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

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Oakenbeach · 25/12/2019 13:00

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

OP posts:
damnthatanxiety · 25/12/2019 15:10

Taking down decorations on Christmas day is no more 'efficient' than throwing out dinner before you eat it. It's just weird.

Celebelly · 25/12/2019 15:14

What a shame Sad I had such lovely Christmases as a kid and I can't wait to do the same for my DD when she's old enough to understand! Did you have bad Christmases as a kid?

Your Boxing Day sounds even more depressing than your Christmas Grin

SabineUndine · 25/12/2019 15:17

'Prepping' Boxing Day sales?

If I CBA, I'll get the bus to John Lewis on Saturday to buy some new sheets. I can't think of a more depressing way to spend the Christmas break than spending more money.

userxx · 25/12/2019 15:22

Each to their own I suppose. I hate shopping at the best of times but then I hate a traditional Christmas at home. Enjoy your day op however you like to spend it.

TigerOnATrain · 25/12/2019 15:23

@Oakenbeach

Xmas Hmm

FFS, there's always ONE. Don't bother putting anything up, and don't bother with presents, if you think it's THAT shit!

FruitcakeOfHate · 25/12/2019 15:24

YANBU

CalleighDoodle · 25/12/2019 15:26

You're doing it wrong op. Really, really wrong.

Christmas starts today. In the 25th. It lasts for 12 days, ending on the Epiphany. If you're done with it now, you're too focused on presents and food.

OutwiththeOutCrowd · 25/12/2019 15:28

You are sounding a bit too easygoing!

The minute the kids have got their presents unwrapped, you need to get them to sit down and write their 'thank you' notes, otherwise you're not properly getting Christmas done and dusted as efficiently as my parents did!

Oakenbeach · 25/12/2019 15:29

Come on let’s not be inefficient, no time for relaxing or having fun

I find time to schedule in relaxation and fun just like anyone else! But what’s wrong with a bit of organisation in life to make every moment productive.... If someone’s doing some ahead of you, it tends to mean they’re ahead of you, better organised and planned, and therefore more effective and productive. I don’t get how people seem to drift around and be so unfocused.

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GreyGardens88 · 25/12/2019 15:30

I like my xmas decs down before new year but what's the point in even putting up xmas decorations if they're taken down on xmas day. Ridiculous and neurotic.

Oakenbeach · 25/12/2019 15:30

you're not properly getting Christmas done and dusted as efficiently as my parents did!

Yep, thank you letter after each present before they open the next one. I thought that was standard. They’re not posted yet though...

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legoninjago1 · 25/12/2019 15:35

Can't imagine anything worse than your Boxing Day! Ugh! However Christmas Day has been hard work for me too so on balance I'm going with a yanbu to your original question.

sandybanana · 25/12/2019 15:38

Oh man.
This is depressing.
It's not even mid afternoon on Christmas Day and you say you're done.

Why even bother.
Seriously

Celebelly · 25/12/2019 15:38

It just keeps getting worse Grin

Lyricallie · 25/12/2019 15:38

Ooft we don't take down the decorations until after Hogmanay! We've not even had dinner yet!

WarmSausageTea · 25/12/2019 15:39

Yep, thank you letter after each present before they open the next one. I thought that was standard. They’re not posted yet though...

No you didn’t. You’ve overplayed it, but you were doing well for a while there, as these things go.

TeachesOfPeaches · 25/12/2019 15:41

What were your kids doing while you were RIPPING down the decorations OP?

mbosnz · 25/12/2019 15:42

Um, I don't suppose you timetable sex as well do you? Fifteen minutes, on the timetable, one ex boyfriend.

Mydogmylife · 25/12/2019 15:42

@Oakenbeach
Stop being so goady!! Just don't bother if you don't want to, it's not compulsory you know.

Allergictoironing · 25/12/2019 15:44

But WHY insist on every moment in your life being productive? Or more to the point, define "productive".

It has been proven that people are more effective if they have some "down time", which you seem to define as drifting around & being unfocussed. So surely relaxing is productive, as in the long term it increases productivity.

And doing something pleasurable "just because", rather than because you need to, is in itself A Good Thing (and productive) because you can relax, reset your mind (and possibly your body), then move on to the next important thing refreshed and more easily able to refocus. And actually have some pleasure and enjoyment in your life rather than dashing from one thing to the next as a duty.

I used to work in project management so know the value of good planning; I still use the techniques today in many aspects of my day to day life. But I also know the value of just kicking back & relaxing, a word that doesn't seem to be part of your vocabulay.

Ah well, each to their own. I will be eating my Christmas dinner in a couple of hours and for me the pleasures of Christmas will last a lot longer.

recklessruby · 25/12/2019 15:44

Dont you enjoy any of it OP?
I ve not long broken up from work so the last few days have been frantic but i love our Christmas eve in the pub and relaxing in comfy clothes with the tree beautiful and right now dinner s cooking (dd working till 4).
It s lovely to take a break and slow down with your family.
My dc are grown up but we still do presents and music and film.
They ve got great memories of childhood Christmas too.
It wont be time to take the tree down till after hogmanay (I always feel a little sad then).
Sales tomorrow can do one. I was sick of shopping by yesterday and full of admiration for all the retail staff rushed off their feet.

PickAChew · 25/12/2019 15:46

Why bother hitting the sales on Boxing day when they're already online on Christmas eve? Sitting down with your laptop at 5pm would be efficiency. And Christmas day is not the day to be looking for change and finding that you're short. Efficiency would be going into Christmas day with plenty of change in your purse because there's bog all open to do anything about it on the 25th.

And how long does it take to pull some jeans out of your drawers and a top out of your wardrobe and whatever weather appropriate coat and footwear are needed out of the cupboard under the stairs?

BrendasUmbrella · 25/12/2019 15:47

I'm the opposite. I love Christmas and put a lot of effort into it. I'll attempt to keep the decorations up till February if I can get away with it! And the DC's love it all too so I probably can!

But as long as your family is all on the same page and moving quickly to the next thing is what you all like to do, then more power to you. (I'm going nowhere near the sales. I'm hibernating now.)

PickAChew · 25/12/2019 15:53

Will admit we don't do downtime very well. After a brief post prandial nap, DH has just fixed a chair leg and glued some skirting boards to the wall.

mindproject · 25/12/2019 15:54

I like Christmas.
It is all effort though.