I spend every Christmas with my mother. She normally tries to make the Christmas vacation as loveable as she can. But occasionally things go in a not-so-good way. Every Christmas starting with 2007, I pick something that I ask to be made better the following Christmas, and I always ask politely without getting upset:
2007: I went to a buffet.
2008: There were hundreds of bags in the garage and I hurt my foot.
2009: Like pre-2008 times in my mother's house but unlike Christmas 2008, I had to go up into the boring attic to sleep, rather than a special mattress in the office room.
2010: I got an aisle seat in the airplane, making it more difficult to get a view of what's outside.
2011: My mother called a song out loud while making a list of Christmas songs for me to play on the piano.
2012: The fish room in the basement was occupied by a pair of loud caged birds; they were cockatiel birds.
*2013: My mother and grandmother did an Ohio River bridge walk and I couldn't go because I left for Georgia early.
2014: Instead of going to the "Lights Under Louisville" cave, with many beautiful Christmas lights, I went into a neighborhood in Jeffersontown where the lights were very sparse.
2015: Whereas the other upstairs bathrooms of the house were nice and new, I still had the same dirty old bathroom that I used to have.
2016: Popcorn hurt one of my teeth; the way this was resolved was by having Cheerios replace popcorn as my Christmas snack.
**2017: My computer got very dirty.
2018: On September 3, my mother was injured badly in a car accident. For about a month, she was at a hospital. After a while, she started taking occupational therapy and physical therapy sessions. The former is about her hands, and the negatives are that her hands were not totally better, that she had to sleep in the living room, and that she couldn't drive.
***2019: We couldn't do a Christmas hike because of my mother's wheelchair; now she has a terrain wheelchair so that she can go on hikes in the woods.
2020: My mother drank 2 glasses of alcohol at the first Christmas dinner we had.
2021: My mother had a nice boat parade just before I came.
2022; The vacation was reduced to its traditional duration; 2021's was extended to early 2022.
2023: My mother took a walk with her dog Joe one morning but left me behind.
2024: All the noodles that are for playing with in the pool were worn out.
*Initially, I wanted to pick the cabin known as "Dream Wheelin'" having a gravel driveway as Christmas 2013's negative. It turned out to be a bad choice because there was an actual REASON for it to be made of gravel. However, a few years later my mother bought a new cabin, "Drift Away", which had a pavement driveway, and I had a summer vacation in 2019 where I got to go there. This can be called "The Lost Negative".
**Although this is consistent with the usual rule in that I'm the one whose point of view the consideration of it to be negative, I had to be flexible and consider something that uses somebody else's point of view (either JT or David is an acceptable answer to this question) and this is David not showing up.
***Initially, I wanted to pick the fact that a fox killed all of my mother's Rhode Island Red chickens as Christmas 2019's negative. This was defeated by the fact that coronavirus closed the stores.