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Festive icks

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crispsandnuts · 19/12/2022 07:21

'With all the trimmings'

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

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

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Kanaloa · 19/12/2022 15:14

Sennelier1 · 19/12/2022 15:08

@Kanaloa , we travel during the holidays to be with our children and grandchildren all in one place. ❤️ So yes, planning started in summer, reservations were made september-october. The years we 're hosting here at home.....asking who'll attend etc. also starts in late summer! It's important I think, so people can make their own arrangements too (like the days they will be with their respective in-laws). I understand it's different and probably easier if your whole family lives in the same community/country, but for us it takes a lot of planning! 😊

If you’re travelling abroad etc then of course you’ll want to organise that in advance, but I’d still think someone was nuts if they thought they needed to start organising food for Christmas dinner in late summer.

ballroompink · 19/12/2022 15:15

Awkward social media pics of everyone sat around the dining table posing with their Christmas lunch, especially when said lunch looks really unappetising.

Kanaloa · 19/12/2022 15:16

Thepeopleversuswork · 19/12/2022 14:43

I don't mind other people wearing Christmas jumpers but I LOATHE being required to wear (and therefore buy) them for reasons of festive jollity.

Managed to survive 50 years (including living through the 80s) without parting with cash for this landfill magnet and I'm fucked if I'm shelling out now to buy them for me and my kids.

I always have to participate in Christmas Jumper Day at work but I usually just wear a fairisle jumper. I can’t be doing with buying an ugly jumper to wear once a year.

I do bow to pressure for the kids though. Ridiculous but I hate the idea that they’ll be sitting in the class and be the only one without the right thing.

RaRaRaspoutine · 19/12/2022 15:18

"Christmas drinkies." NO.

Volumous · 19/12/2022 15:19

Elf on the shelf. That little shit is intolerable.

Adult couples who give each other stockings full of tat.

FrangipaniBlue · 19/12/2022 15:21

Do people really buy a new Christmas jumper every year and only wear it once?

I have 5/6 but I've had them all for years and I wear each one probably 2 or 3 times in the run up to and over the Christmas period 🤣🤣

RaRaRaspoutine · 19/12/2022 15:21

Blankspace35 · 19/12/2022 13:56

I hate novelty christmas songs…im looking at you lad baby, giving money to charity great but the bloody sausage rolls need to go.

i hate ‘the boy done good’ posts too, so cringe

bastarding elf on the shelf posts on fb every day, people just trying too hard to make it look like they are ‘perfect parents’

pictures again on fb of the tree with a mountain of presents, fair enough if thats what you do but the world doesnt need to see on fb. I just dont like how christmas time brings out the competitive parenting posts. I miss a 90s christmas before social media etc

You can play a brilliant drinking game to "the boy done good" posts. Shots for grey velvet sofa, a Live Laugh Love sign, french-manicured hand with engagement ring, anything from Pandora, selfie with false lashes and holding a glass of prosecco, and a confused-looking French bulldog in the background.

Wineandwinelalalala · 19/12/2022 15:22

So many sleeps! Grow up your an adult, not a five year old

RaRaRaspoutine · 19/12/2022 15:22

electricmoccasins · 19/12/2022 13:04

‘Twixtmas’

We call this the festive taint. It's extra awful. I still can't help doing it.

Kanaloa · 19/12/2022 15:23

FrangipaniBlue · 19/12/2022 15:21

Do people really buy a new Christmas jumper every year and only wear it once?

I have 5/6 but I've had them all for years and I wear each one probably 2 or 3 times in the run up to and over the Christmas period 🤣🤣

When I said once a year, I meant more like at only one time of the year. All my other jumpers get worn regularly from September till April. I don’t know if I could justify buying a jumper to wear only 2/3 days a year.

leilani83 · 19/12/2022 15:23

Christmas nails

MysteryBelle · 19/12/2022 15:24

I like all the trimmings! But I agree with all the others. Pressies used to be a very prevalent word on MN, very cringey, couldn’t stand that word but when children are little I think we all use cute little words, sometimes I still do for nostalgia 😀

SillySausage81 · 19/12/2022 15:26

FrangipaniBlue · 19/12/2022 15:21

Do people really buy a new Christmas jumper every year and only wear it once?

