{"id":287,"date":"2016-12-06T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylefix.boohoo.com\/us\/story\/christmas-expectation-vs-reality"},"modified":"2017-06-22T18:37:36","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T17:37:36","slug":"christmas-expectation-vs-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefix.boohoo.com\/us\/story\/christmas-expectation-vs-reality","title":{"rendered":"The Holidays: Expectation Vs Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The most wonderful time of the year is here, however it doesn&#8217;t all always go to plan. Here&#8217;s stages of the Holidays &#8211; what we expect, and what really happens&#8230;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><b>Pets&nbsp;<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Expectation<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The holidays with our favourite critters &#8211; what a dream!<\/p>\n<div class=\"collage i1\">\n<div class=\"collage-image i1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thefix.boohoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/the-holidays-expectation-vs-reality_63320_80396.gif?w=800&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Holidays: Expectation Vs Reality\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><b>Reality<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Turn your back for two seconds and all hell breaks loose. Turns out Tabitha the Tabby Cat wasn&#8217;t as &#8216;in&#8217; to festivity as you first thought&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"collage i1\">\n<div class=\"collage-image i1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thefix.boohoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/the-holidays-expectation-vs-reality_61818_99782.gif?w=800&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Holidays: Expectation Vs Reality\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><b>The Tree<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Expectation<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Getting the wow factor everytime you come home to your 100 bauble-d, fairy light glittering MASTERPIECE<\/p>\n<div class=\"collage i1\">\n<div class=\"collage-image i1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thefix.boohoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/the-holidays-expectation-vs-reality_56206_12499.gif?w=800&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Holidays: Expectation Vs Reality\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><b>Reality<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Hours of hard work is continuously ruined by it toppling over at every opportunity. Because apparently there IS such a thing as too many decorations. Who knew&#8230;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"collage i1\">\n<div class=\"collage-image i1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thefix.boohoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/the-holidays-expectation-vs-reality_25576_29076.gif?w=800&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Holidays: Expectation Vs Reality\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: normal; font-weight: normal\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Present Shopping<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: normal\"><b>Expectation<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: normal\">Calm, collected and all sorted in the space of one weekend a la Cher Horowitz<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"collage i1\">\n<div class=\"collage-image i1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thefix.boohoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/the-holidays-expectation-vs-reality_00316_28581.gif?w=800&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Holidays: Expectation Vs Reality\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: normal\">Reality<\/span><b>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Shops will be horrendous, the queues unimaginable and your bags will most likely break on the way home. &#8216;I LOVE THE HOLIDAYS&#8217; you whisper to yourself as you scoop up your shiny new gifts off the pavement<\/p>\n<div class=\"collage i1\">\n<div class=\"collage-image i1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thefix.boohoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/the-holidays-expectation-vs-reality_11375_43003.gif?w=800&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Holidays: Expectation Vs Reality\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><b>Weather<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: normal\"><b>Expectation<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>SURELY we&#8217;re due a White Christmas?! From the carols to the song classics and sledging, to snowball fights &#8211; please let it happen&#8230;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"collage i1\">\n<div class=\"collage-image i1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thefix.boohoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/the-holidays-expectation-vs-reality_84375_98012.gif?w=800&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Holidays: Expectation Vs Reality\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br style=\"font-style: normal; font-weight: normal\"><b><span style=\"font-style: normal\">Reality<\/span>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Rain, rain and oh yeah &#8211; more rain&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"collage i1\">\n<div class=\"collage-image i1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thefix.boohoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/the-holidays-expectation-vs-reality_37772_09079.gif?w=800&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Holidays: Expectation Vs Reality\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><b>Driving Home&nbsp;<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><br \/><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: normal; font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"font-weight: 700\">Expectation<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: normal; font-weight: normal\">All the countdown to the big day emotions in a car. A whole drive of singing along to the clssics. Air punching may also occur&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"collage i1\">\n<div class=\"collage-image i1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thefix.boohoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/the-holidays-expectation-vs-reality_36641_22663.gif?w=800&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Holidays: Expectation Vs Reality\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><b><br \/><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><br \/><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 700\">Reality<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: normal; font-weight: normal\">Back to back cars as far as the eye can see. Why didn&#8217;t I take the back roads?!<\/p>\n<div class=\"collage i1\">\n<div class=\"collage-image i1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thefix.boohoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/the-holidays-expectation-vs-reality_58107_37741.gif?w=800&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Holidays: Expectation Vs Reality\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><b><\/p>\n<p><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>The Morning Of<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: normal\"><b>Expectation<\/b><\/span><br style=\"font-style: normal; font-weight: normal\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: normal\">All those &#8216;casual&#8217; hints dropped throughout the year have paid off!<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"collage i1\">\n<div class=\"collage-image i1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thefix.boohoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/the-holidays-expectation-vs-reality_06847_50740.gif?w=800&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Holidays: Expectation Vs Reality\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: normal\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: normal\"><b>Reality<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: normal\">There will be at least one dispute about a gift &#8211; whether it&#8217;s already owning said gift, you (secretly) hating it or downright throwing it to one side. The holidays bring out the worst in some people&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"collage i1\">\n<div class=\"collage-image i1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thefix.boohoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/the-holidays-expectation-vs-reality_45831_65010.gif?w=800&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Holidays: Expectation Vs Reality\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: normal\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: normal\"><b>All The Food<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: normal\"><b>Expectation<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m <i>totally<\/i>&nbsp;going to pace myself this year. I am the epitome of food sophistication<\/p>\n<div class=\"collage i1\">\n<div class=\"collage-image i1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thefix.boohoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/the-holidays-expectation-vs-reality_75251_78074.gif?w=800&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Holidays: Expectation Vs Reality\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"font-style: normal; font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"font-style: normal; font-weight: 700\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: normal; font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"font-style: normal; font-weight: 700\">Reality<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: normal; font-weight: normal\">Yeah that lasted a whole, what? Two seconds. GIVE ME ALL OF THE FOOD<\/p>\n<div class=\"collage i1\">\n<div class=\"collage-image i1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thefix.boohoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/the-holidays-expectation-vs-reality_07264_02047.gif?w=800&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Holidays: Expectation Vs Reality\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: normal\"><b>Family Games<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: normal\"><b>Expectation<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sitting down and playing a classic family board game<\/p>\n<div class=\"collage i1\">\n<div class=\"collage-image i1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thefix.boohoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/the-holidays-expectation-vs-reality_21867_16144.gif?w=800&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Holidays: Expectation Vs Reality\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: normal\"><b>Reality<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Being adamant you&#8217;re not bothered about winning at all. Until you lose to your older sister Clare and the embarassment is too much<\/p>\n<div class=\"collage i1\">\n<div class=\"collage-image i1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thefix.boohoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/the-holidays-expectation-vs-reality_55220_28871.gif?w=800&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Holidays: Expectation Vs Reality\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: normal; font-weight: normal\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: normal; font-weight: normal\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ahhhh, we love it. Bring it on!<\/p>\n<div class=\"collage i1\">\n<div class=\"collage-image i1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thefix.boohoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/the-holidays-expectation-vs-reality_62826_41733.gif?w=800&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Holidays: Expectation Vs Reality\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: normal; font-weight: normal\">GIF source: <a href=\"https:\/\/thefix.boohoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/www.giphy7.com\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"extLink\">Giphy<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most wonderful time of the year is here, however it doesn&#8217;t all always go to plan. 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