Controversial Christmas Opinions

[cliffdiver]

Here's mine:

1. Elf isn't that good. Engaging at the beginning, but once he's in the US it gets pretty boring

2. Turkey has an awful after taste

I was with you, until the pigs in blankets. Blasphemy!!

I don't judge people on how much they spend on Christmas. I do however judge people who are a Scrooge about it all. I avoid those people at all costs!

Ooh have to agree, pigs in blankets are massively overrated

Shop bought, yes. Make your own with skinless thin sausages and streaky bacon, game changer!

Elf on the shelf isnt for the kids, it's for parents ego stroking on social media.

Being a scrooge over Christmas doesnt make you cool, it makes you sound like a fun sponge to be avoided at all costs.

White christmas tree lights should be banned..it should be bright, multicolored lights with every tacky decoration you can find on the tree!

Adults like presents too.

Agree on the twee poem, something a child "needs" is not a present. It's a requirement as a parent to provide for our kids needs

But the Tudors didn't have Christmas trees (or fairy lights or aTV)

They did have a dude known as Captain Christmas though. 👍🏼😁

Actually theres been a rise and dip throughout the years of xmas effected by the world wars and commercialism of xmas actually started BEFORE the boomers inbetween WW1 and WW2 as a way to recover morals and hit its early peak in the early 1940s in the USA (which lead in the commercialisation although war was already hit europe hard).

Then the boomers where born into the low peak post WW2 so the rise was a slow natural return to the peacetime generational xmases that where building before then.

So yeah not the 'boomers' fault and existed long before them, if anything boomers got the shitter end of the stick.

Also you dont have to drag every blood relative to one spot for xmas and spending xmas with family also doesnt make you 'better than' anyone else.

I hate the whole 'For us Xmas is all about FAMILY not tat' said really smugly.

If anything it make you seem ignorantly privilaged and hard work, 'privilaged' because many don't have big families and 'hard work' because there always drama because someone is mad 'X' is going to 'Y' instead of 'Z' and no one wants to be responible for staying sober and driving out of their way to pick up/drop off granny this year and they throw a hissy fit because its ruined xmas.

Theres honestly nothing better than spending Xmas in your own home relaxing (eating what you want when you want, watching what you want, not rushing to get dressed etc...) rather than having to host dozens of people or dragging kids from pillar to post to visit family where they have to politely smile and put up with their young cousins they have nothing in common with or having to put up with grumpy old funsponge uncle Rodney who will get drunk and rant crap until someone cries.

Honestly the young adult years when I had to attend those xmases for the odd one out family members (which still werent that big, there was a grand total of 5 of us from 3 households as my whole family only consisted of 11 from 5 households) like that where bloody miserable.

Mine is Christmas is way, way, way over-rated. It's good for kids, but that's it. Just a day to pig out and get drunk for the adults, so, really, no different from any other non-work day.

No they didn’t but I’m binge watching the Tudors over Christmas. And real candles are a no no.

Battery candles? I have loads. They can look amazing.

Brown parcel wrapping paper. What a depressing trend.

I hate Home Alone so much I've never gotten to the end of it.
I feel like the Christmas boards this year has been invaded by negative views and people. Moaning about when others put up their decorations, and/or when they take them down, 'Advent calendars are for young kids only,' You're buying Christmas tat, yad, yada, yada. Bah humbug to the lot of them I say, bring on Christmas!

Yes I want those.

@mam0918 interesting point you made there about the WW1 WW2 influence on consumerism. Definitely the USA influence too. I was looking at it from a perspective from how me and my friends view Xmas. We are trying to move away from the OTT, everything has to be perfect mentality which our mums still cling on to now.

To the other poster it is a controversial opinion thread. I actually don't blame the boomers for much at all. But my DM and her social circle of that generation have definitely pushed my social circle now into downplaying Xmas. As it really was too much to martyr yourself over roasties and profiteroles 😆

@loudbatperson

Same! I literally can't believe people think like that, grown adults!
Don't they get enough joy from seeing their DC delight?

I don't get it and it lasts only a few years and then it's all over and 60 Years of chicken known exactly where their presents come from??

Re lapland in November or other trips it's because it's considerably cheaper!!

Totally agree.... I have about 10 different rolls of wrapping paper, I just randomly pick one and use it. I like my gifts to be wrapped in bright and busy paper, not boring brown paper.

very condescending.....Not all parents are attention seekers... I never post anything about our elf, dc love seeing what they get up too... so it’s sort of a thing, they check every morning when they get up what the elf’s are up too...

@TheHappiestChristmasTree

Oh agree! You've put what I've been blabbering on about for years so much more succinctly!!

He’s Father Christmas NOT Santa Claus (unless you’re American)

School nativities are absolutely shite. No one really wants to cram into a school hall for an hour to watch their child mumble one line and listen to badly performed songs.

I agree, always see it repeated on here year after year.

I think for kids it’s a bit miserable. Something you need and something to wear shouldn’t, imo, make up a Christmas present. It should really be provided by the parent anyway. Obviously if you’re struggling financially that’s a different story, I’m very much only referring to people who are financially well off.

Along those lines those who seem absolutely dead set against getting their children more than 2 or so gifts. Always so many threads on here where the posts seems absolutely agog at buying their child presents. Yet happily posts about spending £500 plus on their DH.

It makes no sense to me. Your DH can buy what they want all year wrong with their wage, your child can’t. So why does your child get one book and a small secondhand toy and your husband gets a brand new set of golf clubs?

Now, I’m not saying to buy your partner nothing and spend £500 on your kid, but surely there has to be a bit of a middle ground?

And finally, to reclarify, I’m only discussing those who are well off.

*I agree, always see it repeated on here year after year.

I think for kids it’s a bit miserable. Something you need and something to wear shouldn’t, imo, make up a Christmas present. It should really be provided by the parent anyway. Obviously if you’re struggling financially that’s a different story, I’m very much only referring to people who are financially well off. *

I think it depends on how you interpret need.

A friend of mine does this, this year her daughter's need is new AirPods. The wear is Docs. The read is a book hamper, with loads of other bits like a blanket, reading light, snacks etc. She also does a stocking that contains stuff like perfume, jewellery, make-up etc.

The poem is aggravating but as PP said whether it is miserable for that kids depends on the interpretation.
New fancy football boots in the next size up versus boring school shoes.
Stuff for the dress up box versus a multipack of pants.
Phoenix magazine Subscription versus a Dickens box set for the kid who hates reading.

Some Christmas lists I've read on this board have made me cringe, they are such a snooze fest and I feel for the child who has to feign enthusiasm for it.

Yeah theres a poster on here who doesnt buy her teen children thing because she doesnt see the point but does buy for her PETS (stocking and all) apparently... seems utterly bizaare to me.