WIBU to fake a positive Covid test so everybody f***s off?

[glacialseafoam]

As the above really. I don't even know if I’m joking or not at this point I’m so irritated.

Both sides of family have invited themselves for hours and hours tomorrow plus dinner (and breakfast, and lunch, with 7 dogs between them…). Plus they’ve come to see the kids tonight to bring Christmas eve boxes and pyjamas etc. I went on an hour and a half dog walk for some space and they were still here. Honestly, nobody is enjoyable company and I really can’t be arsed. MIL is apparently turning up at 7.30 with her drip of a partner to ‘watch the kids open their presents’. She won’t leave til after dark. She did contribute a cheap sticky toffee pudding and a tin of custard though.

The last thing on earth I want to do tomorrow is cook for 16 (fussy & uninvited) people. And they all wonder why I don’t like Christmas. It’s the same every year. Can’t tell them to leave us alone for the day or come for a hour or something as would create so much drama.

We see both sides of the family ALL of the time, for context. They don’t even really like each other….

F*cks sake.

Book a holiday away next year!!

Both sides of your family sound toxic.
I think you just need to suck it up this year, as it’s too late to tell them now ‘Do not attempt to come to mine on Christmas Day. I never agreed to this and I didn’t even invite you!’
You should have shut this down as soon as and everytime it was mentioned. Rinse and repeat. Rinse and repeat. I have had to do this with family over the years.
We sometimes go on holiday over Christmas. If not, we stay at home as a household only on Christmas Day and only see extended family members after Christmas Day.

Hell no to 07:30. They can arrive when everybody else arrives. You need to set the arrival time and it needs to be a time that suits you and your immediate family that live with you.

You need to make boundaries as these people are draining you and taking over your life.

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You can cause short term drama by saying a definite no next year, or you can have this going on for the rest of your life. I know which I'd go for.

7.30 is just ridiculous. That's not showing any respect to your family time. I'd laugh if my mum said she was coming then, and politely say a time that was actually ok for her to arrive. She wouldn't do that though, as she is respectful. Your families sound like they think they are in charge and are not treating you like an adult. They definitely need boundaries! No to 7 dogs too! If they had to leave the dogs behind they wouldn't be able to stay all day ... Good luck!

You would have to be super human to cope with this!!
You deserve to have heaps of karma. X

16 people and 7 dogs, I feel bad for you and yanbu.
A couple hours fine but not all day

YANBU. I can guarantee you’re not the only person to be thinking of doing or has done this.
Now the 7 dogs I wouldn’t mind.
16 humans however nah none of that.
Also putting any jokes aside turning up at 7:30 is just the height of bad manners.

And hell no to other people’s dogs too!
WTF!?
We’re not a pet household for various reasons (busy lives, hygiene, etc). Other people’s pets would definitely not be welcome in our home, even and especially not on Christmas/Boxing/New Year’s Day.

Why do the dogs have to come?

In your shoes, I would do it, OP! It's a golden opportunity. Why waste it?!

Next year, book a short break and go away somewhere, even if it's a "Miranda style" holiday to a hotel a couple of miles away!

I’m sorry 16 people showed up uninvited and expect you to cook dinner for them?

I assume you have form for being a doormat, because for that many people to turn up uninvited for Christmas dinner is unheard of.

I would if I were you.

We have to lft apparently before we go to fils. I’m tempted to fake a positive test.

The dogs have to come to allow the humans to piss me off for longer. The dogs also have awful manners. I absolutely love animals. I have MANY, but it’s also ruining my dogs and cats Christmas Day. I don’t even know how this situation has escalated so far to be honest. I’ve just thought about it this afternoon/evening and felt very overwhelmed.

all you need is orange juice

To fake it

Only problem of saying you have Covid is that you need to find a long-term solution to dealing with their behaviour.

eh mil coming at 7.30am to see kids opening presents....nope to this alone! honestly just nooo it's your Xmas too!

Do it!!! Seriously.

@FriedTomatoe

Only problem of saying you have Covid is that you need to find a long-term solution to dealing with their behaviour.

Yes this is true.

@glacialseafoam

FFS, what kind of people just invite themselves for CHRISTMAS with a day's notice? SIXTEEN people are suddenly coming tomorrow, and bringing their SEVEN dogs with them?

So not one of those 16 people had any other plans whatsoever for Christmas day, and just decided - today - to come to yours - tomorrow? Really?

This is like something out of a daft American comedy, like National Lampoon's!

Didn’t say anywhere they only gave a days notice, but it has escalated and number have steadily increased. Like, ‘oh so and so is coming too, hope you’ve got enough chairs haha.’
I knew they were coming but just had a count up this evening and felt v overwhelmed and in a bit of disbelief at the number of people and dogs that seem to be gatecrashing.

Please grow a backbone with your family. You can’t stop your mum turning up at 7.30 but you can choose not to let her in. You can’t control how your family behave but you can stop pandering to their guilt trips and tantrums. And you can say “actually no, so and so can’t bring their dogs to my house on Christmas, they can come without the dog or they can make other arrangements” (not saying you should say that now but you should have said it when they first mentioned it)

I've a positive LFT and can happily share a photo?

Whilst I 100% agree with Worra’s post (as usual) I am surprised how many people on here act like these situations with family aren’t staggeringly awkward to manage. So many airy ‘grow a backbone’ type comments which are great in theory but probably not with family. Unless you just really don’t give a fuck about them, their feelings, and ongoing relationships

That said…..you have cats and people are bringing ‘strange’ dogs?!