Your unpopular Christmas opinions

[LydiaBennetsUglyBonnet]

Yorkshire puddings belong on a Christmas dinner

Christmas dinner - other than Yorkshires and pigs in blankets - is fucking disgusting, and that goes for every course

Elf is a crap movie.

Too many parents get over invested in their child believing in Santa. The reason they love Santa is because he brings a shit load of toys. As long as they’re still getting the toys they’re happy.

Its all shit. Presents are just a way to show how little you really know people and how little you actually listen to them. ( im included in this as much as anyone else )

That the reaction to the presents seems to be more important than the present and the need fir the validation of the present choice completely ruins everything.

I believe that actually whether single or not that the mental load inevitably falls to one person usually the woman and there's little to no recognition and appreciation of that.

And I believe that we are set up to fail from the start. Too many jobs where working Xmas is required so even if you have Xmas day off you are still stuck with boxing day and it's a grey cloud hanging over your head the entire time. The Xmas clear up takes days as a result as work and life gets in the way. You can't even drink much if u have to drive the following mornimg

That its always one big disappointment because it can never possibly live up to the hype.

Anyone working in retail knows just whats coming boxing day..

No way do you have Yorkshires on a Christmas dinner. The only way you ever have Yorkshires is on a Sunday, served with gravy, before you eat your roast beef and veg. The idea of having them for Xmas on a plate with turkey is an abomination, probably dreamed up by Southerners and people from Lancashire. I’m glad our Mam isn’t on Mumsnet to see this, she’d have a fit 😂🎄🎄 My (other) unpopular opinion is that Christmas is not ‘for kids’ or smug rich families. It’s for everyone. Except people who don’t know how to eat a Yorkshire fucking pudding. Happy Christmas 🎅

I think Santa should be done away with.

Christmas would be far nicer without presents. Any present giving or getting. It's a ridiculous palaver which causes a huge amount of angst

Jeez!!! Bah Humbug!!

The elves can be the next to go on strike.

You're certainly not alone in that view

It's the fakeness of it all I can't stand either

Nicely cynical there

If you cook your turkey the night before and then reheat slices of it the following day in gravy or whatever other horror you do to try and keep it moist, and tell yourself that it tastes just the same and nobody can tell the difference - you are kidding yourself and everybody knows.

I could not agree more, we've all got too much stuff, and if we need something we tend to just buy it..

Totally agree about Elf. Gives me the proper creeps

Yorkshire puddings do not belong on a turkey dinner.

There is no need to eat so much food that you become uncomfortably full, and continuing to eat chocolate, cheese and whatever doesn't move in your house when you feel full because "it's Christmas".

Adults shouldn't gift more than one present to eachother.

Elf and Home Alone are rubbish. In fact most Christmas films are rubbish.

'Experience' gifts suck and are usually just things parents should pay for anyway, eg a trip to the cinema.
Bring on the proper presents!

100%.

Love Actually is a shite Christmas movie.
Red cabbage is one of my favourite parts of Christmas dinner.
Starters are better than mains in any meal, including Christmas dinner.
Yorkshire pudding doesn't belong on Xmas dinner. There I said it.
Christmas Eve is far superior to Christmas Day which is just a massive wash out usually and full of expectation and stress.
People who separate all their kids presents into colour coded groups so they can easily be identifiable whose is whose on xmas morning annoy me, part of the fun as a child (for me) was picking a present from under the tree not knowing who it was for until you read the tag.
I hate Matching Christmas pjs. Especially ones that say Mummy elf, Daddy elf...etc.
Blue lights on your tree or adorning your house look really unfestive.
Last Christmas is a depressing rubbish Xmas song.
I like receiving and giving Christmas cards. Almost no one I know does it anymore, instead they put a social media status on saying how they've donated to charity instead, can't help feeling that some of them won't even have actually done that they just cba sending cards.
After eight's are shit.

What if parents don’t have the money for stuff like that? We didn’t when ours were younger. They would have loved tickets to something. Instead they got more plastic tat they didn’t need. Or if we as adults had been given money for Christmas for ourselves we just ended up spending it on tickets for kids events. So not really a present for us.

@CurlyhairedAssassin

It's just my view, on a thread about unpopular Christmas opinions!
Of course there are loads who appreciate an experience gift, and as you say it works well for them if money is short. I just don't get it personally, and prefer a tangible present I can open.

And she runs down that snowy lane in heels!

I’ve got loads that are super unpopular. I’m probably going to get told off for these…

• Making Christmas dinner at home is boring and not fun. It’s way more enjoyable to go out to a restaurant or hotel for Christmas dinner. if you choose to cook an enormous meal for like 148262 family members then stop complaining about it. It was your decision

• It’s not nice to lie to children and pretend Santa Claus is real. It’s just a shitty thing to do - tell kids that lying is wrong and then tell them a massive OTT lie that just spirals out of control and gets ridiculous. And expecting everyone else in the world to also either lie to their kids, or make their kids lie to your kids, just so your child doesn’t find out that you’re a liar is also shitty. My kids know that Santa is a fun tradition and where it comes from and they also know that telling lies is wrong. I’m not going to force them to lie to your kids and say that Santa is real if it comes up in conversation. How bizarre that adults expect that?! How weird that telling the truth is wrong ONLY in this one instance. And I’ve seen three posts on here already saying that the poster ‘broke their kids heart’ this Christmas by accidentally letting them know that Santa isn’t real. Why tell a lie then, that’s going to upset your poor kid so much when they find out the truth? It’s so weird.

• I don’t really feel that it’s appropriate for people who aren’t Christians to celebrate Christmas.

• Pigs in blankets are disgusting

• Fairytale of New York is still the best Christmas song even though it’s trendy to hate it now because it says the word ‘faggot’ (even though it isn’t meant in the homophobic way and pork faggots don’t seem to have been cancelled 😂)

Eating dinner at 3 or 4 pm is unnatural and disgusting
Croissants, pain au chocolat and /or quality street are not enough for breakfast
Panettone- pointless

I get people have set eating times but disgusting? Odd I get but that is abit intense

As for unnatural I don't think nature has ever actually set a time?

Why is it unnatural and disgusting?

I believe that it is ok to eat a hot meal on the evening of Christmas Day.

DH grew up with the idea that, on Christmas Day, one must have no breakfast, then a 5 hr meal at 1pm, then either no food, or just biscuits and cheese, in the evening. 🤷‍♀️

I on thenother hand grew up with a nicer than usual breakfast (perhaps eggs and smoked salmon, or croissants with fruit) then slightly large turkey roast dinner at 12pm, then a light evening meal eg pizza/pasta. 👌

DH thinks I am a glutton for eating either breakfast or dinner on Christmas Day.

It’s supposed to be fun! Not a weird starve all morning/ sit at table for 5 hrs / starve all evening!

Of course, I eat breakfast and dinner anyway, but DH’s eyes follow me around as I do, with the occasional mumble like “Are you really eating that?!” As he went to supermarket on xmas eve, I said I thought we should have a nice breakfast this year, so he got me a satsuma. 😐

Those who moan about turkey being dry are 100% not cooking it properly. You need a fuck ton of butter, we use a whole pack under the skin.

Yorkshire puds are delicious but not for Christmas dinner.