To be thankful Christmas is over for another year....

[Oakenbeach]

Presents opened by 6am.... Dinner eaten and decorations RIPPED down and back in the loft. Roll on New Year.

I get that the op is trying to be amusing for some reason

me too. I just wish she was amusing - even vaguely. you really shouldn't post stuff like this unless you can be funny (the ama I am your MIL is an example of a politically incorrect, very funny post - this is really far from that).

How does ripping your decorations down make sale shopping easier? Batshit!

Christmas decorations used to go up around Christmas Eve and stay until 12th night, so they were there over New Year.

This is what I still do. I can understand people wanting them down if they put them up on 1st Dec though.

Urgh, I’m so glad my life is not a tick box exercise like yours clearly is, OP.

It’s all well and good bragging about how ‘efficient’ (questionable, btw) and organised you are, but have you actually asked your children if they are happy for their Christmas to be cut short and also whether they are happy being dragged around busy shopping centres tomorrow? Because I’m sure they would much rather be at home in their pjs eating their Christmas chocolate and playing with their new toys, like most of their friends will be doing.

But judging from your OP and subsequent posts, it just seems to be all about what you want.

Op I 100% agree and Christmas Day I’m so happy as Christmas is nearly over!! .... My fingers are itching to pack up the tree but I don’t think my dc will let me for a couple of days but hopefully by the eve of the 27th it will be gone. I have done a quick clean and thrown out the wrapping paper etc and that I have thrown out as much Xmas food as I can though, except the heathy leftovers.

If you hate it so much, why do you bother?

I'm not really doing a proper Christmas this year. We've been out for a walk, had a few token presents, cooked a nice meal (but nothing like a traditional Xmas dinner), and relaxed. We don't even have decorations up other than cards weve received, as we've been renovating the house.

No one will stop you from doing as much or as little of Christmas as you wish, but doing all the expected Christmas stuff and then moaning that you hate it seems mad. Why not spend the time relaxing or pottering about in the way that suits you?

Putting up decorations only to rip then down a few hours later is just so grim and joyless..... more so than not putting them up and doing something you enjoy instead.

Today is the first day of Christmas. You absolute lunatic.

How intolerant so many people are of anyone with different ideas of “the perfect Christmas”All the “how sad” comments as if OP has her children caged and abused

I am totally on-board with people doing Christmas differently.

What is bonkers is doing Christmas in what you believe to be the 'correct' way, as quickly as possible, working your way through the tick list with grim determination, teeth clenched, no time to enjoy it, then binning it off the minute every box is ticked.

It misses the point. It would make more sense to tick zero 'traditional Christmas' boxes, but instead just enjoy your time in your own way.

So life works well for you being organised for 364 days a year, yet you only seem to “enjoy” the one day you’re not!
Oh stop.being a clever dick twisting my words.

I never said I didn't enjoy the rest of the year I enjoy the laid back Xmas day in a different way. It's nice not to have a list of things to do and places to be once in a while and just wing it.

After the amount doent in shops this past week a she 2 days of no shoppers will not wipe out a business trust me. I work in retail and the amount of money that poured into the place I work was eye watering.

Don't try to justify your spending spree on stuff that was at a higher price for a whole 10 days in November and brought down to a normal price now dressed up as sale stuff tomorrow or crap brought in especially for the 'sale' as altruism. All your posts are all about what you want nobody else seems to matter.

Why is achieving things so derided!
What exactly have you achieved?

Prepping for the sales?

I can think of nothing worse.

Tomorrow I’ll be chilling and eating my body weight in cheese.

It's the implication that ripping the decorations down asap somehow makes the OP superior to the lazy gits that are sitting around eating mince pies that is irritating. Each to their own, I definitely won't be shopping tomorrow.

Well Christmas is obviously about what you can buy in the sales, and not about having relaxing time and making memories for you children to treasure. What with your itinerary and planned route. You don't work for the army do you. ?

Lighten up and make happy memories for your children, they are only little for such a short time xxxxx

I mean I should actually go shopping tomorrow because my work clothes were fashionable in the noughties. However, like is too short to be hitting the crowds when I could be alternating between Monopoly, Trivial Pursuit and Christmas Strictly on catch up. The bootleg trousers will have to suffice for a while

If it were left to me I'd take the secs down on 29 December.

I think she's winding us up.
If not she is a Sargent in the army. Can't leave work at the office and brings it to her home life x

Taking down decorations and going shopping is not 'achieving' anything.

Doing does not equal achieving.

I bet you have lots of 'to do' lists and check things off. Each to their own but...😱

Shopping maybe fun for you but not your kids. I'm sure they'd rather be in the park with their parents having fun or at the cinema watching and nice film or playing boardgames at home.
But you want to do something for you cause you put up with Christmas until 1 o'clock for your kids. So let tomorrow be all about you, like most days I'm sure. X

Ooh you sound just like my SIL.

Natalie is that you??

God you’d hate Christmas at my house then! Decorations go up first weekend in December and don’t come down until 7th January!

We didn’t leave for lunch at the in laws until 2 came home at 7, kids played with toys for a bit then went to bed and we watched gavin and Stacey. Tomorrow will be a chilled day and then we are going to my parents on Friday. I have to agree it all feels a bit depressing at yours

I'm assuming this is meant to be a 'joke' but OP you are coming across as a bit of a tit, and a very dull one at that. Perhaps you should have asked Father Christmas to remove the stick from your arse, you might find it a bit more comfortable

Xmas isn't a tick box - yes presents but then the day is to chill with your loved ones - it's not to pack away - Boxing Day is a lovely extension as is NYE.

Wishing you and yours well OP - at least you're happy

I’d love to know what the in laws think of the op!!

Lots of mean comments here. Why shouldn't someone be glad that Christmas is over?

I put my tree up about 3 days ago, and would gladly bin it now - though am keeping it up until 1st Jan for the teenagers (18-15). We have spent the day playing board games (we all laughed so much we cried), having lunch, going for a walk, etc. We don't have a TV, so have not watched anything. But that's Christmas over, now.

You aren't helping the retail post christmas, do you think all those people want to be going into work tomorrow at ridiculous times so you can shop the sales? I think you will find majority would much rather be at home with their families. There was a time in the 1990s where shops were shut on boxing day and it was a time like sunday where you could actually spend quality time with you're family. Everything is commercialized. As for doing you're bit of retail what do you think you've been doing the past few months? Do you really need more unnecessary crap. I feel so sorry for you're children to have their christmas rudely cut short and then dragged round shops the following day when they should be at home playing with their toys.