* Walking in a Winter Wonderland * - It's the 2015 Christmas Chatter Thread

KiWi13

Clumsy42 wrote: »

KiWi - Not wrapping the presents? :eek: But it's half the joy of the experience! Can't imagine just sitting and ripping open all the presents in 5 minutes flat!

Exactly my thoughts - My mum used to do a treasure hunt for a present on Christmas evening for me and my brother and then another one was kept for boxing day - we like to spread the enjoyment out over the Christmas period.

princesskitty29 wrote: »

freespirit Wiggle is doing well thank you, he's been in good spirits and is coming out the other side now thankfully. GLAD TO HEAR THIS
kiwi do you mean they don't wrap their children's presents? I can't imagine that because as you say half the excitement on Christmas morning is ripping open the presents!

Nope no wrapping and no Christmas gift bags just left sitting out

starlet1990 wrote: »

Morning everyone. I too crashed my car yesterday in to the side of a work colleagues car.im so mortified and feel an idiot luckily the damage isnt major on his car and he wasn't annoyed but still I feel stupid.
Oh dear but thankfully it sounds like its more your ego that got hurt. cars are easily fixed - people not so much. we all have off days. I once left car in gear and tried to start it and bunny hopped straight into a pebble dashed wall. ooooops
I love the excitement of unwrapping presents it takes the magic away just having them there to see all at once.
Xx

KiWi13

Thank you for all replying about the wrapping of the presents. I just couldn't believe it when I heard it - I've now been asking everyone I come across the question. and I have to say THANKFULLY that the scales are tipped very much in the wrapping paper favour.
Doesn't really surprise me about the ones in work - they are more scroogelike. It's left to me to put up the Xmas decorations in work every year and usually I go overboard and have even went and bought more items to add to it and I get no thank you. Last year I decided to not bother at all and only put up a small 1foot tall tree in reception.
only a couple of our clients commented but the two I work with weren't bothered
booooooooooooooooooooo!!!

FeistyFidget wrote: »

What that be this dog wallpaper?


This is technically the nursery, but I'm using it as a work room at the moment as it was the first room in the house almost finished :rotfl:

Yes that would be the wallpaper - seen it and there was no way that I couldn't put that up in our house. Dog mad we lot are.

elliew8

I just got an email from Matalan with a 20% off code EML220 for the new season collections - expires 13th October...happy spending

princesskitty29

Thanks murie, I haven't found the personalisation very good at Studio in the past so I'm uncertain about it. I also looked at the pic again and it appears to be on a double bed so it's a lot bigger than I thought it was! There are some other bits I'd like to get though but I can't find any free delivery codes at the mo.

freespirit that's not sad - all the more pins for me to browse through!

starlet oh no, don't worry these things happen, the main thing is you are unhurt and there is not too much damage. I'm sure your colleague understands.

ellie thank you for the Matalan code!

All quiet here, I went to Tesco this morning and popped into Homebase which is nearby as I half hoped they might have some Christmas bits out but nothing yet. Wiggle is having a nap so I'm going to have a browse on the Internet to see if I can get any more presents.

starlet1990

Thank you!! As was said more bruised ego. We have worked together today and it has all been fine so just got to speak to insurance company now.
Anyway was excited to see signs on m&s doors saying christmas shop now in store some lovely things too. Xx

Arthien

Clumsy42 wrote: »

KiWi - Not wrapping the presents? :eek: But it's half the joy of the experience! I like the way my mum does it. Since we were all little she has been handing out a present to us each one at a time. When we were younger she told us who it was from and made sure we each had something to open at the same time (my 2 siblings, my dad and herself). This was mainly because she needed to know who got what from who for thank you letter purposes! She still does it to this day (and I'm the youngest at 22) and it just makes the whole experience last longer. Can't imagine just sitting and ripping open all the presents in 5 minutes flat!

