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!

Is it ok to spend £3,000 on my [totally not favourite] dd and £30 on my ds?

When people ask about ideas for Christmas dinner starters and get a load of replies saying 'oh we never have starters! There's far too much food!' Don't reply then! How amazing to think that someone might do something different to you🙄

Also this one could be mean but, on 'light-hearted' threads about what you want for Christmas, people replying with things like 'my mum back, she died in March'. Yes it's very sad but really not the place to mention it and brings a whole thread down.

I love the Let me see your Christmas tree threads.
Also the, I got wankered and snogged some one at the office party shall I tell my husband type dramas.

I like the family drama threads, which usually involve in laws to some degree - not being fed/MIL buying sacks of plastic crap/they won't put the heating onMIL buys expensive gifts for everyone except the OP who received a used candle...you get the gist. Bonus points if it's being documented real time and we can offer words of wisdom to help deal with the drama.

What I'd really love is a thread where someone has faced such a drama and for once they've stuck up for themselves rather than endure it silently, or their spouse/partner has had their back and stuck up for them. That would make a pleasant change from the ones where people won't say a word for fear of offending the offender.

I secretly love the 'DH Christmas works do' threads. DH always promises to be home by 18.05 but inevitably misses the last train and is brought home by the police at 5am covered in sick and missing his phone and laptop. Despite the OP saying he never drinks more than a shandy.

Will be interesting to see what crazy AI posts there are this year.

I agree and I have lost both my parents this year so it’s not coming from a place of not getting it or lacking empathy. Just a time and place thing and a thread about gifts is not it.

Love the Christmas fridge thread and the only thing I used to use twitter for was the duvet know it’s Christmas so I wish people would post that on mn. That was probably the actual highlight of my year!

There's a lady who usually shares her office's super hard, un-Googleable Christmas quiz here. I love it!

The one where someone complains about getting Bayliss & Harding as a gift. Like we haven't ever heard about people complaining about it before.

• What's on your Christmas dinner?

Endless debate about whether Yorkshire puddings, mashed potatoes, or peas belong on a Christmas dinner. Someone will inevitably chuck a cat amongst the pigeons by saying "surely you mean Christmas lunch..."

• OP buys precious DC carefully curated wooden toys, usually free-form and hand painted by blind monks qualified in the latest childcare practices. Someone visiting will buy the DC the most obnoxiously loud, neon coloured, plastic monstrosity. DC will, of course, love it. OP will be absolutely raging that her precious baby has been corrupted by the demons at Vtech.

• What time do you open presents?

Controversy in its own right made even more controversial by the inclusion of a present vs gift bunfight.

• "I put DH in charge of the shopping. He's bought a miniature partridge, three bananas, and pack of Mars Bars. I've got 33 people coming for dinner and all the shops closed and hour ago"

Someone will always, always ask OP why she married such an incompetent dickhead as if that will magically undo the last twenty years of quietly mounting resentment and make a fully prepared Christmas dinner lunch appear on the table.

• moaning about how much people are buying, the shops are only closed for one day...

I like:

The Christmas dinner sides and trimmings idea threads. Always give me inspiration for what to add to Xmas dinner.

What we all doing boxing day

The Christmas market threads

I also love the drama threads,

AIBU to tell:

MIL/ SIL/ aunt 3 times removed to just f-off after she turned up for Xmas with 3 suitcases and has announced they are staying for 10 days.

Random family member that NO THEY CANNOT bring their massive/ aggressive/ poorly socialised/ child hating/ non toilet trained/ incontinent dog to my house.

My neighbours to take down their icicle lights because they are shining in my house/ lowering the tone of the neighbourhood.

DM/ MIL that we are doing Christmas at home with just me,DH and kids.

Work I am not going to the annual Christmas party/ piss up.

AIBU to tear DH a new one after he:
Ate the whole tub of Xmas chocolate
Ate the kids selection boxes
Didn't buy me a present
Sat on his arse all Xmas day whilst I hosted his family

AIBU to expect:
DH to buy presents for his family
To buy me a present
To buy his children presents (poster is Step parent)
A thoughtful gift from family member instead of generic smellies/ chocs/ wine.

The bun fights over:
When to put up/ take down Xmas decorations
Donating/ regifting unwanted gifts
Christmas decorations and what is tacky/ tasteful.

I also like the DGP’s buying too much stuff or buying the main present such as Barbie Dream House when the DM and DD want to give it to their DC.

Also guests and their dogs threads.

The ones where they’ve gone to family and are being starved to death and having to take turns to leave to get food.

injuries - humorous only

A nice thread of people sharing favourite moments / gifts

Other nice thread is the one where people support each other if they are alone / lonely.

Also at least one thread where OP is pregnant, family are borderline alcoholics, and they're all going to guess she's expecting when she doesn't drink.

A million suggestions about claiming she's hungover, or on antibiotics, or starting dry January early.

The real answer is that shots of water look exactly like shots of vodka/sambucca/tequila. Knock back 5-6 in quick succession, claim you're feeling pissed and don't want to be hungover tomorrow so you're switching to soft drinks.

The competitive shit present giving to children.

'my DD gets a book, a tangerine and a recorder fashioned out of an old carrot and she is grateful for it. Anyone who spends more than ten pounds is a disgrace to humanity'

DH who doesn’t come home after his Christmas do (they always return at some point with their tail between their legs!)
In laws with the appetite of a sparrow who stave their guests.
Bizarre/ tacky gifts

I love the Christmas tree threads, including the when do you put up your Christmas tree threads, and the show us your Christmas tree threads! I also like the nostalgic Christmas thread, talking about Christmases gone by and nice childhood memories!

I like to see a thread about how someone’s awful MiL never asks what anyone wants for Christmas and ends up buying unsuitable things juxtaposed with a thread about how someone’s awful MiL asked what they wanted for Christmas, thus adding to the DIL’s mental load.

My darling hasn't been chosen for the lead in the Nativity, it's always little Peter whose mum heads up the PTFA. It's not fair!

The disagreement between parents who buy a mountain of presents per child and those who live by 'one to wear, one to read etc

The parents upset that in some homes FC brings under the tree presents rather than a stocking and that makes their darling child feel hard done by (icl I don't understand the families where every present is from FC - even GPs)

Love a shit gift thread!

That was a joke!

There are always threads about 'foreign' SILs and DILs though 🤔

People who post that saying "Santa Claus" is common, American and ghastly/vile, pissing off everyone in Scotland and Ireland.

The "how can I afford CHristmas when i'm down to 50p, have no family, no option to sell anything or earn anything, and no food for my quadruplets".

Oh and I forgot my favorite:

the one where OP asks if a small supermarket chicken, 6 potatoes, 4 carrots, 4 parsnips, 6 brussel sprouts, 8 pigs in blankets, half a cauliflower and a small jug of gravy is enough food to feed 20 people for Xmas dinner.

Half the posters are outraged and always make enough food to feed every waif and stray in their local area.

The other half enter some strange under eating competition where they share how little they eat in a day and how a quarter of a roast potato would fill them for the entire week. Someone then announces they basically live on dust and fresh air and have done for the last 20 years and are the winner of the under eating competition.

The “what my MIL gifted me” threads and those with batty relatives who give things such as 1 sock 🤣