Controversial Christmas Opinions

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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

People spend too much money on the turkey, all Christmas desserts are disgusting (mince pies, trifle, Christmas pudding, Christmas cake) and mulled wine is awful!!

1/ Sorry, but trad Christmas lunch is just a lot of very boring food. Mwahahaha!

2/ I took the Queen for granted and will be missing her on Christmas day.

3/ Christmas isn't right without midnight mass.

You can do your food shop a week before.

Santa is real. I still get the "he's been" buzz on Christmas morning even though I sorted all the presents so have concluded that I am Santa, in fact.

Pants and toothbrushes are not gifts. These are basic items a parent must provide for their child.

Roast potatoes are the worst incarnation of potato.

The worst part of Christmas is people complaining about not liking Christmas! Not liking the music, not liking the lights. Doesn't make you special or different, just annoying

Christmas Dinner is delicious but overrated. 2020 allowed us to make a change and now essentially we have steak and chips every year.

Christmas Dinner is better served as early as possible. I serve mine about 1pm, then everyone can get outside for a walk before it's dark and then sink into the unending dark with cheese and red wine.

I would love to celebrate Winter Solstice, with no gifts, and completely ignore Christmas.

You can do your food shop a week before.

I do it a few days before. None of this virtual queing at 5am for a Tesco slot.

King Charles will do a marvellous Christmas Day speech i do feel sad about his mum though

I like looking at photos of piles of presents. I get why people don't like it, but it's my guilty pleasure.

(Off to name change now!)

Deciding to buy just presents for kids while expecting them from adults with no children in the household (aunts/uncles/grandparents) is cheeky. Its about reciporically showing you care... and children should learn to give not just recieve.

If someone wants to spends £10k on 150 presents for their toddler, its their choice. Same if you spend £5 on one present.

Santa IS definitely real. Not as a person buying presents, but as the embodiment of the acts of kindness that happen around Christmas time. (For example the local Giving tree clears out of tags as soon as they put them up... buying presents for people/animals from various charities. Homeless, elderly, children, pets shelter... they all go straight away. )

Christmas day is just as fun with small groups. You don't need 20 people in a small house. In fact it can be more enjoyable

This with bells on. Love Boxing day and the days after that too. Christmas day horrid

We love Christmas but Christmas decorations and all signs of Christmas have to be gone by the New Year.

The Sound of Music should end at the wedding so it does in our house

My OH is allowed 7 sprouts maximum or he’s not allowed to sit with us after lunch

The only audio visual accompaniment to present wrapping is Bat Out of Hell

I am with you both on that.

No to Turkey curry. EVER. - so no freezing it either.

I just have a smallish crown these day. Although we do have a Turkey dinner on Easter Sunday, my mums tradition, and it’s already in her freezer.

Mulled wine is disgusting. Hot wine, no why would you do that.

FindingMeno But you can! Winter Solstice is far more important to me than Christmas, which we largely ignore. I have decorations for the solstice which are nothing to do with Christmas, and we have a celebratory meal. I once worked for a brilliant boss who respected my beliefs and let me take the day off as a sort of personal bank holiday.

Christmas should be invisible until well into December.

If Christmas was celebrated at the proper time it would be late September. As pinkksugarmouse said upthread much of it was nicked from pagans and other pre-Christian people. I've never met a Christian who can tell me where in the bible it says to put a tree in your house.

Sprouts are delicious.

Killing millions of turkeys and chickens to celebrate the supposed birth of a special baby is weird.

Adults don't need presents.

It doesn't matter when people put their decorations up. Let them be.

The Romans supplanted the wonderful pagan festival of Saturnalia with Christmas around 354 AD and it's gone downhill ever since - if my memory serves me correctly.

Agree and I can’t stand the stuff. However, the ad for some reason warms the cockles of my heart and is the start of full on Christmas.

Sprouts need to be soggy on Christmas Day just like they were when you were a kid.

BamBamBilla you are absolutely correct.

My version is "Christmas is not compulsory". Especially if you do not have small children.

Wow, I disagree with so much of this thread and actually think my opinions are the unpopular ones!

Christmas Dinner is the best meal of the year
I love exchanging presents with DH and other adults!

Die Hard is not a Christmas movie! 😁