the worse thing my husband ever bought me was a set of wood-carving chisels! (I had admired some wood carving in an old house some time before) As I didn't use them, he did what he had obviously really intended, and used them himself! One year, my mother gave me a pair of rainbow earrings that she had bought at my kids' school Xmas bazaar - only problem was - they were the ones I had just donated to the sale. Sigh. She also NEVER bought any wrapping paper, but brought her presents around to my house a few days before Xmas Day so that I had to wrap them - but I wasn't allowed to use Selotape - she fastened them with rubber bands! Cards and envelopes were written in pencil, so she could re-use them the next year. She also stayed with us after Xmas Day, until New Year's Day, which meant we could never go out on New Year's Eve, as she didn't want to go, and we couldn't leave her on her own.
Once for Christmas I received half a used can of Lynx (Axe if you’re in America) Africa deodorant. What made it worse was on the side it said “PART OF A SET, NOT FOR INDIVIDUAL SALE”...
well i live in Australia and my family have a tradition where we all go to my cousins house and throw really really really really really really really really bad rock hard mince pies over the roof and the furthest one wins. Extra points if you get it in the backyard pool. I am 14... IT HAS NEVER NOT BEEN FUN
Ladies....let me tell ya....as a single mum, I decided I want none of that Xmas day cooking stress. So now I start cooking everything the day before! Turkey tastes horrible! Dry, tasteless, nobody likes it! For the life of me I can't understand why the world has to have turkey at Christmas! Or any time really! Chicken is much tastier and juicy too. So, I invested in 2 slow cookers. In go the meats the day before. In turns. Chicken, Gammon, Lamb, etc. Set & forget. Meanwhile I peel all the veggies, pack them in tupperware or glass containers with lids and pop them in the fridge. Those that can be made a day ahead, I do. Potatoes get parboiled, ready for being roasted in the oven the next day. Xmas pud is bought and popped in the microwave on Xmas day. Custard is made on Xmas eve. Rice is cooked and refrigerated, so is the gravy. The Xmas trifle is done too. On Xmas day, all I do foodwise, are the few things that can't be done a day ahead, plus, put all the meats & the potatoes in the oven to get brown and crispy coz they're already cooked and fall off the bone tender and juicy. Then at mealtime, everything gets warmed up; in stages, mind, coz I have only a tiny table top stove & oven and a microwave. I DON'T want to spend Christmas day slaving in the kitchen for hours & hours! I do a bit, let's face it, but not as much as in the past. I also want to relax and have fun like everyone else on Christmas day! Then everyone else gets to do the cleaning up afterwards, lol! The dishwashing especially! Yay! Ok, Xmas eve is my stressful, over-busy day. What with all that cooking preparation, cleaning and decorating the house, Christmas tree decorating, presents wrapping, feeding the family that day still, etc, etc, etc, BUT.....on Christmas day NOT! :D And Boxing day, well, then it's, y'all help yourselves, there's lotsa leftovers! It's my day off! And well-deserved too, I'd say! Actually there's then also leftovers for a day or 2 after boxing day too! So what if its the same food for 4 days! Be grateful you've got food! Mum used to say......and, Mum also said, eat it! There are starving kids in Africa who would be really grateful to get even a thimble of what you have here now! ...... Bless ya, Mum :P
I live alone with my cat and one of the local high schools decided that I would receive a hamper of Thanksgiving foods to assist me in paying for Less food. They knew I was one person. George my cat won't even eat turkey he prefers my marinara sauce. There was a knock at the door and I opened the door to an old gentleman with a big box and a young boy, strapping boy behind him. He put it on my electric wheelchair and said Happy Thanksgiving and I smiled and said the same. I opened the box and on the top was a great big honking 30 lb turkey! I shit you not. It's sitting in my foyer against the wall. My oven is barely big enough for a ham and I don't know what to do with this Beast! I have no living family nor close friends but there sits my 30 pound turkey and in the Box is one jar of gravy one can of green beans one packet of instant chocolate pudding one box of stove top stuffing for a 30 pound turkey!! I didn't even get a can of pumpkin puree dammit!
@metalfoxfurry666 Errrr....it's soap on a rope!!!A block of soap,normally round,with rope through the middle so you can hang it from the taps or whatever & it normally has a pube embedded into it.