I have 5/6 but I've had them all for years and I wear each one probably 2 or 3 times in the run up to and over the Christmas period 🤣🤣

Yes, I know people who have decided it's "traditional" to buy every family member a new Christmas jumper for Christmas every bloody year.

ShaunaTheSheep · 19/12/2022 15:27

festive in general but more specifically festive flavours.

No I do not want every last morsel and beverage infused with cinnamon or cranberries, thank you very much, Jamie Oliver and all the other tv cooks and magazines.

justasking111 · 19/12/2022 15:29

I've a few littering the wardrobe. I look a bugger in them. I will wear one cardigan I have though. Well maybe 😂

Anotherdayanotherdollar · 19/12/2022 15:30

Fairislefandango · 19/12/2022 10:00

What I find 'ick' is the annual gleeful sneering at anyone who doesn't do Christmas in the 'proper' way, or use the right middle class Christmas vocabulary, or buy the right kind and the right amount of presents (plastic seems to be fine as long as it's not 'tat') or, god forbid, do anything that might have the slightest whiff of Americanness about it. And if you can't pick on someone for any of those things, then there's always the possibility you can spot something in their spelling and grammar to mock, eh?

Christmas really brings out the worst in some people.

Spot on. Live and let live...

Motorcycleemptyness · 19/12/2022 15:30

I agree with most of these but I strongly disagree with the people saying festive nails give them the ick, because I think they’re brilliant!

CalmDownKaren · 19/12/2022 15:30

A)People who use the phrase “My tribe”

B)People who make their children wait to
open gifts until the afternoon makes my p1ss boil!

C) People saying “little buffet tea with picky bits 🤬

D) parents plastering photos of their child’s immense pile of gifts on IG and FB.

FrangipaniBlue · 19/12/2022 15:32

Yes, I know people who have decided it's "traditional" to buy every family member a new Christmas jumper for Christmas every bloody year.

That's appalling! Xmas Angry

leilani83 · 19/12/2022 15:33

A written menu at your own home

trampoline123 · 19/12/2022 15:37

Festive nails...grown adults why the F have you got santas on your nails but moan you're skint 🙄 UGH

thetemptationofchocolate · 19/12/2022 15:42

Regarding 'six more sleeps to Christmas', if I based that on my sleep pattern and counted every time I wake up & fall asleep that would make Christmas tomorrow afternoon.

As for planning in October for Christmas food, I would imagine that it could be necessary to start saving up especially if you are having extra people to cook for.

leilani83 · 19/12/2022 15:49

Royal Family fawning (not just at Christmas)

DesertIslandCondiment · 19/12/2022 15:50

I break up for Christmas on Wednesday till 3rd January - I can't wait.

I'm trying to think of things about Christmas that pisses me off. The only thing I come can come up with at the moment is Mariah Carey.

Then again I'm sat at work with a Christmas sweatshirt on counting down the hours.

JudgeJ · 19/12/2022 15:51

WomanStanleyWoman2 · 19/12/2022 12:51

Mine is my DP who always hovers over everyone with a black bin bag to retrieve the wrapping paper immediately.

Oh God, this is my dad to a tee. I wouldn’t mind so much if he was a neat freak (as annoying as that would be), but he doesn’t so much as carry up a cup to the dishwasher for the rest of the year. For 25 years his mother cleared up after him; then my mother took over for the next 45 years and counting. Yet once a year he becomes a demon about potential mess. Why?!

My late OH was the same, one year about 25 years ago he managed to bin an envelope containing £80, he spent a lot of time on the garage floor sifting through all the detritus to find it. Obviously it was daughter's fault for not putting it somewhere safe.

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