Definitely wrapped I'd say! Who'd want unwrapped pressies :eek:

It's funny to see that someone else does the present-opening in the same way, it's another reason my hubby chunters about having Christmas with my family, because in his family they just rip everything open as quickly as possible and get it all over with in just a few minutes! I like to spread the joy out for as long as possible (which is also my excuse for starting the Christmassy-ness in September )

I hope everyone is feeling Christmassy today, I'm not because I had a look round Tesco this morning and it's still hardly Christmassy at all! I'm particularly looking forward to the arrival of the Pigs in Blanket flavoured crisps though, they were amazing last year, MIL and I shared most of a bag at the Christmas Craft show...

MoneyMission2015

Clumsy42 wrote: »

KiWi - Not wrapping the presents? :eek: But it's half the joy of the experience! I like the way my mum does it. Since we were all little she has been handing out a present to us each one at a time. When we were younger she told us who it was from and made sure we each had something to open at the same time (my 2 siblings, my dad and herself). This was mainly because she needed to know who got what from who for thank you letter purposes! She still does it to this day (and I'm the youngest at 22) and it just makes the whole experience last longer. Can't imagine just sitting and ripping open all the presents in 5 minutes flat!

My Dad used to do this when we were younger but my sisters would be going mad with me because they would rip their gifts open but I would carefully unwrap it and then fold the paper before even looking at the gift and of course they had to sit there waiting for me to finish before they got the next gift. I think by the time I was 14 I used to do it just to annoy them :rotfl:

Angelina1

elliew8 wrote: »

I just got an email from Matalan with a 20% off code EML220 for the new season collections - expires 13th October...happy spending

Thank you for the discount code, ordered a few Christmas items from the site and the discount code worked great:beer:

Gettingtherequickly

Oh my word, Costco! They had some lovely stuff in, fell in love with a beautiful wooden Advent calendar. Maybe an expensive initial cost of £35, but it will last a lifetime, the drawers are well made and can hold chocolate or a little toy. Did think of Thumper, Free, I'm sure he would treasure it. Only went in there for washing powder, came out £80 odd lighter:o

freespirit66

Evening everyone, i have had a miserable day today, absolutely broke my diet :mad: i woke up feeling not too good and really tired, i am so fed up of my trapped nerve that makes my back/leg painful that i just sat on the sofa, and watched the last ever This Is England 90 and chomped my way through the cupboard (very nearly the christmas cupboard) im so mad with myself!

STARLET oh honey we all have those days! Dont beat yourself up about it, the number of times i have done something silly and been so embarrassed about it while out in the car, you should park in a car park and sit in the car and watch other cars around you it is horrifying, i dont know how some people pass their test! While i was waiting for DD1 outside M&S the other day i witnessed 2 cars nearly backing into each other, 2 pedestrians nearly knocked over, and a driver taking about 20 turns to park in a space :rotfl::rotfl:honestly i just wanted to get DD1s car out of there!!

ELLIE i cant believe its only 79 days i remember last year as soon as it hit 100 days it flew so quickly! I really need to get my backside moving and get back into organised christmas cleaning too! Thankyou for the matalan code

ARTHIEN your DH family remind me of my exH sister, they used to spoil their kids rotten and at christmas well the piles were higher than the sofa! One year they told the kids they had to have a race and see who opened all their presents the fastest, well...... presents were strewn all over the place, paper flying mid air, i was aghast they didnt even go back and look through them afterwards they just turned the tv on!!! I vowed never to let my kids be like that, but on the other hand my DS was so slow it was painful :rotfl::rotfl:

GETTINGTHEREQUICKLY aww how sweet thinking of Thumper bless you i actually have one i bought years ago with the thinking of it being for the grandchildren in years to come, it was from qvc, an american company, it has a wooden, painted cabinet box and it opens to boxes then you open one of them a day and they hold old fashioned toys, aeroplanes, dolls, presents all ceramic, and then you put them on the christmas tree (which is really beautiful and ceramic again, this sits on a musical turntable) it cost me about £27 but like you say will last forever, ooh cant wait to go to costco again now! And how easy is it to spend more than what you went in for!!!!