Christmas words/phrases that make you cringe

[EducatingArti]

Do you have any Christmas words or phrases that make you cringe.

Mine are:
Crimbo
The Big Day
Magical.

The latter two are partly because I think it puts too much pressure on people to do something that isn't attainable - too much emphasis on things being perfect during a particular 24 hour period.

Little children will be happy and excited (and probably get overwhelmed and overtired and have tantrums) if they have family who love them, some presents from family and Santa and some treats/special food and some decorations like a Christmas tree. Beyond this I'm not sure what "making it magical" really means. It will be what it will be and children will react however they react.

Posh chocs!!!! MN needs a site update to autocorrect chocs to chocolates.

I've already heard "see you next year" chuckle chuckle.

Hearing numerous versions of "All that build-up and it's just one day" at church this morning put a serious crimp in my Christian thoughts this morning.
You know it's just one day! It's always been just one day! Were you expecting a sudden declaration of a month of festivities this year!?

Ahem.
Peace be with you 🙏

Holibobs makes me want to throw up 😂 god it's awful 😂

I love all the cranks on this thread 🤣

My husband gifted me....

Shoot me now...

When people on instagram bang on about cheese 'I am at this point, 80% cheese.' 'All the cheese' I mean cheese is ok and that but do shut up. It tends to be the aspirational ones who don't want to admit to being 80% walnut whip/celebrations.

I’ve seen a couple of posts on facebook now that say I was too busy having fun and concentrating on the moment to take pictures but Christmas 2024….you were a blast or words to that effect.

Hate the term “big ticket item”. Don’t know why.

Oh no it’s not.

the big man is Santa to us Scot’s and many others.

FC is an English dude.

Referring to the days in between Christmas and New Year as “Chrimbo Limbo” 🙄

Oh no, @GlomOfNit , thank you.

That was even cathartic for me.

It's as Dublin as Clery's clock.

I LOVE Xmas. Easy to write, easier to spell, inoffensive (although many people will tell you it's not).

Those people being Christians?

If there are Christians saying Xmas is offensive then they are Christians ignorant of where the X comes from.

If there are Christians saying Xmas is offensive then they are Christians ignorant of where the X comes from.

Indeed.
I used to dislike "Xmas" as I thought people were just replacing "Christ" with "X" for convenience or something.
Then one year I decided to make pashka (a Russian Easter pudding) which is traditionally decorated with an X (I did mine in almonds) and a footnote explained about the Greek letters for the name of Christ, so I made my peace with "Xmas".
I still prefer to use "Christmas" myself but I know now the X isn't disrespectful.

We do the one at a time opening thing, no oohing and aahing though, just makes it last a bit longer and everyone can see what everyone else got. It started when the DCs were young and there were a lot of presents from absent god-parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents in the piles (DH's family always exchange in advance if not seeing each other on the day) so I could keep track of who had given what to each DC and make a note for thank you letters and also just to keep track so they'd know who had given them what.

I don't mind most of these TBH but Twixmas/Twixtmas/Betwixtmas irritate me beyond belief, so twee.

Also gifted. I know it is not incorrect English but it sounds so pretentious. Gave, you gave someone a present.

ExpensiveDecoration

so I could keep track of who had given what to each DC and make a note for thank you letters and also just to keep track so they'd know who had given them what.

Exactly what we did. And now what my DD does with DGC.
I also used to worry that smaller presents could get lost in an unwrapping frenzy and get thrown away with the paper.

@Wavescrashingonthebeach

I love all the cranks on this thread 🤣

That's nice.
Presumably, the "cranks" are the ones who don't think like you? Which ones are we they?

I think you've got the wrong end of the stick, I consider myself a bit of a grinch and I was smiling to myself that so many other people get annoyed by so many daft things about Christmas.

@Wavescrashingonthebeach

You're right - wrong stick-end hastily grabbed!
Sorry to have misunderstood (note, I didn't use the emoji in the Santa hat out of respect for your grinch-y tendencies)

It's OK 😊I can easily see how someone could have read it as me being sarky!
Massive respect to fellow Grinchers 👏 🤣

I’m not entirely convinced that most people have this in mind when they use Xmas, but I am happy to be corrected!

It doesn't really matter what they have in mind though. It's where the abbreviation originated so it still means Christmas.

Unless you think everyone who says Xmas is consciously refusing to say the word Christ and thinks they are replacing it with an X as an act of protest.

Nobody is thinking they are doing that. People just use Xmas because it exists as a word and it still means Christmas whether they think it does or not.

I was going to reply, @Clafoutie , but DappledThings has pretty much said everything I would have said.
Knowing the origin makes me feel better about the word "Xmas".
Other people's preferences/reasons are up to them.

All been said already.

All the trimmings
Roasties
Yorkies