Old Style preparations for Christmas 2012!!!!!

ManPants

Well I think we are all <about> ready! Big night will be Christmas Eve with 5 friends coming over for a dinner party kicking off with some Cocktails with myself and other half.

Other half & I don't do presents for each other anymore. Our house becomes sub branches of Debenhams & John Lewis with rooms & rooms full of clothes already and an massive loft space buckling under the pressure of keeping the rest of the house minimalist! Expensive clothes barely worn as there is just so much of it!! I <karmically> had to put an end to it!

Growing up in the late 1970's & 1980's I can remember friends of parents, Aunts & Uncles getting presents of boxes of biscuits and teabags and nice coffees as treats as everyone was relatively less spend thrift than now (and everyone had 2nd hand cars it seemed apart from the school teachers and the Vicar). These days the presents are just insane so all our friends and myself and other half cancel out presents to each other.

I stock up on Christmas cards in sales the year before so have a stack in the attic (where else!!).

Have some staff to buy for but have been purchasing Champagne off Achica for them plus purchasing via Quidco and I get another 10% off as well on top. Never forget Quidco - I have saved over £1000 in the last 3.5 years through purchasing through them.

Apart from that how is everyone else doing??

Stupotstu X

zippychick

Why is this not on the frist page?!?!!?!?!?!!

zippychick

My christmas werthers vodka is brewing nicely as is the pear drop vodka,and skittles vodka. Hmmm that doesn't paint a good picture!!!

chilli jam to make and pressies to wrap - well organised. How is everyone else coming along?

bossymoo

Hi zippy
I've made cola cube vodka for my stepdad it smells very potent! I need to make a label for it. My cards are written, I'm all shopped (just need to print a couple of photos that I'll take next fri at a kiddies party) and the little ones stocking fillers are all wrapped.
MIL has her list for what she's bringing (turkey and other bits), mum has hers (spuds, veg) and I've got mine (gammon, already purchased, pigs in blankets, need some bread for the stuffing).
Pretty much everything is taken care of, just need to find the bike pump as DS balance bike a little flat.
And enjoy! :T

young_un

I have 16 bottles of strawberry and blackberry vodka in the cupboard currently waiting for ribbon to come to make them lookbeautiful Other presents wrapped just need to paint 1 more figurine and go into York to buy a charm. Tesco order is placed for 21st December and just need to go to Aldi for gammon and scallops very excited
Xx

Justamum

I've just bought my first ever real Christmas tree! I've never bought one before because when I was a child I read The Little Christmas Tree and it upset me that it ended up being put on a bonfire OK I'm a bit of a saddo :rotfl: Anyway Tesco have some trees in pots, so I bought one. Hopefully it will last a few years yet so if it does survive it will be really moneysaving

MrsCD

Justamum - Do you remember the 'Friends' where Phoebe bought the worst tree because it had to fulfil its Christmas destiny!

Skint_yet_Again

I thought I was doing so well with my stores for xmas bought when offers were on, but have an admission to make :o

I have already eaten:

1/2 tub celebrations
1 packet honey cashews
1/2 vienetta

But my excuse is that I have been ill last few days and the ice cream was for medicinal purposes

I am not going to buy replacements for the above and I have decided next year I am not going to buy them at all !!

BigMummaF

Justamum wrote: »

....when I was a child I read The Little Christmas Tree and it upset me that it ended up being put on a bonfire OK I'm a bit of a saddo :rotfl: ....

I do stuff like that; The Offspring enjoy winding me up, saying Iggie was happy with her brothers & sisters till a big hand grabbed her out of their house, to be sold like an object to us
And films like Lassie or The Littlest Hobo are a definite no-no in our house

Well...I've got the meat, & the ingredients for at least two big deserts. The gifts I have got are wrapped & I only need to get one more for No3 Offspring & get muvva to decide what she'd prefer nighty-wise. It's either long sleeves for this time of year & she moans about not having annything for the summer, or short sleeves & an earful for getting cold arms now

Roll on next month

Justamum

MrsCD wrote: »

Justamum - Do you remember the 'Friends' where Phoebe bought the worst tree because it had to fulfil its Christmas destiny!

I'd do the same

Ours has a name - Bruce the Spruce :rotfl:Hopefully he'll survive to next Christmas!