Happy holidays, pandas! We hope you had a wonderful Christmas (if you celebrate)—filled with thoughtful gifts, quality time with loved ones, and plenty of delicious food. But as you finish off the last of your leftovers, don’t let the festive cheer fade just yet. We’ve rounded up a collection of hilarious Christmas memes to keep the celebrations going a little longer. Scroll down to enjoy them, and upvote the ones that make you laugh!
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True, and when you're short sighted and take your glasses off
Yes! The lights are all blurry like in a French painting of rain. Beautiful!
Load More Replies...I’ve always thought this. When I got my glasses at 11 I was shocked at how I could see every individual blade of grass. Then at night I saw the bulbs in lights and it looked less magical. Without them it’s just the light.
"And of you are on his naught list he shoots missiles at you toes, he might just roast your chestnuts with his powerful flame throooower" 🎵🎶🎼
Christmas is all about joy, togetherness, and festivities, with plenty of activities to share with friends and family. Decorating the Christmas tree, waiting for Santa, exchanging gifts, watching holiday specials, and enjoying hearty meals are all part of the fun. But technically, it’s a celebration of Jesus’s birthday. So, where did all these other traditions come from?
With that happy face....Guess who got the Best Christmas presents under the tree the next day? 😊
Bird don't usually build nests in winter, nests are for eggs and eggs aren't laid in winter
The exact origins of modern Christmas celebrations, as they are known in the U.S., are difficult to pinpoint. However, there are some clues about their cultural beginnings. According to Kyle Smith, a professor of the history of religions at the University of Toronto Mississauga, many of the significant changes in how Christmas is celebrated emerged in the second half of the 19th century.
If you have any advice for European people that don't celebrate Thanksgiving I'm all ears
It's more of a long game but if you bring up politics at Christmas this year you can save money on gifts next year
Load More Replies...No need! My parents and I spent the day at my brother and SIL’s house with my brother’s in laws and my SIL’s sister. (So my brother, my SIL, their two kids, and then a pair of parents with adult daughters.) They’re Jewish but only do the cultural aspects and my family is nothing. Our political views align in that we are all firmly democrats.
My family to, though not democrats because we are Australian
Load More Replies...If those tattoos were just makeup for the movie, I would have liked to be the makeup artist!
Much of it has to do with the traditions passed down by settlers from the Netherlands who arrived in America in the 17th century. “Dutch immigrants to the United States, specifically to New York, are really important for the history of Christmas,” says Smith.
At that time, Christmas was outlawed in the English colonies where Puritans held power. They opposed the holiday because it wasn’t mentioned in the Bible and viewed it as an excuse for debauchery. However, in the Dutch-controlled New Netherland colony, including cities like New Amsterdam (modern-day New York), there were no such strict prohibitions.
Death Vader snuggy. 10yrs and this is the happiest I’ve seen him over a gift
Now I want a Darth Vader snuggy. Off to google it.
Load More Replies...I think it’s that way with all adults and the people who buy them gifts. I’ve been meaning to get a mandoline though, and now I have one!
I ask for things like a power drill or a really good steam iron.
My wife gets SO upset with me. This year, I bought an insulated hoodie, among other things. She DEMANDED to know what she could get me. I now have a new set of seat covers in my Ram.
Hahaha! My wife is the same way! 😄 she just not demanded to know what would I like for Christmas, she threatened me with waterboard me, if I didn't responded in one minute...got to say that the sound of my new Astell&Kern 3000 is pure bliss
Load More Replies...My husband and I just do small things, like slipper socks and back scratchers. One year I got him the round toothpicks that come in the fancy plastic shaker thing and another year we each got the other the same ice cream scooper. We wrap them just for the ritual of opening presents on Christmas morning. It's inexpensive and stressless.
My husband & I don't exchange gifts anymore for this very reason. We started a tradition of writing each other a "Christmas Letter". Much more satisfying. (We do still fill each others stockings, though. It's usually candy and maybe a Hot Wheels car).
There were two Amazon boxes I didn’t even open, but I still wrapped them for some silly reason.
Load More Replies...I did too. And glad I did...Because, in my case, they seriously messed up stuff.
Load More Replies...2nd year in a row that I did this for people that don't live in the same province as me.
The Dutch observed Christ’s birth in their own way, calling it Kerstydt, but this celebration was often overshadowed by a more popular December tradition: Sinterklaas. This Dutch gift-giving holiday involved children placing their shoes outside their homes to be filled with treats by St. Nicholas on December 6th.
Excuse me, what is “manger” in this context? I feel like missing something 🙂
Load More Replies...I'm just imagining the neighbours in the apartment block hearts sinking at seeing a drum kit being taken in to the apartment.
