We're all now well and truly gearing up for the most wonderful time of the year.
This means that if you're anything like me, you're frantically scrabbling around in the dust trying to cobble together presents for your friends and family in a race against time you'll surely lose.
Why, oh why, do we never learn?
This bizarre video shows a spider spinning a web inside a woman's ear:But in the meantime, the festive season also brings with it all manner of tasty treats and tipples to help see us through the long, cold winter nights.
I'm thinking of eggnog, mulled wine, mince pies, yule log and the like.
However, one mom who had treated herself to a gingerbread herself was left with more than she bargained for when she found a huntsman spider inside the sealed box, complete with a sac of eggs.
Taking to Facebook, Katie Gompertz, who hails from Sydney, shared some pictures of the gargantuan spider. She wrote:
"Wait Woolworths this isn’t what I ordered?
"Only in Australia, only in #2020
"Buy a readymade gingerbread house they said, it’ll be easier than building one they said!
"Seriously I don’t say this often but: why me?"
Katie said in an interview that she first noticed a huge leg hanging down from the top of the packaging before taking a closer took and realizing it was a huntsman spider.
Woolworths, the supermarket she bought the festive treat from, has offered to replace the gingerbread house.
Meanwhile, a married man has taken to social media to ask if he is in the wrong for not giving up his marital bed for his visiting in-laws over Christmas.
"My wife feels that when her parents visit, with her dad being 60 and her mom 62, we should sleep on a blow-up bed and let them have our bed." He wrote on Reddit.
Some marriages are doomed from the get-go:"I feel that this is partly a bit weird, and also I don't see why I should give my bed up.
"Her parents don't like blowup beds and so usually end up staying in a hotel. Her dad says this is because of his back, but I mean he's still working full time in the building trade so he's hardly an invalid."
The man ends the post by explaining that his wife's parents have never asked to have their double bed, and that the "debate" is only between him and his wife, but as he writes:
"I get on really well with her family, and love visitors, but I just don't see why I should give up my bed!!"