My Christmas hell.

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  • Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
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  • @CaptainJY01
    @CaptainJY01 Год назад +326

    Don’t forget the joyous task of vacuuming every single pine needle as it slowly dies.

  • @arigvi101
    @arigvi101 Год назад +139

    You forgot to mention the best part: Putting all the decorations back in the box while trying to figure out how you fit all of it into the same box.

    • @rezopolis
      @rezopolis Год назад +3

      FACTSSSSSSSSSSSS

    • @dr.gwendolyncarter5048
      @dr.gwendolyncarter5048 Год назад +4

      My Christmas tree stays up year round. It took too much work to decorate, so I just push it into a tucked away corner after Christmas and bring back out for Christmas.

  • @claremiller9979
    @claremiller9979 Год назад +53

    It's not Christmas until the tree has fallen on your head at least once while you try to get it straight.

  • @dwntomylstbraincell
    @dwntomylstbraincell Год назад +49

    My dad gave up on christmas trees, so we jsut made it a tradition to find random objects to decorate instead, couple years ago it was a toy skeleton, last year we had a inflatable palm tree, not sure what we are going to have this year, but my dad suggested the fridge.

    • @sakurakhadag
      @sakurakhadag Год назад +10

      This sounds like a fun tradition

    • @missnaomi613
      @missnaomi613 Год назад +4

      This is brilliant!

    • @annettescott5884
      @annettescott5884 Год назад +1

      Love this idea! My chiropractor has a full size skeleton in his treatment room, which he decked out with tinsel last year - made my day!

  • @theweyrd
    @theweyrd Год назад +74

    I remember your videos running after toddler no 1, you haven’t aged AT ALL but the kids are like almost moving out?! What who when why?! 🤣

    • @HowtoDad
      @HowtoDad  Год назад +93

      I’m running on Botox and plastic surgery. The hair is a wig and the beard is painted on.

    • @karanfield4229
      @karanfield4229 Год назад

      @@HowtoDad Oprah says, "if you're black, you don't Crack!" 🥰 yes, you haven't aged AT ALL . 👶

    • @yt-viewerfromger320
      @yt-viewerfromger320 Год назад +3

      @@karanfield4229 The 3 young girls keep him young..!
      By the way: "It's always the girls who keep a man young, isn't it..?"

    • @linley-jane7878
      @linley-jane7878 Год назад

      @@HowtoDad 😂

    • @Zhrothgar
      @Zhrothgar Год назад +2

      Hes an elf so he ages more slowly :D

  • @NfernalMilkshake
    @NfernalMilkshake Год назад +142

    Wow. The scene when he's lifting his daughter up to put the tree on? It's amazing how natural that red makeup looks for that scene.

  • @ava198
    @ava198 Год назад +82

    Hope you all have a lovely Christmas .. he'll be alright 👍

  • @egalitarian-rex
    @egalitarian-rex Год назад +31

    Troubleshooting Christmas lights rule # 1; The very last bulb you check is the one keeping the whole lot from working.

    • @ankavoskuilen1725
      @ankavoskuilen1725 Год назад +7

      And the stupidiest thing is: Everybody know this but no one ever starts to check the last light first!
      😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @linley-jane7878
      @linley-jane7878 Год назад +7

      @@ankavoskuilen1725 my rule of thumb is to check the lights before you put them on the tree. 😆

    • @PS-bs8oe
      @PS-bs8oe Год назад +1

      @@linley-jane7878 yeah, but then...you're made of Mother material, not of how to Dad stuff that still has to figure it out ...every year all over again🤣

    • @linley-jane7878
      @linley-jane7878 Год назад

      @@ankavoskuilen1725 🤣😂 funny 😂🤣 I'm just a practical thinker no mother here. 😆

    • @user-uj6sc7ls9y
      @user-uj6sc7ls9y Год назад +4

      The reason it's always the last one you check is because once you've found it, you stop looking.

  • @jackieann5494
    @jackieann5494 Год назад +19

    😅😅😂😂🤣
    You brighten my life , bring me laughter and warm my heart .
    Thank you for sharing bits of your life with us .
    It blesses me ❤

  • @timeenuf4200
    @timeenuf4200 Год назад +15

    Almost brought a tear to my eye. So cute.

