Christmas unpopular opinions.

[malificent7]

I love my Bayliss and Harding gift sets and if you dont like yours send them to meeee!
Any other different festive unpopular opinions?

@Luhou

Christmas dinner is overated and time consuming. We had filler steak yesterday, it was delicious and we had all morning playing with DD instead of being in the kitchen.

Long ago we started cooking the turkey the day before. Far too stressful/time wasting to faff around with it on Christmas Day. Then we just start an hour before lunch to prep the veg, stick the frozen potatoes in the oven, then half an hour before, put the frozen stuffing and pigs/blankets in oven, 10 mins before boil the veg. 5 mins before microwave the gravy. Much simpler and quicker!

I want mashed potato. Everyone else prefers roasties so that's what we have, but I still miss mash.

Hosting and having guests and family round is hugely overrated and not worth the stress and expense. We have Christmas Day alone and it's always so peaceful and relaxing.

It's okay to raise your children not to believe in Santa - it won't ruin their childhoods or destroy the fun, magic and excitement of Christmas.

Telling people you don't like their presents and want to return them is rude and ungrateful - just smile and say thank you. I can't believe how many MN'ers were posting yesterday saying they told their husbands (and kids ) that their gifts were shit and they needed to return them. If someone said that to me I would probably burst into tears!

Christmas dinner is crap, an overrated roast that takes hours to make hours to tidy up from and only minutes to eat. We have something we all agree we would like.

Gift buying and receiving for adults can be a soul destroying and anxiety building endeavor that is best avoided.

Santa is a lovely story that it's fun to pretend is real for a couple of days. Presents however actually come from real people who love you and should be thanked.

I love Baylis and Harding and milk tray

I don't like fizzy wine; cava, champagne or Prosecco. I don't do turkey, I do ham instead which is pretty much done the night before and then blasted in the oven on Christmas Day. I absolutely treat it like making a Sunday roast dinner and only do about 3 veg (sprouts, cauliflower cheese and roasted carrots). I actually enjoy doing roast dinners so it's not a flaff for me. Lots of people I know visit more family on Boxing Day but for me, it's a day of being completely chilled; play with presents (ds), eat cheese and generally slob out.

@DreamerSeven

I bloody love sprouts, would have them with every Sunday roast if the rest of my family felt the same

Surely you can have them anyway ?

I love to drink a snowball.

@icedcoffees

Hosting and having guests and family round is hugely overrated and not worth the stress and expense. We have Christmas Day alone and it's always so peaceful and relaxing.

It's okay to raise your children not to believe in Santa - it won't ruin their childhoods or destroy the fun, magic and excitement of Christmas.

Telling people you don't like their presents and want to return them is rude and ungrateful - just smile and say thank you. I can't believe how many MN'ers were posting yesterday saying they told their husbands (and kids ) that their gifts were shit and they needed to return them. If someone said that to me I would probably burst into tears!

Agree on ALL these!

I take my Christmas tree down a couple of days after Boxing Day, I get sick of the sight of it

I am at my happiest when I am alone.

Having your adult dc over for Christmas can be quite hard work.

Giving cash for Christmas is a cop out

I love spending time with my extended family its the best bit about Christmas

Christmas is not just for kids, adults can/do enjoy it as well

Real trees are far better than fake ones

Nothing wrong with a subtle colour scheme for the tree

Telling people you don't like their presents and want to return them is rude and ungrateful - just smile and say thank you. I can't believe how many MN'ers were posting yesterday saying they told their husbands (and kids) that their gifts were shit and they needed to return them. If someone said that to me I would probably burst into tears!

I have received presents I wasn't keen on. I told my my DH afterwards as it aggrieved me that he spent money on things I wouldn't wear. But I certainly wouldn't say anything as he gave it to me, or in front of others.

I love any gift I get.
People went out and bought you something,just be greatful.

Also having people around that you don't like,stop making a Martyr of yourself and do your own thing.

I like Thorntons ,any kind of whisk/gadget (esp A kitchen Blowtorch ) wine ,anything like that really . Do feel however that Christmas Lunch IS a big faff .(May go nuclear next year and have some Roast Beef even!)

A second meat is not required and Yorkshire puddings have no place with a Christmas Dinner unless you are having beef.

My unpopular opinion is that no one else should give a toss what anyone else eats, and I will have Yorkshires because we all like them, even with turkey. And that anyone who thinks otherwise should really just get over it.

I also tell DH what I would like for Christmas because I don’t like surprises and would rather get what I want rather than have people guess then start threads moaning about what I received.

Cauliflower cheese is disgusting and I don’t know how anyone feels it has a place on any plate, let alone Christmas dinner.

I cannot stand mince pies, Christmas cake, Christmas pudding. I absolutely love Christmas dinner but not Turkey.

It is overrated and I can’t wait for tomorrow when I can go home.

I do NOT want a white Christmas (and didn't have one where I live!) White Christmas is all very well in places where it's supposed to be white at this time of year, but in southern England, snow just results in icy dangerous roads and pavements. I get irritated by the way that snow is seen as an essential aspect of Christmas - I hear that even in Australia, where Christmas is in midsummer, they decorate their houses with fake snow. It almost certainly was not snowing in Bethlehem.

I will take the opportunity to pass on a friend's unpopular opinion: 'Christmas is just lockdown with crackers!'

@DukkaTheHallsWithBoughsOfHolly

A second meat is not required and Yorkshire puddings have no place with a Christmas Dinner unless you are having beef.

My unpopular opinion is that no one else should give a toss what anyone else eats, and I will have Yorkshires because we all like them, even with turkey. And that anyone who thinks otherwise should really just get over it.

I also tell DH what I would like for Christmas because I don’t like surprises and would rather get what I want rather than have people guess then start threads moaning about what I received.

Absolutely this!

Why some people care so much about what total strangers have for Christmas dinner?

@Exhausteddog

Telling people you don't like their presents and want to return them is rude and ungrateful - just smile and say thank you. I can't believe how many MN'ers were posting yesterday saying they told their husbands (and kids) that their gifts were shit and they needed to return them. If someone said that to me I would probably burst into tears!

I have received presents I wasn't keen on. I told my my DH afterwards as it aggrieved me that he spent money on things I wouldn't wear. But I certainly wouldn't say anything as he gave it to me, or in front of others.

I think speaking up in private afterwards is very different to what I saw on here yesterday.

One poster described how her kids had helped pick something for her and she basically said it was rubbish and needed to be returned. Why on earth would you do that to your young children on Christmas Day?!

Why some people care so much about what total strangers have for Christmas dinner?
Because it was a thread asking for unpopular opinions! Those are mine. Opinions are of course for anyone to ignore but thought remain my opinion.