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?

I love a traditional Christmas lunch but I do find it stressful to cook. No one individual item is difficult, it's getting everything ready at the same time and keeping things warm that is the trouble.

A hostess tray is your friend. My mum bought me one not long after I got married. Gets used every Christmas for the veg and sometimes in between too.

@thatsallineed

I like a mini screwdriver set, and happily pinch them off someone else if I don't get one in my cracker.

Love all the naff cracker jokes too - I have a book that I pritt-stick them into, and now have a collection of terrible jokes going back over 20 years.

I've just got yet another mini-nail clipper! This year's crackers seem to all have charades etc., makes a good change.

Carols are the best sort of Christmas music, and the best sort of carol has something of midnight, snow and firelight about it

Oh yes - this in spades

Hate matching pajama photos… all for posting on social media. Cringe.
Christmas cards are a waste of paper.
Telling someone you don’t like a gift they bought you is the rudest, nastiest most entitled thing you can ever do. Those poor kids yesterday who helped their father pick out a pressie for their mother only to be told she didn’t like it. SHAME on you. Imagine how the kids felt.
Shop bought roast potatoes are an absolute cop out and never taste like the real thing.
Pigs in blankets are poxy.
Leaving up your Christmas tree until the 12th of never is outdated. Take it down when you like.
Christmas movies make me itchy .
Trying to outdo people in how much you have spent or how you did the whole of Christmas for £30 including food and pressies for the whole family is so bloody boring.
Dressing up like a dogs dinner complete with glittery top and heels to cook a dinner and sit on your own gaff is ridiculous.
Antlers on your car.. well nuff said.

For my unpopular opinion: I think pretty much every Christmas condiment is overrated. If anyone actually like bread sauce or cranberry then we'd eat them all year round.

We do eat them all year round. I stockpile bread sauce in the freezer, we have it every time we have roast chicken.

Theres a differance in santa not being a part of someones beliefs and telling children he isint real.
Parents who use the excuse its because they dont want to lie to their children are laughable and deluded if they think there aren't going to be times in there childrens lives when telling a lie is necessary.
Since when do christmas presents come from parents ,presents are from Santa !
Breadsauce is disgusting.
Love and appreciate that anyone would think enough of me to buy me a gift.
Love preseco and sprouts .
Christmas is what you make it if you dont like it then change it or drop it all together ,simple.

@PAFMO

I like seeing family I like the fact my child's grandparents buy her things even if they haven't received the royal warrant to do so I don't give a fuck who sits where at the table I'm an adult not 4 so I didn't have the screaming abdabs when dp asked me what I wanted and I named a couple of books I didn't receive handwritten thank you cards (fountain pen pbvs) by 3pm yesterday from my nieces and nephews but that's ok. I don't feel the need to start a MN thread to moan that my MIL is still breathing despite the arsenic I've added to everything on her plate Etc etc.

Dear god but the professionally offended have been out in force since early yesterday.

All of this. ^

And I love getting Christmas cards from old friends, specially the ones with news of their lives and am quite happy if it's in the form of a 'Round Robin'.

I love receiving a gift that someone's taken the trouble to get me. Specially if it's 'just' chocolates.

I don't like turkey particularly and have cunningly trained my now-adult DC to feel the same, so we've had a not-turkey meat for the last 40 years and everyone seems happy. But if someone cooks for me I'll enjoy whatever it is.

I like starting the day with a walk to church to sing carols with my friends and wish everyone Merry Christmas.

I was out for a walk today and overhead a lady behind me enthusiastically telling her companion about the wonderful saucepan set she'd received for Christmas. She sounded really pleased!

I loved getting clothes as a present when I was a kid. I can't imagine why is such a terrible gift to give.

I'd rather get no gift at all than a thoughtless one.

I'd think that wouldn't be 'unpopular' but after the number of 'you should just be grateful, I got nothing' comments on posts, I realise that isn't the case for many

@Toddlerteaplease

I loved getting clothes as a present when I was a kid. I can't imagine why is such a terrible gift to give.

When my sister and I were little my Grandma's present to us each year was a party dress. We would get it about the start of December though, so we had it for Christmas parties. Mum would take us shopping to choose it and Grandma would reimburse her for it.

Women starting threads on my loaning they got a shit present or didn't get anything even though they say they didn't want anything or need anything.. throwing childish tantrums and allowing people to call their husbands all manner of awful things, come back on and say but he's really lovely though.

Well if you flipping communicate to people you don't need anything and then get nothing what did you expect.

@notanothertakeaway

"I'm not sending Christmas cards, I'm donating to charity instead" gets my goat

Send cards or not, I don't care. But if you can't be bothered with them, I wish you would admit that, especially if (1) you could easily afford to donate to charity AND send cards, (2) you claim you're not sending cards due to environmental concerns whilst still having a real Christmas tree

This!

Plus, I’d like an assurance from everyone who cites environmental reasons for not sending them, that they’re not buying any fruit or veg that’s been flown in from many thousands of miles away. (Salad and citrus fruit from within Europe are allowed.)

Christmas dinner is as easy as you want it to be. People prepping veg for hours must just enjoy prepping veg for hours.

@daisychain01

DH and I go Christmas shopping together, go into our favourite shops, choose a couple of nice things each, go home and wrap them up. Zero drama, zero bust up about what cheap nasty awful gifts we've got, no surprises on Christmas morning because we aren't 6, we're adults and Christmas should be a nice day like the other days of the year.

If Christmas is shite, if you feel under appreciated and unloved, then it's probably a sign there are problems on the other 364 days that need to be dealt with. Expecting Christmas Day to be sugarplum fairies and Cartier watches ain't gonna happen if your relationship is already dodgy and your partner is an arse, so don't overexpect and get disappointed.

