When all the personalities are together in the same place and one insists that you know their strong opinions in subjects you don't care about.
My pet peeve (Christmas party or other): When people don’t bring what they signed up for. One year it was so bad we all barely had anything besides dessert. I walked in with mine (dessert this time, but I usually don’t sign up for dessert) and everyone looked at me strolling in with my container and everyone was like “oh good, something with substance to eat” and I was like “I brought what I signed up for”. If people get behind, they’ll just decide to pick up a ready made dessert. There was a little ham and boxed mac & cheese that one mother brought to make sure her kids would eat (which I understand). Poor kids didn’t get much!
This isnt a pet peeve but i had to tell you all what i got for Christmas.
My daughter went to a Design and Wine class in her hometown. She made a plaque that said "Her battle is my battle" It had a pink breast cancer ribbon thru it with pink and grey lettering. My dad had brain cancer and those ribbons are grey. She wrote a very tender note on the back for me. I opened that and started to cry. It was the most heartfelt gift i have ever gotten. The house become so quiet as i sat there and cried. I dont think there was a dry eye in that room. Her breast cancer has affected everyone in the family and has changed the dynamics of our family also. We have all become much more caring and appreciative. We are a small unit but the strength of my family is something out of this world. Tonight i am so incredibly grateful and blessed~
The requirement of baking so cookies are fresh for Santa on Christmas. I personally think Santa would be good with break and bake. :>)
Gift exchanges that never end. Why am I searching for a gift for my son to put his name on to give to his older cousin in a couple of days . . . because the older cousin is in his thirties and married! It's one thing when everyone is kids and we are talking toys . . . but our family never takes the cousins out of the gift exchange no matter how old they are or how many of their own kids they have IN the gift exchange now.
IT IS TWO DAYS TIL CHRISTMAS. I'm NOT PANICKING.
Family member who invites everyone to a Christmastime gathering, and then after you say yes, says "Will you bring the dessert?" and after you say OK, tells you it is for 16 people. Then when you arrive at 6 pm, does not put the main course into the oven until 6:30, and doesn't serve dinner until 7:30, no matter how loudly Great Aunt Cindy announces that she is starving and how sadly my son whispers to me that he is bored and wishes we could go home.
Elf on a shelf.......i dont need to see 27,000,000,000,000,000 bazillion pics a day of where that damn thing is
People who bring their tupperware bowls for leftovers!
Husband hounds you to get YOUR Christmas list on paper and you finally do and give it to him and then he proceeds to ask about each item on the list . . . Do you REALLY need that?
When you go to the IN LAW holiday get together and everyone volunteers for things to bring and somehow you and your family of 4 are bringing appetizers (2), salad, tray of lasagna, a desert, water and punch. And your sister in law family of SEVER --- yes 7-- is bringing a couple of 2 liters.
When the middle string of lights on your Christmas tree goes out.
5 page instructions to put something together.
When the dog discovers their gifts under the tree wrapped and SHE (or he but I have a she who did this) unwraps all the presents that are hers during the night.
Husbands who don't give you a list but look sad when they open up clothes you think they needed.
When wrapping paper was expensive and looked nice in cellophane but turns out to be thin and cheap and TEARS every time you wrap a present with it.