Xmas Mistakes Part 3 - Your House

If you are a control freak there is only one way to do Christmas and it’s to invite the whole family to your house. You know you will serve the cocktails in the right glasses, the canapés will brilliant, there will be four kinds of meat and 6 and half days before hand you will slave your guts out to prepare the food.

The reality of the whole thing is that no-one really cares what they eat. As long as there is ham, potato salad and booze of any kind; most of your family will not give a shit they are drinking from Waterford glasses. Or even that the bubbles are all the way from France. The Reindeer table decorations you took a bushwalk to get, they won’t even see.

The moral of this is a nice one, we are not precious about all of this stuff in Australia. All we care about is hanging out with our family, especially the oldies and the young ones at Christmas. They are the ones that matter and if there is an old school trifle at the end of the day before everyone jumps in the pool with their clothes on, well that’s just a bonus.

So if you have a tendency to be a control freak, don’t offer to do Christmas at your place. Take a really good organic ham and a wheel of Tasmanian cheese with half a case of French bubbles to someone else’s place. Your day will be 100 times better than fussing all day over people who just want you to sit the hell down and talk to them.