Christmas day is supposed to be filled with love, laughter, family friends, and tons of food. But unfortunately, it does not always go as planned. People land up getting really bad gifts, families don’t always get along, pets destroy decorations and food mishaps are bound to happen. For some, there are even worse things that happen, and we do not mean that Santa drops off coal for you, we mean like seriously absurd things. Certain things really did happen to people on Christmas day. These people who have worse Christmas’s than you are surely going to make your jaw drop.
Toys
New Christmas toys should come with a long instruction book and a warning that a few days or weeks of training are needed before making use of them. This is a simple case of a new gift, a hoverboard, being used right away, but not in the right way, and in turn, has ruined the baked part of Christmas lunch. Toys like these should just not be allowed in the house, let alone the kitchen.
This is probably the reason why restaurants and fast food places stay open on Christmas. When someone stuffs up the planned dinner, they are available to provide a backup meal.
Unwelcomed Guest
This is probably the worse way to start off your Christmas morning. In situations like this, you only really have two options, either you burn the house down, or you move out of the house and let the spider live there rent-free. Nobody wants to spend their Christmas continually looking over their shoulder for an eight-legged unwelcomed guest. But, we guess this is what you’re asking for when going to places in summer for Christmas.
For next Christmas, this guy should just go somewhere with lots of snow and no spiders. We are sure his girlfriend’s Australian family would love the change of scenery too.
Eggnog
Bad luck things happen to people all the time, it’s just a little worse when it’s during Christmas though. But luckily for anyone else who ever experiences an issue as this family did, we have a solution. The only way to make the best of this situation is to grab a few straws and just slurp the eggnog off the counter. It may not be conventional, but it would surely add some fun.
The worse part about this though is not that they lost a lot of eggnog on Christmas day, it’s that they have to clean it all up. And no one likes cleaning up on Christmas.
Dogs
If you are trying to figure out what exactly has happened here, just look for the very quilty looking pet in the corner. Unfortunately, pets don’t understand things that are sentimental, especially if they come in as new fluffy toys. At least this dog had the courage to show he was in the wrong and beg the family for sympathy with his cuteness. Who could be mad that on Christmas day?
After this situation, these people should learn their lesson of knowing not to keep valuable and new Christmas items, especially fluffy ones, around where the dog can easily get them.
Foot
Santa, is that you? Starting Christmas day off on the wrong foot is a great way to explain this situation, but how does this even happen? As far as we have understood, attics are there to hold items, usually big and heavy ones. So how does a grown women’s foot go through the floor of one? These ceilings or floors must be made of cardboard or some cheap weak material,
Nonetheless, it is a great coverup story to use on the kids. Just tell them that’s where Santa came in and he fell through because his gift bag was just too heavy.
Cats
There is such a mystery around what cats have against Christmas trees. Is it the tree itself, the decorations, flashing lighter perhaps? But for this one, it must have been that fish lying next to the tree. Cats love fish and for whatever reason, it seems like there was one on this tree. So what did these people expect to happen? The cat saw an opportunity and he took it, along with the whole tree.
This Christmas we surely messed up with all those destroyed glass ornaments that will be missing from the tree. At least the cat had some fun though, it’s his Christmas too.
Glass
Imagine you have just sat down to your Christmas dinner spread and your whole glass table just shatters to the ground with all the food on it. It would be a disaster. Unluckily for this family, that is exactly what happened. This must be from a Scandinavian country though, because who does a selection of seafood and potatoes for Christmas? And not just any seafood, the expensive kind like prawns and oysters.
It’s a pity the table was glass because unless you have lots of time and a few pairs of tweezers, your dinner is ruined. That’s when you order takeout to eat on the floor.
Kids
Kids usually do stupid stuff like this just for a laugh and to feel like they are important. What would make it even funnier is if this family’s Christmas dinner did not sit too well with them and all of them would be able to relate to these words on the door. You have to commend these kids though, to think of this phrase just from the words “Merry Christmas”.
