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.

This can't be real

It's not.

OP you're very dull and you'll find your kids will want to spend ha Christmas with friends and partners as soon as they're old enough. Have fun at the sales.

What is it with all this “being organised is dull”! At least I never get stressed about not getting stuff done or being late for anything! Not sure that kids appreciate living in the anarchic muddle that some of you appear to exist in! I bet some of you haven’t even sorted your 2020
hols yet!

Yawn

Look OP, you know what you're doing here.

Whether this is true or not, you know you're attention seeking in the extreme and winding people up.

Did you not efficiently organise some fun for yourself once you'd "RIPPED" the decorations down?

Or does pretending to want to know if you're being unreasonable on a public internet forum count as fun in your life?

You should probably go an pop the sprouts on for next year's Christmas lunch.

For most people Christmas starts late November... we’ve had a month of it, even more if you’re organised like me and your presents are wrapped and food order in by mid-October (though didn’t square things off until 4th November this year though - flu got in the way of me finishing addressing my cards

Well if you are daft enough to do everything a month before Xmas no wonder you are sick of it!
The emphasis is on you yet again...you have done presents, you wrapped them in a vacuum that had no bearing on the actual reason for them. You did the cards the same way, just another chore to get out the way so you could concentrate on your end goal. Your kids don't seem to be part of Xmas at all except a few hours Xmas day then they are told it's over.

Bet they just hate Xmas too by now can't imagine why!

Jeeze just seen your last post. Please do stop it's embarrassing.

Where do you get off saying people who like a relaxed Xmas day are living in an archaic muddle?

Bore off I would rather have my Xmas day then a regimented joyless morning being told do x do y now it's z.

I am organised all year, am never late for anything it's bugbear of mine i work long hour's and look after 2 kids on my own but on Xmas day we don't have a routine we want to enjoy it not tick boxes. How is that anything but a good day?

It's your use of language that bothers me - ripping down the decorations. Sounds a tad aggressive. Couldn't you just have said, decorations down. You seem angry. Are you ok OP?

It's your use of language that bothers me - ripping down the decorations. Sounds a tad aggressive. Couldn't you just have said, decorations down.

If something’s worth doing, it’s worth doing with purpose and verve!

Fuck that. Enjoy the day.

Nice walk pub lunch tomorrow.

Off for a weekend away.

Fuck the sales fuck planning.

Kids love the chaos and tradition.

Your life sounds like hell OP

Purpose and verve! Wise up OP!!!!

Sad. I pity your poor kids.

I felt the same OP as soon as we'd finished eating the lunch. I'm having huge peri menopausal anxiety attacks and I really had to force myself to get through the preparations this year. The minute we started eating the lunch I felt calmer and happy that Christmas was done.

I am organised all year, am never late for anything it's bugbear of mine i work long hour's and look after 2 kids on my own but on Xmas day we don't have a routine we want to enjoy it not tick boxes.

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!

This can't be real

Of course it’s not

Boxing Day sales are the work of the devil, preparing for them is sheer madness.

I’d rather cook another Christmas dinner tomorrow than venture anywhere near the shops.

Bit joyless. And anyway. it's bad luck to take decorations down before Epiphany. My friend did that and his house burned down...you have been warned.

Okaaaay, ya got me

Please can we have another one of these at Easter? 'DC made to sit round the table till they've finished every last bite of their Easter Eggs, now I've RIPPED down the crucifixion tableau and fecked the hot cross buns out the window.'

Lordy what a miserable sod you are! We've been eating and drinking and playing board games and enjoying family time and there's only the 3 of us. If you don't like it, don't do it.

Billy billy bullshit! 😂😂😂

The thought that this could be true has made me feel sick

Quite honestly, we don't need Christmas and Easter. Smush them up into one day called Christer. Get it all over with ASAP. Think of the improvement in GDP!

even as a wind-up it is joyless

Boxing Day sales are packed with the rubbish noone wanted at full price. Why fill your home with cheap tat?

This is all just bullshit.