Christmas is coming!!!!

Paully232000

It is not christmas until the coke advert is on the tv.

'holidays are coming...holidays are coming':)

Azari

Cycrow wrote: »

its also because people have a tendency to panic shop when they realise the shop wont be open for a day.

its the same when you get bad weather like snow. For days people go in buying trolly loads of stuff, incase one day they cant get out in the snow to go shopping.
Its the same over easter as well when they shut easter sunday.

the worst ones seem to be the ones that just shop once a week, they seem fine going without shopping 6 days at a time but as soon as the stores are closed they have to buy everything

Does anyone remember the great toilet roll panic and the great sugar panic from many years back?

In both cases there should have been no shortage as there was more than enough product for any normal requirement.

But as soon as a rumour started (and this happened well before the days of the internet), the shelves emptied, people were selling things for way over the normal price (and idiots were buying). There were even fights.

I think in each case the problem only lasted around a fortnight because, in reality, there was so much of each of the products available that even the most ridiculous panic buying could not run the country's stocks out.

joansgirl

I'm looking forward to the actual day when I'll be up and out with the dog early, before anybody else. I shall enjoy the quiet and the solitude, then home, feet up, telly on (probably) and veg out until dinner time. This year I think I'll have sausage toad in the hole with mash. Christmas pudding and Cornish ice cream for afters. More dog walking, more telly watching, (ignore the phone when in laws ring to make sure I'm ok on my own!) scoff the obligatory box of chocs from the boss and fall asleep on the sofa. The perfect Christmas.

beluga

This year I'm going away for Christmas Christmas Day will be spent on a plane (cheaper flights and no need to go out for over priced meals etc while away).
The downside is we still have to buy all the presents etc before we go, and family still want to se us for meals when we get back! Oh and the !!!!!y comments from friends who think we should go to the pub with them instead of going on holiday.

justanopinion

I hate it. It always feels like Groundhog Day. Get up, go to parents, watch Top of the pops special eat lunch. Mum always proudly says, "I said it would be ready by two!" Queen's speech, go to inlaws. Back to parents for three hours. Scream.

It used to be a magical day. Now I hate the rigidity and take no pleasure in it. Which I then resent in itself!!

nwc389

It always shocks me a bit when I see cards in the shops in august (for gods sake why !! ) and I do try to avoid the seasonal bits in the shops . I like christmas but the relentless grind from October onwards spoils it I think.

dinglebert

Its been the same for years. The shops do it because we the consumer buy it. I really want to enjoy Christmas but the routine just does my head in. Why do we have to have my family, the in-laws every year. I'm not that friendly during the year and the forced enjoyment just doesn't work for me.

skylight

Not everywhere has their Christmas stuff in.

I tried to buy a new Christmas tree in B&Q on Saturday and they have absolutely nothing in store relating to Christmas at all!

RuthnJasper

I believe that Ebeneezer Scrooge was much misunderstood.

Christmas is fine. At Christmas (24 - 26 December).

joansgirl

justanopinion wrote: »

I hate it. It always feels like Groundhog Day. Get up, go to parents, watch Top of the pops special eat lunch. Mum always proudly says, "I said it would be ready by two!" Queen's speech, go to inlaws. Back to parents for three hours. Scream.

It used to be a magical day. Now I hate the rigidity and take no pleasure in it. Which I then resent in itself!!

Yep, drove me mad too when I partook. I think I'm lucky that I am no longer under any obligation to do any of it anymore. It's just the reaction of other people to my lack of enthusiasm for it that winds me up.