  • @EarthCybebe
    @EarthCybebe Год назад +6

    His mockumentary comedy is on par with What We Do in the Shadows (the movie not the show)! He just nails that awkward suffering so well without the 2nd hand embarrassment
    I'm so glad I found this channel! :D

    • @angela_somanythings5670
      @angela_somanythings5670 Год назад

      Good description 😉 I just found this channel the other day, and I find it excellent humor!!

  • @stevet6975
    @stevet6975 Год назад +9

    Is one of those babies the one that got released into the wilderness and fought through the wilderness?

    • @HowtoDad
      @HowtoDad  Год назад +13

      Yep- she annoyingly found her way home.

    • @ShipCreek
      @ShipCreek Год назад +2

      @@HowtoDad check her pockets next time. Those pebbles have to stay at home.🤣👍

    • @LindaC616
      @LindaC616 Год назад

      @@ShipCreek she was nekkid when he released her! 😄

  • @Serendipideemusic
    @Serendipideemusic Год назад +13

    Least you’ve got your Christmas tree up. Mine normally goes up a few days before Christmas after procrastinating for most of December. Merry Christmas!

    • @NfernalMilkshake
      @NfernalMilkshake Год назад +3

      Last year I had to wrestle someone in the mud for the last tree in the lot the day before christmas.

    • @Serendipideemusic
      @Serendipideemusic Год назад +2

      @@NfernalMilkshake I have reused the same plastic one for the past 14 years because I’m too lazy to go and get a real one lol.

    • @p.maryyayabear7078
      @p.maryyayabear7078 Год назад +1

      I put my real tree up on Dec.20. Then keep it up until Feb.1. It helps my winter blues.

  • @UKball24
    @UKball24 Год назад +17

    Hahaha 🤣. Your videos are amazing. Lots of love from New Zealand 🇳🇿

  • @cerealkiillar
    @cerealkiillar Год назад +3

    It's that look, like at the end? That moment in the eyes, so very Chaplinesque, that tug the heart into sighs and giggles all at once. 💖

  • @catherinekamoen6685
    @catherinekamoen6685 Год назад +2

    I just love you I needed this laugh your look at the end is priceless 😂

  • @prettypic444
    @prettypic444 Год назад +1

    My family "loves" our tradition of getting rashes/allergy attacks from either pollen/mold/whatever from a real tree or the dust/chemicals from an artificial one

  • @do-hyunkim5270
    @do-hyunkim5270 Год назад +15

    Lol love your videos. They always get me. I wish you and your family a lovely Merry Christmas mate!👍🏻

  • @kellywalker7127
    @kellywalker7127 Год назад +4

    Merry Christmas, so much truth packed into this video! The kids are getting so big. It all works out as I am sure they love every minute they spend with you. Even the video parts.

  • @johnnimbus8761
    @johnnimbus8761 Год назад +9

    As they get older it's easier to bend the top of the tree down...😰

  • @ghostlyrose8946
    @ghostlyrose8946 Год назад +2

    Yes, hay fever at Christmas time is real! Spending the whole Christmas season sneezing and rubbing your eyes! Now as an adult, I've switched to artificial trees. It's not worth the month of pain to me. But I have a childhood of memories of hay fever Christmases!

  • @richardwalling845
    @richardwalling845 Год назад +4

    That clip is universal; happens in probably every household that celebrates Christmas in the US!

  • @user-uj6sc7ls9y
    @user-uj6sc7ls9y Год назад +1

    I think my dad would get the tree the same way you did. A scraggly little thing would just kind of magically appear in the living room a week before Christmas. _Really_ scraggly. He might just have snuck into the back of someone's place and nicked that, or asked someone local if they had one too scraggly to sell, come to think of it.
    I did always enjoy the ceremony of untangling the garlands and testing the lights, though. And the tree was never tall enough that we needed a lift to put the star on top.

