are either hosting or are guests. This year we are all wearing pj's/leggings/lounge pants with the addition of a Christmas jumper/t-shirt

Yes, turkey can do one.

Starters.
Cooking dinner....'tis from M and S again this year; gives more time for drinking fizz / playing with the kids toys.
Timetables...we eat when it is ready. Pause. Eat some more.

I do care about Maltesers, a brew and 5 minutes peace. Oh...and Xmas socks obv.

Things I do care about:

Taking time over opening presents (we don't have lots, but I think it's important to value those we do have, and I like to take turns and see what everybody has got)

Making sure the dinner table looks pretty - it's one of the v few times of the year that we bother with a table cloth!

Spending time as a family, perhaps with a board game

Green Triangles

What we care about.

Wine
Champagne
Playing with DC and the new toys
An afternoon nap if we can persuade DC
Cheese, crackers, pickles and cold meat in the evening
Watching films

I don't care what anyone wears.

If my children ever counted presents a là Dudley Dursley they would be lucky to get anything the following year...

I won't flap if lunch is not on the table for 1pm (what I'm aiming for) it'll be thereabouts and that's good enough.

Oo and Yorkshire puddings with lots and lots of gravy

I once spent Christmas day with a boyfriend whose mother had v strict rules about present opening. Everyone had to sit around in a circle and wait patiently while each person took their turn at opening one present and then had the moment photographed. Twas torture!

They're probably still sitting in a circle opening 2014's pressies.

Mine are 7 and 9. They have the same number of gifts. 14 in stockings (poundland specials) and 4-5 under tree (depending on last ones turning up) They don't have much spent on them (about £60 total) but if one has a large £40 lego set his other four will be cheaper, than say DS2 who has six more evenly priced things. We sit round the coffee table and spend an hour or two opening presents in turn, so it would be noticed if one didn't have the same number as the other. DP and I don't care though :-)

I don't care much for queens speech. Or starters.

And tbh for the first time in ten years I don't care much for sobriety on Christmas Day - bring on the prosecco!

A Christmas tree with matching decorations (no chance there)

Wrapping paper that matches

Fancy stuff on presents eg bows, tags

A starter with Christmas dinner (no one wants it and it just wastes mytime)

Presents for me.

I do care about the food - it has to be yummy. I also care about my family liking what I have bought them and having a good time in general.

Oh and we always wear something nice. Like a shirt instead of a tshirt in the kids case. Or a new top.

This year is Christmas jumper year. Apparently. I've even had to buy one at 33. Boo.

Totally agree with starters at in laws. In the world of MIL the only starters are pate or prawn Cocktail. If you don't like them (and I don't) it's tough.
Also yes to number of gifts and amount spent. My DC don't count, I would be cross if they did. My Sister and I used to get four or five presents and neither of us counted. I know people who rush around buying any old crap just to even up amounts. Ridiculous.
TV. So many people on FB are posting about selecting their Christmas viewing. Boring.
Facebooking pictures of presents and over cooked looking Christmas dinners.

Things I'd add Christmas Eve hampers. Maybe because we usually have a massive party for all DH's family on Christmas Eve so the DC are occupied without the need for hot choc, DVD, book and bath bombs. They do get new PJ's though as I had a childhood friend who did and was always slightly jealous!
Extravagantly decorated tables, where are you supposed to put the food?
Cooking the turkey the night before. MIL does this and she only ever buys a crown. Cold turkey and hot everything else is a bit weird.
Christmas tea, makes me want to vomit.

people semi hysterical about champagne wiht breakfast

I could do that every day of the year if I wanted. I dont. Give me an espresso

I don't care about any of it. I wouldn't bother if it was down to me.

We don't have Christmas dinner because nobody likes it. I put the tree up last Sunday and it won't still be up by this Sunday.

We will get up late, eat whatever, have a drink and unwrap some presents and play some board games if we are still awake. As long as I have enough Southern Comfort to see me through I will be fine.

I don't care about any of it, except DD arriving safely (she's on the plane as we speak, woohoo!)

Just off to the airport to pick her up, then no work for 10 days. Bliss. Christmas is incidental, except it means lots of champagne and Christmas Pudding vodka.

Hah, Sparkling - I threatened to take our tree down today. We already have a bedroom (locked) full of decarations because the boys were constantly squabbling over whether lights should be on or off or penguins should be paired up or on opposite sides of a chest of drawers and my handmade beadwork star has been hidden because they were both reaching it up and moving it every time they saw it and DS1 was ramming it so hard onto the branch that DS2 would subsequently remove it from that he was in danger of ripping it or knocking the tree over...

Now just to fit automatic remote controlled blinds and ceiling lights so they can't fight about those any more, either.

So yeah, our plan for Christmas day is to survive it with no one getting hurt.

I prefer pjs or lounge wear to fancy clothes, who wants to cook and sit around playing toys in fancy clothes. We don't do starters or formal breakfast and go with the flow over the time of Christmas lunch.

People invest far too much time and energy into what is just one day a year that's supposed to be fun and spending time with loved ones.

I care about nice wrapping, but only for other people who care about it. We have a tradition that the DCs' presents are colour-coded with those stick-on foil star things, because the youngest can't read. This year's colours are red, gold and green.

We don't care about food so long as it's vaguely celebratory: this year it will be children's party food and trifle. Fuck gourmet: I'll be opening packets and making a few sandwiches (naice ham, smoked salmon).

We don't care about adult gifts: we are all sufficiently well off that we don't need to wait for Christmas for things like clothes (we aren't fussy about brands) or books, so we only really exchange tokens.

My tree is beautifully coordinated with the wrapping and the walls but includes the children's salt dough etc.

Booze. Don't give a fig.

Mrs Hathaway we do colour wrapping too! Started when the kids were young, now they pick their own paper a few weeks before so I know what to wrap it in, and they know what to look for. Also helps with stocking presents I don't label that get mixed up when dumped out on my bed

ouryve I would take the tree down now if I could. Everyone is out.

Over eating.
Mountains of chocolate- I will have one or two.
Turkey, goose etc.
Christmas TV- will be watching our usual stuff.
A house full of clutter- I will be itching to tidy it all away. Luckily it's less now we have teens.
I do care a bit about what I wear, but only because I do that anyway, but definatly no special outfit or jolly Christmas jumper.

I like seeing the dc open their presents
Seeing family
Playing games
Time off work

Oh yeah, Christmas Eve hampers can do one. DS does get new pjs (he wears his pjs until they're hanging off him, or more often, there's a foot of bare leg sticking out of the bottom) but they are handed to him on Christmas Eve, usually with a shriek of 'if you don't settle down and go to bleddy bed there will be no Santa!'. None of this DVD and hot choc nonsense. Mother needs to watch Carols from Kings, wrap presents and drink the fizz!

Secret Santa and Christmas jumpers.

Being at the in laws.
I hate their Christmas.
Over dressed tables
Queens speech