Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year. It is also the most stressful, most expensive, and most calorie-dense time of the year. Between wrapping presents at midnight, navigating family dinners, and pretending to like gifts, the holidays provide an endless supply of meme material.
The Gift Shopping Panic
There are two types of people during the holidays: those who finish their Christmas shopping in November and those who are sprinting through the mall on December 23rd with the wild eyes of someone who has accepted their fate. Memes about last-minute gift shopping hit different when you are literally living it.
The Drake template captures the gift-buying dilemma perfectly. Top: buying a thoughtful, personalized gift. Bottom: getting everyone a gift card and calling it "the gift of choice." No judgment.
Family Dinner Survival
Christmas dinner is a beautiful tradition of putting together people who see each other once a year and expecting everything to go smoothly. Uncle Bob has opinions about politics. Grandma wants to know why you are still single. Your cousin's kid is having a meltdown. This is fine.
The This Is Fine template was made for Christmas dinner. Everything is chaos, your aunt just made a passive-aggressive comment about your career choices, and you are sitting there with a plate of turkey pretending you didn't hear it.
December 1st Energy
The instant December 1st hits, something magical happens. The Christmas music starts playing, the decorations come out, and everyone suddenly becomes aggressively festive. People who complained about stores putting up Christmas stuff in October are now covered in tinsel and singing Mariah Carey at full volume.
The transformation from "it's too early for Christmas" to "DECK THE HALLS" is one of the greatest character arcs of the year, and it happens overnight.
Wrapping Presents
Some people wrap presents like they work at a department store. Clean edges, perfect bows, color-coordinated paper. The rest of us are using three different rolls of tape, cutting wrapping paper with kitchen scissors, and producing gifts that look like they were wrapped during an earthquake.
Make a meme about your wrapping skills (or lack thereof) with the Expanding Brain template. Normal brain: wrapping neatly. Big brain: using a gift bag. Galaxy brain: giving the gift unwrapped and saying "it's for the environment."
Christmas Morning vs Christmas Afternoon
Christmas morning is pure magic. Christmas afternoon is a food coma on the couch while someone's kid plays with the box the toy came in instead of the actual toy. The energy shift from 8 AM to 2 PM is dramatic and documented in thousands of memes.
The Holiday Weight Gain
Between the cookies, the eggnog, the multiple dinners, and the "it's the holidays I deserve this" mentality, January hits like a truck. The memes about the gap between your December eating habits and your January gym resolution are painfully accurate.
Every year you promise this will be the year you eat in moderation during the holidays. Every year you eat an entire tin of cookies in two days. The cycle continues.
Regifting
We all know someone who regifts. We might be someone who regifts. There is an art to regifting: removing the original card, forgetting who gave it to you in the first place, and praying the person you are giving it to doesn't know the person who gave it to you. A delicate operation.
Share the Holiday Laughs
Christmas is better with memes. Send one to your family group chat, your work Slack, or your best friend who is currently stress-eating while wrapping presents. Make your own Christmas memes at justmeme.wtf and check out our Christmas memes collection. Happy holidays, and may your gifts be better than a pair of socks.