im betting people doing the thumbs down aussie xmas have obviously never hosted a christmas lunch themselves and done the shopping and cooking =p though another reason is nobody is ever going to be REALLY hungry in hot weather.. ESPECIALLY not for dense pudding and hot roast meat and whathaveyou
Absolutely not true! I grew up in South Africa, in Cape Town. I only knew Xmas in high summer and could not imagine a freezing cold Christmas! And, we always had the full Christmas lunch meal! NOT turkey, yuck! Roast chicken, ham, roast leg of lamb, roast potatoes, gravy, yellow rice, brussels sprouts, sweet cooked carrots, peas, Broccoli, cauliflower with cheese sauce, etc, etc. Then Xmas pudding, warm custard, trifle, ice cream, etc! In 30+° of lovely summer sunshine! Unless it rained and was miserable, which was not so much fun. Afterwards, there's either a jump into someone's pool, or a visit to the beach, or/and sleeping off all that food, or chatting with visiting friends/family, going for a walk, playing with your gifts, watching a movie, or doing whatever the heck you wanted to. AFTER the ones who didn't help with the cooking, had washed the dishes and cleaned up the kitchen! In the evening you'd all sit around on the veranda in the lovely warm summer evening and chat or go watch a movie if it's rainy. The kids are allowed to play outside till late. Hot weather at Christmas plus all the Xmassy stuff, is the norm in the Southern parts of the planet! I now live in Europe, so Christmas is now freezing cold. And properly acceptable to people like you from the north! :D
I agree, what is it with old mothers that they have to act the rudest and more childish than the youngest most self-centered (out of necessity as they are babies) members of the family! I used to think what are people talking about? My mum is so sweet, she'd never be one of those mean old women. I'm 45 and she's been going that way slowly I've the years until this year, when she emerged as that evil old woman. She didn't even show up or do anything for anyone of her grandkids, nothing. Sorry, it's depressing, but WTAF? Just hope I don't turn into a selfish 🐄 when my daughter and children get to be my age. When my kids are my age I plan on being sweeter and sweeter because of all the time I'll have, no more kids in the nest!
If my mother ever reacted like that to a pressie I bought her, she would be driven home that day and never invited back.
I got some kitchen tea towels from someone for Christmas one year 😂 l don't think I have ever used them.
the worse thing my husband ever bought me was a set of wood-carving chisels! (I had admired some wood carving in an old house some time before) As I didn't use them, he did what he had obviously really intended, and used them himself!
One year, my mother gave me a pair of rainbow earrings that she had bought at my kids' school Xmas bazaar - only problem was - they were the ones I had just donated to the sale. Sigh. She also NEVER bought any wrapping paper, but brought her presents around to my house a few days before Xmas Day so that I had to wrap them - but I wasn't allowed to use Selotape - she fastened them with rubber bands! Cards and envelopes were written in pencil, so she could re-use them the next year. She also stayed with us after Xmas Day, until New Year's Day, which meant we could never go out on New Year's Eve, as she didn't want to go, and we couldn't leave her on her own.
Only 1 hour left to Christmas Day 2017 Folks
6.49 that noise of indifference!
The faces @ 0:28 are hilarious! I can't help it 🤣
Cooking Christmas dinner as a man hide in the kitchen and cook Floyd style with a nice bottle of wine :)
Never making a turkey. ever.
red, red, red! christmas! she'll like that!
Once for Christmas I received half a used can of Lynx (Axe if you’re in America) Africa deodorant. What made it worse was on the side it said “PART OF A SET, NOT FOR INDIVIDUAL SALE”...
well i live in Australia and my family have a tradition where we all go to my cousins house and throw really really really really really really really really bad rock hard mince pies over the roof and the furthest one wins. Extra points if you get it in the backyard pool. I am 14... IT HAS NEVER NOT BEEN FUN
Ladies....let me tell ya....as a single mum, I decided I want none of that Xmas day cooking stress. So now I start cooking everything the day before! Turkey tastes horrible! Dry, tasteless, nobody likes it! For the life of me I can't understand why the world has to have turkey at Christmas! Or any time really! Chicken is much tastier and juicy too. So, I invested in 2 slow cookers. In go the meats the day before. In turns. Chicken, Gammon, Lamb, etc. Set & forget. Meanwhile I peel all the veggies, pack them in tupperware or glass containers with lids and pop them in the fridge. Those that can be made a day ahead, I do. Potatoes get parboiled, ready for being roasted in the oven the next day. Xmas pud is bought and popped in the microwave on Xmas day. Custard is made on Xmas eve. Rice is cooked and refrigerated, so is the gravy. The Xmas trifle is done too. On Xmas day, all I do foodwise, are the few things that can't be done a day ahead, plus, put all the meats & the potatoes in the oven to get brown and crispy coz they're already cooked and fall off the bone tender and juicy. Then at mealtime, everything gets warmed up; in stages, mind, coz I have only a tiny table top stove & oven and a microwave. I DON'T want to spend Christmas day slaving in the kitchen for hours & hours! I do a bit, let's face it, but not as much as in the