Please Help - Company are leaving us without fund for Xmas !!!

claire16c

Tiddlywinks wrote: »

You can still have fun... decorations, games etc just not big pressies. How about having a New Year party with pressies instead? That way, the kids get two days of excitement.

Good idea. That way the OP can go out on the boxing day sales and buy all the presents half price anyway!

Just push xmas day back to the 28th or something.



But seriously- relying on an early payment for your entire xmas?? You have bigger problems than buying your xmas dinner.

Mara69

SarEl wrote: »

It may be the OP's perception, and that perception may be correct too - but what people think is not evidence.

Hang on a moment - unless you have been speaking with the OP privately or on another forum and have information the rest of us aren't privvy to, you have no idea if the company is on shaky ground or not. Nor have I. I, however, have read what the OP has written and have advised that he was foolish to leave Christmas shopping if he perceives the company to be on shaky ground. Which he obviously does.

I accept entirely that it is nothing to do with the (perceived) late payment of December's wages - but that was not the point of my post at all.

Therefore, you cannot assert that I am wrong. I could be but then so could you.

SarEl

Mara69 wrote: »

Hang on a moment - unless you have been speaking with the OP privately or on another forum and have information the rest of us aren't privvy to, you have no idea if the company is on shaky ground or not. Nor have I. I, however, have read what the OP has written and have advised that he was foolish to leave Christmas shopping if he perceives the company to be on shaky ground. Which he obviously does.

I accept entirely that it is nothing to do with the (perceived) late payment of December's wages - but that was not the point of my post at all.

Therefore, you cannot assert that I am wrong. I could be but then so could you.

I did not assert that you were wrong. I said it was all perception and speculation. And yes, the company could be about to fold, and no I haven't been speaking to the OP privately. But the employer has so far met all their financial obligations, and since the OP was kind enough to tell us exactly who they are, their financial returns are typical of any similar company in current times, down but not yet out. I accept that since they last filed returns things could have got considerably worse. They may not have either. And anyone with access to the information at Companies House could have checked this - which is what I did.

I did not say you were wrong. I said we had no evidence that the assumptions that the OP would not get paid on 28th because the company was going under were not in evidence. They still aren't, unless someone wants to tell me something that isn't part of the public record.

hartcjhart

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Hmm71

OP, have you tried your local Freecycle group? Someone on mine was offering a big bag of kids toys just the other day. There may be something like that near you.

Or scour the second hand/charity shops. I bought a nearly new Peppa Pig playset for my daughter at the weekend for just a couple of quid from one of the charity shops.

As for food, as someone else said go to Lidl/Aldi, they're cheap enough. A chicken and a bag of spuds won't cost much.
Then on New Years Day you can make a resolution, like I'm going to, to be more organised next year and save for Christmas all through the year.

This is NOT aimed at the OP, just a general observation through the years; I've never understood people who get excited when they get paid early in December. I've always thought "but hasn't that money got to pay your bills in January?".

Uncertain

Hmm71 wrote: »

As for food, as someone else said go to Lidl/Aldi, they're cheap enough. A chicken and a bag of spuds won't cost much.
Then on New Years Day you can make a resolution, like I'm going to, to be more organised next year and save for Christmas all through the year.

This is NOT aimed at the OP, just a general observation through the years; I've never understood people who get excited when they get paid early in December. I've always thought "but hasn't that money got to pay your bills in January?".

I couldn't agree more! :T

SarEl

Uncertain wrote: »

I couldn't agree more! :T

Me too. I may be privileged enough these days to be able to afford Christmas spend all on one day, but I still don't! Having been brought up with Christmas's that started in the January sale for next year, old habits and conditioning die hard. I buy presents all year when I see what is "right" for people, and my "Christmas Food shop" consists only of a basket of those things that have short use by dates and can't be stored or frozen. Quite apart from the fact that it makes december much like any other month in terms of the amount you spend, it means you can avoid the intensely annoying queues of people who are buying enough to see them through the next apocalypse The simple fact is that the less money you have, the more you need to plan its use through the year for these sorts of occasions.

The other obvious tip is to buy what you need and not what you think you will need. The shops barely shut for two minutes, and a great deal of what people stock up on ends up wasted and in the bin.

Uncertain

SarEl wrote: »

The other obvious tip is to buy what you need and not what you think you will need. The shops barely shut for two minutes, and a great deal of what people stock up on ends up wasted and in the bin.

Absolutely.

The amount spent of Christmas, usually by those that can afford it the least, coupled with the siege mentality and slavish keeping up with the Jones's gets me more and more angry ever year.

If you go to Tesco (or wherever) for food shopping as soon as they open on Boxing day there are some real bargains to be had! That's another reason not to buy anything you don't need eat before then.

Takeaway_Addict

Uncertain wrote: »

Absolutely.

The amount spent of Christmas, usually by those that can afford it the least, coupled with the siege mentality and slavish keeping up with the Jones's gets me more and more angry ever year.

If you go to Tesco (or wherever) for food shopping as soon as they open on Boxing day there are some real bargains to be had! That's another reason not to buy anything you don't need eat before then.

Whilst I agree I cannot think of anything worse than going food shopping on boxing day!

Uncertain

Takeaway_Addict wrote: »

Whilst I agree I cannot think of anything worse than going food shopping on boxing day!

Lovely and quiet when they first open.

Still you pay you money and take your choice!