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Christmas snobs over here

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2014newme · 19/10/2017 11:29

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.

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AnonEvent · 20/10/2017 17:15

Hands up who thinks Anon is Alex Polizzi sadly not, more Kirsty Allsopp, but less Tory.

dementedma · 20/10/2017 17:33

That sounds lovely Crumbs
So glad someone else doesnt get the "hot choc" thing. I thought it was just me.

ShowOfHands · 20/10/2017 17:39

Some of you may like the MN poncetastic threads. They're lovely and aimed at celebrating Christmas poncing, not denigrating the choices of other people. They're some of my favourite threads.

RonniePasas · 20/10/2017 17:43

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2014newme · 20/10/2017 17:50

Yankee candles.... I hate those stubby jars let alone the smell.

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WipsGlitter · 20/10/2017 17:57

No Christmas tree up in November / first week of December - this is my absolute pet hate, same people generally have all their decorations down on Boxing Day as “they’re sick of them”. No shit Sherlock!!

No elf
No hamper
Real door wreath
No pjs or bedding (do people really do that?!? )

Anonnamechangeranon · 20/10/2017 18:11

Did anybody else read AnonEvent schedule and think it sounded the most joyless Christmas day ever.

Give me Aldi prosecco, a tub of Quality street and a Christmas spent laughing and having fun over that pretentious nonsense.

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2014newme · 20/10/2017 18:23

Why do you think anon Christmas would not involve laughing and fun? Fun isn't dependent on quality street. Otherwise for the 9 months of the year quality street is unavailable we would all be suicidal .

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brasty · 20/10/2017 18:40

Real tree, white xmas tree lights, real holly wreath on the front door, presents under the tree, and xmas lunch on a white tablecloth with candles.

I won't mention the tree lights that flash in patterns or the xmas clock that plays carols every hour.

JingsMahBucket · 20/10/2017 18:46

@Crumbs1 wait. What inflatable Christmas themed objects are there??

HashtagTired · 20/10/2017 18:48

I’d have a real tree but allergic 😧

I do do all the Christmas things like Christmas Eve boxes etc etc.

But I also agree with other posters here that claim to be snobs.
I’d want a real tree if I could.
Christmas, not Xmas (that drives me mad and is just lazy)
Father Christmas, not Santa.
No tinsel allowed. Anywhere.
Christmas carols
Goose and duck for dinner (ordered around about now from local butchers).
Traditional Christmas themes rather than tacky modern stuff.

But I also like the searching out Christmas lights at night with the children, the Christmas Eve boxes, the not-so-traditional elf, Christmas door etc etc ...

AnonEvent · 20/10/2017 18:49

anonname we have a lovely old time, we see our nearest and dearest, we eat our very favourite food, we do things we enjoy doing. Christmas is our favourite time of year.

We don't have any of the more modern traditions (elves on shelves, reindeer dust, Christmas Eve boxes) because DD is only one, she has no interest in any of that. I'm sure Frozen outfits and naughty elves will come into play at some stage, but in the meantime we enjoy the solace of a nice, wholesome, relatively traditional Christmas.

And there is joy to be had in a lovely real-holly, ivy and for swag across the fireplace and a cire trudon candle.

FrannySalinger · 20/10/2017 18:55

I really thought I would be a good candidate for this thread but I fall at the Christmas pyjamas hurdle. It used to be my only real hope of dd looking presentable in front of Granny on Christmas morning and it’s rather turned into a habit.

Sorry. As you were.

Anonnamechangeranon · 20/10/2017 19:05

Imagine your head being so firmly stuck up your own arse you can't enjoy looking at Christmas lights on other people's houses.

Or that you rule out fun traditions for your DC just because you consider it 'common'.

It's a different world to mine.

The absolute excitement on my DC face at the thought the elves have been is one of the best things that happens all year. It makes me excited just to think of it. In a way, expensive cheese never could.

May I never live in an environment where I consider salmon more exciting than the joy on their faces.

Canofpeas · 20/10/2017 19:07

I'm a fallen Christmas snob...my husband convinced me we should get a fake tree Halloween Blush In my defence I was sleep deprived and post natal.

A1Sharon · 20/10/2017 19:07

I don't want to rain on anyone's parade, but there is an unpleasantness to this thread.
By definition a snob is "someone who believes that their tastes in a particular area are superior to those of other people."
All the things you are doing for Christmas sound fabulous! I'm getting ideas and enjoying hearing all about these lovely Christmassy items. But you can discuss them without deriding those who do enjoy tinsel, elves and boxes?
Live and let live!

Anonnamechangeranon · 20/10/2017 19:08

And please don't assume that I do every 'common' tradition mentioned on this thread.

I pick and choose which ones we follow.

But not for reasons based on class. Amd I don't look down at those who choose to follow the ones we don't.

Because that would be joyless and crass.

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2014newme · 20/10/2017 19:08

But doesn't elves and other magical folks trooping by diminish the magic of father Christmas?
'father Christmas is coming tonight and will bring you some gifts'
'meh, back of the queue old guy I've got the elves, dairies, angels and pixies stuff to get through yet. Plus a gallon of magical hot chocolate to down'.

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WomblingThree · 20/10/2017 19:10

@LaurieFairyCake won’t it all have gone off by Christmas? 🤷‍♀️

surferjet · 20/10/2017 19:11

Crumbs1

I’m with you!

Anonnamechangeranon · 20/10/2017 19:15

No it's he start. The build up. Liketaryer before the main course.

We are out for a Christmas walk, on the way home they start getting excited in case th elves have been.

They rush upstairs and find they have!

They get;

New PJs
A new cup (dd1 has Harry potter mauraders map this year, it's heat changing and she will love it)
Popcorn to pop at home (rare treat)
A xmas DVD to watch
The night before Xmas book (we read this every christmas eve)
The key to leave out for Father Christmas
A magic flannel and bubbles for the Xmas eve bath
And letter from Father Christmas (from a donation I made to the NSPCC)

No presents. No excitement diminished. Just a few nice items for Xmas eve. And it sigmals the start of everything!

brasty · 20/10/2017 19:15

My DP would prefer an artificial tree, but I love the smell of a real tree. We would have lights on the outside of our house if either of us could be bothered to put them up.

surferjet · 20/10/2017 19:16

I’m not a massive snob, I just find anything inflatable so naff. Plus we always say Father Christmas ( santa is just too Disney for us ) & I seriously judge people who write ‘happy Xmas’

sandgrown · 20/10/2017 19:16

Anon I want your Christmas . It sounds fab Smile

buckingfrolicks · 20/10/2017 19:19

God. Can’t even have an ironic “snob” thread these days without upsetting some one.

I despise Christmas lights all over the lawn/house.

I despise fucking elf on a “how-can-we-screw-more-££-out-of-the-suckers” shelf.

I think blow-up Santa’s are an abomination.

Bah. Nothing makes me more contemptuous than an inverted snob.