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.

What a fucking awful Boxing Day that sounds. I will be sat on my sofa eating

I’d sooner be at home, eating Christmas dinner and chilling out then even thinking about going to the “sales” with millions of other loons.

The OP may be “above board” that doesn’t me he/she isn’t in the wind up.

OP is more honest than 99% of MN posters. Magical indeed.

@PineappleDanish you're right

You sound a right barrel of laughs.

Seriously your version of Christmas is depressing ☹️

I don't think Christmas is magical but I am loving sitting on the couch opening presents and eating chocolate. Not my usual Wednesday routine that's for sure. I will also be at the sales, not as a customer though, wild horses wouldn't drag me into a shop on st Stephens day if i wasn't working.

Poor kids. That's one way to get them to remember your christmases, all for shit reasons! You can plan your shopping when the kids are in bed

What a joy you are. Poor kids. My parents were similar. They spend Christmas on their own now

If were really efficient OP, then surely you would be shopping the sales online right now?!

We've not even had dinner yet. Yes the presents are open, but then the kids want everything out of the boxes to play with. Get the quality street open, pour yourself a glass of Baileys and relax OP! And shop the sales in the comfort of your own home in your Pj's

What I want to know is why the Grinches of this world are so desperate to tell everyone about it. Like it makes them special somehow. You posted something similar this time last year, didn't you op?

Someone I work with is like this. Everyone else cheerful and having a laugh, but she goes round hanging off people's arms moaning about how much she loathes it all, whether we ask her or not.

Fine if you hate it op, but let other people enjoy themselves? Clearly there's at least one person in your family who likes Xmas, or you wouldn't be celebrating at all. Quit sucking all the joy out of that person's day.

Couldn't be bothered to read the whole thread, but are you the sort of people who start Christmas in November?
If so, start at a more reasonable time next year and you won't get fed up so soon.

Oakenbeach

Can’t stand dragging things out.... Does no one else like being efficient?

What on earth do you do in the holidays? Ok kids in the pool, that’s 5 mins, ok out the pool. Build a sandcastle, just one each, that’s it, let’s all pack up and go home now. Come on let’s not be inefficient, no time for relaxing or having fun

Blinking heck.

I'm always keen to get it all put away and cleaned up after New Year, but to do it all on Christmas Day?!

You're hadly going to be making some lovely memories for the children or yourself OP.

I am disappointed to learn that this is not a troll. Poor kids.

Wow joy sucking at its finest.

Poor kids they get 5 hrs of Xmas and then it's all.about "Me me me".

What a boring way to live, fun on a timetable then ripping decorations down so you can start prepping for sales, what to wear wtf? Bet your kids love racing round shops on boxing day with you frog-marching them here and there being efficient!

You don't like Xmas fine but why stop anyone else enjoying it?
Are you looking for an "efficiency medal"?

Why on Earth were you up at 6am.

Even when the dc were little they had to stay on their room till at least 7.30

Used to put them to bed much later on Christmas Eve so they didn’t wake up till a more reasonable time.

We were all still in our pjs at midday.

Christmas dinner will be on the table at 4pm

I'm ony own and having more fun than you and your family by the sound of it,OP.
And the sales are on all year now so why go shopping again.
I am heading for a frugal New Year,shopping a minimum.
Hope everyone else is having a good time.

You sound hard work op.
Poor kids.
I hope you have enough saved for their therapy in a few years.

How old are your children OP?

Doing nothing nicely is an art to be learned, practiced and perfected.

Rushing preparation for the sales tomorrow??? How sad, what’s wrong with enjoying the present?

OP, I'm 100 percent with you.

My friend is the same. Decorations come down at the end of Christmas Day or Boxing Day. I forget which. Decorations go up beginning of December and the kids have a great time, lots of prezzies etc. I find this weird. We have crackers both Xmas day and Boxing Day for example.