Although vandalism is not okay, you’d think that with it being the Christmas season and all, that people would just laugh this one-off. But after Christmas, they have it coming for them.
Socks
Does this stocking not imply that this guy’s parents maybe just do not like his wife? It is like a subtle hint of some passive aggressiveness towards her. They would probably fill that sock up with some coal just to round it off probably, or maybe just leave it empty, just like their feelings towards his wife. Hopefully, this is just a case of, “we did not have enough time to get your sock made”
Out of all the socks, they could choose they really did make the effort to choose the most mundane one they could find. Christmas at theirs is surely going to be interesting.
Soap
This aunt knew exactly what she was doing when she decided to trade her usually chocolates for soap. We should definitely applaud her for broadening her horizons and trying out new things, but maybe next time, they could come with a warning? Biting into a soap that you think is chocolate is like the Grinch swapping your gifts with old beaten and used ones or better yet, a lump of coal.
This poor girl will probably never recover from this. Maybe the next year the aunt will go back to chocolate and we’ll see a picture about how they washed themselves with chocolate.
Lights
Let this be a lesson to this person, you always test your lights before you hang them up, we thought everyone knew that? That literally looks like four different strings of lights that were just thrown and looped over the railing and Christmas decoration, it does not look like a job that could have almost killed them and it may have been best to just rather leave them off altogether.
At least for this person the lights sort of look like a string of silver balls, so they could actually leave them on there even though they do not work.
Shelf
This person is really having a worse Christmas day than most. Having your brand new Christmas present break on the day you get it, is horrible. The way this TV just plummeted to the floor was mainly the fault of a weak shelf, which could have been avoided obviously. The sad part of this is that it was most likely not even insured yet and we’re sure the stores don’t refund on situations like this.
Situations like this are why we people can not have nice things in life. Because bad luck loves to strike and stuff it up for all of us, just like this.
Waffle
This waffle flop would be the perfect thing to give to kids on Christmas if they have been naughty. It’s like coal but in a waffle form. At first glance it actually looks like the waffle pan part had burnt off, so how did this mom manage to burn a waffle that badly and in turn also completely ruin Christmas breakfast. Remind us to never have breakfast at their place.
If this is how Christmas day started, we would hate to know how the rest of the meals went throughout the day. The turkey may want to think twice about staying around for dinner time.
Wrapping
This person can take the prize for the most disgusting Christmas gift wrapping ever. This seems like a case of a reused gift bag that was probably sitting at the bottom of the cupboard for a while where the roaches could make themselves very much at home. We hope that there was at least a really great gift inside that bag for them, which would make up for the disgusting find.
Unless the gift was something edible, there would be no way to enjoy that after finding these bugs and their droppings. And then that would just make this situation even worse.
Eucalyptus
There is nothing like having your Christmas day ruined by a Eucalyptus tree and some bad timing. Not only can this guy not even use these broken branches as a makeshift Christmas tree, he now has the added cost of fixing his truck during the Christmas period as well. This is another reason why Christmas in summer countries is a completely different experience, and not necessarily always a good one.
We are sure this will be a lesson for this guy, to not park under Eucalyptus trees anymore as they seem to have a tendency to fall, even on Christmas day.
Treeless
These poor people were left with nothing but tree dust for Christmas. When using live trees for Christmas, the secret is to put water in the stand or else you will be left with this exact same problem. In order for the tree to stay fresh and strong, well strong enough to keep your decorations on, it needs to have some water to keep it going at least until New Year.
Now their Christmas is ruined and there is nothing to put the presents under. Just a great old mess to clear out and a treeless Christmas.
Glass Again
Glass tables make us so nervous and we are sure we aren’t the only ones. It is because of situations like this one. You would think that they would be made to handle the heat, a few bashes, and the occasional dish drop, but nope, doesn’t seem like it. This happened because they had put the hot dish on the table which had the ham in, now the ham is ruined and so is Christmas.
Luckily no one was hurt, besides that ham of course, and whatever else was going to be served along with it. And that guy managed to save his beer too, so it’s not all bad.
