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...

People who are so wrapped up in their own part of the UK they assume that calling Santa Santa is an Americanism, or somehow lesser than calling him Father Christmas.

Get over yourselves.

@CloseYourEyesAndSee
I'll cook it because I refuse to waste food.
We will eat it. And next time I'll lie and tell her it's all ordered.

I can not stand the 'This one' bought me <insert Michael Kors, LV, Gucci perfume or some rose gold jewelry> social media posts. It drives me nuts. At least use their name if they have gone to the trouble of buying you something expensive! Or even worse 'The boy did good and put a ring on my finger' Christmas engagement posts.

And I have been wanting to write this and suspect I am being a terrible person but DP's Mum has bought us all presents (very, very kind I know) but she definitely is in in the 'I buy what I want because I enjoy shopping for tat camp' and likes quantity. Not only has she wrapped them in wrapping paper. She has put them in plastic green garden bags, tied in to a sack, with a Christmas card as a tag and then put these garden bags in a massive high street shop plastic bag. She even told me that the garden waste bags cost X amount from Homebargains and I should do it for all my gifts because I don't wrap stuff and it looks festive As I said, very kind, but she has basically wrapped £20 worth of gifts in 3 layers of plastic and I weep for the environment every year.

Well isn't this a cheery thread

Christmas jumpers and the pressure to wear them to work events. I don’t own one and never will!

Yes! Hate ‘bits’.

Also ‘icky’ and ‘ick’. 😆

What do you need to plan? It's not as if there are that many choices for the main menu, and the shops aren't empty in December.

Photos of families in matching PJs for social media, usually accompanied by a caption like "My Little World ❤️".

Exactly. No one where I live says Father Christmas anymore.

Anything that gets touted as having to be done for ‘tradition’ - when it makes a bunch of attendees miserable.

Also, some feckless relative dressing up as a really sh@t santa and handing out presents to small children who are terrified.

I'm not originally from the UK, I moved here as a young adult, and I still distinctly remember my utter confusion the first time someone asked me if I was "all ready for Christmas". I asked the lady what she meant, and she looked at me like I had 2 heads 😂

‘He’s been’

’prezzies’ … see also people that post their present pile under the tree.

Elf on the shelf posts

Beauty advent calandar daily opening social media posts

Christmas eve boxes

Matching PJ photos

I just find it all so cringe now, nothing seems genuine. I am late 30’s and I long for the Christmas times of my youth.

Every year, as our Christmas present, getting large, garishly framed photos of the DGC. We have already felt gloomily through the wrapping paper that this year’s delight is going to be a wall hung triptych.
yes, I know I’m a grumpy old so and so!

To be fair, I have a handbag that I bought at Winchester Christmas Market over a decade ago which I still regularly use.

Mine is that fucking elf - more particularly the daily Facebook updates. One family had a surprise late baby ten years after the last one so she's fucking started all over again this year. NOBODY CARES!!!!

“Artisan” too.

🤮

Matching pjs in front of the Xmas tree

I can’t stand the trend of posting reels about ‘ Christmas haul ‘ adds word haul to list
With the disclaimer about this is just what I spent etc the showing boxes and boxes of plastic toys.

I can’t stand the plastic tat. My family are religious and came from poverty and although as a child growing up they were financially stable they never bought much. My best Christmas ever was a second hand bike. I still remember Christmas as an amazing time. We always got a new outfit for Church, some books and a toy.

i hate the way people are guilted into spending and keeping B&M in business.

can I also add gifts sets that are made just for Christmas. Gin gift sets, pretend sweet counters,

Yes parents earnestly hand wringing about telling their secondary age NT kids that Father Christmas isn’t literally real. Madness.

Matching pjs / jumpers - super cheesy.

”The boy done good” social media posts. To me that says you think everything else he ever does is crap. That’s not nice.

This ☝ and "roasties".

The twee captioned Christmas day photo on social media eg 'crimbo with the famalam/fam bam' 🤢

People who have all presents bought and wrapped by October. Fuck off. Elf on the shelf. Little bastard nazi ain’t welcome in my house. Christmas experiences. Overpriced walk around a field run by some Del Boy. Bread sauce. It’s a sauce made of bread. That’s literally the mist disgusting thing I could think of eating.

All “classic” modern Christmas songs (eg Michael buble, last Christmas etc.) give me the willies. I know that’s a bit grinchy but I can’t help how they make me feel…which is mildly depressed.

For me it's the name - they were bacon rolls when I was growing up (as opposed to a roll and bacon which is a bap type thing with bacon in it...). Pigs in blankets is an americanisation! Mind you, whatever you call them (bacon rolls, bacon rolls!) they are delicious 😋

Modern musicians recording Christmas songs with the clear and cynical aim of riding those royalties forevermore. Cringe.