‘What new Christmas tradition do you dislike for no particular reason?’ – 23 types of festive nonsense to say ‘Bah! Humbug’ to
12.
‘I don’t understand why parents bring their toddlers to see Santa, completely overstimulate them, and then complain that toddler threw a tantrum. Your kid doesn’t want to see Santa. You just want a Hallmark picture moment. Let’s not pretend you’re doing it for the child.’
–AffectionateFig9277
13.
‘Christmas markets. I don’t think many people actually like them for what they are. overpriced, crowded and cold. The majority of people I know go just to post it on Instagram.’
–rezonansmagnetyczny
14.
‘I hate ‘Santa Stop Here’ signs. Santa doesn’t need a sign to tell him where to stop, he already knows. You don’t need to tell him how to do his job.’
–FJ_815
15.
‘People putting decorations up as soon as Halloween has finished.’
–southcoastal
16.
‘Pretending we have snowy winters anymore apart from bits of Scotland. Cards ought to show rain really.’
–Firstpoet
17.
‘Celebrities posing with their oh-so-cute faceless children, in their matching jammies, on Christmas Eve, in their professionally decorated houses, (as they couldn’t possibly put up Xmas decs themselves, far too busy,) next to a huge tree, floor carpeted with more presents than you could possibly need, with a disingenuous message to their ‘fans’, about having a spiritual and peaceful Christmas and New Year. Bah Humbug!’
–TulipTattsyrup99
18.
‘Black Friday. Which has transformed into black November and some of December. Basically pay what you would’ve done last year.’
–nadinecoylespassport
19.
‘Christmas parties getting progressively earlier. I get everyone’s busy this time of year, but our work was trying to throw our Christmas party in November. My birthday is early December and it’s hard to celebrate because everyone has Christmas parties early November to the end of December. Plus who’s really feeling Christmassy in November?’
–Spentworth
20.
‘Advent calendars that contain things other than chocolate. Or even calendars that contain fancy chocolates. Work colleague of mine got one that contains 24 individually wrapped portions of cheese! You have to keep it in the fridge! Madness!’
–JohnRCC
21.
‘The posting of the presents on Facebook on Christmas eve. Happy days you can afford to buy your kids a stupid amount of presents but there’s families struggling to put food on the tables, don’t rub it in their faces.’
–Guilty_Hour4451
22.
‘Kevin the bloody Carrot irritates me.’
–mcrm40
‘The Elf on the Shelf seems to cause an inordinate amount of stress for people, so here is a top tip if you’re sick of having to move the annoying little twit around ever day…
23.
‘One of my mates had an elf. She got so fed up with finding inventive places to put it every morning that he had an “accident”. The kids came down one morning to find the elf with his leg all bandaged. He’d had a bad fall in the night and, according to the doctors note next to him, couldn’t move and needed complete rest for the next 2 weeks.
‘Evil genius.’
–muddleagedspred
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