Grumpy Old Women-Christmas pt1

Grumpy Old Christmas-copyright BBC

[@elizabethshaw734]

I have no living family members as my mother passed away two days before my birthday a couple of months ago and no close friends. I don't have to do anything for Christmas if I don't want to but I want to. I used to celebrate and decorate and cook and bake and make candy and I loved every minute of getting stuck in!

[@crystalheart9]

The best Christmas I spent was the year we went to Florida and didn't cook or buy presents and it was stress free!

[@joanneevans9208]

I watch this every year and i always crack up lol, not long till christmas 2017 !

[@jilly-anneskinner9200]

Its 2019 and I do the same! I also served the woman acting In the video bits when she came into my restaurant in summer !

[@poshtart9279]

This woman are so hilarious luv this

[@suzannesadiiqa]

Christmas bliss is a couple of books a good supply of gin a selection of good walks with a dog and an isolated cottage sans telephone or TV, HUSBAND OPTIONAL!

[@ASHEKEH]

I think it's worse to tell kids that there's no Father Christmas, and that they're the ones who're actually getting the presents. It ruins the whole magic of it in my opinion! I used to love the idea that some jolly guy would fly his sleigh to my house and come down our chimney to bring me presents and the whole leaving the mince pie and carrot out for him and the reindeer! Loved it and it's great now, because my little sister is just getting to that age were she's getting excited! Great :)

[@jcyoshi]

im 60 and everything they say is soooo true~

[@nagpurser8260]

I shop online - all presents and all groceries. I don't visit anyone and no-one visits me. I send presents and cards to certain people only. I only do what I want. It's just me and husband and pets.We have a fantastic time. Maybe I'm just too selfish to let other people spoil my Christmas :)

[@p.b.-letspickacardandsee8576]

Sibby Darling wow! sorted

[@barbaras6792]

We do exactly the same - I thought it was only us. Cheers for sharing 👍👍👍

[@Cashback13]

Love the bit at the end about the Grumpy Old Man. "What's all this fight and fuss all about, just pop off and get it done in one go innit?" :-)

[@sammyvanilla]

Always brings a smile to my face this program :-D

[@hayleymsiebert7526]

So glad i am going to move 180miles from my family and only will be focusing on my hubby and son for xmas! I remember my mum going mad at Christmas and getting so stressed!

[@bustybrunette4890]

Only 358 Days to Christmas Day 2019 I can't wait 😊😊😊🎄

[@katieblackmore2004]

It is nearly August and i have to say, i love Christmas. The feel, the atmosphere, the music, the food. We have all come off the back of a terrible time, not only in the UK, but Covid hit us all worldwide. We all deserve to be with those we love..... fill our faces with good food, drink good wine, and be thankful we are still here and well..... rather than complain about shopping, wrapping gifts and such like. life is short and can be over in an instant.

[@mamas_quilts3573]

Ohh this is sad. I'm serious. All anyone need do is stop it all and just say no. Unless they enjoy it. Do more of what makes you happy. ❤ Long live all overworked, well-meaning people; your 😰tension and stress is killing you and everyone you love.

[@unlokia]

Abso-blooming-lutely!

[@caravb5906]

The perfect Xmas, just cook as normal on Christmas day, and just relax, enjoy some walking and exercise and read.....plus early nights, even better, close house, go away the week before Xmas to Scotland and don't come back until after new year ....

[@dianedukes3096]

I loved vet this in fact m binge watching it, I’m dong very little this year hubby and have agreed, I’ve got lovely advent calendars and will pick most of my bits this year, dinner I’m having fish pie

[@MsFanmail]

These ladies are so funny especially Janet street porter

[@UrbanHomesteadMomma]

Good lord this is so accurate! Its 2018 and we’ve just come through another bloody Christmas (Boxing Day)........ I can’t wait for New Years so I can get back to normal!!

[@Muck006]

The worst of it all is "throw away presents" ... like colorful mugs (of which you already have enough) or plastic stuff that will break in about a week or so ... and I am sorry to say that it is mostly women who are pressuring themselves into giving this kind of junk. I only bother with presents if I have a great idea about something USEFUL because most people I know do not have the spare room for storing junk.

[@SparkieGoth]

Thanks ever so much, Steveoqotsa! Merry Christmas! xx

[@MsFanmail]

Only 22 days to Christmas Day 2015 have you all got your presents bought ?

