Ask any MSEer and they'll recommend cancelling Xmas...

Out,_Vile_Jelly

Loughton_Monkey wrote: »

Incidentally, anyone from Birmingham area?

Last I heard they don't have "Christmas" there any year. It would upset the non-Christians. They replaced it with "Winter Festival".

Tabloid myth.

All the stuff that I love about Christmas is free;

- fairy lights everywhere
- nice smells (spices, fir trees, satsumas etc)
- cheesy Crimbo songs on the radio
- reassuringly !!!!!! telly

Christmas is only expensive if you can't say no to your whining spawn. My parents never had a problem in this regard. My bestest ever present was a Sindy horse which my mum bought second hand for a fiver.

FTBFun

amcluesent wrote: »

Anyone looking at the household budget will have to conclude that Yuletide jollity must be cancelled this year as an austerity measure.

Lets look at the facts -

1) Petrol, gas and lecky going up and up, loads of peeps coming off fixed rate deals getting clobbered
2) Clothing will be going up next year after the cotton harvest failure
3) Food shooting up in price
4) Train prices up by 6% on 1st Jan for commuters, more for off-peak
5) Mortgages bound to go up in 2011 as base rate comes off 0.5%
6) Wage freezes, overtime bans still in place
7) Tax changes already announced hit on 6th April
8) Pensions only going up by CPI not RPI
9) £ has collapsed, so European breaks cost a bundle even before the hike in Ryanair tickets
10) PLUS, of course, VAT up 2.5% on 1st Jan

10 reasons why we will all be poorer in 2011 and, regrettably, the children will have to be told that Santa has died.

I think most MSEer's will be the last ones to worry about cancelling Xmas, as they'll be using this site to "save" "money" with the help of an "expert".

9) £ has collapsed, so European breaks cost a bundle even before the hike in Ryanair tickets

I have a return flight to Madrid in a week costing me £21 all in.

amcluesent

Tighten your belts for Christmas: Bank boss warns Britons face soaring living costs as bill hikes and VAT rise begin to bite

Families have been warned they will have less to spend in the run-up to Christmas this year as a quadruple-whammy of economic forces push inflation to around 3.5 per cent.

FACT - Good to see BoE Governor Mervyn King is agreeing with me. Does he read MSE?