Someone went to a lot of trouble doing this, I think it's to irritate the drummer before they start irritating everyone else
YES! And we always do it Christmas night after the kids have gone to bed.. Boxing Day? clean house.
In 1624, New Netherland’s population was just 270 people, with few, if any, children. But over the following decades, dozens of families settled in the outpost, bringing their traditions with them. As the number of Dutch residents grew and eventually outnumbered others, their customs became the most widespread and influential in the area.
I've created a playlist of Anti-Carey Missiles for this reason.
I have no idea how mall employees survive the holidays, especially the ones who work in toy stores with those awful talking and singing and jingling toys. (shudder)
I scream sing this song from nov 1 all the way till jan 15 no one can stop me HAHAHAHAH
Maybe in a parallel universe Mariah Carey has to listen to YOUR Christmas hit for the 257th time
If you want a really great version of that song, check out Ashes to New, their cover is friggin' awesome!
When it takes so long for a new season to come out that you need a comment to realize that the photo is from one of your favorite shows...
Load More Replies...all my scissors from the front to the back part,back part
Load More Replies...I aspire to one day reach Bryony-level. (see the bicycle wrapping scene in " Arthur Christmas"
Sinterklaas eventually evolved into Santa Claus among English-speaking communities. His popularity grew as stories and images of the Dutch figure spread through literature. At the same time, writers like Washington Irving and Clement Clark Moore in the United States (‘Twas the Night Before Christmas) and Charles Dickens in England (A Christmas Carol), along with numerous other authors and illustrators, played a significant role in shaping Christmas into the more modern, commercialized celebration we know today.
Imagine writing a song so good that for one month every year till forever, it is played everywhere, and people like it so much they never want to hear it again and get hives thinking about going into any shop where it might be playing
I feel kind of sorry for Mariah Carey. She wrote and sang a song that she hoped would make her a few bucks. She didn't know what the mall music people were going to do with it. It has however made her between $2.5 and $3 million dollars annually. $60 million since 1994 when it was released. Send a nasty note to the mall management and don't hate on Carey. https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/entertainment/a45897777/how-much-mariah-carey-earns-all-i-want-for-christmas/. AND I agree the song sucks.
Load More Replies...Where I live, it’s "Last Christmas“ by Wham. Though I have to say I love Melanie Thornton‘s "Wonderful Dream", could listen to that one daily during Christmas time.
Now that's a Barbie I would buy, the "Sleep Deprived New Mommy Barbie"!
Nah-just sleep deprived/overworked and underpaid/ate too many goodies Barbie. And- finally realistic body standards for women!!
Load More Replies...What I look like right now. Well, the stomach part of me. Although my housemate did try to help by feeding IBS me lamb neck stewed in 7 scotch bonnets and boy has that been haunting me today.
My work has decided to give everyone a $20 gift card (my manager alone gave all eight of the members on my team a $30 gift card). I can’t wait for another Zoom meeting wherein they talk about how the company’s revenue has increased so much. Better than nothing I guess? But I don’t want to acquiesce to that frame of mind.
At the meeting when they're talking about the profits, pull out the gift card and examine it closely.
Load More Replies...Douglas Aircraft, 1982, gave us welfare cheese. I.e a block of American cheese hat was released from the food stockpile by Reagan.
That was actually pretty good cheese. Bites as a gift though.
Load More Replies...That's nothing. The gm came in and I got a Ferrero rocher. Not a box of them or something crazy, just one.
We had a secret Santa, I got an apron with flamingos on and a pair of flamingo slippers, happy days.got my colleague a book of non alcoholic cocktail recipes (she's been dry since July and she was delighted with it) but the looks she got from the rest of the team were a picture!
We get capped at two slices each usually. This scrooge must think they're so much more generous.
My workplace told us every quarterly meeting that our jobs are guaranteed for years to come because we have projects on the shelf waiting for work and that any cuts would come first to the outsourced team. Then on Dec 9 they pulled 99 of us into a Zoom meeting and told us we're out of a job on January 31st and that they're keeping the outsourcers because they're cheaper. Apparently they lose a tax cut if they fire more than 100 of us at a time. The company made $9.3 billion in profits last quarter so yeah, the poor shareholders were hurting
That looks like the pizza we were served in Elementary school! The pizza everyone loved!
Moore’s stories introduced the idea of Santa as an elf with a sleigh pulled by reindeer, delivering gifts by coming down chimneys. Meanwhile, Dickens’ works, particularly A Christmas Carol, shifted the focus of Christmas celebrations toward children’s gifts and family feasts at home.