[@ursie1986]

I'm from a farming family of 8 - it was only when I went to my boyfriend's for Christmas that I realised cooking a gigantic roast was exceptional in most households!

[@Tina06019]

My parents got Christmas perfect for us every single year of our childhood, they really did. We were very lucky.

[@MsFanmail]

g8 programme has me in fits of laughter !

[@bethbaldoni8310]

I envy the Brits who have Boxing day. You can decompress the day after Christmas. In the US we are back to the grind the next dsy.

[@georgia8592]

@dawn taylor boxin day is best day to buy next years xmas gifts

[@philiplordson2852]

You are right

[@johnking5174]

6:55 - This really dates this episode firmly here. Amazing to think this was made in 2004!

[@Knappa22]

"I think lying to children is despicable" - oh Germaine you are a bundle of fun!

[@theemeraldblonde218]

But sleeping with their fathers and destroying their families is A-OK!

[@georgia8592]

@@theemeraldblonde218 long as u not lying to em.😉

[@mariepentney4231]

My husband is a good man that gets me presents every year but every year I end up wrapping them presents up his got without fail 🤣

[@30portwaybisley57]

I love swinging parties at Christmas gets everyone going

[@ASHEKEH]

I remember the Christmas Crazes in the 90's when I was growing up! Furbies, Tamagotchi's, Cabbage Patch Dolls, Power Rangers, Playstation etc....Me and my brother drove my parent's to madness virtually every Christmas! We used to stay with my Great-Grandad in the couple of days leading upto Christmas, just so they could go out at 4am to box their way through toy shops' then come home and have a bit of peace!

[@charlesjackson7904]

Good times

[@Eddy2730]

Buying presents? Even I've got that knack!

[@kirsty6005]

Dillie Keane is just amazing in this

[@pippajones4500]

only 7 days to Christmas 2016 folks !

[@marinazagrai1623]

Now, it's Amazon...thank you very much. As a Xmas present I grew up wanting markers because we didn't have them (I grew in a former Communist country) and my son wanted a Lego Star Death set which was $250! I told him Santa couldn't do that (he was 8 at the time).

[@suzannesadiiqa]

Christmas...........a cottage on a beach, nobody else around, gin, books, a fire and a dog..................heaven. Just let me know when it's all over.......Bah Humbug!

[@p.b.-letspickacardandsee8576]

Sue Harvey bliss!

[@europanzz]

sounds perfect

[@owenwilson6737]

Now that sounds like my kind of Christmas 😀

[@barbaras6792]

Sue, just found your post. Got to add my husband of 50 years, because I love him so much - but this beach, fire and loads of books is perfect to me. We go to the woods, but beach is fine, too. We don’t do Christmas - we lock away, plenty of drinks - just us two - until the whole thing is over. 😉

[@mrwhippy101]

a bit of turkey a bit of ham and some cranberry sauce lovely jubbly

[@bustybrunette4890]

Only 19 Days to Christmas Day 2018

[@Landrew120880]

"Turkey is so foul" ... or fowl?? lol

[@MsFanmail]

Food shopping is a nightmare

[@nelliemelba4967]

Turkey is fowl!😊

[@birdie399]

This year we cancelled Christmas. Instead of buying presents for my family , who don`t give a thought about what they buy for others. Spoilt children who have so much, they open presents and then basically say, what`s next?" We donated items to underpriviledged families.

[@elizabethshaw734]

I make prime rib for Christmas dinner. :-)

[@frankie5862]

We’re now in 2018 and it’s a month away!! ( Sunday 25th November!!)

[@MsFanmail]

I find this programme rings true with a lot of people........

[@johnking5174]

I am back - It is November 29th 2022 and the madness has kicked off again for another year. Oh hell, here we go again!

[@lizzie1897]

I can’t believe the stress and how over the top this is. I’m sticking to my pagan rituals in the deep quiet of the Yuletide. My child had beautiful sweet Christmas without Santa. I never trained my child to ask for a present and demand something from Santa. Bosh. Friends don’t ask friends to go to the mall

[@janettetimms8650]

I like it

[@WarningDontReadThis]

I love this one :) Do you have the new years one?

