Xmas is fast approaching - what threads are you looking forward to?

[SantasThreeHos]

The responses to Christmas fridges - “people are dying, how dare you show us your shelves full of prosecco, chipolatas and brussels sprouts!"

Family members who cannot possibly leave their anxious goldenoodlepoo alone at home for a couple hours.

‘D’H has bought a £500 turkey carving knife, he’ll be acting like laird of the manor making a big show carving the turkey I slaved away cooking!

Also here for the fridges! I started it one year, never again

I know this is asking for light hearted answers but what I want to get is-

1..Best Christmas movies, preferably without much to do with gender

1. some ideas on how to limit the number/ value of presents we give each other without being too bah-humbug.

Asking a question is so much hassle because so many posters don't take it in the right way or just write aggressive crap..

I would actually love a thread to hear from put-upon people who decided enough was enough of pleasing everyone else and have the Christmas they want this year.

I remember the periscope gift! I still think about it and giggle from time to time. All because he thought she’d enjoy looking out the skylight window.

I love the Christmas tree threads, in particular the shit ones amongst the fab ones.

I love judging a Christmas fridge (but I never post!).

All the MIL ones because they make me feel better about my own.

Oh no, were you pilloried for being insensitive or similar? As I say I love the fridge threads so thank you!

The so and so got me this insert shit or weird present thread. Always a good laugh.

Bingo card this year:-

Accidentally found what looks like an engagement ring and its horrible/too small/less than £20K etc.

Tesco/Asda weird subs and missing turkeys.

My Turkey was rancid and green" (after being stored in the garage for 2 days).

DH stayed out until 3am, spewed, woke the kids up, stood on the dogs tail and fell down the stairs.

Kids sneaked down stairs and opened all their presents before I managed to take the Insta photos.

FIL/MIL never lifted a finger all day, kidnapped the TV remote, fell asleep on the sofa and were snoring and farting without a care in the world.

The thread where OP visits their stingy relatives for Christmas (usually MIL & FIL) who think an acceptable Xmas dinner is one roast potato, one pig in blanket and and a chicken drumstick.
Bonus points if MIL gives a second potato to her son and makes sly digs at DIL when she dares ask for one, too,

I'm looking forward to the "Christmas tat sold on fb" thread. The rubbish people think they can sell is remarkable.

And seeing if anyone has bought the £700 rubbish 12 days of christmas centrepiece off eBay that makes an appearance each year.

Post here often 😁

Oh yes, I do love the FB tat threads!

Some of those Christmas fridges are mighty. I am in awe every year.

But I really look at them for amusement at the hand-wringing posers who complain about excess.

One of my favourites was a few years ago, the poster and her friend spent £10 each on presents for each other. The poster bought her friend a mug, some chocolates and something like fluffy socks. The friend bought the poster a mug, chocolates and socks or gloves and the poster couldn’t believe how inferior the present was that she received compared to what she gave.

I also enjoy the Christmas martyr posts.

I love them all!!!

I like the staying at PILs, it’s minus ten outside and they’re refusing to put the heating on. I’m wearing thermals, 3 pairs of socks, two pairs of gloves,leggings under joggers, two jumpers and my DH’s fleece. My lips are turning blue. I can see my own breath.Then the inevitable reply: YABVU, you should wear a hat, everyone knows heat escapes from the head…

Always lots of posts on what to feed people Christmas eve - my fav post a few years ago was where the poster mentioned should she get m&s picky bits - and got completely slated for using the term "picky bits" - it was so funny how riled people got.

Always a thread complaining that their supermarket delivery hasn’t arrived, it’s usually Asda, bonus points if it’s atrocious weather but they’re expecting the driver to have a magic wagon that cuts through six feet of snow.

Someone very upset because they’re days away from giving birth but their DH has gone out on the works do and is incommunicado.

Poster spends weeks sourcing just the right gifts for the whole family including in-laws, receives something shite in return while SIL gets v.expensive beautiful present. Asks AIBU? And is then shot down by replies saying don’t be greedy of course you should be grateful for a half-empty box of Lindt balls, adults shouldn’t expect presents!

Endless debates about whether Brussels sprouts should have a cross cut into the base (it really makes no difference; all Brussels sprouts taste like something sprayed from the devil's arsehole).

I love those, last year there was a poster who took a snack box to her in laws because they just had toast and no lunches .

Or the complete opposite 😂

The AIBU to cancel thread. OP is hosting 17 people the next day but has unfortunately come down with the obligatory Christmas bug and has projectile vomit and diarrhoea absolutely SPEWING out of them faster than the speed of light.

A landslide verdict determines that OP must - MUST - cancel: Its a practical, medical and moral necessity!

OP briefly returns to thread to disregard all advice and reckons after a Dioralyte and a nap she'll be rightly. Family and good sense bedamned!

I expect a thread about someone whose work has not planned and agreed who works over the Christmas period by mid-December, or where the manager always has the time off but expects others to work.

God help the poor buggers from the thread the other day who are going to be fed a ready cooked chicken from Sainsbury's between 5 of them!

Yes, these are my favourites too. I don't know what that says me as a person.

Added bonus if they come back with fantastical reasons of why they can't possibly go to a shop.