past. I also want to relax and have fun like everyone else on Christmas day! Then everyone else gets to do the cleaning up afterwards, lol! The dishwashing especially! Yay! Ok, Xmas eve is my stressful, over-busy day. What with all that cooking preparation, cleaning and decorating the house, Christmas tree decorating, presents wrapping, feeding the family that day still, etc, etc, etc, BUT.....on Christmas day NOT! :D And Boxing day, well, then it's, y'all help yourselves, there's lotsa leftovers! It's my day off! And well-deserved too, I'd say! Actually there's then also leftovers for a day or 2 after boxing day too! So what if its the same food for 4 days! Be grateful you've got food! Mum used to say......and, Mum also said, eat it! There are starving kids in Africa who would be really grateful to get even a thimble of what you have here now! ...... Bless ya, Mum :P
I like your style 😊
at least if your cookng your x-mas dinner, you're not eating your dads bizzare and awful roasties which are really mash potatoes in disguise. ick
Micahs daddy was annihilated by jilly coopers belly
Micahs daddy let out a belch that sent that jacker into a coma
I live alone with my cat and one of the local high schools decided that I would receive a hamper of Thanksgiving foods to assist me in paying for Less food. They knew I was one person. George my cat won't even eat turkey he prefers my marinara sauce. There was a knock at the door and I opened the door to an old gentleman with a big box and a young boy, strapping boy behind him. He put it on my electric wheelchair and said Happy Thanksgiving and I smiled and said the same. I opened the box and on the top was a great big honking 30 lb turkey! I shit you not. It's sitting in my foyer against the wall. My oven is barely big enough for a ham and I don't know what to do with this Beast! I have no living family nor close friends but there sits my 30 pound turkey and in the Box is one jar of gravy one can of green beans one packet of instant chocolate pudding one box of stove top stuffing for a 30 pound turkey!! I didn't even get a can of pumpkin puree dammit!
LoL!
Micahs daddy was annihilated by an adulteress
A USED soap-on-a-rope?!
WITH pubic hairs, thank you! :'D
Micahs daddy was killed by being slowly digested deep inside pearl tiggs stomach where he is learning the true meaning of pain and suffering
@metalfoxfurry666 Errrr....it's soap on a rope!!!A block of soap,normally round,with rope through the middle so you can hang it from the taps or whatever & it normally has a pube embedded into it.
Food shopping in sainsburys leading up to christmas NOT !
Lucifer turns babies into pot noodle then he proceeded to suck them down his throat annihilating them in his fiery belly
Been an adulteress all her life!! why doesnt she find her own man!!
frightened of commitment
Pot noodle? Pfft, we order enough take-out a few days before the day, put them on the good China and drink beer. Merry merry, happy happy!
im betting people doing the thumbs down aussie xmas have obviously never hosted a christmas lunch themselves and done the shopping and cooking =p
though another reason is nobody is ever going to be REALLY hungry in hot weather.. ESPECIALLY not for dense pudding and hot roast meat and whathaveyou
Absolutely not true! I grew up in South Africa, in Cape Town. I only knew Xmas in high summer and could not imagine a freezing cold Christmas! And, we always had the full Christmas lunch meal! NOT turkey, yuck! Roast chicken, ham, roast leg of lamb, roast potatoes, gravy, yellow rice, brussels sprouts, sweet cooked carrots, peas, Broccoli, cauliflower with cheese sauce, etc, etc. Then Xmas pudding, warm custard, trifle, ice cream, etc! In 30+° of lovely summer sunshine! Unless it rained and was miserable, which was not so much fun. Afterwards, there's either a jump into someone's pool, or a visit to the beach, or/and sleeping off all that food, or chatting with visiting friends/family, going for a walk, playing with your gifts, watching a movie, or doing whatever the heck you wanted to. AFTER the ones who didn't help with the cooking, had washed the dishes and cleaned up the kitchen! In the evening you'd all sit around on the veranda in the lovely warm summer evening and chat or go watch a movie if it's rainy. The kids are allowed to play outside till late. Hot weather at Christmas plus all the Xmassy stuff, is the norm in the Southern parts of the planet! I now live in Europe, so Christmas is now freezing cold. And properly acceptable to people like you from the north! :D
@metalfoxfurry666 It very possibly could be.....the missus once recieved a soap cock on a rope for Christmas,not from me i hasten to add.......
at least Germaine Greer admitts it......
Only 19 Days to Christmas Days to 2018
Get bent
I agree, what is it with old mothers that they have to act the rudest and more childish than the youngest most self-centered (out of necessity as they are babies) members of the family! I used to think what are people talking about? My mum is so sweet, she'd never be one of those mean old women. I'm 45 and she's been going that way slowly I've the years until this year, when she emerged as that evil old woman. She didn't even show up or do anything for anyone of her grandkids, nothing. Sorry, it's depressing, but WTAF? Just hope I don't turn into a selfish 🐄 when my daughter and children get to be my age. When my kids are my age I plan on being sweeter and sweeter because of all the time I'll have, no more kids in the nest!
Never eat turkey it's tasteless crap glad I'm now vegetarian