[@MsFanmail]

Only 364 Days to Christmas 2015 Folks

[@maurobobadilla7526]

+MsFanmail According to November 22,2015, we have 33 days left

[@elizabethshaw734]

I lived in the UK for more than 10 years and not that long ago and my dad was from Scotland. I've lived in many other countries and I am now back in America. Add Thanksgiving to Christmas and New Year and Epiphany dinner on January 6th. You think Christmas is bad? ;-)

[@trishhobbsphillips3164]

My husband (of 23 years) never wraps ANY presents! Even MY present (that usually comes from Costco) that he pulls out of the trunk of his car on Christmas Eve!!! He will also pull out of his trunk bags and bags of other gifts that I will have to wrap as well. 🙄

[@timburr4453]

Yea we're not so good at the little details and touches...it's just "you wanted this...here. love you" Usually we're good at that during the pursuit...not so much when married 15+ years.

[@Alwpiano]

I wouldn't go as far as to say turkey is foul. I believe it's dry though. Although today, I was pleasantly surprised at a carvery. I'm enjoying this show. I've seen the grumpy men one too.

[@romeosdistress]

good for you ! that's really quite a beautiful idea, now I've moved out of my parents' for uni, I may start doing that

[@kevinericsongs]

"The 12 months of Christmas!"LOL

[@DDay12G]

If I ever have kids I don't think I'm going to be one of those parents who splurges EVERYTHING on presents for their kids. A few, but not tonnes.. Otherwise you get kids like my sister who expect everything..

[@gmaureen]

@mzanoi The magic of Christmas is that we all stop our busy lives for one day each year just to show how much we care about each other.

[@ukeelady]

I buy all year long at the REAL sales. I keep a lil book. We buy each one new ornament for each other. I buy my turkey in October (cheaper at Thankgiving than Christmas in Canada). That's it. There again. The kids are grown 😉

[@MichaelJones-hn3fn]

Yes,i love that

[@madonna58terminiello7]

Only 364 Days to Christmas day 2017

[@TheEmperorhirohito]

Turkey is nice in curry and sandwiches

[@InnuendoXP]

lol, i'm a guy, but my mum's disabled so me and my dad do the prep work.. 40+ degree heat.. anyone who suggests the idea of cooking a turkey is promptly thrown out the door for 5 minutes to think about what they've said =p

[@Surreygirl]

only 6 days left to christmas 2017 😃

[@johnking5174]

Oh God, help me!!!

[@grayb7420]

Yes and some grumpy old women take it all out on the frazzled retail workers. Most of the time it is older women who get snarky and short with we lowly peasants

[@warwolf193]

hilarious

[@unclebigkid1020]

Tamagotchis/cyber pets were fun, the only thing was you couldn’t take them to school for the same reason you’re not meant to have mobiles in class now so you would teach your poor loving parents how to look after it and hope it wasn’t dead by the time you came home from school . And the battery wasn’t your normal double or tipple A it was a watch barely.

[@MsFanmail]

you should mow people down at the supermarket.

[@bustybrunette4890]

Only 7 days to Christmas Day 2018

[@WhamsCrazyFan]

Only 2 days to christmas 2017 folks

[@johnking5174]

Only 223 days to 2018 Christmas as I type this on Wednesday 16th May 2018. CHRIST! The days are just slipping by faster and faster!

[@WhamsCrazyFan]

it christmas day 2016 Folks

[@sw1000xg]

Wham 1980s Crazy Fan ooooh no its not...

[@anniejones5204]

Im a grumpy woman lol i cant understand why every 1 likes xmas i hate it 😂

[@InnuendoXP]

lol, great. you will have a good life ^,^

[@johnking5174]

4:27 - Hanukkah 2017 ended today Wednesday 20th December 2017. So, time for my Jewish friends to try and stretch it for five more days!

[@denadavey1470]

I’m a support worker on nights & hubby works shifts. Haven’t had the 25th off for 11 years. It’s great! I sleep through Christmas Day so I don’t have to do the ridiculous meal,which is actually a Sunday roast-? I order an Indian at work & pig out with the residents-they don’t want sprouts! It’s great! I do insist on having Boxing Day off for an all you can eat Indian buffet with the family. How many people spend Christmas not doing what they want to do? -cos it’s tradition to have a dry turkey? If it’s so nice why do we only have it once a year? There’s a reason we only see certain relatives once a year, why we don’t have Christmas pudding in March? Why do we send cards to neighbours who we don’t know? I’m getting to that age now when I think,’ life’s too short-I’m doing it my way’. I confess that I have kinda spoiled my new grandson this year tho’! Can’t afford to buy my hub much now tho’!! Have a happy Friday-or Saturday- or Sunday afternoon, April the 7th.....

