Do we have a MN Christmas threads full house yet?

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Another thread has made me realise there are so many threads/posts about Christmas stresses and angst, and the same things seem to pop up every year. Every single year! I think we need cards and a competition to see who wins Full House first...

DH went out for his works Christmas party and has not come home yet and it's 7am - where is he?

A slut and a snob, love it!

Can I add the eleventy billion post Xmas threads where the op is unhappy with perfectly reasonable gifts

And conversely, the threads where op is unhappy with ridiculously awful/total lack of present

Oooh yes good point.

@Averyyounggrandmaofsix Luckily I don't have a DH problem so he told her to fuck off, it was like something out of Shameless . I'm always tempted to drag it up in a think yourself lucky way when people moan their MILs bought their DCs an advent calendar and they don't want them to have two, but I don't think people would believe me

I've not yet seen a Christmas Facebook marketplace/eBay selling tat thread yet

Ooooh!

DH had my parcel delivered by Amazon and I accidentally totally on purpose opened it. The diamond earrings aren't my taste, should I tell him or not?

Edna you're just not looking hard enough

This thread comes across quite mean spirited.
Some folk struggle at Xmas.
Taking the rip out them is a bit mean.

I can call HOUSE, I've got a line. I think I'm just one off a full BINGO though 🤷🏼‍♀️

There is always a hungry at the in-laws one as well.

@ssd I can't tell whether you are genuinely reprimanding me or saying there is always a thread like that

If it's the former, this thread was actually prompted by me saying on another thread that I'm fed up with all the genuinely petty shit when people (including myself!) have quite genuinely stressful shit going on. I suppose one persons petty shit is someone else's stressful shit though...

Also it's meant to be lighthearted not mean

You forgot Secret Santa. The threads on that are endless: I received rubbish, I gave a great gift unlike everyone else, I think the whole idea is rubbish.

DS1 doesn't believe any more. What consequences should I threaten him with for spoiling things for the younger DC?

Christmas is bad for the environment, with the cards and wrapping ending up in landfill. (Will Greta become the new Scrooge?)

Now for some which I haven't really seen on MN, but which are typical of MN:
I don't want my Christian MIL indoctrinating my children about the birth of Christ, with all that nonsense about the virgin birth, Bethlehem, and the Angel Gabriel.

Boris Johnson wore a Santa hat on TV. AIBU that this is totally inappropriate, and traumatising for the children?

Why does it never snow on Christmas Day (in England at least)?

And now, everybody, here is my own personal biggest first-world gripe about Christmas: the lack of netball. In the last week or two, players frequently miss games because they have to attend office Xmas parties, so we have to forfeit them, and then there are no games until the new year.

Christmas and dogs. Either the OP is going to a relatives house who has a dog and wants the dog shut away, or the OP has a dog, the relatives are coming to her and want the dog sit away. Or the relatives coming are wanting to bring a dog, or the batshit variant where the dog is actually two piglets.

Fair enough if it's lighthearted, maybe I'm just in the wrong frame of mind to see it like that.
I'm just struggling a bit and your op made me feel like people are laughing about it.
Sorry to read it wrong.

Very funny thread OP

Not seen a trifle thread yet. I love the annual trifle thread (arguments over inclusion of jelly), despite having lost my trifle mojo.

Have we had a thread yet where the OP is annoyed because someone else's thread title indicated that Santa might not actually exist?

OP: My DS was reading over my shoulder and now he knows that Santa isn't real, you bastards!

25% of replies: If he's old enough to read that, he's too old to still believe in Santa anyway!

Bosom-hoikers: You let your child read MN over your shoulder? Tell me where you live so that I can report you to SS, you monster!

The militants: MNHQ should ban those thread titles immediately. It's child cruelty!

The over-invested: Leave notes around the house from Santa. In fact, send me your address and I'll write one for you.

Everyone else: Meh!

What about the threads about Christmas cards? Do you send? Don’t you send? Do you ‘hate the mess and put them (unopened) straight into the recycling bin’?

You've missed the annual AIBU to not want to travel on Christmas Eve, due date 25th, and DH has not booked a room thread.

Also the have you put the Christmas tree up

And is £500 per child enough to spend?

@CrocodileFrock I found out DD could sound out and blend words when she sounded out c*nt the asterisk makes no difference when sounding out.

BlackeyedSusan - That brings back memories of DS and his Phonics bus toy where you had to press the letters on the side to make the sounds. "Buh-guh" was a particular favourite.

I’m looking forward to the one complaining about the state of the ils’ spare room and how inconvenient it is that it hasn’t got an en-suite with endless fluffy towels and “high end” toiletries.

@ssd sorry you are struggling I myself am probably grinchy and bitter as my health is poor and I'm having to cancel lots of things including letting my DC down on something important.

I think this thread is a better way for me than going onto threads with the "think yourself lucky, I would love to be able to do crap secret Santa/spend too much money/have to go and do lots of shopping" and it genuinely is meant to be lighthearted.

On that note, I'm liking all the MN classic gripes, they really are all true!

Oh god yes, the spare rooms ones, love those "PILs put us in DH's old room, they didn't give up their room for us" or "I always have beautiful toiletries for guests but SIL expected us to make do with supermarket own brand handwash"

There's always threads from people who are affronted to receive Christmas cards (including people who put them straight in the bin), also ILs hosting who only serve one sprout, a tiny slice of chicken and no roasties

Basically to stop us saying things like "think yourself lucky to do shit secret Santa, I lost my job and I might be in hospital for Christmas" and everyone will think we are joyless knobs bringing everyone down, we can cheer ourselves up by recognising people like to moan about

MILs
SILs
Secret Santa
Tasteless trees
Dogs
Trifles