The holidays are a time full of activity, from gifts, to cooking and decoration. Even the simple task of bringing in a tree can be full of accidents and pitfalls, so it shouldn’t be surprising that some folks just end up getting pretty unlucky just in time for Christmas.
We’ve gathered some of the funniest Christmas fails from around the internet to, perhaps, bring you some joy this holiday season. So get comfortable as you scroll through, count your blessings that this isn’t you, upvote your favorites and be sure to share your thoughts in the comments below.
#1 I Got Fired So This Is My Christmas Alone
I live in Atlanta, Georgia and I got fired on December 20th. My only chance to pay rent this month was to drive 700 miles and start a new contracting job the week of Christmas.
I don’t have any family or many friends anyways but I was looking forward to spending time with the few souls I do have in my life. I miss them but I am stuck eating ravioli on a concrete floor, in a warehouse, for Christmas.
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#2 Over The Holidays My Sister Tried To Make A Peppermint Candy Platter On A Perforated Pizza Pan
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#3 Got My Nieces (3) This Tent For Christmas. One Ran Away And One Started To Cry. My SIL Was Like “We Have One Of Those, It’s The Time Out Tent”
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American actor, comedian, and filmmaker Mel Brooks once said that “Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die,” in reference to the very real fact that, ultimately, it’s all about perspective. After all, the fails here range from mild annoyances to holiday ruining.
However, it can be a good lesson on perspective, after all, you can thank your own lucky stars that these things didn’t happen to you. It’s easy to forget that everything going “right” isn’t the default, so it can be nice to take a moment and appreciate what you have. Christmas is, in many ways, a great time of year for that.
#4 It’s Christmas Eve And I Caught Scarlet Fever
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#5 Someone No Longer Fits Into Their Christmas Sweater And Can’t Get It Off
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#6 Just Noticed I Have Been Given The Wrong Tablets By The Pharmacist And Taking Them For A Month. Was Prescribed Blood Pressure Tablets (Enalapril). Received Anti Depressants (Escitalopram). Explains Weird Side Effects From Before Xmas
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Hopefully, any particularly major fail ends up feeling like funny memories in the future, a great moment to go “do you remember when…” next Christmas. Who doesn’t like a sympathetic story for the holidays? It can be terrible at the moment, but ultimately cherished memories are often born of bad luck.
#7 Helped Clean A Camp Site For Christmas. Dropped A Rock Slab On My Toe
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#8 How I Received My Xmas Gift From Amazon
The cover was bent and the record was chipped.
At least Amazon replaced it the next day, in the proper record mailer, inside an another box with packing bubbles. It’s like there’s no middle ground with them.
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#9 My 16 Year Old Sister Spent Two Hours Cooking Christmas Dinner And My Mom Won't Eat Because Shes Mad That She Didn't Like Her Present
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#10 Christmas Just Got Cancelled
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#11 Christmas Is Starting Off With A Bang
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#12 Got Norovirus On Christmas Eve. This Is How I'm Spending The Night
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#13 An Attempt At A Christmas Cake
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#14 BF Stood Me Up
Ended up at a holiday themed pop up bar, alone. Ended up paying $8 for a $2 beer. Stared at my feet the floor and the walls for what felt like an eternity watching other couples and families interact and engage in the festivities. I want to crawl into a deep hole and disappear. I’m so embarrassed.
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#15 Got Fired Right Before Christmas, Got This Monster Immediately After And Will Probably Have It For New Years
Someone pray for me or send me good wishes, when it rains it pours.
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#16 Toddler Threw His Christmas Present At My Christmas Present
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#17 Had My Own Nightmare Before Christmas Last Night
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#18 Well, This Isn't A Good Thing To Come Home To After Christmas Holiday
Luckily, our Dad came home earlier than us and this happened when he was at the house so he went and cut the power, unplugged stuff, etc.
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#19 Had Such Bad Diarrhea The Past Few Days That My Christmas Plans Got Canceled And I Ended Up Needing An IV Drip
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#20 Boss Canceled Our Christmas Party Cause This Broke The Bank
I found out we had canceled the yearly Christmas party / bonus. A multi store owner within a large corporate chain food company allowed our management to instead do this for the staff of say 60 employees per store. Upon completing this project along with a few other miscellaneous gifts (donuts, Doritos, and [get this] oranges,) he told us this gesture was “breaking the bank.” Love it here.
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#21 There Was An Attempt To Buy A Christmas Blanket From Temu
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#22 My Dad Bought A Set Of AI Generated Christmas Mats
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#23 Surprised A Mobile Home Park With A 10ft Christmas Tree And It Was Stolen The Next Day
I spent a few years of my childhood at this mobile home park and it was pretty rough. Now that I’m older and am more connected to the community I was able to get a bunch of stuff donated and held a little giveback event this weekend. One of the things I was most stoked about was this giant 10ft Christmas tree someone chopped down for us. I got it cleared with the park manager and I put a bunch of cinder blocks on the stand thinking that’d prevent it from being messed with. Came back the next morning to add a few more ornaments and it was gone :(
I’m pretty sad but trying to prove to this community that we can’t be knocked down! Trying to brainstorm something else to bring back like some cinder blocks and shape them into a small igloo like tree and paint some rocks to look like ornaments but I’m worried that might not be as cute as I’m imaging.. The other idea is another tree and something else extremely heavy..? we can’t really install anything permanent and working with a limited budget/not really wanting to ask people to donate after all they’ve done already. Let me know your ideas!
