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The best photos from 10 years of people sharing strange spare rooms where they spend Christmas

🎄🛏️ @rhodri inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyl…

@rhodri From 44-year-old men sleeping in Peppa Pig bedspreads to adults wondering if they’ll be crushed by piles of jigsaw puzzles collapsing overnight... 🧩

📷 The Christmas photos people share with @rhodri are a now annual ritual

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@rhodri It’s a decade since @rhodri invited people to share pictures of their family’s spare rooms where they were spending Christmas Night 📷🎄

https://twitter.com/RebeccaJ/status/1473225902901411840?s=20

@rhodri From these small beginnings sprouted a social media behemoth now known as #duvetknowitschristmas 🛏️

@rhodri's Christmas Eve is now dominated by this thing.

https://twitter.com/rhodri/status/150736864658194432?s=20

@rhodri "From 8pm or so, I start to sift through the hundreds of pictures of people’s sleeping arrangements that pile up in my timeline, some of them gaudy, some austere, some claustrophobic, but all undeniably festive." 🎄 @rhodri

https://twitter.com/SeanWHughes/status/283374706747379713?s=20

@rhodri "They’re now as much a part of my Christmas as the Charlie Brown Christmas album and indigestion tablets." 🎅 @rhodri

https://twitter.com/alexandra_wall/status/415655748304400384?s=20

@rhodri "It’s also a proper window into the lives of other people. These pictures feature things that even visiting guests would never normally get to see, because we’d make an effort to tidy up for those guys." 👀 @rhodri

https://twitter.com/FranksMildYears/status/547870727764860928?s=20

@rhodri Pictures range from rooms piled with jigsaws, old electronics, paperbacks and general tat..,

To grown adults sleeping under fairy princess bedspreads 👸

https://twitter.com/IsSheFiona/status/547903676481028096?s=20

@rhodri 🎄🛏️ @rhodri says while the TV broadcasts adverts depicting various idealised versions of the perfect holiday scene

#duvetknowitschristmas is there to remind us that our own imperfect, lop-sided Christmases are just as special. If not more so.

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