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Daily Chat Tuesday 1st December - no chocolate before breakfast

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  • bank_of_slate
    bank_of_slate Posts: 12,922 Forumite
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    becky_rtw wrote: »
    See where as in my case it would be order, get man to deliver and bring inside, choose where to put decorations myself and then call to get man to collect after xmas :D

    My way's far more fun! :D
    ...Linda xx
    It's easy to give in to that negative voice that chants "cant do it" BUT we lift each other up.
    We dont count all the runners ahead of us & feel intimidated.
    Instead we look back proudly at our journey, our personal struggle & determination & remember that there are those that never even attempt to reach the starting line.
  • sammy115
    sammy115 Posts: 15,267 Forumite
    I go 'daughter - tree - now!' and my lights are built into the tree...:rotfl:
    Quality is doing something right when no one is looking - Henry Ford
  • sallyx
    sallyx Posts: 15,815 Forumite
    Bah humbug to the lot of you...thats what Christmas is all about ;):)
    I'll make a wish, take a chance, make a change And breakaway. I'll take a risk, take a chance, make a change and breakaway ....
    Finally Debt Free...
  • bookseller1980
    bookseller1980 Posts: 7,924 Forumite
    I don't have a man so my tree is in the garage.
    My adapters and extension leads are coiled up in thebox where I left them.
    You are now all making me want to put my tree up NOW!

    I havedone y daily allocation of paperwork :A so it's light the fire and PJ time methinks.

    Blooming washing everywhere.
  • Pooky
    Pooky Posts: 7,023 Forumite
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    edited 1 December 2009 at 5:49PM
    I remember when I was about 9 or 10 we got a new tree.....a green plastic jobbie with numbered branches and real plastic fur cones on it.....it was amazing....before that we'd had a silver tinsel one....It seems I was easily impressed back then.

    My parents kept that tree until last year......they had their monies worth.
    "Start every day off with a smile and get it over with" - W. C. Field.
  • cat4772
    cat4772 Posts: 2,467 Forumite
    hi guys

    flying viist as have to feed milk monster, feed cats, iron my skirt and top and get dressed ready for going out at 6pm to friends house for dinner:eek:! Must remember to pick wine up:beer: and grab desert and cream from fridge... I must... :confused:ach, crap it I can't remember what else I need to remember so that will be all.

    We have two plastic trees (one is 8ft and is so big the cats fight over where they're sititng and it takes up a quarter of the room, and the other is a slimline 6ft one). I'll put the slimline one up this year!

    Cat.x

    ps- friend at work texted to say she has a car parking permit which will save her £130 a month (she usually gets at least one parking ticket each week, so that less the cost of parking means big savings for her):T:j:T
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  • sammy115
    sammy115 Posts: 15,267 Forumite
    I set fire to my mum and dad's white one when I was taking it down one year.. I bravely put the fire out and then put it back in the box and they were none the wiser till the year after....:rotfl:

    Off to pick DD1 up now she is coming to stop the night with my little grandson....woo hoo....
    Quality is doing something right when no one is looking - Henry Ford
  • (Land_of)_Maz
    (Land_of)_Maz Posts: 11,738 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture
    i know! all this tree talk is making me want to do mine...!
    I'm just a seething mass of contradictions....
    (it's part of my charm!)
  • sallyx
    sallyx Posts: 15,815 Forumite
    ah it must be nice when nats comes to stay with the little man Sammy :)

    I want to put tree up too, think that will be Sundays job after ive recovered from friday night
    I'll make a wish, take a chance, make a change And breakaway. I'll take a risk, take a chance, make a change and breakaway ....
    Finally Debt Free...
  • bank_of_slate
    bank_of_slate Posts: 12,922 Forumite
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    I think we'll be getting our Christmas tree this weekend!
    We get it early because I take it down the day after Boxing Day, I can't stand trimmings to be up after Christmas.
    ...Linda xx
    It's easy to give in to that negative voice that chants "cant do it" BUT we lift each other up.
    We dont count all the runners ahead of us & feel intimidated.
    Instead we look back proudly at our journey, our personal struggle & determination & remember that there are those that never even attempt to reach the starting line.
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