What do you dislike about Christmas?

[Brian Marwood]

Christmas Time by The Darkness
Sprouts

 

[EuropeTwice]

People putting decorations up the day after bonfire night

Michael Buble

 

[John67]

I hate UK Christmas. Only had 2 in the last 20 years as I head off to the sun for 4 weeks. Cape Town is stunning, Thailand is fun and Goa (paradise in a dustbin) is cheap and the weather is fantastic. That Covid Christmas was so depressing.

 

[northernrower]

Shopping and parking.

I wish everyone would just keep it simple. Exchange one gift each and enjoy good food and festive celebrations.

 

[TeaCider]

Food shopping being massively busy, that's about it.

I love Christmas.

 

[AytonMews]

Christmas Time by The Darkness
Sprouts

Haha I like that song

 

[afcb_acklam]

people, who purport to enjoy xmas, getting stressed about it

and then bothering me with their stress

 

[Kevo4]

Is it cool and edgy for people to declare they hate Christmas thesedays? The amount of people I encounter who say this is crackers (Dad pun intended)

 

[Centralscrutinizer]

***** wearing Christmas jumpers

Give it a rest, you look daft. A Christmas jumper was always one you got as a present, not a way of decorating yourself before hand

 

[Centralscrutinizer]

P.S I love Christmas

 

[Nano]

People that get irritated by other people enjoying themselves.

And Xmas markets.

 

[Scrug]

That I have to work it.

 

[festa5]

The washing up.

I'd rather cook the dinner. Can always have a couple of beers while cooking the dinner.

As a child my mum always made out it was this herculean effort making Christmas dinner as she stressed her way through most of the day.

As an adult I now realise it's only really as difficult as you want it to be. The washing up on the other hand.....

I realise now my dad was the true hero, working his way through a mountain of pots while stuffed and inebriated.

 

[atypical_boro]

people, who purport to enjoy xmas, getting stressed about it

and then bothering me with their stress

How long you been married mate?

 

[TheLodger]

Christmas.

 

[ClashRose]

Nothing - love everything about it, well except for the hangovers

 

[atypical_boro]

I don’t hate Christmas. The day itself and the week off work is fine. People putting up their trees in November in preparation for what is basically a day of spoiling the kids and seeing the family is bonkers.

 

[Juninhoburger]

Putting the decorations up, right pain in the ****. We do it for the kid's sake mainly, if we didn't have kids we probably wouldn't bother

 

[exeterboro]

Never had an enjoyable Xmas( relaxed ) and happy until.i was 28 and backpacking , followed up by 2 more years of enjoyable Xmas while in Aus and NZ, next one was in Morocco in my mid 30's, then again in 2019 when I was walking a winter Camino de Santiago.
Unfortunately for me and my family I just associate Xmas with stress and arguments. New years Eve is my preferred time. Apart from 2019 I have volunteered to work xmas since 2015, I have Xmas off this year, for some reason I wanted it off. I have been invited a couple of places but I'm not sure. There is a senior man who gets on the bus sometimes as me from my stop who has had led a very interesting life, I have had some wine evenings with him, I asked him what he was doing for Xmas and he didn't answer, I said im probably on my own and cooking a meal if he wanted to combine efforts, he responded by text that evening. I'm cool on my own but I guess my good deed will probably go be cooking a meal for me and at least one other, which I will enjoy, I used to be a chef.

 

[NorthumberlandBoro]

Nothing.
Love it.