So, polar opposite to Christmas Necessities..... how about some Christmas 'I buy these every year and I never use them and never learn'

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I'll kick my list off with
Christmas Crackers- yes when the DC were little they were fun, but , IRL they are full of tat, they don't make a good 'bang', I always end up with bits of paper everywhere.

Christmas Pudding/Cake- I make these if I have a housefull, if not then they don't get eaten

Big Tins of Sweets- you just know the manky ones will sit there fossilising till they get thrown out

Cheese- the ones you think are special for Christmas (usually in fancy packaging) they sit in the fridge judgily

Big tins of biscuits - only the nice ones get eaten, the tin hangs about forever with two custard creams in the bottom.

Gift sets- the ones they sneak out for Christmas , lots of style of substance . Would I buy them individually? Probably not .

Christmas cards- I see nice ones , some for the DC to send to friends. I post out to family but the rest sit there , unwritten till they get pushed into the loft (where I forget them next year)

Tins of biscuits. Which I don’t open until we have enough people around to eat them, forget to open, and find when I’m clearing away decorations when everyone in the world is on a diet.

Shortbread - no one eats it!

Christmas scented hand-wash or lotion. You'll still be smelling of cranberries and spice or Winter snowfall in March.

Ah, but I quite like that Foof!

I bought the M&S handwash last year, we used it up ( at least 2 bottles) till it was one ...probably about March come to think of it

Love a bit of cinnamon handwash and I'm really narked that L'Occitane discontinued the CinnamonOrange soap.

done not one

Biddypop fuet is cured pork with black pepper and garlic. Food of the gods! It's Catalan, where i live.

I still have an uneaten Christmas pudding!

I get too many biscuits almost every year, but the cheese mountain always gets eaten.

Quite often I get some sort of worthy craft project that never quite emerges. And the DC don't seem to be interested in Advent calendars any more, and that bothers me quite a lot

Oh, and I buy R Whites lemonade every year with the vague idea that I'll actually drink the Martini Bianco I bought about 4 years ago in a fit of nostalgia for the drinks of my teens.

Matchmakers. I know they're both gritty and waxy, yet I buy them every Christmas for nostalgia's sake. We all eat one, and agree for the 25th consecutive year that they're not as nice as they used to be.

Cheese & crackers for cheese ! Every year I buy them & convince myself that they'll be eaten but they rarely do

This year I'm not buying them

Last year I bought a gingerbread bread house kit. We never got round to making it.
Boxes of biscuits which I usually end up eating.

ShatnersBassoon matchmakers are lovely!

They don’t last two seconds in this house.

Cranberry sauce - buy it every bloody year - nobody EVER wants any and I bin the unopened jar in the summer during the "cupboard clear out of out of date crap". Been doing this for about forty years - just can't bring myself not to buy it!
Tubs of quality street/roses/celebrations. Dumped this idea last year and just bought a large box of Lindt chocolates and numerous different packs of Lindor. All got eaten and have decided that sometimes less is more and as it's Christmas we are allowed to have lovelier food than usual and will do the same again this year.

Defo nuts and dates, we learned the cheese lesson a couple of years ago so buy the ones we do eat. DH always get one of those massive pork / game pie type things - which Usually is fed to the dog - he can't resist.

Am on to second lot of dates already 😋

No bread sauce 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱

My bread sauce is legendary 🤗

Yes WHO even uses body lotion?

I EAT ALL THESE THINGS! GIVE THEM TO MEEEEEEE!

Cranberry goes well with game and chicken

Our Christmas cake and pudding always get eaten first here.

Mince pies. No one eats them so I end up chucking them out.

Laughing because I do a lot of this.

Mrs Doyle making her Dh eat a mince pie with every cup of tea!

I started on the lidl mini stollen bites last night - I may need to restock next month...

I am salivating reading this.

However I have come on to very smugly announce that this thread simply does not apply to me anymore. Because this year I'm definitely 100% not doing this again. I am going to just buy a little bit of what we actually DO really love and am NOT going mad.

Nope. Not at all. This year will be different.