  • @SuperSonic3557
    @SuperSonic3557 Год назад

    1:30 this expression 😂😂 i can't 🤣

  • @jimread2354
    @jimread2354 Год назад

    I have a trick for the lights: I find the section that's off, I unplug the string, throw it away, buy a new string and now that section works again!

  • @ickleronny
    @ickleronny Год назад

    Very very relatable. 😂 My little 2 year old niece took over the tree decorating, and it's like this.

  • @happydays3678
    @happydays3678 Год назад +1

    Priceless!! Our house exactly when my three were growing up. 🤣🤣 Have a fantastic Christmas! ☺😘

  • @gene108
    @gene108 Год назад

    I so badly want to spend Christmas in Australia or New Zealand, when summer is just starting, the days are long, and the weather’s warm, as opposed to the cold and dark I experience every year.

  • @pvt.prinny759
    @pvt.prinny759 Год назад

    The absurdity of getting a christmas tree in shorts and a t-shirt, greetings from the snowy hellscape of Finland

  • @gravy1219
    @gravy1219 Год назад

    Fuck me 0:37 is way too relatable, you missed out the part when you have multiple kids "why does kid 1 get to do the top of the tree" "dont worry you can do it next year" and then next year you cant remember which kid did it last year, oh and lets not forget when the feral child/cat knocks the whole tree over and you facepalm into another universe

  • @jesuslove2139
    @jesuslove2139 Год назад +1

    How adorable! Also I am fascinated by how kiwis find a new real tree every year to celebrate christmas. Here we just buy a fake one and re use it every year😅

  • @thewkovacs316
    @thewkovacs316 Год назад +4

    do you guys have to import the pine trees?
    and what is it like doing xmas in the middle of summer

  • @phobos258
    @phobos258 Год назад

    at 1:10 when talking about turning the lights on you flipped the switch down, further proving everything is upside down on that half of the world.

  • @martamarin8688
    @martamarin8688 Год назад +1

    Camón dad I'm by your side, ❤️❤️❤️Happy Christmas from Madrid 😂😂

  • @danielleking262
    @danielleking262 Год назад

    I've had my own frustration with the tree lights going out this year!!! Threw one strand in the trash and swore I am getting brand new ones this year, lol

  • @BenTheSkipper
    @BenTheSkipper Год назад

    If an event/holiday unites members of a family, then I think it's a good and beautiful thing.

  • @penciler38
    @penciler38 Год назад

    I just love the....
    ...way he paused every other sentence.

  • @noedlesoup
    @noedlesoup Год назад

    You have SUCH different types (breeds) of Christmas trees over there from Europe. Makes sense but it caught me by surprise for some reason 😅

  • @LayllasLocker
    @LayllasLocker Год назад +3

    Step 1 - Have a planted one or a fake tree. I choose fake, way easier to maintain. :D
    Step 2 - I don't have kids, so I do it all alone, just as I want it. No picking up the kids, etc. Way easier and prettier, but less cute and cheerful I guess. XD
    Step 3 - WATCH for cats, because they tend to ruin the tree.
    Step 4 - keep it for at least 2 months, so the effort has some payoff! XD Dec + Jan are "tree up" months! :D

  • @adriannegentleman83
    @adriannegentleman83 Год назад +1

    Merry Christmas to you and all your family, have a lovely christmas

  • @SALESPRODUCTIONS
    @SALESPRODUCTIONS Год назад

    At least she didn't say " It's Yucky ! "
    - one of my favorite moments

  • @pandaLearns
    @pandaLearns Год назад +3

    It will be all'ight.

    • @LindaC616
      @LindaC616 Год назад

      In Kiwi: "she'll be right"

  • @TWolf317
    @TWolf317 Год назад

    Merry Christmas!

  • @SkyKin
    @SkyKin Год назад

    The Expectational Story The Reality (Kekw) Bloody relatable, christmas treea can be a struggle, least most pull through to get the work done. Great work 👌 May your family enjoy & have Memorable Holidays, Keep it up & Stay Safe Guys 🎄 😎 👊

  • @TheAnti-Hero.
    @TheAnti-Hero. Год назад

    He forgot to say "No dad was harmed in the making of this video."

