To ask for your unpopular Christmas opinions?

[GlummyMcGlummerson]

Mine is that a traditional Christmas dinner is horrible
Turkey - bleurgh, so dry
Sprouts - farts posing as leaves
Parsnips - how can anyone put them in their mouth?!
Stuffing - like eating sand
Christmas pudding - sour booze disguised as cake
Christmas cake - way too dry and that much fruit does not belong in a sponge

I'd honestly be happy with a plate of pigs in blankets, a jar of cranberry sauce and a spoon to eat the sauce straight from the jar.

Halloween is a million times better than Christmas.

‘Twas the night before Christmas is a dreadful kids book.

That it's way too much fuss for one day - just call me gringe

Also Christmas pyjamas that you can only wear for a month are a waste of money for growing children.

I love sprouts - they are my favourite part of Christmas Dinner! Mince pies, however, are utterly vile and I’ll happily put Christmas cake, pudding, stollen and all that nonsense in the vile pile too.

@SnuggyBuggy why can you only wear them for a month?

@Ilovesugar

Christmas Day is dinner is overrated and it’s all about the cheese boards. Pigs in blankets dipped in warm cheese yes please!!

Oh, this just got me imagining baked Brie with a cranberry marmalade top and little pigs in blankets 🤤.

I am afraid I buy into all the Christmas nonsense sorry. At least I am openly honest it’s nonsense

@SnuggyBuggy

Also Christmas pyjamas that you can only wear for a month are a waste of money for growing children.

We only wear our Christmas Jammies for the first time in Christmas Eve. There are then no rules about stopping wearing them. They can be worn all bloomin year. This year my pj bottoms are a rather fetching array of gremlins.

I don't posess a Christmas jumper and never will.

Christmas is a thundering bore of drudge work and repetition and I wouldn't care if it was cancelled forever.

I'll never understand why adults get excited by it.

[quote myhobbyisouting]@SnuggyBuggy why can you only wear them for a month? [/quote]
Because wearing Christmas clothing when it's not Christmas would be really weird to me

The John lennon war is over Christmas song is dire.Wailing,indulgent tripe.

People who say it's the best time of the year. Yes I enjoy Xmas, but I make sure I have a great time all year round. Not just 1 day.

I really don't like decorations up before 1 Dec.
Christmas cards - I send 2 a year just to two elderly relatives with a letter but don't get why the neighbours send one to each other for example.
I never told my kids Santa was real, I said it was a myth and they never "believed".
The pressure to get "equal" but different presents - I have twins!

agree too many posts asking how much people spend!
spend what you can afford.

hurray for no office christmas party this year at least

I love wrapping presents, it's my favourite job of the year.

Of course die hard is a Christmas film! It's setting is an office Christmas party.

A Christmas tree should be a real tree, fake trees are tacky and lazy

Blue Christmas lights are tacky

Giving money for Christmas goes against the spirit. Accept the unwanted socks with a smile.

Presents should be opened one at a time. I hate a mass pile on and it's taken me 10 years to bring OHs family round to my way of thinking.

Christmas should be fun for adults as well as kids.

It's ok to have a Christmas stocking as an adult

Any colour Christmas light other than warm white should be banned. Along with the Slade and Wizzard songs.

I'm definitely going off Christmas with every year. There are aspects I love. The fairy lights, the cosiness. It's great for kids.

Aspects I hate are the social pressure and the expectations.

I love fairytale of new York, its mine and dps favourite Christmas song, and we are far from "straight laced" 🤣

Christmas trees are pointless. I love looking at them, but WTF? put a big tree in your house, and stick a load of sparklet stuff on it, then take it all down again a few weeks later. What is the point?! ( I feel like that about all decorations for everything)

Pigs in blankets are not as good as everyone here seems to think. Its all about the stuffing. If you don't like stuffing it's because you've never made/had decent sausage stuffing.

Bah humbug! Christmas is over rated in my opinion. I’d gladly swap Christmas and new year for a few days on a sunny beach 🏝

That everyone expects to see you and have you over but won't ever go to your house, and you spend the whole precious few days off work running and racing (just as much as in real life) instead of actually getting a break.

I long to sit by the fire and read a book for an afternoon - I think I last managed that in 2006 when DD was a toddler.....

@SilverBirchWithout

That it is a religious celebration for Christians Actually my unpopular opinion is - Yuletide is a mid-winter pagan festival which was culturally appropriated by the early Christian church. Christianity became a successful religion in Western Europe due to the clever appropriation of local festivals due to the political and social power of the clergy.

Yes! This is also my stance.

People often drivel on about The True Meaning Of Christmas having been lost. The true meaning of Christmas is about lighting lights, getting in the holly and mistletoe, feasting and waiting for the sun to return.

Christmas has become an overhyped spendfest.

I had to justify on another topic how my budget for Christmas is only 70 pounds. That is usually our budget for one entire week of food!

All I want is a nice meal, a tree and a couple of presents. The rest of it can fuck off like elves on shelves, expensive advent calendars, polar breakfasts, Santa train rides and whatever else companies invent to squeeze money from us.

I fucking love the office Christmas party, it's a big highlight of my year and has been for twenty years now.