Messed up things about Christmas you only notice as an adult

Let's begin with a disclaimer: Christmas is a magical time. It's cozy, it's exciting, it's full of family and friends and gifts and drinking and trees and lights and all sorts of other awesome things. Christmas, as a child, is even better. It's full of all that stuff (except the drinking, obviously), but if you're lucky, you never know the dark side to it all. Yes, there's a macabre underbelly to the festive season, and it only takes one bad year to demonstrate that to you — it can be exhausting, stressful, dramatic, expensive and even downright dangerous, but it's only as you enter your adult years that you really come to realize this. Grip your nostalgia tight because these grim little quirks will have you yearning for December to end in no time at all.