[@bustybrunette4890]

Only 10 days to Christmas day 2018

[@justrandom8766]

Why do people do it. You don't have to. Its your choice.

[@johnking5174]

6:44 - So Germaine then tells a 5 year old the truth when they ask where babies come from? I THINK NOT!

[@michaelwatson5000]

I love the comments about turkey, at about 0:26 - 0:37. I don't think it's "foul," but I have to agree that it takes bland to a whole new level.

[@donegallad91]

@Steveoqotsa Great work. Any chance of uploading Grumpy Old Men at Christmas and Grumpy Guide to Christmas? Can't seem to find either anywhere.

[@metallord999]

People forget the who idea of Christmas which is to celebrate the life's work of Morecambe and Wise

[@chafeboy]

EVERYONE!!! if you dont want to turn out like the men and women of this series... DONT GET MARRIED simple way to prevent it :)

[@marieince3239]

Bog of Christmas ugg

[@NothingToNoOneInParticular]

Give each one a scarf, only if they follow in Kate Spade's lead...

[@lauraswihart8018]

What about Jesus? John 3:16 🎄😍

[@janemann3045]

I love Christmas because of the children.I cook ham not turkey,every one likes ham better.I have cooked a turkey also.I shop all year so by Oct.I am done with gifts.All I have left is to get the food stuff

[@Button-Pop]

I absolutely love this show, the male version is just awful, men are always grumpy. These women are hilarious and still to entertaining, the male episode makes me want to cry.

[@claireowens2884]

These shows are so old now. It kind of strange now listening to these rich successful people whinging about Christmas, when for so many years now, so many people in Britain have been getting battered by austerity, and the county is heading towards some disaster or another with Brexit.

[@michacortez441]

Claire Owens: I agree. So many people without the money to celebrate and many estranged from their family and alone at Christmas.

[@citizen1163]

Claire Owens People paid on credit all through EU years & didn't realise wages hadn't kept up. Stitch up!

[@eastender1862]

What did she say...Dragged into Harvey Nichols like everyone else.....I think not...more like pound world.

[@paulgathercole2601]

To be honest, blokes don't want it either. So why do we do it?

[@keyholes]

There is nothing right and honourable about Ann Widdecombe.

[@peasblossom1973]

Was it really necessary to divide this thing into so many parts, with each part getting increasingly shorter? I got tired of it after about the first 3 anyway.....the "Grumpy Old Men" Christmas shows were much better.

[@Steveoqotsa]

peasblossom1973 back in the day KZbin only allowed you to upload videos 10 minutes long,sorry it's so inconvenient for you

[@kathleen5237]

I also regret following expectations and pretending there's a Father Christmas. I still do many years later

[@TheHollyLamb]

lying to children is hilarious...

[@TheZippykid]

CRAP AT Y MAN WILL GO THE EXTRA MILE NIT FTE CLOSER MAG

[@bonniebrown6960]

The woman that said , " either you have it or don't...? We'll you either have the money or you don't ", is the case for most people . Poor thing ....

[@imho2278]

Don't do it! Go on strike!

[@InnuendoXP]

ahahahahahaha!!!! ohhh man... a laptop for a christmas present.. my parents paid for HALF of an xbox360 for an 18th birthday present... so this is a bit of a generalisation.. though some parents spoil their kids rotten with a brand fucking new CAR for their 16TH birthday!... probably pay their way through university too. But most parents i know will promptly tell their kids to get a job if they want a new laptop. As kids getting jobs is also becoming the norm. less generalisations please? =p

[@marieince3239]

Arrabella weir who the hell is she anyway .

[@caspence56]

For all these over-indulged hags moaning about shopping and preparing for Christmas: be thankful that you have the monetary means to do all this. There are some of us who struggle month to month just to pay our bills, and the holidays are like rubbing salt into a wound.

[@charlesjackson7904]

Nope Micahs daddy

[@marieince3239]

Who the hell is jenny Trent Hughes never heard of her fgs

[@TheLeisurePirate]

This comment is sooooooo gonna conflict with the point of the video, but I'll say it anyway...: FURBIES, YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYY!!!!!!

[@karendegenerous8044]

Jew. Jew. Barney McGrew. Cuthbert, Dibble and Grubb.