Dogs Again
Dogs are such strange animals, as it never seems like we are able to justify the things that they do. Like why would this dog feel the need to pull the Christmas tree down and then still rip his bed apart? Either he wanted the Christmas tree to be on his territory or he wanted to add his own bit of decor by using the inside sponge of his bed.
This family should rename their dog the Grinch because obviously he doesn’t like Christmas if he managed to ruin the day for the family. And now they have to clean up his mess too.
Mom
We really hope this gift was just a matter of bad timing, but considering how most people can always do that last-minute shopping the day before Christmas, we doubt that it was. Imagine how much your mom must dislike you to get you a picture for Christmas which has your ex in it as well as your now dead dog. And if it’s meant to be a joke, no one would find that funny.
This mom has successfully managed to ruin her son’s Christmas and we are not sure how she is going to make this up to him. Definitely not the mom of the year!
Eat A
The company that does these sorts of gifts must really make a hell of a lot of money off hatred people have from one another. However, as a Christmas present, the gift hits a different nerve because someone must really hate you to give you this during a time that is meant to be about happiness and love. If you put the insult aside, this person actually just scored a ton of chocolate for Christmas.
We can’t really say for sure if this gift has actually given this person a bad Christmas because it’s still a gift that can be enjoyed, even though it’s a rude one.
Booby Trap
If your Christmas starts off like this, we would just advise you to cancel it. What is the point of carrying on anyways if all the decorations have been ruined before you have even had the chance to think about where they are going to go? Things like this that happen is the reason why people don’t buy glass ornaments anymore because if they were plastic, we’d be looking at a ball pit staircase.
To make light of this situation this family could just use this situation as a joke and tell everyone they were just trying to recreate a “Home Alone” booby trap.
Mess
This disastrous mess could have been avoided if they had just put water in the tree stand. Now, this guy’s wife is really upset and their Christmas has been ruined because of it. It is unbelievable how much mess can come from one Christmas tree which is just not treated properly, which is why it may also just be best to stick to the fake Christmas trees from now onwards.
Sadly, this guy is probably also going to be left to clean the mess up. Especially since he has referred to his wife as “the wife”, we’re sure she will make him do the cleaning.
Hiding Spot
We are sure we have all done something similar to this before where we have used the oven as a great hiding spot. It would probably just be easier to buy a new oven tray than try to scrape the plastic off. But now this woman doesn’t have a ham or turkey for Christmas dinner and her dog is probably giggling inside thinking, “that’s what you get for keeping delicious food away from me”.
After this mishap, we should all take a lesson from it and collectively choose not to hide things in the oven anymore. It’s not a good look when we forget about it.
Burning Calories
Usually, it is less difficult for people to forget about food that is cooking in the oven because the smell coming from it should be a constant reminder that something is hot and cooking in there. But this woman somehow managed to forget about her chicken and landed up with a very blackened dish for their Christmas dinner instead. It for sure puts a whole new meaning to burning 2500 calories.
Luckily once you get past the black char, it looks like there is some salvageable chicken there. Hopefully, she will not make the same mistake when she cooks those mushrooms.
Rice
We have said this before, the instructions for new Christmas toys should be read properly before being used and the spaces you eventually use them in should be made safe. But who would have ever thought that a mini drone would make it directly into the dog’s water bowl on first use? It is either really bad control or perhaps the perfect control, either way, it’s still not where you want a drone to be.
Thank goodness for the old “put it in rice” trick. We really hope that it did work for this soaked mini drone, so Christmas won’t be so bad after all.
Advent Calendar
This dog advent calendar is such a cute idea to include your pets in Christmas. But this dog successfully ruined all the fun for himself by digging into his Christmas treats before the fun even started. The best thing is that he also managed to do it in record time. Imagine him on the back seat speed eating through the days while his mom, unaware of anything, quickly fills her car with gas.
After this dog gets over his stomach ache, we are sure he will sadly sit and think carefully about what he has done to himself. Without anymore treats until Christmas.
