Festive icks

[crispsandnuts]

'With all the trimmings'

I couldn't even type that without my teeth itching.

I'm sure they'll be plenty more...

I hate people who drivel on about how they “Can’t wait to get the decorations down on Boxing Day”. It makes me want to throw leftover turkey at them.

A few years ago a friend of mine was going on about it on Facebook - how she was sick of them this year and really wanted them gone, but it would upset her daughter. To the “U take them down if I want to hun” responses she said “But it’ll upset Maisie though 🙁” So I said “Just leave them up if it will make her happy - it’s only a week”. She replied “But I really want them gone though!!!” I didn’t actually type the reply I wanted to (along the lines of “Well you’ve got to do one or the other, you steaming great gonk!”)

I also can’t stand people who gush about how they love Christmas Day because “I get to stay in my PJs all day! 🥰” Just get fucking dressed like the rest of the world. You’re not special because you’re too lazy to have a shower.

Christmas Eve boxes. More consumerism and more pressure on women to add yet another task to the Christmas load.

Well you quoted it; you must know what you’ve read.

Greed.

People who keep talking about yummy food. The word Yummy gives me the rage. I can’t really explain why - probably because it seems childish and is used by the sort of adults who like to behave in an annoyingly childish and inappropriate way.

Can you refuse delivery and send it back?
I wouldn't be guilted into a turkey dinner if I didn't want one.

Everyone has adifferent interpretations of Christmas I just let them crack on. Peace on earth and all that

People stealth-bragging about Christmas Eve by saying: “we don’t do much, we tend to JUST visit various relations, have a hot choccie, open Christmas Eve boxes and then go ice skating, pop to the cinema to watch a family Christmas movie, have a bracing walk round a National Trust property grounds, then we’ll come home to get into our matching PJ’s and snuggle-up with hot choccies with all the trimmings and a fave Christmas movie. Then the adults finish the sprouts prep whilst all the kids play a few board games and then we all pop to midnight mass before home for another snuggle and popping the stockings out for Santa. We just like to keep it low-key basically.”.

I’m always 😓reading posts like that. Who ARE these people?!?!

‘Twixtmas’

That made me larf 🤣🤣

Glass of bubbly anyone?

Or even a glass of fizz?

did he flush?
💩

@fancyacuppatea it's a sainsbury's click and collect one. Except she only realised after ordering that she has to collect it because she's paid for it. So she has to drive an hour to my local sainsbury's to collect it and bring it to my house.
I'm tempted not to open the door but that's a bit mean.

Words:

Gifting

Carolling

Festive

The Big Day

Parents running themselves ragged getting loads of little things for kids then desperate because they haven't bought the main present yet - WHY?

It's JUST A LUNCH and shops will be open every other day

#MakingMemories

A sensible response from a sensible adult.
HTH.

“Picky tea” really irks me for some reason.

Yes to this 🌲

Your acquaintances, apparently!

And the word itself aside, why the need to specify it will be yummy/delish/insert other hyperbolic adjective? Are they worried we’ll think they might spend a fortune on food that tastes like dog turds baked in fag ash?

Why don’t you go away then, this thread clearly isn’t for you

Yes, this makes me laugh. When I was a child we called them ‘little sausages with bacon wrapped round’ 🤣

I was talking about all the posts on MN to this effect! No-one I know does any of this, thankfully!

It's going to make me sound Scrooge-like but I do find performative regifting quite ick as well.

No problem with regifting if its done with tact and a sense of what's appropriate but it's really easy just to give people second hand stuff they don't want which undermines the point.

A good friend of mine a couple of Christmases ago made a real hoo-hah about her "sustainable" gifting and went around the room providing a backstory to each gift and why it was so apt when what she was really doing was clearing out her junk cupboard. I got some really naff plates which hadn't been taken out of their packaging and were so obviously not my taste.

If people don't want to or can't afford to give presents that's absolutely fine with me but don't try to pass it off as some act of great environmentally aware generosity. Nine times out of ten people would rather just go without.

People saying ‘believes’ in a meaningful voice instead of spelling out ‘believes in Father Christmas’.
The first time someone did it to me I thought they were talking about their child believing in God. Mainly because said child was well into double figures and I didn’t realise anyone still believed in Father Christmas at that age.