  • @user-ym3zj7xx8e
    @user-ym3zj7xx8e Год назад

    Господи, Рождество в тепле и без снега! 🌲

  • @TheCruisingKiwis
    @TheCruisingKiwis Год назад

    Makes me miss home.

  • @Rdwrer
    @Rdwrer Год назад +3

    HaHa! Love it

  • @PS-bs8oe
    @PS-bs8oe Год назад

    You ré star on anyone's xmas tree, especially on mine, as I haven't got one ;)))

  • @llanqxi2188
    @llanqxi2188 Год назад

    I understand your pain brother.

  • @donnaj.1634
    @donnaj.1634 Год назад

    🤣🤣🤣and next year, and next year 😮

  • @Daniel_Palmqvist
    @Daniel_Palmqvist Год назад +3

    Amazing 👍

  • @twistedsister2568
    @twistedsister2568 Год назад +1

    Schoolboy error!!! C’mon how to Dad, everyone knows you have to try the lights before you put em on the tree. Maybe you just need a bit more Dadding experience and looks of shame and disgust from the kids to remember that 😂

  • @dejazO0
    @dejazO0 Год назад +1

    nice mockumentry

  • @vi2623
    @vi2623 Год назад

    Loved this!!! Omg. Sooooo true!!! 😆🤣😂👍🏻🎄🎅

  • @akibabe09
    @akibabe09 Год назад

    Reminds me of a griswald xmas here 😄😄✨✨🎄😄😄

  • @hala9175
    @hala9175 Год назад

    Oh so magical!
    I prefer Halloween.🎃🦇

  • @linam764
    @linam764 Год назад +3

    Brilliant! 😂🤣 Merry Christmas from frosty Norway ❤️❄️🎄

  • @catherinereynolds9644
    @catherinereynolds9644 Год назад

    good times☮️💜✨

  • @SM-yy2vg
    @SM-yy2vg Год назад

    Thanks dad, I needed a good laugh this morning. ❤

  • @leonkennedy4137
    @leonkennedy4137 Год назад

    Did anybody ever tolds you you look like Dwayne the rock Johnson?
    Great channel btw 👍

  • @genevieve4202
    @genevieve4202 Год назад

    Now this is REAL

  • @angelirohival6270
    @angelirohival6270 Год назад

    This guy is always funny!

  • @tx4773
    @tx4773 Год назад

    We have cats... so it's even more joyful

  • @alioth7403
    @alioth7403 Год назад +1

    Dude you look so much like Luisito Comunica. He's one of the top RUclipss and he travels the world. Get him to go to NZ and do a video collab with him.

  • @willyou8622
    @willyou8622 Год назад

    "i'M A TREE!!!!"

  • @thomaskneisel1854
    @thomaskneisel1854 Год назад

    To spice up the tree time, try to put it to the ceiling 😅 Merry Christmas!

  • @tokajileo5928
    @tokajileo5928 Год назад

    it is strange , in Hungary we do this on dec 24 not before. no xmas tree before that.

  • @user-fg4tw5gc9c
    @user-fg4tw5gc9c Год назад

    Thank you for drivin all my pain away 😂

  • @ribread9501
    @ribread9501 Год назад

    Don't forget the lovely joys of taking DOWN the Christmas tree (:

  • @patricklavoie8719
    @patricklavoie8719 Год назад

    Yeah almost all my light strings decided to die this year lol

  • @theadaptationstationmaster
    @theadaptationstationmaster Год назад

    Loving the homemade ornaments.

  • @grokeffer6226
    @grokeffer6226 Год назад +1

    😊❤👍🎅🌲

  • @shibanjanghosh6229
    @shibanjanghosh6229 Год назад

    Keeping up with the Dad-ashians

  • @kbluv4078
    @kbluv4078 Год назад +2

    Hahhahaha

  • @wohnzimmerlieder9691
    @wohnzimmerlieder9691 Год назад +1

    🤣🤣🤣❣️

  • @annyevharis
    @annyevharis Год назад

    Best wishes from Poland 💕

  • @LopsideMakes
    @LopsideMakes Год назад

    You allergic to it? I’m allergic to a bunch of seasonal stuffs around my neighborhood, so in winter I always have watery eyes and a stuffy nose. :(

  • @That_BodybuilderChickNZ
    @That_BodybuilderChickNZ Год назад +2

    nice video

  • @Matagu1
    @Matagu1 Год назад

    I will never understand familys who are willing to lose money all the time for a real tree, instead an old plastic/metallic one where you can put every year on your room. Waste of money.

