Is it just me being a Scrooge?

SingleSue

jellyhead wrote: »

My 17 year old must have said something last year because this year instead of endless lynx gift sets he was given lots of different types of teabags :T He has around 300 teabags now, and is really excited about trying them all.

Perhaps you could subtly mention how much you'd love teabags for Christmas

My 20 year old was desperately hoping to get the multitude of Lynx gift sets he would usually get because as a student, he can only afford the cheap stuff.

He got one instead of the usual 5 or 6!

System

marisco wrote: »

A real eye opener for me this Xmas was the ridiculous amount of gifts my 18 month old nephew received.

I don't understand why it would bother you.

neneromanova

Judi wrote: »

I don't understand why it would bother you.

Did you not read the rest of her post? It said the nephew was distraught at opening them all.

TeamLowe

The only bit that 'bothers' me is that in the next few days the parents who'd put up the pictures of a living room full of presents all in the same wrapping so you know they've bought them themselves will start complaining that they have no room in the house cos of all these new toys. What did they think was going to happen when they bought them all in the first place? Lol

I found it quite amusing that as well as pictures of piles of presents I got pictures on my feed of people's 'evidence' that father Christmas had been- lots of half eaten carrots and mince pies and half drunk glasses of milk. They know they'd done it themselves, everyone on their news feed knew they'd done it themselves but they were just far too excited to be playing Santa not to share lol

I'll probably be exactly the same next year, I'm so looking forward to my baby's first Christmas, I'll be taking a thousand photos of everything lol

claire16c

TeamLowe wrote: »

The only bit that 'bothers' me is that in the next few days the parents who'd put up the pictures of a living room full of presents all in the same wrapping so you know they've bought them themselves will start complaining that they have no room in the house cos of all these new toys. What did they think was going to happen when they bought them all in the first place? Lol

I found it quite amusing that as well as pictures of piles of presents I got pictures on my feed of people's 'evidence' that father Christmas had been- lots of half eaten carrots and mince pies and half drunk glasses of milk. They know they'd done it themselves, everyone on their news feed knew they'd done it themselves but they were just far too excited to be playing Santa not to share lol

I'll probably be exactly the same next year, I'm so looking forward to my baby's first Christmas, I'll be taking a thousand photos of everything lol

Haha that is exactly what I thought of someones picture I saw yesterday, the only thing I thought was 'where on earth are they going to put all those toys!' :eek:

Yes for some reason I seem to know a lot of adults who left out carrots and mince pies for Santa!

I definitely think that some people go way overboard for their kids, and I dont really know why as half the gifts seem to get forgotten about. I had a friend as a child who was always jealous of the family holidays I went on yet she had hundreds of pounds spent on her each birthday, so it was just clearly her parents choice of where to spend the money, but she would have preferred a holiday.

I do remember lots of the toys I got for Christmas but my parents never went crazy and Im glad they didnt. Taking out loans to go overboard is just ridiculous.

Morglin

Goldiegirl wrote: »

People can spend as much or as little on Christmas presents as they want - it's their business not mine.

But all this plastering of presents all over Facebook - it's like saying look at me and my fantastic life, if anything it shows how insecure these people are

As it is so easy to trace addresses from Facebook, endless pictures of what new expensive gizmo's and gadgets are now in the house must be a great help to local burglars! :eek:

Lin :whistle:

Morglin

jtr2803 wrote: »

I'm a bit saddened reading some of the comments really.

So, because the number of presents under our tree is probably quite crazy that must mean that we are all incredibly spoilt and ungrateful or in debt for it? Or we bought each other a load of rubbish for the sake of it.

Or maybe, we planned, were savvy with boots points, tesco points etc and really put a lot of effort and thought into the gifts we gave.

I booked a surprise trip to NY for my daughter and then fiance last year as a surprise xmas present, so I must be super, super crazy then. I didn't realise that there were limits on how much you should spend on boyfriends..........As it happens, the money came from a PPI refund but looking at some of the gossiping on here, I hate to think what people might have thought about how I funded it.

Does it really matter what other people do?

No, it doesn't - Christmas spending is unique to each of us.

I spoilt my kids, when they were small, because I worked for it, as did their Dad, and we wanted to.

And now, DH and I spoil our combined 10 grandchildren!

That's part of Christmas, as is enjoying time with loved ones.:T

Lin

Janepig

Morglin wrote: »

As it is so easy to trace addresses from Facebook, endless pictures of what new expensive gizmo's and gadgets are now in the house must be a great help to local burglars! :eek:

Lin :whistle:

Serious question, are there any links out there to stories of people who have been burgled purely from having piqued a potential burglar's interest after posting photos of their electrical gadgets, etc.. on Facebook? 99.99% of the burglars I've ever dealt with over the last 20 years have been opportunistic drug addicts.

Walk down any street on bin collection day after Christmas and if everywhere else has see-through recycling bags like we do then you know exactly what everyone has had for Christmas.

Alternatively, walk around a housing estate like the one where MIL lives - seems like no-one there has nets or curtains as you get a lovely view into all the houses as you walk past and see the goodies therein. Go around on a fairly regular basis (as we used to do when MIL had a dog that needed walking) and you see houses that are usually lit up like Blackpool suddenly in darkness with no car in the drive. I swear it's a burglars paradise.

I can see the sense in perhaps not advertising the fact that your house is going to be empty for a while if you're off on holiday, but I fail to see how you are inviting burglars by putting some photos on Facebook of your Christmas presents. But I'm prepared to defer to evidence proving otherwise.

Jx

bestpud

Morglin wrote: »

As it is so easy to trace addresses from Facebook, endless pictures of what new expensive gizmo's and gadgets are now in the house must be a great help to local burglars! :eek:

Lin :whistle:

How do you trace an address from FB?

jellyhead

Janepig wrote: »

Serious question, are there any links out there to stories of people who have been burgled purely from having piqued a potential burglar's interest after posting photos of their electrical gadgets, etc.. on Facebook? 99.99% of the burglars I've ever dealt with over the last 20 years have been opportunistic drug addicts.

Walk down any street on bin collection day after Christmas and if everywhere else has see-through recycling bags like we do then you know exactly what everyone has had for Christmas.

Alternatively, walk around a housing estate like the one where MIL lives - seems like no-one there has nets or curtains as you get a lovely view into all the houses as you walk past and see the goodies therein. Go around on a fairly regular basis (as we used to do when MIL had a dog that needed walking) and you see houses that are usually lit up like Blackpool suddenly in darkness with no car in the drive. I swear it's a burglars paradise.

I can see the sense in perhaps not advertising the fact that your house is going to be empty for a while if you're off on holiday, but I fail to see how you are inviting burglars by putting some photos on Facebook of your Christmas presents. But I'm prepared to defer to evidence proving otherwise.

Jx

We have a wheelie bin for recycling, but for the post-christmas collection we can put out extra cardboard but only if it is tied in bundles, and not bagged. So there's an advertisement that your kids got tablets and PS4's I suppose.

My husband puts things like playstation boxes in the loft. Initially I thought it was to increase their value if he traded them in against newer models, but no, it harks back to his childhood in a place where there were more burglaries, and advertising your expensive new purchases to all and sundry who pass your house on the way to the corner shop would have been foolish. It still would be here, I suppose, and we usually hear of a burglary in January.