Festive icks

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'With all the trimmings'

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

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

Ordinary, regular items packaged up in to ‘gifts’. ie, shrouded in yet more plastic.

facebook/insta Christmas smugness.

A lack of responsibility and consciousness about the wastefulness of all the ephemeral plastic items. Sure, buy plastic stuff if you must but things that are wanted and will be used for years.

Novelty gift items that no one wants and end up in the bin. They cause a moment of amusement when they are opened, and then they are nothing more than landfill.

I've found my people!
Snuggles down comfortably in her Crimbo haul of an oodie from Santa while eating luxury mince pies and thinking where to put the elf next.

Oh no I fucking don't! I hated lieing to my kids about Father Christmas but felt I had to do it not to upset the kids peers, it's such a bad idea and as a poor child it made me feel shit each year that I was obviously bad. So happy the day they asked and I could say, 'No, he isn't real'. My friends 14 yr old still believes and her mum is now terrified of her finding out. ( Bet 14 yr old is just going along for mums sake!)

”lashings of….”

That word genuinely makes me feel sick 🤢

I have no issue with most of the other stuff….although I am relieved my kids are all too old for that Elf…I think he’d piss me right off!

Cards that say "on your Christmas Birthday"....what's wrong with a normal birthday card? I'm aware of when my birthday is, I don't need some twee "such a special day" sentiment ta.

And we already turned to abelism.

You do know for millions of people diabetes has fuck all to do with lifestyle or 'being fat' (many as a very side effect of the condition are UNDERweight) but is actually a life threatening condition caused by organ failure... yes lets laugh at the hundreds of people per week who die prematurely of that.

People's complete lack of understanding of my children's SEN. Its an issue all year, but is particularly prevalent at Christmas. I spend the whole of December being made to feel like I'm robbing DS1 of vital, life altering Christmas memories, and that he'll grow up resenting me for it.

We don't go to the panto because he has ASD and the lights/sound/smoke effects/shouting crowd etc are just too much for him. The Christmas Market in our nearest city completely overwhelmed him a few years ago, so he doesn't want to go, Santa visits freak him out. DS2 is severely dyspraxic, so ice skating is out unless we want a broken arm for Christmas.

We have our own family things we do, that they both love, but I spend the whole of December resisting the urge to deck (ha!) anyone who tells me I'm 'robbing' them of the opportunity to 'make memories'.

All the trimmings is a useful and ancient phrase - rather than listing out what all the trimmings are each time.

Adults buying presents for adults.

The whole notion of "you have to do/eat this because it's Christmas". I don't do these things any other time of the year because they aren't actually enjoyable.

Black Friday.
Fairground rides in city centres.
Massive fucking sheds appearing in the middle of York. Because nothing says ‘festive’ like pissed people in a shed (possibly outing but who cares?)
’Party season’. Not for me, thank god.
’It’s the most wonderful tiiiime of the yeeeeaaar’ not once you’re past the age of 12, it’s not.

Christmas markets that spring up every year, they are full of mass produced glittery tat.

"Getting cosy with a hot chocolate"

Adults who write a Christmas list then declare that nobody cares about them when they don't get every item on said list.

For me, it is the family photos in matching pyjamas! I'm all for new pyjamas at Christmas but they should be ones that you can wear all year round. The sheer waste of buying 4+ pairs of pyjamas that are worn for, what, maximum of 1 week then never worn again as a new set is bought the following year 🤦‍♀️

Plus I see photos of families with girlfriends and boyfriends all wearing the pyjamas- when I was 16, I would have been mortified to wear matching pyjamas with my boyfriends parents 🤷‍♀️

Mariah Carey dressed as a slutty Santa gives me the ick.

And over catering for Christmas dinner. It’s just a nice meal, no need to make it so overwhelming and endless.

Mam0918 yes I'm well aware thank you, having 2 family members with diabetes and a general knowledge of life itself.

Nobody said anything or laughing about dying from it

I have an aversion to shortening the names of vegetables, which people seem to do when listing their food lists. So:

Cauli
Brussels
Spuds

Also hate 'our little family'.. not sure why but there is something so smug about it.

The Christmas jumper thing I find bizarre. Schools and work having Christmas jumper days implies everyone will have a Christmas jumper.

The worst is after Christmas when everyone you speak to for the first few weeks asks “did you have a nice Christmas”

Wow, so many of these things!!

People on FB selling bundles of crap and those who are desperate to find some consisting largely of 'reindeer food' and 'hot choc.' Everybody knows that homemade hot chocolate is absolutely shite, and the kids won't drink it unless you have something very fancy like a Velvetiser.

Families in matching pyjamas, the Dad always looks an absolute twat.

MIL insisting that the Christmas dinner has 'roast turkey.' I mean WTF else is it going to be? Boiled?!

Merry Christmas folks!

Yeah just the general smugness of people in social media with their Xmas pjs and ‘that’s me sorted’ etc. Bore off!

Gift sets, esp when they’ve clearly been purchased with a “that’ll do!” mentality
”Christmas box”
”All the trimmings”
”Crimbo”
YY to “all ready for Christmas?” as if it’s an invasion of a small sovereign state being planned
Huge bows on front doors
”Eat Me” dates - few people do
Next year’s presents bought in the January sales

Haha this thread is brilliant.

Agree with 'making memories' (any time of the year Tbf)

Christmas Eve boxes
Elves on Fb

Pigs in blankets is harsh though - they are the best bit of the dinner 😂

Six more “sleeps” ‘til Christmas…….
It’s six more fucking days. Grow up. Pisses me right off.
Oh also those unbelievably annoying indie voices pronouncing Christmas as Kwismoi in various ghastly remakes of classic songs.

I’m confused by a pp’s hatred of “Christmas lunch” though. What’s that about?

"Ick" and "itching teeth" 🫠

Picky tea......😬

Anything referred to as
FAYRE
Applies to Christmas, spring, summer, autumn and winter Fayres.
Also used in conjunction with any food, such as ‘Traditional Fayre’.
URGH!!

Used to hide the fact that they don't know the difference between a Christmas fair and some traditional Christmas fare.

Oxford dictionaries define "fayre" as a pseudo-archaic spelling of "fare" and "fair".