    • @linley-jane7878
      @linley-jane7878 Год назад +1

      In New Zealand pine trees don't cost that much. Mostly people use them for a fundraiser for a school or extra curricular activities.
      But 9x out of ten you're more likely to know someone or someone who knows someone that will give you a branch of an already established tree especially if you are in a rural district. So then the tree will continue to live. ☺️
      I have known people to plant a pine tree in a large pot and bring that inside every year to decorate.

    • @LindaC616
      @LindaC616 Год назад +1

      @@linley-jane7878 I know of an animal sanctuary that does that

    • @theadaptationstationmaster
      @theadaptationstationmaster Год назад

      Then why don't you get a fake lawn? I mean you have to mow all Summer, but the tree is only for a month or so.

  • @Dylanos
    @Dylanos Год назад

    Hilarious

  • @harrya0113
    @harrya0113 Год назад

    Have a lovely holiday.

  • @cherylanneholland7423
    @cherylanneholland7423 Год назад

    🤣🌲

  • @angelirohival6270
    @angelirohival6270 Год назад

    To those girls, Christmas is perfect because they spend time with their dad! Oh, and don’t leave out Jesus. He’s the reason w celebrate Christmas to begin with!

    • @missnaomi613
      @missnaomi613 Год назад +1

      I don't celebrate Christmas, but I agree with you! 🙏❤️

  • @patriciachippendale2022
    @patriciachippendale2022 Год назад

    🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🐨❤🎄🎄🎄

  • @ProductionKidsAWESOME
    @ProductionKidsAWESOME Год назад

    Yep new video wuooo

  • @mayanksingh0044
    @mayanksingh0044 Год назад

    million plus subs yet just 41k views thats sad

  • @helenatremblay4019
    @helenatremblay4019 Год назад

    🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤩

  • @sketchycat6223
    @sketchycat6223 Год назад

    Such girl dad energy lol

  • @emanjabadi307
    @emanjabadi307 Год назад

    I hope you become Muslims and enjoy both Eid Al Fitr and Eid Al Adha

  • @ecarghtiaf
    @ecarghtiaf Год назад

    um why do u need subtitles now

  • @emiljavier6163
    @emiljavier6163 Год назад

    Buy new lights.

    • @agerven
      @agerven Год назад +2

      You'll have to, because the spare bulbs that are available this year, don't fit the ones of last year. Merry Christmas to y'all!

    • @linley-jane7878
      @linley-jane7878 Год назад

      @@agerven😧 😮😲😱
      Typical marketing. It's not as if Christmas is expensive. 🤦

  • @UwU........
    @UwU........ Год назад

    First 🥇

    • @telekomanda8434
      @telekomanda8434 Год назад

      second....

    • @TT-lu4wx
      @TT-lu4wx Год назад

      Fourth! 4 (:
      Merry Christmas bro! Hope you and your family have a lovely holiday!
      Also what’s Christmas without being stressed? Lol

    • @emiljavier6163
      @emiljavier6163 Год назад +1

      981

  • @leezlvontrapp
    @leezlvontrapp Год назад +1

    Hello there. 👋🏼 Unsure if anyone has notified you as of yet, but Australians strongly approve of How to Dad. 🇦🇺✌🏼🦘We will even contain the Dropbears should you decide to pop over here sometime. 🐨🧟‍♂️Yeah nah -as for the lights, truck me sideways! 🧐 I’ve no real idea homie, but I reckon she’ll be right. 👍🏼

  • @Polaris_Babylon
    @Polaris_Babylon Год назад

    Merry Christmas!