Small annoyances can come to the fore when you're spending more 'quality time' at home with family at Christmas. A poll of 1,000 Brits, shows that over half of British families (56%) will be rubbing each other up the wrong way over the festive period due to their annoying habits.
The biggest festive frustration is loved ones placing empty wrappers back into the chocolate tin, rankling with over one in three Brits, closely followed by wasting food (30%) and doing nothing to help around the house (26%).
Londoners are avoiding family gripes by spending the least additional time with their frustrating nearest and dearest, at only four hours, 57 minutes per day.
Households in the North West have the shortest tempers and the most squabbles, with loved ones' annoying habits causing 67% to argue over the Christmas season.
The research, commissioned by
Häfele UK, showed that two out of three Brits only really start to enjoy the company of their family when the stress of Christmas Day is over and nearly half (43%) of UK women admit that they would get along better with their partners and families if they helped to tidy up more on the big day."
Remarkably, one in 10 Brits are losing at least the equivalent of an entire day of their Christmas working leave(seven hours or more) to tidying up after the festive season.
Want to spend less time stressing and enjoy more quality time together over the festive period? Then try to avoid Britain's Top 12 Festive Frustrations:
- Putting empty chocolate wrappers back in the tin
- Wasting food
- Doing nothing to help
- Buying so much food there is nowhere to store it
- Not taking the bins out
- Making a mess when cooking Christmas dinner
- Being disorganised
- Drinking too early in the day
- Being over-competitive at board games
- Getting stressed in a small kitchen
- Complaining they're full - then immediately eating more
- Making everyone wear paper hats from crackers.
Ideas for living.
The biggest festive frustration is loved ones placing empty wrappers back into the chocolate tin, rankling with over one in three Brits, closely followed by wasting food (30%) and doing nothing to help around the house (26%).
Londoners are avoiding family gripes by spending the least additional time with their frustrating nearest and dearest, at only four hours, 57 minutes per day.
Households in the North West have the shortest tempers and the most squabbles, with loved ones' annoying habits causing 67% to argue over the Christmas season.
The research, commissioned by Häfele UK, showed that two out of three Brits only really start to enjoy the company of their family when the stress of Christmas Day is over and nearly half (43%) of UK women admit that they would get along better with their partners and families if they helped to tidy up more on the big day."
Remarkably, one in 10 Brits are losing at least the equivalent of an entire day of their Christmas working leave(seven hours or more) to tidying up after the festive season.
Want to spend less time stressing and enjoy more quality time together over the festive period? Then try to avoid Britain's Top 12 Festive Frustrations:
