Budget for Xmas

cathy_3

well, im planning a particular evil christmas this year

son number 2 has just gone to live with his fiasco who has to be pried off her mother  to get them to part

so

Ive already invited them to christmas dinner and said
"if I find out that you have been to her mothers there will be drama here IM telling you"

I say this every year  and they duly arrive about 4pm when I plonk a MASSIVE dinner in front of them and I can see their faces looking greener and greener as they plough through it  obviously because they are full to the gills from their previous dinner earlier  

I get great pleasure out of this  and it makes my day

Im waiting for the  "oh were going to have it in our house this year" and then Ill say  OH good well  we will come about 4pm  after youve had your dinner and spend the evening with you both. I know for a fact she will have already invited her parents to dinner

lets see them get out of that one
ha ha ha ha ha shell have to hide them in a cupboard or something



mother in law from hell signing off

jaybee

Oooooh!!!!

Season of Goodwill and all that!

Lucie_2

See!!! It's mother in laws that make christmas unbearable!! ;D

cathy_3

Ive had two mother in laws

its time for revenge

16011996

lol.

Bogof_Babe

Oh Cathy you are wicked! I am LMAO here (are we allowed to use initialised crudities?).

Love your "fiasco" word too - a nice alternative to fiancee. Says it all really lol.

How awful though, what that woman tried to do to your son. Thank goodness for DNA tests - I hope he made her pay him the £750 back!

Back to topic - I totally agree with the posters who have reminded us that it isn't supposed to be about a spend-fest, booze-fest and gluttony-fest, but a religious observance. What a pity that greedy businesses have jumped on the bandwaggon over the decades, to the point where the whole traditional meaning has been lost.

It would be great to tell friends and relatives that you are having a "traditional" Christmas this year, and watch their faces when they call expecting old-fashioned decorations, sherry and mince pies etc., and find an empty house because you are out at Church or giving alms to the poor.

I wonder if even primary school children understand what the Nativity is all about, other than a chance to decorate a cardboard display and act in a little play. Sad? Yes I am when I think about it.

Crumbs, pass me a ladder, the height of this soap box is making me dizzy........

16011996

don't worry most crudites are allowed, esp carrot with a dip  ;D are they called crudites?
anyway, my youngest knows about the nativity, he announced at nursery that its when baby cheesy was born and three men on bikes went to visit to give him presents and thats why he gets presents cos he sometimes smells cheesy.

oh and his mum plays baby cheesys dads cd?!? any suggestions please help?

(modified for clarity!!)

cathy_3

BABY CHEESY!!! ha haha

even the old fart laughed at that (or it might have been wind)

if you think of dickens's Christmas Carol the old fart scrooge looks out of his window christmas morning and sends the boy to the butchers to buy a turkey for BoB cratchets family. so the shops were open.

I looked into it (nothing better to do these days) and the shops didnt close christmas day until after the war. or if it was on a SUnday

It wasnt such a special day, no more than any other Holy day anyway

I can remember buses running a sunday service on christmas day and boxing day then back to normal

we only ever got those two days off if we were lucky

so what happened suddenly we get days and days off
some people get 2 weeks (if they are lucky) and new years day was never a public holiday , now it is. (Im not moaning about that though,
just wondering why it suddenly went balistic and people spending a fortune getting into debt etc WHY

and WHY do I feel I have to clean the house from top to bottom as well??? Imagine christmas without a clean house???unthinkable

when im really old Im going to go like Mr Rebus off A life of Grime

heh heh heh

??? ???

16011996

i get two weeks off at xmas, but its rubbish cos its taken from my annual leave, so i only get limited time off the rest of the year. i never clean before xmas, but always do after, sort of for the new year, and to remove irritating bits of wrapping paper that still appear come easter.

jaybee

I can just remember getting post delivered on Christmas Day.

160 - will you pleeeeze come and clean my house? I'm usually still finding Christmas tree needles around the edges in August!!!!