Dogo
Something tells us that this dog does not like the Christmas stories that were chosen for this year. All those ripped-up books and no evidence on who might have done it besides a completely innocent, yet slightly proud beagle who looks like he wants to blame it on the neighbor’s cat. Now his owner has been left with some unnecessary Christmas cleaning to do while he rests up after his pedantic’s.
Whether this dog had something against the books or was maybe just bored at home, we really hope he doesn’t make a habit of this every Christmas. Those were some good books.
Elf on a Shelf
We have all heard of elf on a shelf, well in this edition, we are seeing the tree on a tree. For whatever reason, this guy thought the ideal way to get rid of his Christmas tree was to throw it out of his window. Where else did he think it was going to land? On the other tree? That scooter? It just doesn’t seem like the way to get rid of your Christmas tree.
We just wonder how long that tree will stay there before it starts falling apart and disappears. Christmas may last a bit longer outside this guy’s window because of this.
Puzzle
Kids are just the worse sometimes. The way their minds work can often be hilarious, but also frustrating. Having $300 all ripped up would ruin not only Christmas but anyone’s day. Thankfully banks will replace ripped or torn notes, so not all is lost here, it is just a major inconvenience. She should give her Nephew the torn money and tell him it’s a puzzle and if he can put it back together, he can keep it.
At least this Christmas disaster can be a reminder for this family to never leave their child unattended again. If this is what he can do with money, imagine what else he could do.
Problem
Well, this seems like a bit of a problem… at least he wasn’t on the ladder when that happened. This situation, leaving the guy stranded on the roof, would just mean he has to stay up there until the lights are done, not going back down until the job is finished. If he gets stuck there long enough, perhaps Santa will be able to come onto the roof and give him a hand down.
What worries us though is the gasoline container next to the ladder. What kind of lights is he putting up if he needs gasoline? Maybe it’s not a bad thing he’s stuck up there.
Oven
We doubt it very much so that this guy is his mom’s favorite child after doing this. We would love to know what he did that broke the oven like that and why a reasonable lesson from this would be to have a “backup” roast ready. With her son doing this the day before Christmas maybe she should consider a backup child rather than a roast because his actions leave her in a pickle.
It seems like these kids who do stupid things like this always have smart answers for everything as well. Hopefully, he sorted out Christmas lunch for his mom after this.
Wallet
There is nothing like a lovely Christmas gift that blatantly tells you it was stolen especially for you. The person who got this gift for this guy either really did steal it or maybe the store just forgot to take the tag off, but how often is it that they forget to do that? At least the wallet has some extra added protection now if it is ever to be stolen, again.
To add to the negative side of this, it doesn’t look like there was money in it and we all know you should add money in a gifted wallet for good luck.
Monsters
Kids are just horrible little monsters. Why on earth would they decide to burn this guy’s boat on Christmas morning and still manage to do such a bad job of it. The damage caused was so minimal but enough to ruin this guy’s Christmas day. We really hope the kids were caught and got their Christmas day ruined too by spending it in jail where they will get the worse Christmas lunch ever.
It was a real splash in the face for this guy. We’re pretty sure that one day they will get their karma back for this and their Christmas day will be worse than this guys.
Cat Again
This must have been caused by a cat, even though we can not see one anywhere, it just seems like the exact thing a nosey and playful cat would be able to cause. Luckily all the ornaments are still intact, but the curtain took a bit of a tumble with the tree. The fall also caused the train to derail, which adds to a more dramatic feel to the situation.
Lucking this situation is not too bad that it can not be salvaged. They would just have to redecorate the tree and watch out for the culprit who caused it.
Pieces
With a wrapping job so bad, it is not a surprise the gifts arrived in pieces. Has the company never heard of bubble wrapping glass that is going to be delivered? Finding a backup gift this good the day before Christmas will be hard. This guy should just give her the gifts as is, so she can see he did really well on the gift choice and then send it back after Christmas.
He could also make it funny and add a bottle of glue in the gift with a note that says “assemble yourself Harry Potter mugs”. But we doubt she’ll be laughing.