The C word

Just a heads up people, you only have 146 shopping day to Christmas.:lollol::gnthb:

 

Dai, are you bored:D

 

Doesn't Sion Corn, the Welsh Father Christmas, wear green? I'm hoping he's into recycling and has a hatred of consumerism. That way I can tell my family that I'm just going back to an old Celtic tradition of giving them nothing at all, except maybe a Yule log. :rotfl:

 

Not at all Pete, just thought I`d give you English folk something to look forward to after the World Cup fiasco.:lollol::lollol::lollol:

 

Yes it was a fiasco you're right.

Tell me?..........how far did Wales get?:wink:

 

Well, it would be funny Dai, if the whole thing wasn't so awful.
I believe some of the supermarkets are already getting geared up for Christmas. Just awful.
I have always refused to do anything about it before my birthday - end of November.
Can we just ignore it until then ?????????????????

 

Misleading thread does not deliver.

I had my cuss words all ready for you David.

 

Such a load of rubbish, don't you think? Why are otherwise sane people compelled to go and buy a whole load of tat which no one really wants, most of which ends up in the landfill? A few years back I decided that I wasn't going to buy bucketloads of presents any more. My husband's family is huge, and it had all got a bit out of hand. This has never been a problem to my parents in law, who, despite being quite well off, are happy to buy their gifts from Poundland if necessary :hehe:(and indeed cross out the greetings in cards and reuse them - they were avid 'greens' long before the term was invented :D), but I don't see the point of giving a present unless it is worth having. And we were beginning to need an articulated lorry to take our haul home. Why not just have a festive drink and call it a day? So I simply stopped getting stuff - and told people not to buy for us. Anyone would have thought that I was making bombs in the spare room, rather than downsizing on gift-giving. We are now banished to the 'games room' (a large garden shed) while the all-important garbage-swap takes place. :flag:

I don't feel guilty, however. A few years back when my boys were small, we bundled them and about a hundredweight of presents/food into the car to spend Christmas day with the in-laws at their insistence. We arrived to find that a few people had cancelled and, as a result, Christmas dinner was, well .... off! :(It wasn't worth cooking a big turkey just for us. Peace, goodwill to all men and roll on Twelfth Night. :hehe:

 

I used to be in Decorating and Joinery. the week before Christmas I used to get timber and fittings in stock and Boxing day I started making up cupboard units for jobs. Aim to get finished two weeks after Christmas, when the customers were OK for me to start decorating.

Just a laugh: I received a post card after Christmas one year, saying "We're going away for the holiday, see you to decorate a room when we come back". I duly went round after Christmas, rang the bell to be met with a puzzled customer. Told her about the post card, to which she said "That was last May, for the room you did in June". The local sorting office had had a clear-up after Christmas and that post card was found and put in the post.

 

Pete, we KNOW we are not good enough, unlike the overpaid, underachieving poseurs who represent England. They have no pride in the shirt they should be honoured to wear.:lollol::lollol::gnthb:

 

The trouble IS Dai, when we show pride, others just say we're arrogant, so there's no winning.

 

You ain't alone Shiney, I don't do Christmas either :snz: are there any more
scrooge types on here :hehe:

Pete Humbug!!