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!

The massive fight because OP didn't tell anyone that the butter/walnuts/bacon were strictly for their overcomplicated and wanky centrepiece dish and their DH has eaten it.

The mysterious missing item - the more random the better. "I know I bought 6 packs of pigs in blankets and they're not in the fridge, the freezer, the supplementary freezer, the deep freeze..."

The OP who has just realised something has been thoroughly licked all over by the cat, slightly nibbled by mice, or they've dropped it on the floor by the litterbox and they're trying to work out how to get away with still serving it.

The OP who has A Plan but whose family just want to relax and enjoy Christmas and they're ruining everything with their easygoing nonchalant happiness.

It doesn't affect me now but I also enjoy the " my mil has served us one roll of bread and a whisper of butter between 6 of us. She tutted when I picked up a crumb and exclaimed a "crumb my goddess " patting my tummy...aren't you stuffed . ".

Hiding food in bedrooms and twisting into pretzels in cold unwelcoming foodless houses and the dh says absolutely nothing except...it's how they are...

Also enjoy Christmas baking
Buying
Christmas tree threads and of course the beloved Nigel slater read along.

8.30 on Christmas Eve and DC has just told their sibling there’s no Santa, or any other variations on the belief in Santa theme.

I snorted laughing at this. Its the shaking and crying that did it for me 😃 and people really are that dramatic 😂

I’m waiting for the first ‘Christmas is ruined’ post.

Threads about people being shocked and horrified that their 15 year old no longer believes in Santa, what can they do to convince them to keep the magic alive 😂

I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE the Show Us Your Tree threads.

I love every tree and I love everyone's houses.

Although I tend to get over excited and start making demands of DH.

"We need vintage glass baubles!"

"We need a bay window!"

The hate threads about elf on the shelf, Christmas Eve boxes, December 1st breakfasts, Christmas themed bedding, expensive advent calendars.

I also like seeing how many times ‘plastic tat’ is mentioned because someone dared to buy their children non wooden toys that are not purely educational. 🤪

What do you wear on Christmas Day threads and anyone who stays in pyjamas gets called lazy, slobbish and dirty.

There's always a dog drama too. MIL insists on bringing her stinking/ancient/vicious poodle but we're all ALLERGIC

To all the posters who announce they're taking their tree down on Christmas Day afternoon because its making the house look messy/cramped, if it annoys you that much, get a smaller tree or don't bother putting one up this year. They're not compulsory.

Love the Christmas fridge threads, the Christmas is soooo commercialised outrage threads, will it snow? threads, the in-laws arrived two weeks ago and won't leave threads, the 'I bought my husband the moon and all I got was this lousy t-shirt' threads and the crazy shopping substitutions threads.

Oh yes, these. Especially the drama of "Baby's First Christmas is ruined."

And always because of some insurmountable trauma like FIL gave Baby the wrong brand of formula while OP was at a Christmas Eve party, so Baby vomited on his reindeer suit onesie and it shrank when OP had to rush it through the tumble dryer, and should OP still dress him in it with the legs tied behind? Or MIL farted while they were filming "The Opening of the First Ever Christmas Present" and do we think they can still put it on Facebook or not, and if so, with or without the sound.

After all, op has been waiting all her life to post Baby's First Christmas on SM. Actually, now she's thinking about it, it's the main reason she got knocked up ...

I always enjoy a “what’s on your cheeseboard?” thread

I really like the Christmas fridge ones. Also love the ‘what have you bought dc’, which present went down best, show me your Christmas cheese, show us your tree, Aibu to shove a bauble up dh as he is being grinchy etc. I love them all

I mostly want film recommendations.

Now I'm so old I seem to have seen them all and nothing decent is ever coming out.

My best offering for a newish family one is Klaus.

I love Xmas MN, it's very distracting. Awful husbands, martyrdom to the max, crazy in laws. It goes on for a few weeks too

Same! I love a Christmas fridge thread

1. "Ahhh Tesco/Waitrose/Asda/Sainsbury's didn't deliver ____ on Christmas eve".
2. I love the Christmas puzzle with the hidden hyperlinks.
3. The funny fake Christmas card thread from John and Brenda (or similar) to people who have no idea who John and Brenda are.

I love those too. DD and I always look at them and say we wish we were fancy cheese board people but tbh we can't be arsed with the faff.

We just take the box of crackers, cheese and a knife onto the sofa and have at it like animals.

@therewasafishinthepercolator but how do you balance the membrillo and honey for the ashy goats cheese? Animals would at least have a tray for the accompaniments and accoutrements. How many knives? 😆

I love the fridge thread.
I like the ones where people get very angry about the 'correct' way to do Father Christmas.
I enjoy reading what everyone's bought for their children and some of the strange requests.
I like the thread about what gifts children loved and what flopped.

It’s almost become a Christmas tradition in itself to find a quiet 30 mins (ok an hour) in the evening on Christmas Day to have a cheeky decompress and scroll on MN.

It’s a personal favourite to read the inevitable threads from the people-pleasers who are disappointed and let down by some gift of vile porn underwear but don’t want to ‘hurt the feelings’ of their arse of a husband. He’s been thoughtless and useless for yet another year despite her being the perfect Stepford wife and mother, and him being a thick oversexed man-child who wouldn’t know what a feeling was if it slapped him round the chops.

How women end up in (and stay in) those relationships I’ll never fathom. It’s fascinating.

Facebook tat

santa presents being ruined by selfish prick of a MIL who wants to see their only grandchild open the expensive gift she bought —and doesn’t want that fake red fat fucker to steal the credit—

Incredibly, to me, there are actually a lot of parents who get jealous of Father Christmas getting credit.

The CF guests.

The CF gifts.

The penis-portions threads as a juxtaposition to the starving threads.

All Christmas gold!