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What was your biggest Xmas waste of money?
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Fireworks.
Me and my mates thought it would be clever to spend £25 each on fireworks (making up about £250). It seemed like a good idea, but considering how slow it is to light each firework, stand back, wait for the single one to finish, then light the next... It's really rubbish compared to a proper show.0 -
I'm too mean to waste money at Christmas. I set a budget, find out exactly what people want and buy it. All the food gets eaten and all the drinks drunk. However, it does all cost a small fortune and if I were broke I just wouldn't do it.0
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gloriouslyhappy wrote: »And while I'm on the subject of christmas trees - don't bother with a 'living tree', because it never survives beyond January or February, then you have this brown unattractive half-dead thing hanging around in a pot, hoping it might revive come spring - it doesn't.
WE bought one from B & Q a couple of days before Christmas, used it, took it to France before the New Year, and planted it straight away, two years later it is growing well, it's name is Bob, perhaps you should give your Christmas tree a name, make it feel loved.:j0 -
We bought MIL a fancy new whisk last year, it cost quite a lot and matched exactly with her new kitchen. She opened it and put it on the side, never got a thank you and didn't get a present in return. This year, she's getting a big o'pile of zilch!0
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Bath sets...well really isn't a waste but I always end up with cheap poundland stuff and I cant use it so it goes to charity. this year ive vowed anyone who buys me cheap bath stuff are getting it back for birthday/mothers day(mother inlaw always does it even tho I told her)0
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Food is the big one in our house - my wife loves to cook and loves to treat people so buys and cooks way too much food. About half gets wasted.
Then there's the impulse toy buys for the children. I don't mind how much we spend (to a limit!), but they way my wife does it means that she always ends up spending a little bit more on one child and then has to 'top up' the others. And then ends up spending as little more on a different child and starts topping up again!
The children don't know how much we've paid, so the question isn't how much we've spent but how much will they like the gifts - and those two are NOT directly linked.0 -
In our house it's the sweets/chocolates/biscuits
I always buy far too much even though every year, without fail, between us we get loads of it as presents... so we're eating it well into the middle of January. Every year I say "I'm not buying it next year, we always get given loads" but then the fear is there... what if no-one buys us any this year? :eek: What if we're left on Christmas Night with no Roses/Celebrations/M&S biscuits to tuck into? Christmas would be ruined, RUINED I tell you :eek:
It's not really a waste though as it does always get eaten or given away
What annoys me in regards to waste of money is crap presents. We all get them, the ones where you know the giver has just grabbed the first random item they've seen with no thought at all
It's not the money spent, no way, it's the thought isn't it? Or lack there of... You can't control everything in life....... your hair was put on your head to remind you of that
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Hotsparkle bought his MIL a whisk!!
I'm afraid I really hate getting presents that are obviously for the house - no matter how nice they are! I'm not a house I'm a person!!!
My husband bought a vase for our first Christmas together - he's had to buy flowers to go in it every week since!!
Now I'm afraid I say "How lovely, the house will love these!"
I even got a toilet brush one year - you can image how that went down - 1998 is forever known as the year of the toilet brush!0 -
hgotsparkle wrote: »We bought MIL a fancy new whisk last year, it cost quite a lot and matched exactly with her new kitchen. She opened it and put it on the side, never got a thank you and didn't get a present in return. This year, she's getting a big o'pile of zilch!
I'm not getting my MIL a present either. I bought her a coffin last year and the selfish cow hasn't used that yet.Liverpool is one of the wonders of Britain,
What it may grow to in time, I know not what.
Daniel Defoe: 1725.
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Hear hear, Physicsfiend!
I told OH that if he bought me pans for Christmas, then I would personally wrap them round his ears, Christmas or not..... and that went for any other household items, too I want perfume and choccies and nice underwear as presents, not pots and pans and irons!
And I make that a rule for everyone else I buy a present for, too, UNLESS it is a household item that they have specifically asked if I would mind buying for them.Sealed Pot Challenge no 035.
Fashion on the Ration - 26/66 ( 5 - shoes, 3 - bra, 13 - 2 pairs of shoes and another bra, 5- t-shirt)0
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