To counteract this I got a darning mushroom for my birthday in November.
Yeah. I'm going to miss all of this. The excitement, the food, the presents, the beautiful decorations. It's not my favorite time of year for nothing.
That's why I do Diwali as well, more decorations and lovely food
Load More Replies...I love that right now, I don't care what time it is, what day it is, or when I need to get up in the morning. And there's still leftovers in the fridge so I don't have to think about what to cook (edit spelling)
Santa Claus, as we know him today, first appeared in Harper’s Magazine in 1863 through an illustration by Thomas Nast. He was depicted as a plump elf with a beard, a hat, and, of course, as a generous gift-giver. “It’s completely fair to claim that Santa Claus is an American invention,” Smith says.
My husband did 99% of the shopping this year. I’m solo parenting it on another continent and he had the time while I did not. Then I wrapped everything. It’s not the 1950’s and I’m so happy to see someone else tired of this, too.
Load More Replies...My wife thrives on the hunt of the perfect gift, so I stay out of the way. I do all the wrapping, so I know what's under the tree.
Every year, yes. Except the years he forgot where he hid the sack of presents and we had to emergency wrap anything in the house.
I know I don't know you in real life,, but you're too cute.
Load More Replies...I got my husband a pair of lounge pants with our cat's face printed all over them. And, y'know, they happened to have an offer on when you bought two pairs, so... now we both have lounge pants with the cat's face on.
The origin of the Christmas tree is also somewhat mysterious. According to Smith, there’s a long history of people across Europe bringing greenery into their homes during the cold winter months and decorating it.
The modern Christmas tree, however, traces back to 19th-century Germany. That’s why it’s typically a fir or pine tree, and almost never something like a palm tree. Even so, the exact origins are hard to trace. “There’s no aha moment to say, ‘Oh that’s a Christmas tree,’” Smith explains.
I have a tiny little tree on my desk. You can tell how old it is as it still has an EU flag stuck out of it that's on a toothpick from the whole Brexit thing in 2016! 😃
Mum? Naahhh! My wife when she can't beat me playing Gran Turismo 7! 😆
And if you weren’t already aware, December 25th isn’t actually Jesus’s birthday. The date came about from the winter solstice festivities held by the Romans. “We have no idea when Jesus was born,” says Smith. There are no textual records specifying the year, month, day, or even season of his birth.
Is it wrong that I see a cat's nose and cheeks? Now I can't look at my cat...
Someone to answer the question 'what's for dinner' til next Christmas.
And the can has the nifty red straw for those hard-to-reach areas...
Load More Replies...It is when mum says "I don't think it will ease his stiff and rusty parts"
While the winter solstice now falls on December 21st, it was celebrated on December 25th before Julius Caesar reformed the Roman calendar in 44 BCE. Later, in 325 CE, the First Council of Nicaea officially decreed December 25th as Christmas, aligning it with existing solstice celebrations like the pagan Feast of the Unconquered Sun.
Still, the idea of Jesus being born on December 25th stuck. “The most compelling theory is the whole point of the idea of the Messiah coming into the world at its darkest hour,” Smith says.
I got my mother drinking sherry at 0830 one Christmas morning. We had a bet at work to see who could get their mother imbibing first on Christmas morning. I confessed later in the day, and she was annoyed "why didn't you tell me, I've been up since six I clock"
Would you rather show up to your mom's at noon and she's absolutely hammered drunk? That's how my Xmas went this year lol. Gotta love her.
My mom got drunk about 5 minutes after I showed up.. she was pouring herself vodka cranberry that was 75-80% vodka with a splash of cranberry. After she poured her second, I made up an excuse to go home early. I love my mom. I cannot stand my mom when she's drunk.
Load More Replies...When I was a kid and we lived in an apartment, Santa came down the fire escape. That's why we hung our stockings at the window.
Similar! We hung ours in the mailroom and they were "delivered" back to our front door haha! I'm sure my parents retrieved them immediately after we hung them there
Load More Replies...And that's why we opted for a "Christmas tree" of coat hangers instead. Hang it high on a window out of reach, everybody's happy
I'm in Australia. At this point, that just looks like an almost normal Christmas. Something eerie about getting up Christmas morning to smell bushfire smoke
I get my wife expensive giftso but apparently I suck at it so I just asked what she wanted. I told her I was thinking of getting a food dehydrator or a stand mixer because we both wanted one. She's said don't get a food dehydrator and that's how I found out what she got me. Its the thought that counts but after 15 years it's hard to figure out anymore what to get each other.
That's why I create an Amazon wish list for my husband!
