Christmas snobs over here

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This thread is for Christmas 'snobs'.
Proud to be one. 🎩🎅
So if you're not a fan of elf on the shelf or excessive mountains of tat this is where you can hang out and be safe from discussion of boots 3 for 2 gift sets.

Think I've found my thread for life, a place where I truly belong 😍.

Let me start by saying that I hate how my in-laws have made me feel about xmas. My mil puts real pressure on me at xmas. Notice of say me and not us! She's made it crystal clear that ALL her family expect gifts, this is because the one year we didn't get DH aunt something mil made a passive deal out of it. This year though after posting on this christmas forum earlier for advice I am going cold turkey (haha) and not doing gifts. We always buy DH family decent gifts, like elemis gift sets or Yankee candles and we get shit back for the kids as they don't do adult gifts. Plastic tat in quantity rather than quality. I can't stand it! I would rather throw money in the bin, literally. I'm actually debating if I should just straight up pass any gifts we receive from them straight on to charity as I'm sure some kids would appreciate it more than my lot (me).

Millennial food 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

An oxymoron if ever there was one for all you Christmas snobs.

I'm partial to a bit of Christmas tat and tv and don't like poncey food. But I would like to ban blue lights, big piles of tat under the tree and Boots 3 for 2.

I think that most people who grew up with happy Christmases want to recreate them in some form for their own children, and that means that they have a "right" way of doing Christmas which makes all other ways at least a little bit wrong.

I notice everyone has studiously ignored my post about buying a Santa hat for the cat....was that the step too far???? 😁

lady have you seen this? www.firebox.com/Licki-Brush/p8199

MrsHath oh how lovely! I'm glad they all enjoy it too - it's quite possibly my fave bit of Christmas, we saw the Halle play the snowman too a couple of years ago and DD was mesmerised.

Also, thanks for the clarity - defo more of a ponce than snob

Haha velvet now THAT is the step too far!!!

Maybe that's what the papergirl has got your at this year 🤣

Cat not at

And if so, then I hope she, he and it will be very happy together, as long as she still delivers my papers on time 🐱🎅🎄 🐱✨

As an aside, I also think blue lights should be banned!!! You can't move in my house for sparkles, lights and glitter at Christmas all year but they're all warm white bulbs....never let it be said I'm tacky! 😁 🎄✨

I live in Scotland (of Irish descent) and I've said Santa Claus for all of my 56 years - well, actually, I said Santy Claus when I was a child. It's really not a Disney or American thing, contrary to what some people seem to believe. In fact, I don't know anyone who says Father Christmas. I imagine that must be a particularly English thing.

Just thought I would clear that up!

'Father Christmas' is very English. I think it sounds lovely and quaint but also totally foreign to me. It would sound very affected for an Irish person to refer to him as such.

PersonallyI couldn’t give a shit about someone else’s Christmas or how much money they spent(wasted). I will enjoy my Christmas whether my food is from Sainsbury’s or Morrison’s or even Lidl!
If people do it differently who cares? I’d rather spend my money on other things such as holidays than to try to keep up with a bunch of snobs!
It may be tongue in cheek this bread but there are still people who can hardly afford to feed their kids for Christmas let alone titter about an ornament on a shelf!

Quite right tiny 😇

Of course we should be lucky we get Christmas at all. Other religions aren’t so lucky.....

happy 🙄

Or even thread! Bread??

Yeah I agree @apostropheuse, I think Father Christmas is a very English thing. I've never known anyone from up here who calls him Father Christmas.

Blue lights should be banned!

Blue lights are the worst. And family arguments.

They're the two things I'm snobby about at Christmas. No blue lights and no brawling.

Brawling?! Goodness me no.

My parents do frosty silences and hissed exchanges in the kitchen 😕

That bastard elf. He comes into your house to steal your soul.

So do my inlaws popplit's rather funny fornthe rest of us

I wouldn’t call it a snobby Christmas. I think I’d call it a more traditional Christmas.

My Christmas starts the weekend before the date, when my closest friend and I go to Fortnums for tea and to finish our Christmas shopping in town - and to buy one very lovely bauble each year for our respective trees (real, large, gold decorations only with warm white lights).

In the following week I’ll do at least one local carol concert, usually a memorial one from my old school, and one of the ‘big’ ones. We have been to Carols at the Cadogan the last few years but I find it a bit modern so I think that DSis and I are going to the Albert Hall this year, if we can find a suitable date for both of us.

Christmas Eve starts at around 5pm when we have dinner (large joint of ham, baked potatoes, cauliflower cheese), then we settle down with the DC (who will be wearing matching pyjamas, as I have a touch of the Von Trapps about me when I can) and watch a film together. I’ll read The Night Before Christmas to them before bed and we’ll ALL put out our stockings for Father Christmas which the elves will fill with small gifts, including a book, a satsuma and a bag of chocolate coins. The stocking is the only thing from FC -

Christmas Day starts with breakfast, Buck’s Fizz, showers, clothes. After everyone is ready we open gifts together - one at a time, youngest to eldest. If we’re hosting the food goes in the oven straight afterwards, otherwise we’re then off to wherever we’re going. Dinner is three courses plus cheese, I make and fill the crackers myself, we usually have a venison haunch as we’re not keen on turkey but will do a crown for those who love it. Dinner can, and has, taken 5 hours before - we’ve been known to get the trivial pursuit out between courses. Wine is matched to the course followed by coffee and digestifs, then the cards or board games come out and we play into the night.

Growing up my parents used to have an ‘at home’ on Boxing Day, which we will probably resurrect as our friends get older and start hosting Christmas themselves. At the moment we just normally do a buffet for the side of the family we didn’t see on Christmas Day