to dislike 'Look how many presents my children have' posts?

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I've just seen the first one of the year pop up on Facebook, a picture of a living room absolutely full of toys, not even wrapped yet, captioned 'How am I going to wrap all of this?!'. I feel a (possibly unreasonable) amount of disdain towards these pictures!
I don't really mind how many presents people buy for their children, or if the pictures are more about the pretty wrapping/Christmas magic. But 'Look how much I've bought'?! It just seems common and somewhat of a pointless competition of oneupmanship to post online 🙄. Am I crazy or does this irritate others as well?

I had one of these once when someone posted a room full of stuff with the caption "I love Christmas, but why do I buy so much stuff to wrap?" and I replied, "Stupidity?"

great reply!

I have one with an only child while living room from one side to the other full of presents then photo of all the presents unwrapped and "displayed" 6 pairs of trainers! For an 8 year old.

and I replied, "Stupidity?"

who said Christmas spirit was dead? sigh . Your comment makes you sound very jealous and petty. I will never understand why people are "friends" with people they actively dislike.

We so need a like button on MN

I agree op. But that makes us haterz. Christmas haterz.

I think it's vulgar.

I do like my fb friends, they just puzzle me with this nonsense.

She blocked me - result!

Why were you friends with someone that you're quite happy has blocked you because you were rude to her online?

Ah I see the "ur a jellus haterrrr" crew have arrived.

I love these FB threads, they entertain me, but I have never seen the kind of posts described on my Facebook. I don't have many 'friends' though, I know all the ones I do have pretty well.

We do share tree pictures though which I love to see.

I wish I had friends who did outrageous things so that I could judge them. Mostly it's boring. I have a few cousins who like a FB family fight but mostly it's all cryptic so I have no idea what's going on as I don't know them. Must try to diversify my feed.

I don't know anyone who does this on FB or in real life.

The ones which are even worse are the huns who post on a site similar to mumsnet but with a back to front name along the lines of:

I have bought my 5 year old a Xbox, iPhone 6, new bike, a telly, 23 selection boxes, a white grand piano and a board game for every day of the year. IS this enough? I'm worried the pile won't look big enough.

Haha Luna

What are the replies?

We've had to rent a new garage over the Christmas period just to fit their presents in. I think next year I'll rent one each for the dc so we don't run out of space like we have this year.
I'm going to have strong muscles though. The 1859 rolls of wrapping paper that I got on my first wrapping session were ever so heavy.
Oh well back to by another few hundred rolls...

dingdong, I don't think it's that people are friends with those they dislike; it's that social media seems to bring out a weird side to people that are perfectly balanced and nice in real life. So, you get show-offy posts, attention-seeking posts, boastful posts, downright plain lies about the perfection of your life posts. Toe-curlingly vain selfies. Also virtue-signalling and an apparent belief that saying you want to end war/poverty/racism on social media is the same as doing something active. The person who is lovely at work/the book club/yoga class turns out to be a crashing, self-centred bore online. But if you block them, having discovered this, you are cast into the outer darkness.

So I don't do Facebook or Twitter except for extremely limited ways. Too risky!

I don't think it matters. What people post. There's a few on mn as well of what have you bought so far type things. My reply would be:

Yaaaay kids will be happy. I hate wrapping. I started xmas shopping bit later this year so have a bit less this year but they done ok. You can come wrap mine after.

I don't see why anybody would do this.

People will either think you're stupid for trying to show off or get jealous (if they'd like to be in your position),

Why give so many Christmas presents anyway?

I hate comparing amount of presents/money spent/not spent on Christmas presents, angsting over whether you have bought too much or too little. For a festive time of year it induces a lot of hand wringing.

There are the 'I have only spent £400,000 on my Iyr old's stocking - have I been mean?' type posts.
The 'I have spent £400,000 because I can and I will so there - I am Generous McGenerousFace.'
And then there are the 'my children will get half an orange and a piece of coal if they are lucky and do all their chores. And on Boxing day I will beat them' posts.

They all get right up my U-bend.

No one cares, seriously NO ONE CARES. Just buy your bloody presents and shut the fuck up.

I don't know anyone who does this on FB or in real life.

BeMore me either. We must be friends.

maybe they're genuinely excited about Christmas and what they've got their kids. I know i'm looking forward to seeing my ds little face when he opens his presents, he's still little and has the whole wow look what I got mummy stage.

Why do people yet so angry about it, just keep scrolling, I put pictures up with presents under the tree etc. it's not to brag, fb is where I store my photos, it's where my relatives who I won't see over Christmas get to see what we're up too.

Replies usually split between the sensible people who say "that's loads, stop buying" and the huns who say "I would go to poundland and buy some more hun, Crimbo is all about the kiddies, innit and the more presents the merrier hun"

Ah I see the "ur a jellus haterrrr" crew have arrived.

Why else would you be friends with people you dislike to actively bitch about them behind their back? If it's not jealousy, then it's even worst!

Oh let's link to those threads on that place again and have a good Haterz Hoick

Olivia lurked that last time

No not lurked. Lurved

I need a mince pie.