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...

@Ch3wylemon - I start planning homemade Christmas presents in July, but making quilts or dolls takes many hours. This year, as always, I’m lapped. I’m two or more laps off the lead lap as in auto racing. Very few other people will admit to this. Things will get finished, though not as I would like.

The way nothing gets done because Christmas. Trying to refill prescriptions, sort out some minor home repair, hoping to get a response from a solicitor about a lease registration. Evidently I'm unreasonable to expect anything to get done because Christmas. How is 16th December Christmas?

All the doom and gloom over travelling during the Christmas break. It's started already on the radio .... avoid the M25 unless absolutely necessary. Who on earth drives on the m25 by choice!

I must be a total miserable fucker as I find myself nodding in agreement to everything in this thread!

Expensive advent calendars for adults. I mean who needs 25 miniature bottles of gin or 25 make up miniatures fgs!

Oh come on - my son is T1 (which is entirely different to T2) and it's a fucking nightmare but even I can't get upset about that.

Holibobs...Agreed.

Unless one is two, ''Holibobs'' sounds so insufferably twee.

Oh my goodness this just cracked me up.
Its also my husband to a tee. Hovering with his bin bag and baggy dressing gown.
Thank you SlurpSlooChortle 😂

''Happy Holidays''

It's Christmas!

Does anyone ever only have 60% of the trimmings?

'Bits' in any sense.
'Cheeky' glass of anything

My local butchers did ask people to order birds early this year due to bird flu there were only a handful in each size, and surely you need to know if you're feeding 3 or 23 people when you order?! So I did order in Nov.

You all need to step away from social media and you will find yourselves far less irritated by life!

For me, it's "being a Scrooge" and I've only come to realise this this year, since I read A Christmas Carol on the recommendation of my 13 year old DS who has just done it at school. It is a completely redemptive story - Scrooge is "scrooge-like" in the usual understanding of the word for about 2 pages. He transforms completely and becomes the most generous, Christmas-loving, kind person quite early on in the story. I think Dickens wanted us all to be more like Scrooge.

But more in keeping with the thread, the elf-on-the-shelf sounds like an absolute bloody nightmare - I'm exceedingly glad we never got into that.

Bin bag? <sniff> you mean you don't 'encourage' the kids to carefully peel off the tape so you can immediately smooth and fold the paper and keep it for years to come?

Totally agree. It's pure selfishness.

We stopped buying for adults several years ago but now our own children have become ‘young’ adults we’re still buying for them as we can’t work out when the cut off should be 🤔

*But more in keeping with the thread, the elf-on-the-shelf sounds like an absolute bloody nightmare - I'm exceedingly glad we never got into that

It's lots of fun and no stress whatsoever.

People posting about ‘PJs and hot chocolate’ like it’s an activity that will take a whole evening. I never understand what that means, and it ramps up around Christmas time.

We do that. Otherwise it's forgotten who got what from who so that thank you letters can be written

elf on the shelf - totally dire. what a load of utter crap. My fbook feed is full of people's elf on the shelf shite.
Xmas eve boxes
X number of sleeps - again, said by adults to adults. grow up !
'My little family'
the word 'decs'
People who post photos of the 'piles of presents' their children have (stolen from @Numbat2022 but totally agree - it's not a fucking competition for the largest/most present pile)
Matching PJs - I mean, c'mon, You look like idiots. And not to mention the cost of all these PJs for ONE day.
festive themed nail art (stolen from another poster) - it looks trashy and cheap

‘My little family’

I loathe this phrase. Almost always a precursor to a whinge about how much a poster hates going out and has withdrawn from all social contact apart from the aforementioned "little family".

When DID Micky Bubbles become so inescapable?

Christmas themed items FOR CHRISTMAS! Just no.

And yes to this. By the 25th I am looking forward to not seeing anything Christmassy for a long time!

totally agree !

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

I did this when the children were little.

It's not about mess or spoiling anyone's fun. It's about making sure bank notes and gift cards don't get thrown away with the wrapping paper.

Can I add another? SNOW FAIRY!!!

To me it has a whiff of vomit

"Something they want, something they need, something to read and something to wear". Said with a massive dose of sanctimonious smugness, naturally.

Guilty of doing a few of these 🙈

But Elf on the Shelf is the big one for me. I wonder if it would still exist without Social Media?