The Definitive Top 20 Worst Christmas Songs Ever Are you having a merry Christmas? No, neither are we. Merry Christmas. Humbug! But what is the worst thing about Christmas? Having to spend the entire day with your family and pretending you are enjoying it? No, that can actually be OK sometimes, just as long as it's just one day a year. OK, how about the seemingly endless hours spent shopping for presents your ungrateful loved ones didn't want in the first place? Nope. How about receiving the kind of presents even the most desperate Third World orphan would turn its nose up at? Not even close.