DO men do anything at Xmas or is it just the ladies??

Gabriel-Ernest

I do all the cooking and half of the washing-up in our house - my OH can't cook so she wraps presents etc. at Christmas.

lab-lover

my oh does a big fat zero at christmas, then he gets "stressed" when he asks me wot i want for xmas, when i tell him to use his imagination he buys the same bottle of happy perfume yr after yr. he is hopeless

dronid

OK – I’m not getting into how other gentlemen perform at Christmas.

I am a man (apparently much maligned by this thread!) This year I will be doing Christmas Dinner and day 4 times.

Once for friends this weekend

Once for my OH’s mother, stepfather, brother, sister and sisters boyfriend

Once for my mother who is in Spain and has very limited kitchen facilities

Once more for other friends who weren’t around before Christmas.

The meals will be

Starter
1 Salmon Roulade
2 Mushroom Pate
3 Green leaf salad with local ham and berries
4 Prawn Cocktail

Main
1 Turkey, Roast Potatoes, Parsnips, Sprouts, Carrots and Potch (Welsh dish of Swede and Potato mashed together with a little butter and black pepper.
2 As above but for the Vegetarians an additional Meatlessloaf.
3 I have no Idea! See what there is when I get there. Maybe slow cooked lamb.
4 As number 1 but with Roast Beef.

Pudding for all but Spain as I still need to see what’s available!
Christmas pudding
Trifle
Christmas cake
Yule log

I will also clean the house with my OH’s help. Do the tree and decorations. Organise the guests and then effervesce!

It’ll be pretty much done from scratch, prepared by hand.

Incidentaly, I got my partner flowers the other day. His work colleagues (mainly women) asked what the occasion was. He looked at the card and said, ‘Just because’. Every listener looked annoyed and one piped up and said, ‘he needs to talk to my husband!’ :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Make of that what you will.

Hay_2

My immediate reaction to the question was OH did naff all...so sat and thought hard about it.
He does the "manly" things:rolleyes: Outside lights,sweeping the garden etc.
He attempts to help decorate the house but the inner control freak in me just bats him away...
I "may" be successful in persuading him to accompany me on a Toys R us/Mothercare/ELC session but the call of the scaletrix is too strong for the poor fella to resist so he "plays" whilst I shop:p There really is a gap in the market you know...a hubbie creche runalong side the kiddies one~FAB idea!!
So I choose the presents,buy the presents,wrap the presents.Buy the cards,write the cards....oh!He POSTS them on his way to work!I book the tescos slot,I drag myself to tescos the next day at stupid o clock in the morning to buy all the stuff bloody tescos didn't deliver or substituted ridiculous things for....(think original order 24 cans of Budweiser received 24 nonalcoholic lager,ordered turkey..received bin bags and you get the picture:rolleyes:)
We allways share xmas eve duties...the arranging the presents,snowy foot prints,biting the carrot,sipping the sherry,ordering the take away;)
He ALWAYS cooks xmas day brekkie and then "supervises" the days proceedings from the comfort of the sofa~can in one hand remote in the other,with the odd "everything alright in there darling?" thrown in now and again for good measure:p
He makes a massive effort on my presents though...he is a sweetie really....and If I admit it to myself I LIKE the way things are because at least if I do everything I know it's done right!LMAO:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

skystar

My hubby's contribution to Crimbo is buying my pressies and erm turning up :rolleyes:

It's more than what he did for our wedding.....the only thing he did then was turn up :rotfl:

In fact thinking about it now he does naff all for anything.....Crimbo, holidays, housework, car maintenance. It seems he goes to work and leaves everything else up to me. Is it time to trade him in

I think I am also in the "control freak" category because I know if he did do anything I would be right at the back of him to do it again "my way" .

alwaysbusyMUM

tweenies wrote:

Just a thought only because my hubby does nowt at Christmas.

It always seems to be the women worrying about the food, the decorations will everyone fit round the table, are there enough presents, are they wrapped correctly, are the cards written, have we (sorry I) forgotton anyone, the list is endless, whilst my other half sits back and eats the whole ruddy weeks shopping before I have had time to put it away grrrrrrrrrrrr

Any men out there doing their bit? please there must be?? :rolleyes:

Kind regards X X

My darling hubby is a saint going of these posts, he cooks, cleans, etc etc all year round not just for Christmas, it might have something to do with the fact we both work from home and he's had to get of his bum, when it comes to Christmas day, he's the one to cook breakfast & dinner, I'll help prepare but he cooks and cleans up. I tend to do most of the Christmas shopping presents wise though, food shopping we do it together, presents & cards I wrap because I usually escape somewhere peaceful.

He's a darling.

:rotfl:

notsolucky_2

Currently trying to shame him into putting up outside lights!! We converted the garage into a bedroom last year so had no accessable electric sockets, so after no outside lights last year, I really want some this year(and the kids do) so have threatened him with hiring an electrician! hopefully will get him going.

zippybungle

My DP gets the tree out of the loft, on Xmas day he puts all the torn off wrapping paper into a bin liner, after Xmas he puts the tree back in the loft. :rolleyes:

catkins

My OH helps me decide what presents we are buying, comes with me to buy them and then wraps them all! I hate wrapping. We don't spend Christmas at home so have no food shopping to do but as we are vegetarian we make something for Christmas dinner and take it with us. For almost every one of the 27 years we have been together OH has made the food - usually nut roast but the last couple of years we have had goats cheese and red onion tarts. I made the pastry but he did the rest.

He also comes with me to buy the tree and does the decorations with me.

All in all I think I am pretty lucky to have him

hex2

I too come in the control freak category and hate it when mine trys to help. He helps when I ask, which is nice, and he likes wrapping presents so we have a happy evening doing half each with a nice bottle of red. He says it is great to have the confidence that we will get to Christmas Day and everything will be ready, and that whatever I have spent will have got the greatest posible return. We have a really good balance most of the time that utilises both sets of skills.

TNG - I hope Mrs. TNG appreciates what she has got!