To be so f*cking over bloody Christmas.

[lifesabitchandthenyoudie]

Was already feeling like this, muting adverts etc; then yesterday I watched this: (Planet of the Humans by Jeff Gibbs) and I'm so done with the human race now I just want to hide in my little house and forget the world. I've been away from work and just know when I go back on Tuesday we'll already be overrun with fucking xmas music, decorations etc... I have gc and already feel angry about how much crap they have. I would buy them books but they literally don't even read or look after them. I get called scrooge because I only ever put up decorations (if I bother) in the week before, ffs! Is there anywhere on this planet that's xmas free, please?

Me too, so much so that I am in the process of booking a long holiday, starting at the beginning of December and ending at the beginning of January. It is only me and the opportunity presented itself. I thought about it quite long and hard over the weekend, but came to the conclusion that a) I deserve it and b) it gets me out of any kind of Christmas or New Year obligations that may arise between now and then, BECAUSE I am not going to be in Europe!
Just need to sort 4 more things and then it is done :-)

(Lighthearted!) Someone elsewhere said it should be an absolute rule that no trees/decorations can be put up til 1st December. I kind of agree, it’s a bit mad how early it happens and how over the top some people go. Who was that woman who bought so many presents for her child it wouldn’t fit in the room, think she was on tv last year. Just ridiculous.

I love it. All of it. Buying presents, seeing the extended family, the music, mince pies, parties, turkey, chocolate coins, excited children.

And can’t wait to get the trees up.

Me too.

Is there anywhere on this planet that's xmas free, please?

The majority of the planet.

@FelicityFlops please tell me whereabouts you're going!

tbth, in reality I think I would actually love it - IF it was restricted and realistic! I'm not at all religious but this utter frenzy is what really pisses me off, I think. Nothing before 1st Dec I could live with, and focussing on special times and a few gifts with/for family. It's the excess that upsets me so much.

I started a thread the other day about having a simpler Christmas but for me that still includes a Christmas tree (not until December!) and not buying my children books because we are over run with the fuckers. Books not children. I need to buy yet another book case but we are just reading the books we have and using the library.

For me it’s the whole consumerism, the same aisles in the shops with different coloured plastic tat.

Op I'm with you. I want the magic of Christmas Day but that's about it.

I can't be bothered with the whoo haa of shopping, the faf of cards and the hassle of getting the house ready for Christmas.

My kids have far too much stuff. They want for nothing. Yet I need to come up with ideas of things to get them.

Not really. It is to some extent everywhere.

Couldn’t agree more. However, in a perfect world I’d book holidays 1st to 24th December and then again 27th December to 1st march. I do like the day, but I hate Hogmanay because that’s when I was widowed, and I hate January and February because it’s cold and grey and horrible.

@upfucked apologies, I did look but didn't find a similar thread! I'm overrun with (gc) children AND books!

I have bought 'experiences' before which seem to have worked well. Especially Wowcher vouchers...

I know what you mean, Christmas starts much too early, on the other hand it is a distraction , it would be a long and gloomy winter without Christmas festivities to cheer us up a bit.

It hasn't even begun yet.
I love Christmas and view it as a month long celebration with my decorations going up the first weekend of December. What is it that you don't like? Can you not just leave those bits out and keep the bits you do enjoy.

Oh no I wasn’t complaining. My thread was similar in that I was asking for advice for a simpler Christmas but not no Christmas.

I love Christmas but feel highly irritated seeing festive foods/decorations in the supermarkets - Lidls had had full 2 aisles of it for weeks now. It takes away the joy of it all when you see Xmas stuff everywhere from September!

@3WildOnes I do try; I put my decorations up if and when I want to; I buy presents if I feel like it and try to get things that are 'worthwhile' or experiences, etc; but it's like it's rammed down our throats with the 'buy, buy buy' frenzy; I try to only record any tv I want to watch, so that I can skip ads; my colleagues seem to want to ONLY play xmas music from now on and buy more and more tat to put up and get all super-excited for 8 weeks or more; they say it's so the children can experience the 'magic'. Our planet is screaming; animals are suffering and humans are already experiencing immense hardship because we will not change. We're f*cked and it all makes me just feel like dropping out completely - which I would if I could make money at home!

See, I love Christmas, but have strict rules to ensure that remains the case: Tree goes up Christmas Eve or as close as I can get (I rent a tree as is more environmentally sustainable so depends when delivery is available, will be 23rd Dec this year); no decorations or cards are put up before the tree; I don’t go through gifts, writing cards etc, before 1st Dec; no Christmas music or programmes etc before 1st Dec; anything advertised on TV will NOT be purchased (DD is 8 and aware of this); plus am trying to buy sustainably, eg DD is at the stage of loving all things Barbie, so I will get things second hand. That way I can actually enjoy it. Otherwise it’s too much!

@upfucked no don't worry - that wasn't my take from you xx

Ah, 'tis Mumsnet law that the minute the Halloween and Bonfire Night grinches get back in their boxes out pop the Christmas moaners.....

@MotherOfPuffling (applauds) agreed! When my kids were at home I often bought 'second-hand'. They regularly had 'renovated' bikes.

It’s more environmentally friendly, cheaper, enables selling on kids’ outgrown things to pay for what they need, it’s great!

@GreenWheat hm; have you watched the film I linked? I dare you to watch it; and right to the end.... I'm not a 'grinch', I'm a planet-lover.

Is it a real or an artificial tree you rent?

I've got some on my Facebook who has already put up her tree, today she's told everyone she's watching Christmas movies...I think she does it for the attention and it gives the impression she has nothing much else going on in her life. I don't like the idea of rushing through my life.

@HauntersGonnaHaunt its a real one. Ours is called ‘Henrietta’ and will come back to us each year till she’s too big 😊