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?

We have parents v non parents Christmas stress levels ✅

A real life fun one of mine is my MIL burnt something in her oven Christmas day.
It was a burnt on sugar/honey combo from the carrots and parsnips.

We visited boxing day and was informed of this around 5 in the afternoon after wondering why no food was being made.

I had to scrub the oven then cook things for everyone myself her dry turkey and chips as that's all they had.

Congratulations portia! If you know you are getting engaged on Wednesday though, aren't you kind of engaged already? Time for celebrations either way

No to the stunt pineapple elephant as my DH and DCs couldn't be trusted not to try and eat it. Fat ball anyone? Instead I buy fruit each week and the following week shout at everyone for not eating it. I might revisit this strategy in the New Year as it seems fucking stupid written down.

I have a genuine AIBU now, I shall ask you like minded folk as everyone else on MN is so busy with so much to do so naturally they are posting on MN to complain about their lack of time, how does that work then.

AIBU to open the door to the Ocado delivery in my PJs and Santa hat? I am absolutely knackered (I actually have done a lot today ) and put my (clean!) PJs back on before I remembered the shop was coming. I am wrapping presents so the Wearing Of The Santa Hat is none negotiable. Is this a terrible social faux pas? I'm actually really tempted to start a proper AIBU thread to ask this. Imagine!

No you’re fine. I had to answer the door in my thin dressing gown last week to UPS guy. He took it well fair play. Always remember they would have seen it all by now.

YANBU😂 I wear pj bottoms as lounge wear so I theoretically accept all deliveries in pjs😂

Excellent, MNers say it's OK so I will be fine. I just had another dilemma, whether I should be tipping the driver or giving him (or her!) some chocolates or something. Christmas is a minefield! And my Santa hat has flattened my hair after all my hard work with the hair putty

@CloseEncountersOfTheTerfKind YABVVVVVU to actually answer the door. This is MN basics 101.

I had to take the bin out in my dressing gown today as I forget they were coming a day early this week. The bin man didn't bat an eyelid.

Well I just sorted out my Christmas lights outside in my PJs and Santa hat so I have no shame left round here I would probably be judged for not wearing a tatty onesie, to be fair

And yes smuggy you are right, I will ignore the door and then start a thread on MN to ask who would be ringing my doorbell at 6pm on a Monday.

I will ignore the door and then start a thread on MN to ask who would be ringing my doorbell at 6pm on a Monday.

Shall there be a separate thread complaining:

*the courier left my order by the bins;
*the courier left my order by the door and the foxes have eaten my turkey;
*the courier left it with the neighbours but I don't open the door to them because blood feud?

AIBU to open the door to the Ocado delivery in my PJs and Santa hat? I am absolutely knackered (I actually have done a lot today ) and put my (clean!) PJs back on before I remembered the shop was coming. I am wrapping presents so the Wearing Of The Santa Hat is none negotiable. Is this a terrible social faux pas? I'm actually really tempted to start a proper AIBU thread to ask this. Imagine!

OP, answer the door wearing only your Santa hat.

Saga over if Santa brings just stockings one big gift or everything.

How can I hid I'm 7h pregnant when we are going out to a party and I can’t drink. How about I’m on antibiotics no one will ever guess!

I went over for xmas dinner and I was made to keep my shoes on/ take my shoes off. I was appalled.

DH has promise he would do the washing up Christmas Day but now it’s 31st December and things are still soaking. AIBU?

WIBU to not give little Tommy any Christmas presents this year as he only got A- on his maths test?

DH has promise he would do the washing up Christmas Day but now it’s 31st December and things are still soaking. AIBU?

tbh, you sound like hard work. Are you always this controlling?*

*I should note at this point that I once had a business trip that turned into almost 12 weeks away from home. When I got back I was impressed to see that DH had been cooking (dirty pans waiting to be washed but - food prep felt like progress). It was only when I saw it was the same meal that I'd cooked just before leaving (and he'd been supposed to wash up) that I realised...If I'd posted on AIBU, I'd fully expect to have been told that I was controlling etc.

Fucking hell arran I would have said LTB! And meant it!

The Ocado driver gave me the MN gift of being unexpectedly early and making me flap a bit, which is surely an ideal AIBU? So I had a ready made excuse for not being dressed (and Andy you're either a perv, or my DH )

AIBU is very entertaining, but also rather exasperating. I am sitting on my hands. The older I get, the less patience I have with all this bollocks. The patriarchy and female socialisation is strong this season. I just want to go on pretty much every thread and say

Tell them to fuck off
Tell your DH to fuck off
Use your voice
You don't have to do all this
Tell your DH to fuck off
Do what YOU want
Oh and tell your DH to fuck off

"{runs off to tip fruit in brown bin, we all know it ends up there anyway it's only for show}"

I used to feel guilty at our complete lack of fruit bowls as everyone else on MN seemed to have children who devoured fruit by the crate.

Then one wise MNer pointed out that if you pay close attention to such threads, people only ever say "I offered DD/DS some fruit." There's never any mention of the offspring actually accepting it and eating it.

Reader, I felt slightly less lacking in both awareness and fruit bowls.

I could rant for hours about the MN fruit and carrot sticks 'offer', @CrocodileFrock.

After school I offer my DC crudités and fresh hummus with pomegranate seeds They don't fucking eat it though because they swapped their 'lost' school blazer for burger and chips at lunch time with the kid from round the corner whose mum's niece walks your dog.

@crockodilfrock
We are kindred spirits

People on MN never just buy things. They source them.

They don't just Google things either. They Research images of using Google scholar to find new washing machines

They don't just Google things either.

Surely they don't ever Google things. Why spends ages looking stuff up when someone on MN will be kind daft enough to do it for you.

@SmuggyMcKnobson that is true......which begs the question - if they aren't researching so,etching by googling it......how, in 2019, are they researching it

Writing to The Old Codgers maybe? shows age

I think there is a very new thing called Facebook. I believe the standards of fact-checking and basic research on there are quite high.

I see we now have the “is it OK not to visit frail, housebound, elderly FiL on Christmas Day?” thread. Of course it isn’t fucking OK - and she knows it. Some bright spark - who will quite rightly get roasted as a turkey - maintains old people don’t care about Christmas because they’ve had loads of them. Where do these people come from?

They Research images of using Google scholar to find new washing machines

Yes. I never know if people mean that they ran a literature search, tried out something in a lab, talked to relevant people or read a dodgy link/some Amazon reviews/a Which? report.