Load More Replies...Giving money to your spouse that you share finances with is pretty goofy. At least do a gift card to something they use often instead.
A real "Gift of the Magi" moment, but for people who put zero effort into their gift-giving.
This is going to p1ss a sh1t ton of BPs, but our problem is that we are comfortable enough that we buy whatever whenever we want something. My wife has no more room for jewelry, which was the only spur of the moment gift I could ever come up with.
Load More Replies...Tim Allen's personality in real life has ruined him as Santa Clause for me. He's a bitter old turd.
That's why I think that places that are open on holidays like that should ask the most senior people first if they want to work that day (because some will likely want the excuse to get out of seeing relatives) and then go down the line. Decreases the odds of someone getting stuck working who'd rather not have to. Of course they don't do it this way because of how much they'd have to pay the higher up people
Load More Replies...A friend of mine used to work all 24 hours of Christmas day - at triple his hourly rate.
The Christmas after my cousin had her daughter she worked second shift Christmas day. That way she was there for Christmas morning and part of the afternoon and then got paid a butt load of money to work the rest of the day. Obviously the baby was too young to know it was Christmas anyway but that way my cousin was able to get the best of both worlds: no guilt over missing her daughter's first Christmas morning, and extra money. Win win
Someone i know worked 6am to 10am. Got paid for 28? Hours of work
Most folks I admit feeling bad for tell me.."Hey I can have dinner and open presents anytime. Time and a half + holiday pay makes it worthwhile.
Felicitations on the anniversary of the birth of the prophet Issa bin Maryam
What the heck is so wrong with socks!!! I LOVE socks!!!! It is shoes that sucks!!! I will take all the socks that no one wants!!! I am so tired of seeing all these posts about people grinching about getting socks!!
A friend of mine has santa bring things like socks, toothbrushes etc. The good stuff comes from mom and dad
Egg nog, fruit punch, brandy custard, fruit punch, rum balls, fruit punch .. hiccup
Thankfully my parents are still together but I just imagined the nightmare scenario wherein your parents are divorced and then you grow up and marry someone with divorced parents and now have to juggle FOUR parents' houses. So my question as a single Pringle with married parents for those of you in that situation is how does it end up working? Or does it not?
I ended up getting a stomach bug this past year right after Thanksgiving and ended up wasting most of my Thanksgiving leftovers (some of it got frozen or eaten by other people in my house at least). Sucks having a fridge full of awesome food and being too sick to eat any of it. I could barely keep soup down
Aww, you deserve another thanksgiving dinner to make up for it
Load More Replies...Dollar store: stickers for kids, chewing gum for teens, paper clips for adults.
Not paper clips! You get them chip clips. The good metal ones from the craft department, not the crummy plastic ones from the kitchen department.
Load More Replies...Oh, yes. Can't help thinking "What happens when . . .?".
Load More Replies...This is my first time, and if there's any good at all in the world, my last.
Load More Replies...We always had artificial trees when I was a child, so it's traditional to me. Mr Auntriarch and I bought one when we got married, it's 37 years old and going strong.
Load More Replies...My two brothers and I all had birthdays within ten days of Christmas. But our parents - God bless them - always made sure each of us had a full birthday party with presents on each b-day.
My sister's birthday is 2 days after Christmas. When she was a kid my mom would tell our relatives they weren't allowed to give a combined Christmas and birthday gift (unless it was a "big" item like the year she got an iPod Touch) and that they couldn't wrap her gifts in Christmas paper.
My parents did the same for Thanksgiving. "The party is for both your birthday and Thanksgiving!" No. No it's not, Sharron.
So I bought my sister a pair of Dr. Martens for her birthday because she's been wanting a pair for a while. Last week her fiance was finishing up Christmas shopping and wanted to double check with me what her shoe size was and nearly gave me a heart attack. Thankfully that's not what he got her; he got her winter boots.
This chap is me when I hear someone going on about pumpkin spice. It's just bloody cinnamon, calm down.
Is it? That is maybe why i never heard of it in germany
Load More Replies...I went to a store with my dad in septemder and they already had new years decor out
I think you're mistaken? 🤔 This is the one ho, who had just finished eating a Hoho and needs a bottle of rum, to help wash it down.
Load More Replies...We had leg of lamb because my mother loves it. And I detest tucking furkey
Prime rib! Goes on sale around Christmas. Buy one for Xmas dinner and have another 1-2 cut up into ribeye steaks for the year. Our Christmas tradition is a group chat where we all look for the best prime rib sale. It gets down to like 4-5$ a pound most years.
We do this, cut the leftover roast into ribeye steaks, vacuum seal them, freeze, then reheat in a sous vide.
