What christmas crap do you refuse to go along with?

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this new pyjamas hysteria for example( I fail to see how any sane kid thinks that is a treat).

we take turns too - well at least they're pulled out from under the tree by one person and then given to the appropriate person - with the age my children are I try to arrange the presents so that they come out equally (ie DS1 doesn't get 3 in a row, then DS2 1,).

Without knowing that anyone else does it I have bought DS lovely new smart 'proper' pyjamas on Christmas eve...and he loves it.

But I can't BEAR the term 'PJs' Hideous American cutsy slang.

They are Pyjamas, or JIMJAMS.

I do the Xmas PJs thing.

Don't bake anything (why make a Xmas pudding? Jesus, the faff!) and cannot be arsed with pantomimes

Blu, you think pjs is cutesy yet use 'jimjams'?

I don't make Christmas puddingor Cake - but I would like to - they do taste SO much better than shop bought............

Crackers
And I wish someone would find something as large as a turkey that isn't a turkey.

Hmm. I honestly cant tell the difference between homemade and good shop bought puddings. I just smile politely and pretend they homemade stuff tastes so much better

Dont do lots of stuff but then we generally go back home so my mum does it all.

Def dont do 'Father Christmas'. Its soooo English and poor dd would have the piss taken big time. Its Santy all the way.

Dont do cards, adult presents and going OTT on food shopping.

Home baking.
Tinsel in the hair.
Babies in Santa outfits.
Never done new pjs. Rather like the sound of it. So long as I can have some too.

don't do :
shopping like it's the end of the world
pressies for postman,teachers,binman etc
cards for anyone i have not seen in 2 years
advent calendars filled with bad chocolate
reindeer food(WTF)
expensive crackers
new pjs
work Xmas party( revolting drunken nonsense)
guilt

cremola what about pressies for window cleaner? do you have a paperboy, milkman, lollipop person, cleaner or gardener? everyone i know seems to buy for those people if they have them. i think it's bizarre. well maybe not the cleaner or gardener.

what's the deal with icing sugar?

oh yes and my mother's gardeners auntie who is in a hospice.

jeeez!

I do see people give the lolipop man at school tins of Quality street, but feel like wrestling hime to the ground and grabbing them.

"cards for anyone i have not seen in 2 years"

I hope none of your friends or family ever move a long distance away then - as that would mean that 2/3 of my family would't get cards

have never done the food overkill. People shop as if there's going to be a food shortage or something - ridiculous.

Last year I went to m&s to buy my turkey crown, and as I was queuing there was a woman in front of me who spent £350 on joints of meat. christ knows how many people she was having round... and I shudder to think what her alcohol bill must have been like.

do you walk to school though or drive? i wouldn't bother with the lollipop man if i didn't personally use him.

dd gets the bus
but i bloody won't be getting the sodding bus driver man.

not when i could be spending the money on fags and strong drink

I assume the icing sugar thing is putting fake footprints on the floor a la somebody's broken in over night.

Don't do the alcohol thing and eating chocolate at 8am. And pantomimes are the work of the devil. Which is fairly ironic.

I don't do a roast, or in fact cook at all on Christmas day
why would you want to spend the day in the kitchen?

I do do reindeer food etc - I don't hype it, ds1 knows fc is not real - but it is just fun

Cyteen - prejudice, sheer prejudice - the sickly way 'Moms' in American soaps and films say 'pjs' when tucking children in....it sets my nerves a-jangle. 'jimjams' is the British slang, and is not 'cute' - which is a very american phrase anyway...oh, and grown men are often seen lounging in 'PJs'too in squeaky-clean family dramas - ugh! - and I grate at sickly Americanisation. I cannot pretend to be rational about the whole thing

Icing Sugar???

Oh no. As if there isn't enough to do on Christmas Day without having sticky icing sugar trodden all ver the carpets. mad.

Father Christmas/Santa. In all forms.
Buying loads of food and drink
Pyjamas
Queens Speech
Turkey
new decorations/ colour co-ordinated
cards to colleagues (we have a company policy not to and make a donation to charity of the year instead)
Spending loads of money on tat
DS not old enough for panto yet

oh don't worry, i understand the prejudice thing. personally i find that when people say 'jammies' i get a strange ringing in my ears and the scent of blood in my nostrils

have never thought of 'pjs' as being v american though. i always just used it out of laziness.

I dont do the cheese balls, christmas cake, pickles, walnuts, dates, turkish delights, extra large boxs of cookies and sweets, port, or the mad christmas shopping the day before as if we will never see food again.

BUT

i do, do all the magical stuff that my kids love. Biting of the carrot and a cookie for santa, riendeer food on the grass. Its christmas, its magical. You cant fight it.

Oh and the new pyjamas go down a treat christmas morning. They too put them straight on and jump around and would keep them on all day if could. And seen as Chritmas is at home this year i think i will let them After all it is Christmas

Cheese balls are vomit in a spherical shape.