If men were left to organise Christmas themselves

[Fiddlesticks32]

AIBU to think it would be an absolute disaster?

And what would it look like?

My DH is very keen on Christmas and he is an organiser. He would be good on presents and decorations. He's not a foodie and thinks getting everything pre made to reheat (the Auntie Bessie version, not something fancy like cook) is amazing, so the dinner might be a bit basic but there would be lots of it.

The decorations would be lovely as he does them anyway, dinner would be splendid as he also does that but gifts would be the issue it would chocolate for the kids and possibly socks for me but probably that’s it. To be fair that’s not a bad idea!

I expect and would hope men would be able to sort out some food, booze and presents. I don't like to think half the population is genuinely incapable of carrying out what are, lets be honest, very basic tasks that a half trained monkey could do

Ours would be exactly the same. I'm shit at buying presents, have never cooked for more than a few people and only ever cooked a roast once and have little eye for festive decorations. DH does all of it excellently.

My DH would only twig it's Christmas on about 23rd December, then go into a massive strop as he has a really important job to do and hasn't got the time for all this.
Bank transfer money as Christmas gifts, and do a normal roast dinner without all the trimmings and probably ice cream for pudding as shops would be too busy to cope with.
Minimum decs out.
Definitely would forget to book /arrange any Xmas outings like the panto etc
He has no idea what anyone is getting for Christmas this year......
Although he will do wrapping and is good at it, providing I provide the gift, wrapping paper, tag, pen, scissors and sellotape....

It would be fine. The food would be fantastic- far better than if I did it. That's why dh always cooks on years when we are hosting and not being hosted. He's not that fussed about the rest of the festive stuff, but he'd do a good job if he were in charge.

Luckily I married a grown up who is perfectly capable of sourcing and putting up a Christmas tree, doing a shop, prepping and cooking a Christmas dinner and all the other things that Christmas (and every other day of the year) requires.

If my dh did Christmas the gifts would be awesome but not wrapped. The tree would be massive but not decorated. The food would be purchased last minute but nice if the same he always cooks.
Nobody would receive cards or thank you calls. Too much tv would be watched. We might go to a concert or Christmas market or something.

What was the downside to you ex he sounds perfect

In our house there would be considerably more extravagant gifts than I buy.
loads of food of a traditional British style that he would cook, he likes cooking
christmas tree and outside lights but nothing else, no wreath etc
the sideboard would be groaning with sweets abd goodies
dd would get a chocolate calendar not the one I fill for her
there would be loads of booze and watching tv

basically it would be very jolly, he would try very hard to make it lovely and we'd all have a great time.

Is he your ex because he was a homosexual?

This is a joke!

He would book a restaurant (which would be fine by me 😍)

Presents would be brought and wrapped lovely

Christmas tree - Not sure if he would bother with that, but he would put lights and decorations and tinsel all around

My Dad: great food, great presents and some holly for decorations.

My DH: Holiday abroad.

Both suit me!

I don't know about all men!
If my husband (75) was left to it, there would probably be no tree, no decorations, but tons of festive food, small amount of alcohol and in the middle of it a hibernating bear 🐻.
There are just the two of us, so it's low key on decorating.
My late father, although he swore a lot while at it, insisted on a large living tree and put all the stuff on it, tinsel, chocolates etc.
(European country).

Only men organise christmas in this house, we have a fairly low key christmas, if we didn’t have kids we wouldn’t bother, we do our christmas day bit on a different day as on christmas day I’m at a shelter looking after people who don’t have somewhere to go, family etc.

My only job at Christmas is the wrapping and stocking fillers, we both choose and buy the gifts, dh buys and prepares all the food and cooks Christmas dinner. Last year everything was left to him as I was recovering from surgery. He aced it. He also does all his parents shopping and runs them around, they come to us for the day.

He's the best. Not all men are useless

My husband would probably do a similar job to me not wonderful not terrible just normal

Not all men are useless and not all women are saint's

Useless sack of shit here, so we'd have an unmentionably grim Christmas.

Not deliberate on his part but he'd merrily let the day go by and not participate - and spend the day eating chocolate and counting the 0s on his bank sheet.

My dh always does the shopping and cooks christmas dinner, he also buys the gifts for his side (albeit there is only 2 of them to buy for). If I wasn't around he would ask my dc to do a list and get them the stuff they want within a set budget. Would he do all the trimmings, probably not but then neither do I, our christmas is very low key, at home with lots of nice food. The only thing missing would be the little surprises I add to our dcs gifts which I put a lot of thought into. They probably wouldn't notice though.

It would probably get cancelled and that way he could have his December birthday as the main event 😂

He has no interest in doing anything for Christmas apart from inviting people who would otherwise be on their own and spending time with them while I get on with it all in peace (and wine, lots of wine).

We'd have a tree up, and the presents would be random and unwrapped. Some people would have an extravegant gift and others very little.
Food would be sparse as he hates shopping for food, but will cook if I buy it. We'd end up with turkey, ham, mash and peas probably. No pudding as it's not important.

It would be fine, just not quite as " finished" as I would like.......I like things my way 😊

In our house there would be enough food to last till January 30th, when we food shop for Christmas i have to reign him in, enough booze to stock a pub, the tree would go up Christmas eve, presents would be no money spared but not necessarily what people want, he likes Christmas more than me

It may or may not be a disaster. Likewise, if women were left to organise Christmas themselves, it may or may not be a disaster.

If you left my father and 3 brothers to it,then there would be no food/presents/tree/whatever and 4 fully grown men standing looking perplexed and gormless

If its my dp,he'd do everything-maybe not perfectly,but more than good enough-wed have food/presents/tree/whatever

The difference is,4 have been babied all their lives (they don't have a clue how to use a washing machine or cooker-housework is underneath them and a womans job,im amazed my mother doesnt still wipe their arses) and one hasn't (who is perfectly capable of running a house/his life/work)