Will everyone please STOP the extremely tone deaf 'Christmas Fridge' threads

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I see these multiple threads every single year and they drive me bonkers. The four days leading up to Christmas Day my feed is inundated with all the stuffed fridges, it's a complete and utter disgrace. Not just a few posters but sometimes literally hundreds of you all joining in with these enormous overflowing fridges, it's barbaric and in incredibly poor taste. I have already seen THREE seperate fridge threads today alone, it's scandalous... please people just think about what you are doing by jumping on this bandwagon. Now I take this a bit personally and here is why.... There are people in this world who are starving and many families, mine included, are having to rely on food banks this year just to keep our children fed. As in dippy eggs and soldiers on Xmas eve. Many of us are in a dire state with finances and the pressures of Xmas. The fridge threads are incredibly upsetting and triggering. By all means have a nice christmas dinner with all the trimmings but why post it and rub it in the faces of those less fortunate? They will be very lucky to scrape together a very basic dinner for the family this year?

I so look forward to seeing everybody's gluttonous greed in full swing, fridges stuffed full of obscene amounts of food and alcohol that will most likely go to waste. (And waistlines. The greed of Christmas it's all totally out of control and I despair)
All the cheese boards, cheesecakes, cheeselets, and on and on and on.
Honestly I wish MNHQ would BAN the threads, they cause many people anguish and distress.
It is one day so please keep some perspective or even better, pop a selection pack or some small treats in a collection trolley to help all the fantastic homeless charities and food banks ensure more people can enjoy a sweet treat on christmas day.

(Thanks to my local foodbank and those who kindly donated, at least me and my children have a lovely box of celebrations that I will bring out on Christmas Day for us) 🙂

I will have a full fridge but also donate to the food bank.

I understand you’re struggling financially but others will have their own problems. Infertility, bereavement etc etc

I donated thousands to charity this year. In fact this month. I do not need to tell anybody what is my fridge but if people do it so what? Do not read it. It is not compulsory. If something triggers me I avoid it. That is.

I'm sorry things are so tough for you but when my fridge is very full before Christmas I'm not planning to be wasting any. Some years I have 3 DC (plus partners and children) staying for several days so their fridges at home are much emptier than usual. What looks like a lot of food is feeding a lot of people - I know shops are only shut for a day but who wants to have to go shopping again on Boxing Day.

Yeah this. ^ It's very easy to not open the threads!!!

I can only find a couple. Can someone posts a few links in here to a few of 'what I have in my fridge' threads?

Totally agree. All the people berating OP for not ignoring fridge threads could just as easily ignore the ‘post’ button on this one. But no, let’s join the pile-on and give another hefty kick to someone who’s sounding off because she’s struggling.

Quite. Cosmetic procedures are far more vulgar than food.

Priorities innit?

I don't get this at all. If you don't like the fridge threads then why on earth are you posting on them?
And if you don't want to see fridge threads then stop looking at them.

I haven't seen ANY fridge threads personally.

I suspect this is down to the ai showing you threads it thinks you are interested in. If you stop looking at them and posting on them, then you will stop seeing them.

If you’re going onto the fridge threads and complaining about their existence, as opposed to ignoring them like a sane person, you deserve what you get.

Or go and have a look at the OP’s posting history.

She’s not struggling. She just has different priorities.

I hope that her children aren’t having to be fed from the food bank so that she can afford cosmetic surgery.

Why would I do that?

It'd be a bit of a weird chat forum if no-one chatted on it because they disagreed with the OP?

I disagree with the OP and I think her sole reason for posting is because she wants a bun fight.

And I'm not the only person who thinks it 🤷‍♀️

Ooh, both our fridges are stuffed to the gunnels at the moment. Thanks for the reminder to get some bags of ice for the cool box, we'll need that to keep the extra drinks in. We're having ham, beef and turkey and veggies, potato pumpkin soup, plus heaps of snacks and desserts, and the tree is sparkling and there are presents for all our grown up kids underneath it. No grandchildren to spoil yet, can't wait though as two of them are trying :)

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!

People are entitled to respond however they want to as long as they're posting within the terms and conditions. especially as the OP has come onto AIBU and launched a scathing attack on random strangers for posting threads she could easily hide.

The majority of people on here are not upset by this thread, they are just responding to the OP... so why on earth should they hide it? Someone else suggested that earlier, and it makes zero sense.

Is one thread and 2 threads referencing that one thread really "multiple threads about" and "inundated with". I think not.

I have never seen these threads and had no idea it was a thing - but then I rarely go into the Christmas topic on Mumsnet as it's not my bag. Why don't you just avoid that section too OP if this one annual thread triggers you so much? I think you can even block topics.

Yes, this! ^

I think we’ve all missed the most important thing in the OP.

What’s a cheeselet and where can I get one?

Neither the world, nor mumsnet, revolves around less fortunate. Mumsnet is a forum where women from all walks of life can talk about those lives. It isn’t a forum that is dictated by the sensibilities any one socioeconomic group.

If the topic of a thread is distressing for you then don’t open the thread. If you accidentally click on one, then click out of it. It isn’t anyone else’s responsibility to only post about things you personally approve of. You are the one responsible for managing your own feelings.

This.

See also - private school threads, 5* holiday threads, threads where the OP wants a car recommendation and has a budget of £60K.

Just. Don’t. Click. On. It.

Until now, I had no idea pics of people's fridges was a thing and certainly not seen any threads on MN until now. And wow, over the processed food!

OP, I think for own sanity and to be kind to yourself is avoid these kinds of threads. There are many on here, not just food, but buying pezzies that cost a lot or a new Xmas outfit. I hear you over struggling and it IS unfair when some folk have very little but you won't be able to stop people sharing their shit on social media and to be honest, they shouldn't have to.

It's up to us what we read, it literally is something we can control.

Might not be the same poster? There's a very slight difference in the name.

Barbaric!

I don’t like the posts, nor the ones like the ‘look at my loooong list of presents I’ve bought my children this Xmas’. I think they’re tacky and braggy, but I just ignore them. It’s easy to do OP. But I do empathise how the posts might be triggering for you.

Don't read them. The world doesn't revolve around you unfortunately, people are allowed to enjoy Christmas! Feeling a bit stuffed from all the Christmas food I've devoured today actually

It’s the same poster. Advanced search is useful here. Clearly a trouble maker.

No sorry. Its your responsibility to deal with your feelings around this, not everyone else's to move anything upsetting out of your way.
You also know nothing about the posters - they might have saved hard, thisnmight their first ever full fridge, you don't have a monopoly on struggle