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.

Artificial Christmas trees are not a patch on real ones, even if they cost ££££ from Balsam Hill.
Christmas pudding is brilliant. Mine is, anyway.
Ditto brandy butter.
You can stuff Christmas cake up your jacksie, though.
Christmas dinner is Christmas dinner whatever time you have it, not Christmas lunch.
Turkey is very nice if well cooked, and the smell of it cooking is super Christmassy.
It’s not Christmas without Carols from Kings on Christmas Eve - with mulled wine.

That would be lovely.

Hallelujah to this

Elf on a Shelf being shit and unnecessary seems to be one of the most common opinions someone could possibly have around here.

Absolutely!

I am really looking forward to ds spending Christmas with his partner's parents. Sucks to be them, they host while I will at long last get to do what the hell i like for the day.

There is a reason Bucks Fizz isn’t drunk any other time of the year. Because it’s vomit in a glass and I’m guessing it complements the other vomit inducing food such as mince pies, boiled sprouts, soggy parsnips and dry Turkey

I don’t want to do present exchange with friends. It’s pressure enough to do it for extended family. Only one friend expects presents. I care about my close friends deeply but I don’t see the need for present exchange. The one friend who expects them I actually care about least. And I see the continual expectation as a major hassle.

Eggnog can fuck off back to the 18th century where it belongs. Yuck.

Love turkey and pigs in blankets. Yorkshire puddings are disgusting.
Most controversial of all..... One present from each person is sufficient, Father Christmas ONLY brings the Christmas stockings, and presents are actually from the person who chose them, bought them and wrapped them. These people should be thanked properly.

Have to disagree with this one - or maybe it's just how you do it in your house. The excitement used to build when they were little, and it was the whole 'ritual' around it, the reindeer food, Christmas movies, The Night before Christmas - even used to ring a bell from the tree out in the garden so they would think it was Santa and scurry off to bed! Their bright eyes and shining faces said it all - I miss that. Mine still get excited even now and they're adults!

I love themed trees - hate the ones with tinsel and tacky coloured lights.

TG missed Elf on the Shelf, such a load of shite! And Christmas Eve boxes - wtf dreamt that up?

Love my Christmas dinner - not sprouts though, not Christmas pudding and not Christmas cake.

No starter - how the hell does anyone eat that much?!!

Most of all - I hate people moaning about it but doing nothing to change things! Nobody's making you eat turkey - you don't have to buy something for great auntie Ethel 10 times removed! Cut out all the unnecessary giving (and buying) - I have, and it's liberating. I now only buy present within our family of 5, tip my hairdresser and my nail tech (responsible for my festive Christmas nails!!!) - Bob's your uncle and Fanny's your aunt. Just.Stop!

@Burgoo re Thanksgiving - two words (well 4 actually!) - Black Friday and Cyber Monday!

My unpopular opinions will be really unpopular: it's one day so you should invite the annoying family member and/or their boyfriend/girlfriend. You don't have to spend a lot of money. Xmas eve boxes are a waste of money and encourage wastefulness. Kindness goes a long way.

I like christmas cake and christmas pudding. In my family I'm about the only one that really likes them. I think it's somewhat controversial now.

Turkey is only redeemed by the cranberry sauce.

Bread sauce is minging but that goes without saying really. My sister made some which had spices in it and that redeemed it very slightly.

Die hard is not a Christmas film
christmas pudding is vile
flashing/inflatable decorations outside houses are tacky

elf is a great film though

I love my Christmas dinner- roast turkey, I make bread sauce, the stuffing and the cranberry because it’s easy, tastes better and I like doing it if I have time whilst listening to the radio on my own( that’s the best bit).
Hate all the present buying part from for my DH and DDs.

Have you ever listened to the lyrics? It's a dirge about King Herod slaughtering the innocents.

😱

Outrageous!! 😁

Massive plot holes tho

Car insurance?
The dog
She's swigging wine in the supermarket before driving back

Etc etc

Still brilliant <<<stamps foot>>>

Christmas Eve boxes are a ridiculous invention.
Christmas themed bedding, tablecloths etc should be banned.
Christmas jumpers should be banned.
Anyone participating in the buying, displaying or wearing of any of the above should be beaten with a frozen turkey leg.

@MissPiggysPinkDress i make bread sauce to Nigella’s recipe- so the milk is infused with a clove studded onion, bay leaf, mace, peppercorns and nutmeg. Bit of cream before serving.

Turkey is crap. Dry, tasteless & boring. If people actually liked the stuff, they would eat it during the rest of the year.
Christmas songs are crap. Dull, unimaginative repetitive & boring. Same old, same old every single year. If people really liked them, they would listen to them for the rest of the year.
Quality Street are crap. Cheap, nasty rubbish for people who wouldn’t know good chocolate if it hit them in the face. If people really liked them…..

Have to disagree with this one - or maybe it's just how you do it in your house. The excitement used to build when they were little, and it was the whole 'ritual' around it, the reindeer food, Christmas movies, The Night before Christmas - even used to ring a bell from the tree out in the garden so they would think it was Santa and scurry off to bed! Their bright eyes and shining faces said it all - I miss that. Mine still get excited even now and they're adults!

But they were excited because they were getting stuff. If Santa just came in, scoffed the mince pie, chugged down the whiskey and left no presents the magic would disappear.

Also adults do not get excited about santa because they know he isn’t real, they get excited about you buying them stuff. Or they’re humouring you thinking ‘bless her she’s gone too far again’ 😂

'Tis! 😝

Bruce Willis says Die Hard is not a Christmas film. I think it’s fair to say that he’s the authority on it🤣

Christmas was better in the 80s when kids were happy with board games, roller skates and art sets. They are spoilt as fuck now.

Carol Of The Bells is a creepy song that sounds like it's off the soundtrack from a horror film, and I hate it.

On the other hand, I have a Halloween raven on the top of my Christmas tree.