One day, two grinches, three movies, and a hell of a lot of eye-rolling.
As the two office Grinches, we decided to attempt the impossible: find the Christmas spirit in a single day.
Mat: I'm a Scrooge. Christmas to me just means everyone gets really stressed, and then you visit family who are equally as stressed. The hardest thing about spending the day talking about Christmas is that, more than anything, I'll be hella bored.
Tahlia: All you do on Christmas is grossly overeat, unwrap presents that get less and less festive and more like, "thanks Aunt Mildred for that second food processor in a row from Kmart," and everyone's just stressed AF. Like who gives a fuck if the roast isn't done by 1pm on the dot?
But the truth is, no one likes a Scrooge, and this year we wanted to see if it was possible to get into the Christmas spirit of things... or if this would backfire and we'd burn a Christmas tree out of spite.
So naturally, we locked ourselves in a room with three Christmas movies recommended to us by our Christmas-crazy coworkers and a bunch of what we assumed to be Christmassy decorations.
We ran to the nearest dollar store to grab the cheapest, smallest tree we could find, handfuls of tinsel and some candy canes. We decked our halls with Christmas hats, Christmas sunglasses... basically our Christmas cups ranneth over.
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