What are you not going to buy this christmas

mother_noah

The shops are filling up with all the stuff they are trying to convince us that we could not have Christmas without . It got me thinking of all the things I no longer buy and wondered how many things others had stopped buying .My list includes and this is not a full list ...
Christmas cake
Christmas pudding ( always found in the cupboard when spring cleaning )
Large tins of sweets ( they don't taste nice )
Dates and figs
Big tins of biscuits ( I choose a couple of packets of ones we really like but rarely buy because of the price )
As I said this is only the start of the list but now it's over to you ..

daisyboyd24

Nuts still in their shells - can never find the nut cracker and end up using the nuts as toys for the cats to chase!!!

Normally find the nut cracker in a drawer around April and have forgotten where it is by December!!!

daisiegg

Tins of biscuits, too. I am allergic to dairy so can't eat them and we don't get that many visitors...it ends up being only OH who can eat them!

cutestkids

I wont be buying a Christmas cake as none of us really likes it so it ends up getting binned eventually.

Also I dont buy brandy butter as we dont like it

Chris25

A large tin of sweets - no-one likes the creams & we only eat them because 'they're there'
A goose - love it but not very good at carving - especially after a babycham or two
Brandy butter - yuk!

mother_noah

I will add the nuts to my list , the bits of shell get everywhere and the brandy butter .

spendingmad

Christmas cake - make my own
Christmas pudding - make my own
Mince Pies - make my own
Tins of Biscuits
Tins of Chocolates
Nuts

We have everyone round for christmas dinner (14) and they camp out throughout the house/local motels. I do a menu for xmas dinner, and we have cold cuts and cheese board and left overs later in the evening. All the other bits and pieces get left and I end up eatting them until february so this year I am just not buying them!!!

camNolliesMUMMY

I am not buying a tin of roses, the tins is smaller now
And I will buy festive ginger buiscuits from lidl instead they are yummy.

shandyclover

Wrapping paper...I hated the expense last year, knowing we were short having just moved/changed jobs/started studying, and knowing it was most likely going to be wasted. Our youngest is now 16, old enough to appreciate it is an unecessary waste. I will buy shinny red ribbon though, coupled with newspaper for wrapping I think it could actually look very unique and 'shabbychic-ish'.

Potions and lotions that I filled the girls stockings with last year, their bathroom is far too cluttered and they have plenty for now.

This year I have actually challenged myself to source as many presents as possible from charity shops, invested in things I know the girls really want or need, I am very limited budget wise so I find I can buy fewer better quality things that way, then cheap tat that breaks, goes out of shape or ends up being unused. It's a challenge we have taken on as a family so everyone is happy with it.

mummybearx

Loose nuts!!

Saw them in MrT's at the weekend, me and DH both instantly walked towards them...... I love them! Had to actually say out loud 'We don't need them. We aren't buying them. Absolutely not!'

Manged to not buy them lol

sonastin

I don't actually buy anything different at christmas to what we have during the rest of the year. We might treat ourselves to cheese & biscuits a bit more often or an extra glass of wine because its christmas but I don't usually buy any of the "christmas" stuff. My gran used to make mince pies for us but she's getting a bit too old for that now so I suppose I should learn how to make them myself but that's the only once-a-year treat that features on our festive menu.