I hate Christmas. Who's with me?

balletshoes

TBeckett100 wrote: »

Christmas is odd.

When you are a couple, you alternative Christmas and boxing days with the parents and in laws so nobody feels left out. We have our own child and it would be nice to actually enjoy Christmas in the house I work all year for instead of sitting 5 to a sofa watching poor taste in television.

I suspect I will have to wait until deaths to occur before we can have Christmas at home as our own family unit lol by which time ours will have flown the nest

Take this Christmas. I have four sofas and a dining table that seats 8. However, we have to go to the in laws where there is one sofa and one armchair, 8 people and a dining table that seats 4. Cold metal garden chairs will be retrieved from winter retirement.

If dinner is at 1pm, we have to ensure our arrival 1hr before the other guests to reserve the sofa space.

Why do you have to go TBeckett?

I love Christmas time with my family, we choose (2 sets of us) to travel 400 miles back to our childhood hometown to spend Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Boxing Day and 27th December with them all. I will see most of them every day in that period, but not constantly (even on Christmas Day we retire to our corners for a break).

Occasionally I have thought it would be nice to just stay home, not travel for 6 hours by motorway, and then on Christmas Day, stay in our pjs all day, watch crap telly and phone out for chinese takeaway. But I know I'm not ready to do that, I really would miss my family Christmas too much.

If its time for you guys to start your own Christmas day tradition, do it! Nothing to stop you inviting people to visit you for a bite to eat and a cuppa, take you as they find you.

pickledonionspaceraider

pol-zeath wrote: »

This is the last time I will reply to you - In post 167 you decided to write a spiel on how undervalued and overworked you are. In post 176 you describe the areas you supposedly cover as a SDO - Now this was before anyone queried what you were saying. Your comment on never being thanked by deceased clientele was in very poor taste - Adults and children who may have died in RTA's and other tragic circumstances as well as natural causes.

I have not trawled through your previous posts, I don't need to as I have an excellent memory for inconsequential detail - you made yourself extremely identifiable and this has increased my scepticism

Just stop. Not just you Pol-Zeath, but Dom who will YET AGAIN respond to you and so on and on it will go

why don't you and Dom PM each other instead of the rest of us having to read this drivel whilst each of you bays to get the last word in - cos NO ONE ELSE CARES! Stop ruining a light hearted thread

Jagraf

TBeckett100 wrote: »

Christmas is odd.

When you are a couple, you alternative Christmas and boxing days with the parents and in laws so nobody feels left out. We have our own child and it would be nice to actually enjoy Christmas in the house I work all year for instead of sitting 5 to a sofa watching poor taste in television.

I suspect I will have to wait until deaths to occur before we can have Christmas at home as our own family unit lol by which time ours will have flown the nest

Take this Christmas. I have four sofas and a dining table that seats 8. However, we have to go to the in laws where there is one sofa and one armchair, 8 people and a dining table that seats 4. Cold metal garden chairs will be retrieved from winter retirement.

If dinner is at 1pm, we have to ensure our arrival 1hr before the other guests to reserve the sofa space.

Maybe they would be pleased to come to you - ask them. My parents breathed a sigh of relief when they stopped having to cater for everyone and the kids took over. It's hard hosting christmas, I hate it :eek::rotfl:

suki1964

DomRavioli wrote: »

If anyone else wants to cross examine me, please feel free to PM me. I have nothing to hide.

Before you offer that challenge Perhaps you need to delete your home page plus past posting history

And yes you can report me as well

pickledonionspaceraider

Jagraf wrote: »

Maybe they would be pleased to come to you - ask them. My parents breathed a sigh of relief when they stopped having to cater for everyone and the kids took over. It's hard hosting christmas, I hate it :eek::rotfl:

I have never hosted Christmas, but always thought that there are potentially a lot of folk that don't actually enjoy hosting

I kind of got that impression the one and only time I spent Christmas at my in laws and it left a very negative vibe over the 'celebrations'. I totally take my hat off to anyone who hosts for many people, not something I would want to do or enjoy doing myself.

suki1964

As someone who always found Christmas to be underwhelming, I now do my own Christmas my way

That's me and him, and of course mother


I've had all his family come for Christmas in the past , ex wife, her daughter , her daughter and son ( my step kids) and their respective children ( our grandkids) plus partners And of course my parents

And whilst we have had fun times, now we do Christmas to suit ourselves

The (step) kids have their families and I laws now so I would never expect them to come to us. We just say if you are coming let us know before Christmas eve and you are welcome

But we really enjoy a lie in, a drink with friends and carols in the morning, big afternoon dinner and slob out on the sofa snoozing

Means we rush around the week before doing the visits but so less stressful on the day

I love Christmas day as it's the one day in the year we both get off together

faerielight

Jaylee.. I'm really sorry, I didn't read the whole post,.. please excuse me. I'm not too well at the mo.. I didn't mean to upset anyone, hope you're ok.. I tried to send you a message but you don't accept them

jaylee3

faerielight wrote: »

Jaylee.. I'm really sorry, I didn't read the whole post,.. please excuse me. I'm not too well at the mo.. I didn't mean to upset anyone, hope you're ok.. I tried to send you a message but you don't accept them

Hi

It's OK. There's no need to apologise. You have nothing to say sorry for. I hope you're feeling OK today.

Yes, I have got my private messaging disabled sorry. A little while back, I was having some nasty PMs sent by someone, so I had to disable my private messaging.

DomRavioli wrote: »

If anyone else wants to cross examine me, please feel free to PM me. I have nothing to hide.

suki1964 wrote: »

Before you offer that challenge Perhaps you need to delete your home page plus past posting history

Well, now I am definitely confused. :huh:

yvonne13_2

I don't hate Christmas I just don't like thought of people being on their own

skipton

I hate shopping in the run upto Christmas - people are like lemmings, food shopping as if the shops are never to open again!

Christmas day for us is just like any other day, no tree, no cards up and no christmas tv.

I do look forward to the 21st of December though as this is the start of lighter nights. ( I know its only by a few minutes but it's in the right direction).