Any minor Festive Fuck-ups yet?

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Someone <ahem> decided to go and buy new lights for their 6.5ft really bushy Christmas tree today...and they decided 1000, on a 10m cable, from The Range, is plenty for this tree (bear in mind, their old ones are 600 on a 22m cable).

Dear Reader...

10m of lights, no matter how many are crammed onto it, are certainly not enough for a giant tree. They just about cover it's bottom half...if they're spaced very far apart <sigh>.

And I can't even couple them together because I lose the white and blue from the new set if I do that, and they don't quite sync properly <BIG SIGH>! So now I either put old on back/new on front, slightly out of sync OR I bus back to The Range to once again browse their many and varied aisles of festive lights 🤔 (I cba to bus back tomorrow & really want to decorate by the way).

My dad offered a sensible solution - he will collect 2000 warm white lights, in the morning, when he goes for garden centre cafe breakfast. But they're white. Not coloured. And might not even be enough! I need about 3bazillion metres looking at this!

Any other minor Festive fuck-ups going on? 🎅

Does accidentally eating a whole box of M&S mince pies in one day count? I'm not proud of it, but it happened 😊

My (really crappy) system for parcels arriving broke down last weekend as people in my house put several ‘we missed you’ delivery cards in a non-obvious place and now they are lost for all eternity. I’ve had to trawl through the websites I think I have bought from and cross reference what’s here.

In doing this I found that I’d had £130 worth of presents sent to my old address in a different city. Pffft. Still trying to figure out what to do about that 🙃

I'm about to put my outside lights but need to work up to the annual disappointment of working through every setting and thinking I have found gentle twinkling only to find they've reset themselves to ambulance mode 10 minutes later.

Buying a selection of jumpers to decide on one for dh and ds. Had to return some. Shop online return not working. Rang and asked for help and they arranged via Evri. All fine I thought. Turned out a) I rang the wrong company (similar name) and b) Evri have lost it. Over £100 down so please cross your fingers it is found, returned to me and then I can send it to the correct company for refund. Correct company says it happens quite a lot as both in same county. So cross with myself.

That's amazing! @GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER dgc's teacher will delightedly get that out every year that she is teaching and will think of you.
This thread is great, so many funny stories. My disaster is that I have done nothing yet for Christmas other than decide with lovely SIL what food we are taking over to theirs on Christmas Day and to get BIL to order DH's present for me (he can get a good deal) and send a bank transfer for it to BIL. Must try harder!

I use my pinky finger for Touch ID. The only one I don’t mess up with glue/housework/injury.

Brought some overpriced clothing hobby specific for BIL last January, been smug all year… BIL has not changed a bit.

I started wrapping this week and it appears I brought the wrong size in all the excitement earlier in the year. Nobody else will want this specific item or I’ll have to take a big hit on Vinted and also now don’t have a gift for him.

so annoyed and it’s only my own fault 🤦🏻‍♀️

had simular years ago but with my now husband and me. bought him a tablet- they weren't long out at the time so waa delighted with myself. Xmas morning we swap -realised as handled mine was similar weight and sane size as I gave him. we had both bought each other the exact same tablet 🙈 lucky we both had receipts and were able to bring one back 🤣

I’m so glad other people have lost presents. I’ve been really smug about having them all bought but when I went to add some stocking fillers they weren’t there, there was all the holiday clothes which suggests I’ve done a swap. I’m not senile but I have no recollection of this at all. And I don’t know where the holiday clothes were. We moved this year so nothing has a usual place yet.

DH has just messaged to say he has managed to get a real Xmas tree - despite me asking for an artificial pre-lit one every year for years now. I really hoped this would be the year the Nordmans were all sold out!

In the 70s our family dog ate chocolates we had hung on the tree. It never occurred to us that they would harm her, though thinking back I had seen that dogs had special dog chocolates. She had carefully extracted the chocolate so the foil wrappers were still hanging on the tree. There must have been almost no actual chocolate in there at all, thank goodness

Don’t, I’m so tempted! 😈.
2 boxes of M&S liqueur cherries, 2 ditto of chocolate brazils, and 2 x packs of Waitrose dark chocolate ‘orangettes’, all waiting to be wrapped and posted off. Until the other day I had 2 boxes of Bendick’s mint collection sitting there daring me, too, but at least they’re safely wrapped and posted off to the US now.

I made mincemeat swirls (which are amazing, just like mince pies except a billion times less faffy to make) and I rolled the pastry up the wrong way ie I rolled the short side, rather than the long side like you're supposed to.

So they're as big as your head, and every one is a one-stop diabetes shop.

Fucking delicious though ngl

My very cute and lovingly potted small Christmas tree blew over in the strong winds spilling soil everywhere and breaking the mini baubles that I had bought for it 😒

I accidentally let slip what our daughter’s main present is going to be! I wasn’t even thinking it just came out. She is super excited for it but still wanted it to be a surprise

We trailed around a field in a Christmas tree farm in the pouring rain, looking for the perfect tree. We became fed up and disillusioned, and reserved a lop sided one in the end.

@Baninarama nail polish remover (acetone) works for superglue....

I brought myself "something" from a well known company.... delivery driver has gone to the wrong address!!! No idea when or if I will get it before Christmas 🤣 i have a safe delivery place by my back door.... this isn't my safe place!!!

@Pancakeflipper I shouldn't laugh, but the thought of all those guilty faces at the vets 😁. I hope they were all okay on the end, naughty lot!

I have been laughing so much at these posts, glad it's not just me that looses things, has a dog addicted to chocolate and an unhealthy relationship with Christmas lights.

I was happy to find the £2 Xmas themed lottery scratch cards. Was slightly bemused as the shop assistant juggled several feet of cardboard saying she didn’t know how to fold them. Each ticket is about 20cm tall! No way they will squeeze into my homemade crackers.

Due to…something, not sure what, my mother has ordered a ridiculous number of advent calendars. And sent some of them to the wrong address. My house is due to receive 6! There are only three of us, I don’t really want chocolate because diabetes and dieting - which she knows. Husband doesn’t want one either. Teenager is happy with one.

Being chocolate and therefore food they are non-returnable.

I have managed to get a refund for some of them and will donate them to the foodbank.

This is the second year she’s gone off-piste and caused herself anxiety with something that is not necessary. Last year we had 5 or 8, I can’t remember.

I would also like to buy my own kid an advent calendar actually.

AND the end result is that having sorted it all out I now don’t have one at all, my sister does, everyone does, except me. It’s just a lack of attention and thought and I am unreasonably pissed off about it. The whole thing is a fucking shit show.

I’ve asked her not to do them next year.

😅

For all you pp’s forgetting where you’ve hidden gifts - take a photo on your phone of gifts as you hide them.
It’s a lot easier to scroll through photos than turn the house upside down.

I bought DH a piece of art for Christmas - I was v excited for his reaction as it’s quite niche and very him.
And the bloody shop emailed the receipt - together with a picture of it - to HIS email address. Fml.