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#24 First Major Injury Ever And It’s Right Before Christmas. Ruptured Achilles
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#25 Xmas Present From My Kids - Multifocal Pneumonia
Drove a third of the way across US and ended up in the hospital the next day.
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#26 Brand New $300 Microwave From Amazon Came Full Of Crusty Old Food
Christmas gift from my parents got delivered today. Wasn’t supposed to be used or refurbished. Smells AWFUL. They’re letting us return it but I have to take it to UPS.
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#27 Got A New Phone For Christmas. Was A Bit Too Excited, It Fell Off My Pocket And The Screen Broke (It Lasted Less Than 2 Hours)
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#28 There Goes Dessert For Christmas
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#29 Someone Gifted My Cousin A Charcoal Bathbomb
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#30 I Called My Mother After She Sent Me This Text. She Said She Was “Just Being Funny.”
Thinking of giving her coal now as a Xmas present for this “joke”.
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#31 I Got Tipped A Chocolate Coin At A High Scale Insurance Company Xmas Party
I work as a bartender at a high scale banquete hall and we have a 700 person event for a rather large insurence company. Not only did someone think it was funny to tip me a chocolate coin, but ive only made $60 in tips ontop of that tonight :/. I only make min wage.
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#32 "8th Annual Ugly Sweater Christmas Party" I Said. "You Need Me To Write It Down?" I Said. "No, I Got This" She Said
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#33 I Got My Mom A TV For Christmas
I don’t think that huge black blob on the right is supposed to be there.
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#34 Some Person Cut My Christmas Lights The Day After Getting Them Out
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#35 Christmas Dinner After Testing Positive For Covid Yesterday
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#36 I Was Working In The ICU During Christmas Dinner. My Family Sent Me Pictures Of The Feast And Were Saving Me Leftovers. Today I Received Those Leftovers
Not even a bun or a measly potato. I’ve missed a lot of family dinners in the past and usually they send me ham, turkey and plenty of sides. So it seems I was an afterthought this year. I know I should be grateful I got something but it still feels pretty bad.
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#37 Went To Exchange Christmas Eve Gifts And Realized The Present Was Damp... Turns Out The Tree Stand Has Been Leaking For Weeks On The Recently Refinished Parquet Floor
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#38 Winco! Ruining Christmas Suppers Everywhere!!
Went to Winco 3 days before Christmas to get all the supper fixings. I hosted Xmas Eve supper for about 15 people. I pull the rolls out to brown them in the oven before serving and just look!!! The date even says Dec 29!!!
My sister who is hosting Xmas supper today grabbed the bread she got from Winco to make the stuffing and guess what?! It was also moldy and and not past the sell by date!! A different type of Winco bread at a differnt Winco store even!
Guess what I will never be buying at Winco again?!
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#39 City Water Line Backed Up Into My Apartment Building On Christmas
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#40 Dad Forgot To Have Walmart Remove The Security Cases On The Christmas Presents
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#41 Merry Christmas To Me
My car is 20 yrs old. I cant afford to buy a new one, and I cant afford to fix it. I let it sit bc it had a (minor but smoky) oil leak and a headlight out. This doesnt include the cost to fix the A/C, the headlight (have to buy a complete new headlight, not just the bulb) and new tires. Pretty sure the only option to sell it is to a junk car buyer and then I would just be out of a car at this point. I can only "afford" to fix part of it as i will max out both of my CCs. Honestly not even sure what choice is best at this point. The car only has 133k miles and runs great when operational. They are quoting me 3,600$ to fix it and thej i will have to pay another few hundred for tires/headlight just to get it operational.
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#42 Update: We Bought A Quest 3 From Walmart And Opened It On Christmas. There Was A Broken Quest 2 Inside
We dug through the trash and found our receipt. We brought the quest to Walmart and the store manager came out and said there was nothing he could do. He would not even replace it with another unit. We told him we don't want money we just want what we paid for but he just kept telling us to call corporate.
We called corporate and they said they can't override a manager's decision. I posted on X(FKAT) and meta support reached out and urged us to open a support ticket. So we're waiting on their response now
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#43 Finally Ate This Piece Of Holiday Candy My Partner Brought Home. Turned Out To Be A Hot Cocoa Bomb
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#44 Waited 2 Weeks For An Order Of 5 Things From Joanns Including A 3piece Metal Cristmas Tree Skirt. This Is What I Received, A Tree Sk
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#45 Just Opened My Xmas Filets To Cook Dinner. Completely Gray And Rancid. Now Xmas Eve Dinner For 6 Is Frozen Stuffed Shells. $190 In Filets Are In The Trash
Completely gray and rancid. Now Xmas Eve dinner for 6 is frozen stuffed shells. $190 in filets are in the trash.
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#46 I Accidentally Bought Christmas Ornaments Without Strings.. Glad Tigercake Is Willing To Help
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#47 Opened My Puzzle Advent Calendar Only To Find It Was Missing The First 12 Days
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#48 Ordered My Partner's Christmas Present Three Weeks Ago, After Three Delays, Now It's Arriving After Christmas
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#49 My Christmas Calendar On Day 1 Was Empty
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#50 Christmas Canceled Around Here... Who The Told This Girl To Get Up At 3 In The Morning And Open Every Gift Under The Tree
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