christmas is coming, poor families, christmas and credit

nightwatchman

Sod the Christmas…. be cheapskate.
Tell your brats that now you are a Satan worshiper, and if they ever pester you for presents you will obliged to sacrifice one of them during the witching hour at the night of 25th of December.
That will keep them on their toes.

PasturesNew

I remember the Xmases of my youth.

We'd go to Woolies and buy a bag of broken biscuits - deep joy.
We'd actually have some bottles of fizzy Corona pop in the house - I was always in awe of the boy over the road whose family bought one bottle every week, not just at Xmas.
One nan would send us a new pair of soft pyjamas every year.
The other nan would give us a cheap, plastic, naked doll from the market (odd that as we had no dolls clothes to put on them as all we ever got was one naked doll a year... so we pulled the arms/legs off, drew on their face and that was it for another year).
We'd get a present from our parents. I remember one year a watch, another year I remember Monopoly.

We always seemed to have a pack of dates and a pack of those orange/lemon sugared slices.

Xmas was great!

nightwatchman

Christmas was horror.
Dad use to buy a week before Christmas a live turkey from the farmer.
We kept it in the bath……. the ugliest bird you could possible imaging.
It was reeking of a putrid poultry smell & was pooing all over the bathroom floor tiles.
When you are 3 years old a turkey is towering over you and looks like an evil demon.
During the time the turkey was lodging in our bath I was not dare to go in the loo at night for a number 1 (or number 2 as mater of fact) I was in agony.
I felt grate relive and joy when my dad lobed its little head off, at last the loo was not a no go zone.
The best memory was when it broke free & run heedless around the kitchen spluttering blood everyware. Mom was furious.
I informed my parents that if I they ever decapitated me I would do the same.

inspector_monkfish

bendix wrote: »

Can I play? I earn megabucks, have a home and most of the trappings.

Oh, and I have the love of a good woman.

Do I win?

he still lives with his Mum, bless......

inspector_monkfish

SingleSue wrote: »

Oh my, I am so embarrassed now...I thought Lemonjelly was female!

I've now got to start reading his posts with a male voice in my mind and not a female one.....

she is female

tek-monkey

inspector_monkfish wrote: »

oh, you've gone and spoilt your surprise now..

Damnit! Don't want it now

MRSTITTLEMOUSE

PasturesNew wrote: »

I remember the Xmases of my youth.

We'd go to Woolies and buy a bag of broken biscuits - deep joy.
We'd actually have some bottles of fizzy Corona pop in the house - I was always in awe of the boy over the road whose family bought one bottle every week, not just at Xmas.
One nan would send us a new pair of soft pyjamas every year.
The other nan would give us a cheap, plastic, naked doll from the market (odd that as we had no dolls clothes to put on them as all we ever got was one naked doll a year... so we pulled the arms/legs off, drew on their face and that was it for another year).
We'd get a present from our parents. I remember one year a watch, another year I remember Monopoly.

We always seemed to have a pack of dates and a pack of those orange/lemon sugared slices.

Xmas was great!

That's the kind of childhood Christmas I remember too.
I think the best Christmas's ever were the ones when we were realy skint (when we first got married)and the kids were tiny.We'd have to save for months and by the time Christmas came you realy appreciated what you had even if it was'nt very much.
Nowadays we don't celebrate Christmas,we shut our doors after delivering our gifts on Christmas Eve and spend a few days peace and quiet just the two of us with not a mince pie in sight.

lostinrates

LOL, I remember the fizzy drink being a highlight too. My father always had the first glass of ''pop''...I think he was as excited about that as I was.

When did it change that people had fizzy drinks all the time? Its sad...nothing special about them. I'm not even keen on fizzy soft drinks really...unless they are mixers...:D

The_White_Horse

Despite having no money, i will spend loads on presents and turkeys, and then I will join the debt board, where everyone will pat me on the back for being in debt.

Remember, no one is in debt because they spent too much on unneccesary consumer goods - its because of medical problems and/or job losses every time.

Its also true that all public sector workers are teachers and nurses. and not one is a non-job waste of space and money.

inspector_monkfish

lostinrates wrote: »

When did it change that people had fizzy drinks all the time?

I blame Alcopops!