Christmas eve is tomorrow and we couldn’t be more excited.
Many of us will have very different plans for tomorrow – some of us will have to work, others will be spending it with family or friends and many will be frantically preparing for the big day.
But one woman has taken to TikTok to share her strict Christmas Eve rules list and it’s got a lot of people talking.
The 23-year-old woman from New York has shared her rules list – there’s a whopping 17 rules and some are stricter than you might imagine.
She explained: “Welcome to my rules for Christmas Eve.
“Number 1, it’s an 8am wake-up. We do not have time to waste, we have a lot to get done in a day.
“Number 2, you’re going to get in that workout to all the holiday bangers – I’m talking All I Want For Christmas Is You, Christmas Baby Please Come Home, Underneath The Tree.
“Number 3, I don’t care if you’re not hosting Christmas Eve, you’ve got to go out and get a coffee and a pastry because the kitchen can’t get messy. Santa doesn’t want to see a messy kitchen.
“Number 4, you’re going to take a THE shower. You use all the products, body butter, bath oil.”
Next on the woman’s list, it’s all about getting in the festive spirit.
She continued: “Next up, take a Christmas song drive. That’s when all your siblings get in the car, drive around, look at the Christmas lights with Christmas music and put the window down and sing out loud.
“When you get back you’re gonna watch the 25 days of Christmas channel since you haven’t all season.”
And regardless of whether you’re staying in or going out, according to this woman, you need to get glammed up.
She added: “At 3:30pm Eastern time you’re going to get red carpet ready. I don’t care if you’re not leaving your house, I don’t care if you wear Christmas pajamas on Christmas Eve like my family does. I don’t care if you’re not doing anything at all, you need to look drop dead. You have never looked better. Steal your cousins’ Dyson Airwrap to do your hair.
“Because number 8 is a festive photo shoot motif with a blood relative – that just means whatever relative takes the best photo, get with them and get some pics of yourself.
“Next up at 4pm is the first glass of champagne. Toast to who, I don’t care, to you or Santa Clause.”
And the rules seem to get weirder as they continue…
She said: “Pretend to be a rich upper east side divorcee at dinner so that nobody bothers you.
“The boomerang rule just means that if someone comments on something that you don’t want them to comment on, like ‘why are you single?’, ‘did you gain some weight?’, just ask them the same question back. They’re going to be so uncomfortable.
“Count memories, not calories. This one goes without saying, you don’t want to miss out on this special time with your family, so count the memories, not the calories.
“Give somebody a gift the night before. I need to start giving gifts when the clock strikes 12am on Christmas Eve.
“It’s the champagne to red wine pipeline.
“If mass is a thing, it’s midnight or bust.
“Count how many suitors text you Merry Christmas on Christmas Eve. It’s so fun. All your crushes are going to get drunk.
“Finally, get funky. Get reckless with your cousin and then track Santa on the app.”
Clearly her Christmas Eve rules have got people talking as her video has racked up over 542.4k views.
It has 78k likes, 612 comments and 1,774 shares.
There were many TikTok users that were impressed with her rules.
One person said: “This is perfectly on point. I love it.”
Another added: “Love this.”
A third commented: “This makes me excited.”
However, there were many other TikTok users that will be working on Christmas Eve and therefore would not be following these rules.
One user commented: “I want to do this so bad but I work Christmas Eve.”
Another said: “Can we get realistic a version of this for people in retail who have to work until 10pm Christmas eve? or is that just me?”
A third added: “Babe I work at hospital none of these rules are able to be followed on Christmas eve so sorry.”
This story originally appeared on The Sun and was reproduced here with permission.
