Fluffy socks and hot chocolate

[cocktailanddreams]

Festive gripes....I like both...however it appears Christmas doesn't go ahead without them.
Christmas Eve boxes full of them, it's always the default suggestion 'cosy night with hot chocolate' .
It irritates me, feel free to tell me I'm grumpy

That made me LOL

I have hot chocolate in the velvetiser every night apart from summer so it's just another drink, years ago people had ovaltine, I don't know when it suddenly became a Christmas thing

I hate hot chocolate and all hot milky drinks.

Also hate socks. I wear warm ones at home in winter (usually wool mix or cashmere) as it is preferable to cold feet and I hate slippers even more, but I cannot wait until wamer weather when my toes can wriggle free as nature intended.

I hadn’t actually noticed that either of these things were more prevalent than usual, so I think maybe the mistake you’ve made here is paying even the slightest bit of attention to the concept of a “Christmas Eve box” in the first place.

Anyway. I like a hot chocolate but I wouldn’t consider it the focal point of a night in, or indeed something particularly exciting. And I don’t like having socks on indoors, for some reason. They make me feel vaguely claustrophobic (I’m aware that’s probably a bit weird). Slippers over bare feet for padding around the house, and bare feet for lounging on the sofa.

This is what I don’t really understand either. Since when did having a hot drink and a snack while watching a film become an actual event rather than just a fairly normal evening? What are these people doing on other nights at home?

Warm bath and new Christmas family PJs, though are these washed first as everything else seems to be washed first on here or are Christmas PJs exempt from pre washing. Snuggly blanket, Hot chocolate, movie, fluffy socks, all cosy on the sofa, dog farting in front of the wood burner.

Ha, that’s what I always think - it surely doesn’t take that long to drink a hot chocolate, and then what?

You then stroke the socks and post on Facebook how blessed you/your feet are

You lost me at Christmas Eve box.

Like that ridiculous Elf on the Shelf nonsense, another Christmas 'tradition' that's only turned up in the last 10 years or so in order to sell more shit for the day before Christmas and leading up to it as well as the actual day.

Christmas Eve box involves doing a sweep up at Poundland, box it and bow...and excited face for the famalam

Christmas Eve boxes as a concept are awful.

I was sitting in the sofa with my dog on my lap and a gin and tonic in my hand watching Yellowstone the other day and thought that was actual perfection. I had some Mini Cheddars too.

Probably mentioned already but hot chocolate station too- sounds nice but who has room for this in their kitchens?!

😂😂😂

It's so lacking in imagination.

Lots of us do not like hot chocolate. And would never wear a fluffy sock. Also unsure why "hot choc" - never chocolate - has this Christmas association. Much beloved of the "snuggling under a blankie with my little famalam #blessed" contingent though.

So when posters say they 'set up a hot chocolate station' they basically ... put a few things on a tray? I actually thought it involved assembling something mechanical and sophisticated with echoes of Swiss design technology.

Don’t forget the year long “ put your favourite music on and dance around the kitchen”! For some reason whenever I read that it brings me out in a rage! But yes I also hate “ hot choc and movie night” too….yours, The Grinch!

I'm incredibly particular about my socks so hate getting them. Also not a fan of rich hot chocolate so would pass on that. This is why I'm glad we do Christmas lists for my DH side of the family. No idea which items we'll get but at least we know we'll love them.

Also, wtaf is a Velvetiser?

I do like watching TV with a fleec blanket at this time of year but I don't think that has to involve hot chocolate or Christmas. Personally, I do it with pink gin or tea.

Like that ridiculous Elf on the Shelf nonsense, another Christmas 'tradition' that's only turned up in the last 10 years or so in order to sell more shit

We have an elf. I haven't spent a penny on it in the 7 years we've had it. Initial outlay 5 euro. So I'm never quite sure where these posts are coming from.

Anyway, I'm waiting for the poster from the Christmas Eve box thread who didn't understand hot chocolate sachets to turn up. She was fun.

I thought everyone spent Christmas Eve rushing around like a blue arsed fly then once the kids are in bed finding all the Father Christmas gifts hidden round the house. And best of all making up the fucking FC toys.

Exactly, invented 7 or 8 years ago to generate huge sales from every new family now feeling compelled to buy one, not to mention having to think of new scenarios for it every day in December. Really glad mine were a bit older when the stupid things became a thing.

This. Plus peeling piles of veg for the following day. Not a lot of cosy snuggles time.

I think you mean ‘blankies’!
You also need a fire and a Christmas movie. Some would also insist on fairy lights and festive candles.

(‘Snuggle’ makes me want to hurl)

I love chocolate. The hard stuff in bars. I do not like any sort of milky drinks like latte coffees, milkshakes, lassi and so on, so the idea of melting decent chocolate and sticking it in warm milk is just ugh.

I don’t actually care how much of any of this stuff anyone else does - because we’re all different. (They are mostly wrong, though). But I do object to it all over social media, and done as if it’s obligatory or you’re depriving your children of some magic experience which is going to scar them for life. That’s the bollocks part.