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).

tinsel, dont do tinsel, turkey either or santas grottos- as child thought they were called santas grottys, have you seen some of them? dodgy old bloke in shed(tisel and cotton wool snow covered) with blackbag/cardboard box full of poundshop specials! and they charge £3 ,or £6 with a photo.bloody rip off. 8 kids, £3 each ,thats £27 that could be spent on a resonably decent gift for someone.dont do real trees, too much hassle trying to stop eating the needles.

should be "too much hassle too stop twins eating the needles" oops

Havent read all the thread but i hate all this crap about people obsessing about having or starting "christmas traditions". Surely you do what you do? There is hardly likely to be anything that anyone does that is not being done elsewhere by millions of others!

Blu

We have Pidgies in our house (my parents were northerners, say it in S Yorks accent)

Is this ok?

We don't do crackers. A veritable disgrace in terms of waste - money, trees and crap for landfill. And crap jokes.

Moondancer, not obsessed with traditions and don't claim they are unique and they don't need to be.

But traditions are comforting and give a sense of coninuity and poele , just like them, don't see why that should bother you really.

Tradition plays a very imporatnt part in most cultures to varying extents, and obviously has a role in human psyche.

you probably have traditions even if you don't label them as such.

maybe your tradition is an annual anti christmas rant?? Wouldn't be the same qwithoit it.

We don't do:

Christmas pudding, Christmas cake, Mince Pies, Marzipan (We don't like any of these).
Tinsel (like somebody scraping nails down a blackboard to me)

Oh village panto...why didn't you say...yes, superb.

I am talking pro stuff here, you know, the nasty, boy band tastic stuff with the local 'comedian' who is always fundraising for 'kiddies' and someone out of corrie.

That just makes me ill I'm afraid...

as does Christmas cake.

Never heard of the xmas pyjamas thing before MN. Our family has recently given up on traditional Christmas cake as everyone finally admitted to the cake-maker (Granny) that they were still eating last year's cake in October. And they only ate it then because they wanted to make room in the tin for this year's (couldn't even give it to the birds as they didn't seem too partial either). Aside from that, I fail to see what giant tins of Quality Street etc have to do with Christmas. But then I just get mightily annoyed by this whole gluttony thing associated with the festive season. What's festive about being a bloater?

Surely if you put iicng sugar on the carpet, it either gets trampled in, or you need to get the vacuum out and who vacuums on Christmas morning?

Saltire I think the people who maintain that particular tradition are so keen on Christmas that they have already decked their vacuum cleaners in tinsel and baubles