Which Year was YOUR Best Xmas?

Out,_Vile_Jelly

The one where me, my best mate and her sister all got roller skates was pretty good. They were purple with yellow wheels because it was in the 80s.

SingleSue

I really don't know, I know I haven't had a decent Christmas since my marriage went down the tubes as there were so many happy memories of Christmas past that impacts on my enjoyment now.

Christmas to me is about loved ones, not money....hell, in the early days me and hubby didn't have any money but by goodness we had a great Christmas.

Of the most memorable from my childhood - spending Christmas at my paternal grandmother's in Sussex and me and my brother sneaking down early in the morning to find that the adults had blocked off the stairs so we couldn't get into the front room to look at our presents....they didn't quite count on the mountaineering skills of a child, we still got downstairs by oiking ourselves over the bannister and slowly lowering ourselves down onto the telephone chair.

Spending Christmas at home and all the family coming down, including my favourite uncle, who on receiving bubble bath in the shape of a can of beer, opened it, drank some and then spat it out...and then later in the day, falling asleep in the toilet when drunk, blocking the door so no-one could go to the loo.

Our first Christmas in our first flat, the fun we had putting our own tree up and choosing the decorations WE wanted rather than what our parents usually put on the tree.

The Christmas when all 3 boys had arrived, the joy on their faces...all the more poignant as this was before youngest closed off from the world and he was showing a babies wonderment at the brightly coloured lights, the boxes etc and we didn't have to counter in seperate areas for him to go to, to enable him to cope.

Money doesn't make a Christmas, happy memories and who you spend it with, does.

purch

1994.

#1 son was born.

P.S. HID didn't have it quite so cushy as me :eek:

kabayiri

nollag2006 wrote: »

This year is pretty good. The twins are both now old enough to understand the concept of Santa, and the in-laws are coming over from Dublin for Chistmas.
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:xmassmile

Get used to drinking half a glass of milk leaving "white beard" on the edges of the glass; eating part of a mince pie and half a raw carrot! It all helps

I used to question the level we went to, but perhaps DH was concerned in case the children called in the forensics team !

mcc100

MrRee wrote: »

I'm not falling into that trap!

Whatever I say I will be lambasted ...........

Strange ..... your signature states 'I tell it as it is'

MrRee_2

I do tell it as it is ..... and, indeed, it is as I tell it

ILW

1976, I was 18 and everyting was all going to be so great.

Generali

1995-6. Spent it with friends off my nut on champagne, claret and coke. We met some very pretty women on Xmas day night in a pub in Wimbledon and took them home which rounded things off nicely. That was a goodie until I woke up a couple of days later feeling extremely unwell, having to go to work.

However, it was quite funny sitting in a job working for a bank I despised picking little rocks of coke out of my nose knowing I was on notice already so there was bgger all they could do about it.

Apart from that probably when I was 6 or something and got some Lego and some books, I love reading books on Christmas Day.

MrRee_2

ILW wrote: »

1976, I was 18 and everyting was all going to be so great.

That was a good year for me.

Things seemed so positive in the 70's .....

I am positive these days, too - just my nature, but aren't there some glum losers about these days?

LilacPixie

Not sure. 2011 should hopefully be a good one, its the littlest pixies first christmas but all the family are coming to me so I have a huge meal to cook for 12 adults and 6 kids so i'm having a minor stress out on do I have everything. Lookig forward to about 6pm christmas night when i can sit down with a large glass of merlot