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Original poster

to think most mumsnetters do or try to do TOO MUCH for xmas

61 replies

FolornHope · 23/12/2009 18:06

she sashays past with no coooking to do.
NO turkey to do as are going to rels.( but even so fgs its a roast meal)
no micne pie/cake crap as no one likes it
presents done ages ago( you do haeva year to getready)

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RubysReturn · 23/12/2009 18:08

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Awassailinglookingforanswers · 23/12/2009 18:09

yes I have a year to save up........so that means that most stuff has to be done just before.

hohoholepew · 23/12/2009 18:09

My friend does this, she changes into silky jammies, with her hair and make up done. Her boys can't open their presents until she is ready and they are presentable for the photos. She wears a Cath Kidston pinny to cook the dinner.

I think she's seen too many old movies. She appears to think she is Lana Turner.

MaureenMLove · 23/12/2009 18:10

Bit harsh in your telling, but no yanb totally u!

It is really only a roast dinner with added sausage in bacon!

You are very smug about it though, since you have no preping to do, I may have to flag this up for when it's your turn to 'do' Christmas Day!

TisTheSeasonToBeHully · 23/12/2009 18:10

But I am Lana Turner (with staff).

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FolornHope · 23/12/2009 18:10

so i have to... er wrap a couple of late presents.

that is it.! all the fuss for the roast meal i dont get

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TisTheSeasonToBeHully · 23/12/2009 18:12

You have to shave as well.

Awassailinglookingforanswers · 23/12/2009 18:13

well you see birthdays also only come but once a year, and if they fall in the month or two before Christmas, well you have to spend the money on them first. I have all the presents to wrap - as I only managed to get them in the last couple of days.

TheArmadillo · 23/12/2009 18:14

I think some people get very wound up about xmas and do too much and get stressed out. Then they don't enjoy the day at all. Everything has to be just so and they practically kill themselves doing it. Plus all the extra stress, difficult family members etcjust doesn't make it fun.

Maybe it's my natural laziness that prevents me from doing this.

TheFallenMadonna · 23/12/2009 18:15

I don't do 'prepping' for Christmas dinner. I cook it on the day.

I don't get rid of every bit of washing from my house.

I made a cake and a pudding a couple of months ago.

I am rubbish at getting organised with presents though, and always end up wrapping last minute.

moondog · 23/12/2009 18:17

Considering the average British woman does nothing more taxing than microwave a 'ready meal' and sit in front of a computer, it is of course, a source of real stress to many to do some cooking.

Dead right, it's a piece of piss.
I'm taking my French niece out to the supermarket tonight to show her evidence ofamusing British festiveseige mentality which entails buying buying buying.

mazzystartled · 23/12/2009 18:18

I like all the poncing about

I like a bit of frenzied latenight wrapping on Xmas Eve and DH going awol at some unspecified point in the day attempting to find me some sort of gift

I like cooking a big roast dinner

Making an xmas cake at half term and feeding it brandy every week

Making decorations and biscuits with the kids

Hell, I even made a garland for the fireplace this year with holy from the garden and pinecones from the woods.

I enjoy a touch of mild stress

But I don't mind if it goes a bit wrong

Tizzyjacko · 23/12/2009 18:18

By your typing I suspect you are perhaps a wee bit pissed? like me. Who gives a fuck any way?

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FolornHope · 23/12/2009 18:21

no am just bad typer.

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Awassailinglookingforanswers · 23/12/2009 18:21

I'm not doing a roast this year (cba going into why).

But it is a hassle trying to fit the roast and veg around church.

'd'H is getting what he's given this year

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FolornHope · 23/12/2009 18:22

lol hehe
kick in teeth i hope.

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Awassailinglookingforanswers · 23/12/2009 18:24

well..............

and besides I did a Roast last night (duck) so cba faffing around and making a bloody mess int eh kitchen again this week

LizzyLordsALeaping · 23/12/2009 18:24

I like cooking and I enjoy having Christmas dinner at our house (as opposed to overcooked veg and worrying about my boys running around the best china).
No bother, Christmas presents bought and wrapped, cleaning and tidying done (my Mother is staying for a few days, she has been known to do the finger trailing thang to check for dust).
I almost always cook from scratch anyway, so you are right, it is just a Sunday roast. But with Christmas pudding/cheeseboard/chestnut stuffing/champagne from breakfast onwards.....

RubysReturn · 23/12/2009 18:32

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ImSoNotTelling · 23/12/2009 18:34

We're going to my mums.

We always go to my mums.

LilySwalLoosHerTurkeyBaster · 23/12/2009 18:35

Even better Lizzy it has finally bloody well stopped snowing

I like xmas to be nice but don't buy into the whole perfect thing , bound to not live up to the expectation imo

messalina · 23/12/2009 19:19

I cannot comment on whether other Mumsnetters make too much fuss over Christmas. It really depends, I guess, on whether they are doing the cooking or not. I have not yet cooked Christmas dinner and can't see when I will. We usually go to one set of parents and on the odd occasion that we haven't, DH has done the cooking as he is a much better cook. I leave all the present buying until mid-December at the earliest, but then, even if I say so myself, I am a demon shopper. My record is all presents for my side and DH's side in 3 hours flat (that's about 15 presents and no internet shopping involved). And they weren't crap presents either. My secret is to choose just two or three shops and once I have decided which shop to buy someone something from, I stick to that rather than trailing round lots of different shops. I also plan it out in advance so I have a rough idea of what I will buy everyone.

HumBuggerance · 23/12/2009 19:21

christmas on its own is a piece of piss.
It's having so many close rellies and friends with december birthdays which buggers everything up for me...

ClaireDeLoon · 23/12/2009 19:25

Going to my mums for christmas lunch, everyone taking stuff but all stuff got. All grocery shopping delivered yesterday. All presents wrapped. Tomorrow me and DP have decided to spend day in bed (no kids yet emoticon). Not doing too much here at all

LoveMyGirls · 23/12/2009 19:33

Well now see while I see your sentiment it's not always that simple is it?

For us..... (if you can be arsed to read)
we got married in sept using all cash so I said we'd do homemade pressies, I started making them and then ofsted rang so I put everything on hold while I made sure everything was as perfect as it could possibly be for them to come then it was my birthday weekend (and yes I needed the whole weekend it only comes once a year and I like to milk it) so we ended up only putting the tree up last weekend and as I had not brought presents because the plan was to do homemade as we're still skint I then spent the rest of the weekend baking etc so now it is a bit of a rush tbh I've just finished working an 11hr working day, I'm shattered, I've just eaten my dinner and in 10 mins I will be doing wrapping and icing stuff I baked.