As much as we’d like the cursed year of 2020 to end without leaving it the opportunity to raise our cortisol levels from stress even further, it doesn’t mean that the Christmas holidays are canceled.
In fact, if you’re reading the post, I must give you a big round of applause for surviving it, ‘cause at this point, no one can be sure about virtually anything. Like whether or not we won’t choke on a turkey breast covered in gravy, or whether or not you might enter a warzone with your in-laws for making fun of Covid deniers.
But that doesn’t mean there were no fails. On the contrary, Christmas makes everyone super vulnerable to all kinds of failure. Like, receiving the worst Santa gifts, finding the perfume bottle you gifted to your loved one next to the toilet fresheners, or simply realizing your Christmas hasn’t been very merry—no one is immune to their fair share of festive breakdown.
I leave the stage to this merry Bored Panda compilation of all the what-ifs and oh-my-gods turned reality that just reminds us once again that this is not your usual Christmas. It’s Christmas: 2020 edition.
#1 There Was An Attempt To Wrap A Gift For Christmas
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#2 My 81-Year-Old Grandma Didn’t Look Close Enough At The Jumper She Bought For Xmas This Year
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#3 My Sister Rented A Flat Here In North Of Iceland For Christmas, This Is Her View
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#4 One Sprout For Christmas Dinner
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#5 Expiration Day
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#6 Watched My Friends Dogs Today While They Were Gone, Tried To Get A Cute Picture For Them And Ended Up With Accidental Gem/Nightmare. Merry Christmas!
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#7 Most Of My Gifts Are Stuck In A Distribution Center, And Have Been For Over 2 Weeks. Guess My Brother In Law Gets This
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#8 My 6-Year-Old Got Tattoo Markers For Christmas And Disappeared For Half An Hour. Bonus: We Can’t Get It To Come Off
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#9 That Is How You Know Your Mom Listens To Everything You Say
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#10 For Christmas, My Dad Received The Exact Outfit That He Was Wearing
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#11 Cat Ruins Christmas Photo
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#12 Sister-In-Law Orders A Japanese Whiskey For Me Every Christmas. I Don’t Think She Read The Description This Time When She Shipped Me A $50 Bottle Of Soy Sauce
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#13 My Girlfriend And I Bought Each Other The Exact Same Present. I’ve Never Laughed So Hard In My Life
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#14 Well, Back To Video Games And Beer
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#15 I Ordered A 6ft Tall Rainbow Tree From A Facebook Ad And This Is What Showed Up. I’m Crying From Laughing So Hard, I’ve Never Had This Happen In Real Life
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#16 I Got My 80 Yr Old Father This As A Gag Gift. When He Opened It, He Got All Embarrassed And Immediately Tucked It Away. Later, I Privately Asked Him Why He Got All Weird About It, And I Found Out That He Was Under The Impression That It Was A Sex Toy
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#17 My Parents (Late 70s) Got Me A PS5 Controller For Christmas. I Do Not Own A Playstation 5
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#18 I Know It’s Supposed To Be A Soldier Kneeling But I Don’t See That
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#19 12-Year-Old Set His Lawn On Fire After Getting Magnifying Glass For Christmas
Christmas Day was memorable to say the least! My twelve-year-old son Cayden, who is an avid reader, an honor student, and interested in science, asked for a magnifying glass for Christmas. (It’s like a basketball player asking for basketball shoes.) We thought it was for reading, but instead, he tried to see if he could light a fire with it! We discovered that he and his two brothers went out on the driveway to see if they could burn a couple holes in some newspaper. Everything was under control until the boys came running into the house telling us that a corner of the lawn was on fire and the Christmas lights were melting! Justin and I rushed outside to see the entire front lawn turning black! We grabbed buckets, turned on the hose and sprinklers, and I grabbed blankets to smother and trap it – before it could spread any more into the neighbors’ yard! What a sight to see – a bunch of people running around crazy trying to put a front lawn fire out while wearing matching Christmas jammies!
I want to reiterate this was an accident. It could have been worse but it wasn’t. So instead of a tragedy, it will now be a Christmas to remember! 2019 – The Christmas lawn lit on fire. Oh and never buy a magnifying glass for your son!
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#20 The Letters On My Holiday Bathroom Towel Wore Off
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#21 Every Year My In-Laws Have A Gingerbread House Competition And Every Year I’m Still A Disappointment
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#22 I’m A 23-Year-Old Man That Can Rebuild An Engine, Fabricate My Own Parts, And Drive Anything With A Steering Wheel. But For The Life Of Me Cannot Wrap An X-Mas Gift
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#23 What I Ordered vs. What I Got
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#24 My Wife Started Painting Ornaments For Christmas, And Only Realized After She Finished This Bird That She Did It Upside Down
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#25 Nailed It.
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#26 Wasn’t On, Nobody Standing Near It, And My Oven Just Shattered. Just In Time For The Holidays
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#27 My Brother Got A Shirt For Christmas
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#28 Got This For Christmas Because I Always Lose My Keys, But Now I Can’t Find My Keys To Put It On The Keychain
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#29 Walked Outside To Leave For Work Today, And Some Kind Individual Stole All My Wheels. Happy Holidays
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#30 Bought My Wife’s Christmas Gift On 12/10 And Was So Proud Of Myself When I Paid Extra For Two-Day FedEx Shipping
It’s been from WI to IL to NE to CO to NV to UT and is now in CA. I live on the East Coast.
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#31 After Buying Christmas Decorations For My House, I Was Biking Home And Was Hit By A Car (Hit And Run) Causing Me To Black Out From Massive Head Trauma. This Is How Much I Owe For My Ambulance Bill
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#32 When The Perfume You Bought Your Wife For Christmas Ends Up In The Toilet As ‘Air Freshener’
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#33 Dad’s Christmas Hasn’t Been Very Merry
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#34 This ‘Bottle Of Scotch’ At My Office’s White Elephant Gift Exchange Was Stolen Twice Before Anyone Opened It
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#35 Apparently One Of Our Present From Family Was A Box Of Fudge. Dogs Figured It Out And Now There Is Puke All Over My House
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#36 Ordered An Ortament That Was Described As Ceramic In The Description (Top Pic), What I Got Was The Other 2 Pics
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#37 My Friends In The Sky Decided To Leave Me A Christmas Present While I Was Away. Thanks, Guys
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#38 When Your Puppy Chews Your Son’s Big Gift On Christmas Eve
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#39 Happy Christmas
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#40 Sibling Gift Exchange
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