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.

Only on Mumsnet would one find 'Christmas snobs'

Just so grateful my own circle of friends love to celebrate and let their hair down.

Perhaps you should all start worrying about things that really matter????

Who’s paying that much for an Elf?? £3.99 round ‘ere! I don’t have that elf though he’s creepy & looks like he’d murder you in your sleep. I have a friendlier looking elf

The elf snobs jon

I don't see anyone here going on the Elf on the shelf threads to piss all over them

So why come and whine on this thread? Not your thing? Don't click!

Any Londoners on the thread? Have you booked a carol service or similar? I don't think I can do the Nutcracker again, we've done it for the past 3 years.

I haven't been for a couple of years - but the Carol Service at Southwark Cathedral (beside Borough Market) was lovely.

We're looking for a more local one this year and apparently there's a good but lo fi one in the church behind Abbeville Rd in Clapham, I think it's called the Church of the Holy Spirit. Mind you, they do encourage children to dress as angels or wise men, which may not live up to my snobbish credentials.

Our local church does carols in the porch before midnight mass.
I might make ds 11 come with me this year.

I love:
Midnight Mass
Carols
Christingle
Singing
Smell of real Christmas tree 🎄
Smell of tinsel
Baileys
Crap TV
Playing silly games
Seeing family
Time off work
Christmas songs
Build up

I hate:
Writing Christmas cards
Elf on the bastard shelf
Houses with inflatable crap outside
Xmas - lazy
Christmas cake - bleurgh

NORTH POLE BREAKFAST - you can fuck off!

Here we are:

Every year my most treasured Christmas decoration comes down from the loft and sits on top of the toilet cistern ......it's a plastic bath tub with Father Christmas in a bubble bath with a lady. Whenever the toilet seat is lifted it bursts into song and they start dancing in the tub 😂😂

Meant to add as a teen I absolutely hated this dec, it was mums sense of humour, she loved it. And now she's 91, and in a home with dementia I love it too

What’s a North Pole breakfast? Sounds like I might like it

It's been really interesting how this thread has rattled people.

It can't be anything to do with money as I am always at the amount people who are Not Snobby spend on absolute crap at Christmas.

The Christmas season doesn't start here until I have listened to dd2 singing in the choir at our local Abbey.

Absolutely no crafts.

It's been really interesting how this thread has rattled people.

It can't be anything to do with money as I am always at the amount people who are Not Snobby spend on absolute crap at Christmas.

The Christmas season doesn't start here until I have listened to dd2 singing in the choir at our local Abbey.

Absolutely no crafts.

Oh yes and boxing day hunt meet.

We're looking for a more local one this year and apparently there's a good but lo fi one in the church behind Abbeville Rd in Clapham, I think it's called the Church of the Holy Spirit. Mind you, they do encourage children to dress as angels or wise men, which may not live up to my snobbish credentials

Woman, you are stone cold.

When our village church has a few local children to be angels in their nativity, they specify NO fairy or princess costumes and NO WINGS

museum I'm stone cold with a smile on my face.

what is a Christmas Eve box??

It's a confessional box that the entire family climbs into on Christmas Eve in order to contemplate the solemnity as well as the joy of the season. Farts and garlic breath must be left outside.

I can't tell if you're joking.

Can I just register my one-woman protest against the extreme tackiness of blue Christmas lights, I HATE THEM.

In the month leading up to Christmas OH is cramming foodChristmas themed food tat into lorries at the warehouse for a major UK retailer working up to 14 hours a day for 7 days straight in the final week.
He comes home after the final lorry has left the depot on Christmas Eve and falls asleep until mid morning on Christmas day.

We have a bog standard Sunday lunch on Christmas day. Neither of us likes turkey.
Then he goes off to bed at 8.30pm to be up and off at stupid o'clock to start cramming more food into lorries for their shops.

I'm far too tacky for this thread but I'd love to know where Whisky2014 buys tree baubles for £50 a pop. For that price they had better be gorgeous. Any links?

Not £50, but certainly above the average, Liberty.
I do usually buy one or two expensive decorations a year, I've got a nice collection going now.
Last year I had a lovely glass rocking horse I'd bought, not expensive but not bloomin' cheap either, and DS was desperate to carry it downstairs. It was in bubble wrap in a box. He dropped it down the stairs and broke it! A big hole around the back.