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.

Oh and my mums insistence on prawn fucking cocktail for appetiser on Christmas Day is ridiculous. It's not very nice, no one likes it and I can think of a dozen festive alternatives. The one year I did serve something else you'd think I'd shit on a plate and slapped my gran.

The threads on here, asking for inspiration on what else to buy for Tilly, who already has 30 presents, and well off Aunt Maude, who has absolutely no need for anything else.

I go into the shops after Christmas and buy up all the left over Xmas puds cheap so I can eat them all year. They are the best thing about it all.
Turkey is vile, and I absolutely hate the Father Christmas lie. It's pointless and I think gives kids more upset than 'magic', why they didn't get what they asked for, why their bully is getting better gifts, and finding out their parents have lied to them. Why would you want to do it?

I find pantomimes a bit creepy. Don’t know why.
Can’t wait for Boxing Day which in my life is Back to Normal Day.

Either that, or they just prefer it to the others. If you have had a child who has been a cathedral chorister, you might think differently.

My unpopular opinion is that I'm bloody glad when it's all over. I like Lent and Easter, though.

Because elves and presents are not religiously selective!

I grew up with Christmas and converted. My parents give my children a Christmas so they actually get both!

Also .... in Islam, Jesus was also born. So that comment kind of backfires doesn't it?

I 'hate' that a few years ago myself and a small group of friends agreed that we wouldn't 'do' Christmas presents any more, because we're older and don't 'need' anything, but would give a donation in lieu (whatever we could afford) to a small local charity or good cause of the donor's choice. We'd do birthdays instead. More personal, and spread out through the year.
What l hate is that this has fallen by the wayside. And despite me saying "look, l'm really not doing presents, please don't send me anything, l can't reciprocate" (which is true) - two boxes of presents have arrived from friends this year.
I was told by one friend that l could open one item, which l was thrilled with, it's a tree she's had planted in memory of a loved one.

But she's also sent me silver jewellery. I don't wear silver jewellery, never have, and it's lovely, it won't have been cheap. It sounds really ungrateful but l wish she'd given the money to a good cause instead.
The parcel from the other friend (I had to open it because it had an advent present in it) contains gloves, socks and a throw. All lovely, but l have eight throws already. It must have cost a fortune to post, too. It was heavy.
Besides feeling bad that l can't afford gifts in return, it's just more 'stuff'. I'm planning to downsize in a couple of years, and they know that l'm going to have to do a huge declutter.
I'm thinking of passing the gloves, throw, etc off to a women's refuge, or somewhere that helps people who have nothing, maybe women fleeing domestic violence.
And desperately trying to think of a way to say "PLEASE, DON'T SEND ME MORE STUFF" without causing offence. I really don't need it, and l hate that they're spending their hard earned money in this way. I'd really rather they gave it to someone who needs it more than l do.
I sound really ungrateful, but l don't need 'things'. I'd rather have a photo of their family or their pets. That would mean much more to me.
Their love and friendship is what matters.

Cheeseboards are weird and disgusting.

I hate everything about Christmas and think the absolute best day of December is the 27th.

It's all a bit of a ballache really.

And even as a cheese lover I have to posit that Cheesy Footballs consist mainly of congealed vomit.

Yep. This.

Both are vile.

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I also hate that I buy really thoughtful presents for my friends and family but get generic ‘Baylis and Harding’ box sets.

I haven’t had a gift that made me gasp with delight in 25 years. None of my friends or family really know me.

Cheeseboards are weird and disgusting.

I'll take one for the team.

I would rather shit in my hands and clap than eat Turkey. Its rank. There is a reason its only eaten one day of the year.

You've got to eat your body weight in pigs in blankets.
Yorkshires on a xmas dinner.
Rosties can fuck off.

I hate cheeseboards!

Also anything seafood based at Christmas feels wrong. Fucking hate prawn rings with a passion.

I have a read a boat load of the usual faux smug comments on social media this week, directed at people who spend a lot on their kids presents for Christmas saying 'its better to spend the money on activities and spending time with your children than buying tat.

A) people can do both.
B) Spending money doesn't = tat.

NO!!! I love cauliflower cheese at any time! Carrots can disappear, however.

Not read all the comments but Christmas Eve boxes! Another new thing for parents to feel pressure about,well i don't! Christmas Day is for presents, so my children are not getting loads of stuff the night before. We have a takeaway and hot chocolate and err bloody hot chocolate stations that people post on facebook groups, no-one cares about your glass jars of marshmallows, sprinkles etc just boil the kettle, add a few scoops of powder, a squirt of cream and be done, stop making it a thing

Christmas dinner should have a drizzle of gravy - not be swimming in the stuff. I’m not spending all that effort getting super crispy roasties and turkey skin only to have it all become a soggy mess underneath a bucketload of gravy.

Cut all the corners you like but frozen roast potatoes are sooo wrong with a special meal.

Someone cooking for 10 is just asking for trouble

Am I allowed to say I am so glad my brother who I love the other 364 days of the year no longer turns up for Xmas because his new wife is a.........!
He would not get up on Xmas Day until after all the bacon butties had been eaten and we were clearing away and expect one. This was despite all of us yelling up the stairs repetedly to come down for brunch.

He never helped, peel, cook,lay the table, clear up etc.

Would sit in his room, even when we sid present time , he would take ages to come down, then disappear again, vaguely grunting and making tutting noises about drinking too much at the rest of us.

The only good Christmas present is cheese.

It's a family tradition to buy each other cratefuls of the stuff in lieu of gifts 😀