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 think the hot chocolate station thing is just the inspired by fucking Instagram Christmas thing for 2021. I don’t remember it being a thing last year.

Next year there will be yet another thing to add to the ever growing list of astroturfed Christmas ‘traditions’.

I hate Christmas, I’ve never enjoyed a Christmas since I was about 10. However, a hot chocolate station sounds heavenly…..as long as I don’t have to do the washing up and clean the counter afterwards!

@Justheretoaskaquestion91

What is a guzzinter?

I hope it’s not like a gazunder!

Possibly any left over food that guzzinter a storage pot in the fridge?

@Sparklingbrook

I might do me a ‘tea station’ . I’ll put some tinsel around the kettle and sprinkle glitter on my teabags.

You want to cut some Holly sprigs with berries to steep in the cup with your tea! Completely biodegradable, far more Christmassy than plastic glitter

Oooh sounds just the thing @haba. Holly tea at my tea station and good for the environment too.

What other 'stations' do we need? Maybe a 'crisp/snack station' ?

I might start calling my wine rack the wine station.

My birthday is the 25th December.. I dread it every year. Also hate the comments, so you get double presents?!!!!

Don't anyone really do the holly thing! I'm pretty sure the phenols from Holly leaves are toxic!

I have a Spice Station, and a Recycling Station...

I’ve got a laundry station. I’ll stick some tinsel on the box of laundry powder and make it a festive laundry station. 🤣

Toilet station anyone?

I could start adding some glitter to the washing machine and make all the clothes more festive. Sure, it’ll ruin them and probably break the machine. But we’ll all have glittery pants for Christmas. 😂

I need to take my baby to the milk station shortly. Since it’s the 1st December I’ll whack on a Christmas tune as I mix the formula 😂

Surely you also have a wheeleybin station?

Oh I have an excellent wheelie bin station in the back lane. I could impress my neighbours by sticking reindeers on them.

😂

Elf on the shelf. I have no problem with people if they want to do elf on the shelf. That's fine. You do you. But what I can't stand is people who do elf on the shelf and then moan about how fucking awful and tedious it is. Yes! It is! So why the fuck do you keep doing it every year! It's like they get some kind of peverse pleasure from it. A elf on the shelf martyr.

And yes, Christmas is the ultimate festival for consumption of tat.

@Andmatt so sorry to hear this and sending you peace and love
I don't get all the rituals of Christmas these days glad I didn't have all this when I had young kids.
too much hot chocolate more than one makes me feel sick and I really have to be in the right mood for them. Would not like a worktop of which I only have one cluttered up with the paraphrenia for making them either.
don't wear pjs so would not like family pjs Christmas eve boxes just an excuse for more presents which surely should be given on the day rather than just another drain on the purse on a different day?

@Sparklingbrook

You have shattered my bitter outer shell of grinchness.
I think I neeeeed a toilet station

I’ll join and rant,

Hate everything about Christmas this year, it’s too painful beyond words.

I had a wonderful one last year and now my world has fallen apart,

I’d honestly cope better if only I wasn’t forced to listen to the radio in work and constant Xmas songs playing, my work colleagues wooh hoping about Xmas, asking me if I’m looking forward to Xmas this year even though they know my circs
I’m really close to telling everyone to fuck off. I’m just done already

@ghostmouse

Oh I want to join in! For years my husband and I made a point of going on holiday for Christmas (sometimes just a few days). We both loved it . Now our DC want us to go to visit and they both want us on Christmas Day and they live 300 plus miles apart! Don't get me wrong I love my family but don't understand why they want us to visit on THAT day! I know, I'm a terrible grandparent

AndMatt I lost my husband this year as well and dread the thought of waking up alone on Christmas morning. My 2DS will be with their own partners which is how it should be but I can’t imagine how I’ll feel on the day.

Other people’s lives go on as normal and I want them all to have a lovely Christmas but I wish I could skip the whole thing. Friends are lovely and want me to join them but for this year I need space. It’s difficult for happy people to appreciate that joining in the celebrations isn’t always the best thing for bereaved people.

I hope you get through this ‘first’ and have a peaceful time.

@flowersforyou

My birthday is the 25th December.. I dread it every year. Also hate the comments, so you get double presents?!!!!

It's crap isn't it? Oh and the "so all your birthday's and Christmases DO come at once" comments.

I've started a new job, so I'm 'in the office' for training until I'm competent.

There are colleagues I've never met, working from home.

I've picked a woman I've never met in the £5 Secret Santa draw and I have absolutely no clue who she is or what she likes. FML.