A thread for all the Scrooges out there

[WheelieBinPrincess]

I’m not feeling my must Christmassy because we were supposed to be moving out of our rented flat and into our first proper home with our new baby, but the solicitor has cocked it and now it won’t happen.

So I’m going to have a rant about Christmas instead.

I don’t get hot chocolate stations. Our kitchen is not big enough for any kind of ‘station’ but even if it was, feasibly how many hot chocolates would you drink in a day to make it worth having a station? Are you at the station all day? Are there soggy marshmallows and drippy bits of squishy cream seeping across your surfaces?

I think it sounds a right ball ache and the chat about ‘hot chocolate stations’ is making me cringe 😂

So just add your Christmas rants. They can be as petty as you like.

I love Christmas, with the exception of Paul McCartney's Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time. That can get in the bin.

@hangrylady

I love Christmas, with the exception of Paul McCartney's Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time. That can get in the bin.

I'll add Fairy Tale of New York, ans Mistletoe and Wine please.

I hate Christmas. I just can't be arsed with the fuss and the noise and hte nonsense around it, and the fact it's the same EVERY FUCKING YEAR. I have heard Noddy fucking Holder screeching "it's christmas" every single December since 1973. That's FORTY EIGHT YEARS. I have never drunk hot chocolate in my life and do not intend starting now. Foul stuff.

Christmas jumper days should be banned.

I like Christmas…the tree, the food, and the time off work to reflect and take walks in the country with DH. But I hate the commercialism…I give nice food hampers to MIL and a book, clothes and books to DH, and send out some cards. That’s it. We are in a climate emergency and need to stop the endless consumerism.

Brilliant @AlternativePerspective

I quite like Christmas... but it's just me and the kids and good food.
No parents or in laws etc
i refuse to travel anywhere!
I'm a bit of a Scrooge as I refuse to buy endless presents for people I barely know. Or any one really 😂

The boys go to their dads on Boxing Day and I relax watching tv eating leftovers in my pjs

The commercialism is over the top now.

Yes we've all had a shitty couple of years but the pressure to have/host the perfect Christmas is relentless.
I've never seen so many Christmas magazines as I have recently.
Perfect table
Perfect outfits
Perfect canapes
Perfect food
Perfect drinks
Perfect presents

It's all too much and upsets so many that have so little.

I recall being lambasted once for suggesting that Christmas Eve boxes ( where did that shite come from?) were a completely unnecessary expense that made others feel guilty for being unable to compete with .

So glad that I no longer have little ones now.

As we have a tiny baby I guess we can start as we mean to go on.

I won’t be letting Father Christmas take credit for the presents I worked bloody hard to buy, he can have the stocking and that’s it 😂

Baffles me when parents say all the main things come from Santa. Why do some kids get bikes etc then and not others? It makes no sense that you’d get your kids to believe that when everyone’s budgets can be so different.

Love all the scrooges out there and share the sentiments about how consumerism has gone completely bonkers. Have always done minimalist christmas with modest present giving even when the kids were small. But we did do walks in winter woods, carols on Christmas eve, stockings with inexpensive gifts and a visit to the local donkey with a carrot. And we sometimes had hot chocolate. But what the fuck is a hot chocolate station - please tell me someone made that up!

It would be easier if Christmas was every other year

It was good last year because of all the Covid restrictions. Unfortunately the government seem determined to wreck things this time around by refusing to even suggest that people should minimise contact with others.

I absolutely hate Christmas. DH and I started going on holiday to Poland and Prague over Christmas years ago. People now know we are out the country so not to expect Christmas visits thankfully.

Haven’t booked again this year again but hopefully things might be more normal by next.

I don't hate Christmas as such, I just think it's one day a year and it isn't really worth all the hype and panic that people put into it.

@FizzyOrange

It would be easier if Christmas was every other year

I'd advocate every 4 years. Like the Olympics or the World Cup.

Last I was subjected to an interrogation by an old friend (who knows I don't like Christmas & why) as to what precisely I don't like (& why) and have I just tried buying less/thinking about it differently etc etc

*last week

I love Christmas 🎅🏻

But can't fucking stand that twee poem that's always quoted on here, so joining in on that.

I hate elf on the shelf and Christmas Eve boxes and 1st December boxes. What's the point?.
Actually I think elf on the shelf just creeps me out. Fortunately my children are too young and old for it but my manager used to hide one at work every day and I hated it.

I wouldn't say I'm scrooge, but I'm blowed if I'm going to work myself to death for magazine perfect.

No elf on the shelf (actually had a teacher have a word with me about that - my kids had asked and not thinking, I'd said that it was just the parents being silly - after all, if a naughty elf really was in the house they'd trap it and get rid of it! - turns out mine had repeated this at school, and upset some believers - in my defence I'd never heard of it until 3 years ago)

No Christmas eve boxes, no matching pjs (well.. not this year anyway), and I don't even know what a 1st December box is.

We're going to my family for Christmas, as it's the first year since splitting from their dad and I just don't want to be in the house alone this year.

We will have a nice family breakfast, lunch and tea on Christmas Day, with Prosecco and drinks in the evening, a roaring fire and a couple of long walks with dog. There will be one present (consumable) for/from each person, and minimum mince pies, cakes and other treats during the day. A film might be watched, or a jigsaw done! Oh the delights of an adult-only Christmas!

It’s all so over the top and disgusting and flies completely in the face of the concerns of less waste, being green etc teaches kids to be grabby and everyone to stuff themselves silly

Can anyone enlighten me please, what are Christmas Eve and 1st December boxes?

I hate the phrase "Are you ready for Christmas?!" I'm not even sure what it means. Ready in the sense that I'm ready for a break from work? Or ready in the sense that I'm supposed to be running around like a headless chicken preparing for one super important day of be year? I just think it's an odd question to ask.

I love Christmas, but from December 1st onwards. I refuse to do anything Christmas related until then, apart from buying an advent calendar for DS 10.

@Tittyfilarious81

My son wants the shitting turtle but I have to draw the line somewhere 😆