You e hit the nail on the head for me. I feel the same way about gazillion threads moaning about how the cooking is stressful. If you spend 364 days a year doing not much more than shoving a tray of nuggets in the oven, make instant gravy, heat up frozen roast potatoes then why do people think they can suddenly cook like Nigella the other day of the year? The reason they find it stressful is because they try to exceed their skills. If you regularly cook like Nigella and are used to the techniques needed to achieve professional results then it’s no different from any other meal. I wasn’t in the kitchen any longer than I would be on any other day yesterday.

*CurlyhairedAssassin

Gift bags are naff, I'd rather see a badly wrapped present that a gift bag sealed with sellotape and don't get me started on presents in a gift bag with a crumpled bit of tissue over it or even worse a wrapped present inside a gift bag.

You see, opinions like this (if real) are why I'd skirt gift giving altogether. Some people are unbelievably particular about stuff which just doesn't matter. You hand a present over, they see what it comes covered in for about 10 seconds, then they remove it. I really don't see the issue with any of the things you mention if the present is hidden and they love the present!

Interesting.

I see a well wrapped present as part of the gift. It takes time ,money and effort. It says “gift” not I had to get you something.
Saying that I don’t mind a quick wrap gift depending on the gift/giver.*

Of course it's a real opinion 🙄

I'm not 'unbelievably particular' either, it's a thread about unpopular opinions and mine is that I prefer wrapped presents to gift bags, obviously millions of people love gift bags as the shops have loads of them for people who'd rather spend over the odds for a bag that takes no effort over a sheet of much cheaper wrapping paper that requires a few minutes of their time.

As the other poster said they scream of someone being in a rush and a bit thoughtless, along the line of petrol station flowers, a grab and go present.
I'd rather have a cheap, thoughtful present that someone has taken the time to wrap than an expensive bottle of wine shoved in a gift bag.
And the wrapped present in a gift bag is just wasteful.

@Arrowheart

Christmas dinner is as easy as you want it to be. People prepping veg for hours must just enjoy prepping veg for hours.

I agree. When we first got married, we did everything "properly", i.e. made our own roast potatoes, cooked the turkey on Xmas morning, all fresh veg, made our own gravy & stuffing, plus starters (prawn cocktails) which we made ourselves. We soon learned, and have made it simpler/quicker year on year. This year was the best/easiest, with turkey cooked on Friday, ready made stuffing/gravy, a mix of frozen/fresh veg. Tasted just as good and we actually enjoyed it rather than being fed up and exhausted due to all the preparation.

I'd rather have a cheap, thoughtful present that someone has taken the time to wrap than an expensive bottle of wine shoved in a gift bag.
And the wrapped present in a gift bag is just wasteful.

Generally if I’m giving a gift in a bag (which is sometimes practical, e.g if you are meeting the recipient out somewhere and they have to carry it home) I will wrap it in tissue paper, just so that they can’t immediately see what it is if they aren’t going to open it straightaway.

I appreciate any gift. From my husband this year I got 2 jars of Branston pickle and I was thrilled (I live in the US where we don’t have Branston and he’d ordered it from an import shop. I don’t care about the environmental impact. The world won’t implode because of my 2 jars of heavenly Branston). I’m happy with a shower gel. I love getting new socks for Christmas. I always get what I want because I communicate with people what I like - shower products, socks, chocolate and cook/bake ware. If someone has taken the time to buy and give me a gift, I’m over the moon.

We have a real tree with roots that will be replanted.

We got about a foot of snow and it’s still snowing and I love it. The more, the merrier. But we live in an area where large amounts of snowfall are normal.
I love mince pies. I love Christmas cake and Christmas pudding. I’m too old to call any food “vile” or “disgusting”. That reminds me of what children would say about school dinners when I was about 8.
I don’t like cauliflower cheese. I would eat it if someone served it to me but I would never choose to make it or eat it myself. I don’t have tantrums over things I don’t like being on a dinner table.
People need to stop basing their expectations on Hallmark films or Instagram.
I’ve never given or received a “Christmas Eve box” and I’m not even sure I know what one is. The world still turns if your don’t do them.
I love to receive cards and I love gifts wrapped in shiny paper with bows on them.
I love lights outside houses - little white ones in straight lines around the windows and along the roof line.
I have never called pyjamas “PJs”.

I don't live on a turkey farm but where I live there is always turkey in the shops, it seems even more popular than chicken. You even get turkey burgers, turkey mince, turkey sausages etc,,,also always have turkey crowns and turkeys.

Must be a cultural thing, because the vast majority of children where I live totally believe in Santa.

I remember my Mum being very upset when a child at school told me Father Christmas wasn't real, I was very young.

@QueenofDestruction

I don't live on a turkey farm but where I live there is always turkey in the shops, it seems even more popular than chicken. You even get turkey burgers, turkey mince, turkey sausages etc,,,also always have turkey crowns and turkeys.

Do you live in Norfolk then? Perhaps Bernard Matthews your uncle?

I hate roast potatoes and love sprouts.

My (on here) unpopular opinions are:

1. I love candles, soaps, body shop sets and happily relieve my friends of theirs when they get lots.
2. I love getting jewellery and wear it all the time, don’t bother to save things for best.
3. Love getting house stuff as a present
4. Love getting vouchers
5. Love home made gifts
6. Don’t mind what other people buy my kids
7. Actively enjoy spending time with our families and don’t find cooking a particular chore.

Oh and the most important one of all - if you like Yorkshires (and I do) serve them whenever you want, don’t follow some insane outdated view of what’s “correct”. We have yorkshires all the time, and I would ALWAYS do them with any roast meat because they are delicious.

You can keep your fancy gravy in my opinion you can't beat a jug of Bisto. There has to be mint sauce for the spuds even with Turkey.