Send me YOUR Christmas stories!
Added 2023-11-23 19:00:03 +0000 UTCHey Patreon! π
We were talking about Patreon video ideas on stream recently and someone suggested funny Christmas stories! I love it π πI know it's a bit early, but I'm working on planning/filming/editing many of the December videos early since my Mum will be here in December.
Please feel free to post any funny/silly/wild/weird stories that happened to you/loved ones around Christmas time! Or you can email them to adventuresandnaps@gmail.com
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This took place sometime after Christmas but before the new year. My family bought garland as well as a tree for the first (and last) time. We draped it over the bannister on the stairs, it was really pretty. One night my Mom was at work So my Dad was home with my sister and I. I was about 10 so my little sister would have been 6. My dad decided instead of throwing out the garland that he would burn it...in the fireplace. It might have been OK if he had burned a bit at a time but he stuffed the whole thing into the fireplace, like completely full and lit a match. It didn't quite explode but there was a "whoosh" and flames belched out of the fireplace, up the mantle and up the wall behind it. He and my sister started screaming, I ran into the kitchen and grabbed a punchbowl with tortilla chips in it. I tossed the chips and filled the bowl up from the tap, ran into the living room and threw the bowl full of water into the fireplace. "Give me that!" my dad snatched the bowl from me, as if I had started the fire and he was the one trying to put it out. My sister and I took a couple large plastic cups and we formed a bucket brigade, running back and forth until the fire was out. The living room carpet was a mess with black, sooty water and ashes everywhere. The mantle and all the decorations on it were scorched and there was a black mark on the wall behind it. The only saving grace was that this house had vaulted ceilings, otherwise it might actually have caught on fire. We spent the next couple of hours cleaning up. When my Mom got home she yelled at my Dad and he had to shampoo the rug and paint the mantle and wall that weekend. We still have a nutcracker from the mantle whose beard was burned off, It's become a family heirloom.
VermiciousKnid
2023-11-26 23:23:31 +0000 UTCNot a funny story at the time but was afterwards. Christmas '97 my first in Ireland, a really bad storm in the early hours of Christmas morning brought down my dining room chimney, smoke and soot everywhere made worse by the water thrown on the fire to put it out. No electricity so we all got up by torchlight, most of the day spent clearing up the mess with a broom and dustpan. Christmas lunch was the following day when the power came back on as no gas in the town then. Luckily the 10 feet of chimney that came down bounced off the flat dining room roof. Never was boardgames by candlelight so much fun. It was mid January before a builder could be found to rebuild the chimney as so much damage done in the town, the hotel had half its roof blown off and the main street was littered with tiles and masonry from buildings, luckily no serious injuries as a night time storm.
Tony S
2023-11-24 13:47:26 +0000 UTC