Load More Replies...Forgot the scissors for removing the ridiculous amount of packaging. When my daughter was a kid, my fingers would be bleeding by the time everything had been freed from the horrible plastic toy cages. Doll hair sewn into plastic sheets and doll clothes held in perfect place with miniature plastic ties, ugh! And the twist-ties! Better add band-aids to the mom starter pack too.
I too, know the very same pain that you speak of. All that your poor fingers/hands had to endure, just to get those stupid plastic packages open, when one does not have or can not find the scissors and I feel for you. I hope you're on the mend and if you haven't already, grab a few pairs of scissors from the Dollar Store and maybe one better quality pair, if needed, to ensure that you will never have to suffer again, at the hands of that awful, needs to be outlawed or something,. plastic packaging. Seriously it makes things so much easier to have multiple pairs of scissors, in different rooms/areas of the house, that you may need to use a pair. The amount of time and frustration it saves you to have multiple pairs is well worth the less than $5 investment, at least in my experiences.
Load More Replies...They are all bad but this one is especially dumb.
Load More Replies...but also, there was a dad there who did also forget his kid.
Load More Replies...My mum has already started doing her Christmas shopping for 2025..it is Dec26th 2024 as I type this
I'm in northern NJ and this was my first snowy Christmas since forever. We still had snow on the ground from last week and then it snowed again Christmas eve. Such a treat.
I'm in northern DE and this meme was def us this year.
Load More Replies...Well 2 years ago we had a massive blizzard hit on December 23rd and not stop until Christmas morning so after that I think I'm good on white Christmases for a few years. Spending 2+ hours on Christmas morning digging out (and still not being completely done) is not a fun time
Honest question from somebody in whose region it's normal for the gift-giving to happen on Christmas Eve: Doesn't the tradition of opening presents on Christmas Day morning cause the children to sleep poorly because they're too excited? Pretty sure I would've snuck out of bed in the middle of the night.
My son is honestly so chill about the whole thing, it's like he's a teenager in a 7 year old body. He's always been like that. He's never woken me early, or been unable to sleep the night before. I'm sure if he had a sibling to hype it up with, it would be different. But since it's always just been the two of us, he doesn't act like that. But from what I understand, that's really rare with kids.
Load More Replies...You can't spell "Merry Christmas" without M-C! (OK, the same is true with Mariah Carey, but let's keep the season bright, people.)
The first is a reference to the fighting conditions in dense jungle during the Vietnam War. The second is a reference to the monumental losses suffered by the Russian army during the Winter War against Finland.
Load More Replies...I worked in retail for seven years. I can’t enjoy Christmas carols anymore, period.
Or turned off the oven, closed the windows, locked the door, set the alarm... This guy can't remember where he parked his house.
Oh Jane please stop making me laugh so much I snort-laugh my drink
Load More Replies...WTF? Are there adults out there that are this stupid? There are kindergartners who know better. This idiot got 21k upvotes for this? Do I have dementia and I'm missing something here? Tell me what the 25th month of the year is called, because I can't remember...
Congratulations! You are absolutely correct. The 25th month is Can't Remember.
Load More Replies...Will be 24.12.2025 here because it's celebrated in the evening including the presents and we know that dd.mm.yy makes way more sense anyway.
Day, month, year does make more sense but it doesn't change the date of Christmas. No matter that some cultures celebrate on the 24th, the assigned date for the birth of Christ is still the 25th.
Load More Replies...You can't boast about this without providing evidence.
Load More Replies...This year for Christmas I got a working toilet!!! We've been having major issues with the drains here and it's fixed now! Yeays! Then on Christmas Eve? I saw Santa buying a bottle of Jack, rolling papers and rolling tobacco in my local shop... My friends reassured me that it was an imposter/a distraction sent out by the real Santa so I'd fall asleep sooner and that? Yes, he's Really Real! So Double Yeays!!! 💜🎄😀🎄💜
Whoever wrote this can't even get their facts right? Dutch Ketstyds??? Dec 6th??? Come on, BP "writer". Do better.
You can't boast about this without providing evidence.
Load More Replies...This year for Christmas I got a working toilet!!! We've been having major issues with the drains here and it's fixed now! Yeays! Then on Christmas Eve? I saw Santa buying a bottle of Jack, rolling papers and rolling tobacco in my local shop... My friends reassured me that it was an imposter/a distraction sent out by the real Santa so I'd fall asleep sooner and that? Yes, he's Really Real! So Double Yeays!!! 💜🎄😀🎄💜
Whoever wrote this can't even get their facts right? Dutch Ketstyds??? Dec 6th??? Come on, BP "writer". Do better.
