Which words fill you with dread at Christmas?

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’Glass baubles’ - half smashed when I reopened the box from last year

’Nibbles’ - sweaty little finger bowls housing minuscule foods. Must compliment delicious finger bowl spread & ooze gratitude.

’A festive walk’ - Not just any walk. Must include the word wholesome & festive numerous times with an Insta reel to boot.

’Dry turkey’ - Guzzling wine just to get the turkey down. Sloshed in record time.

‘It’s just a little something’ - £50 present from that overbearing person you try to keep a respectful distance from all year & feeling beholden to them forevermore 😭

@letshavetea all I want to do after Christmas lunch is doze in front of the telly 🤣🤣 last year I had guests staying and it was any more biscuits/ cake/ are we having any supper soon???? Aaaggh!!!!

"We thought it would be nice if we stayed for a few days".
Work Christmas party.

Same
’its probably best if we stay over, I don’t think I can drive FIL home with his diarrhoea’

Work Christmas party.
Powercut.

@shellyleppard — I know I have the same with family staying over Christmas. This year I’ve decided to put out a cheese board/grapes/celery/chutney and a cake/mince pie etc selection after the washing up is done after lunch and say ‘please help yourselves’. The only one I’ll do more catering for is my little grandgirlie! We’ll see if that works!

@letshavetea all I want for Christmas is a cheesy film and peace and quiet lol. Hope you have a fantastic time x

Christmas drinks get togethers
Going on a Christmas run/swim/jog/cycle
Bloated detox between boxing day and NYE
Turkey leftover recipes
So organised
The environment
Last posting days for cards
Pagan holiday
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I know they make sense but some terms i'm sick of hearing around this time...

Secret Santa... by far the worst.
Every year I have to go along with it, every year it's just more shit for the charity shop.

Im lucky i dont do xmas.

Worse than secret Santa…my SIL calls it Kris Kringle. Arghhh

Being asked to go to people’s houses for Christmas Dinner.

All we want to do is spend the day in our own home in our pyjamas and let the kids enjoy all their new toys whilst eating crap and watching crap on the TV.

Why does Christmas Day have to be made into some kind of family reunion, posh event with a fancy meal?!

All we want to do is shut ourselves away, relax and let our children make as much mess and noise as they want to with their new gifts in their own home.

MIL

I agree! Every pet illness or emergency seems to happen at the weekend or at night! £600 just to walk through the doors of OOH pet care! Also the dentist!

This made me laugh far too much🤣 the major general!

it’s not popular on here but I love games, card games, board games, I’m all over it!

These all resonate!

‘Won’t you just have one, it is Christmas’ - NO I don’t want the cocktail you’ve made off the back of a Tik tok video that resembles stagnant pond water. I want to be at home, horizontal, eating or snoozing, and wallowing in my festive misery.

Agree trimmings is awful, similar to nibbles. Or lashings of gravy 😷

And I wish you joy of them, truly. It’s being cajoled into obligatory fun I object to. I’m happy to sit in the corner with my book while others play, but some people don’t seem to be able to stand that for some reason.

‘Picky bits’.
’Someting to wear, something to read’ ….you know the rest.
’Hot chocolate’ and ‘new PJ’s’ on Christmas Eve.

"It'll be great fun - you'll love it."
No, I almost certainly won't. Please fuck off with your organised jollity.

Mummy I’ve been sick

A Christmas Eve Box or even worse a hamper, containing PJs and hot chocolate.
Sorry, ,just noticed someone else feels the same.

I dread hearing or reading the words Twixmas and Betwixtmas. Can’t you just say Christmas week? These words are like nails down a chalkboard in their painful twee-ness.

We’ll come to yours shall we?

Simple answer is that I want more than 1 veggie option. There is always at least 2 meat options plus a fish option and then one veggie.

For me, I’d be happy with a Christmas dinner with plant-based sausages or even a bloody nutroast.

This! I want to sit in front of a Christmas film with my bottle of Baileys. Fuck off with your board game!!

‘Overnight guests’

’The Bailey’s is empty.’

’I know we agreed no gifts, but…’

’Mummy, my tummy hurts’