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

MoneyMission2015

freespirit66 wrote: »

Evening everyone, i popped to M&S this morning to put the compensation cheque in and pick up a candle i had ordered (i got a £5 birthday voucher from them) so it only worked out to a £1, i have decided i will put it in DD1s stocking. While i was there i thought i would look at the food, and was disappointed again (everyone keeps saying for goodness sake it is too early!!!) perhaps it is! Anyway i still managed to spend £30 off of my gift card but over the last couple of weeks buying offers i have saved £19 so i am happy.

PEPPAPIG haha i like it :rotfl:perhaps we as christmas nuts who are looking all year, are impatient for christmas to explode onto the high street!


MONEYMISSION because some people have nothing better to do im afraid!! I have an ocado christmas shop coming on tuesday and i think my christmas cupboard will be full to the brim!! Maybe it will stop me buying much more :rotfl:

Oh I agree with that Free, I just want to do Christmassy things all year round. When one Christmas ends I am already thinking about the next Christmas :rotfl:


You are right, some people just like moaning I think. The good thing is they are not in the office today as they work funny shifts whereas I just work pretty normal hours, so I hopefully won't see them this week.


Peppa - we have been pretty good with our Christmas cupboard so far, although one of the tubs of chocolates has been opened. I don't mind that too much though as I did buy 4 and there's all the other chocolates too!! I don't think we need much more chocolate now so I'll just concentrate on the savoury snacks now and then I think the Christmas cupboard will be sorted.


Princesskitty - I hope you manage to retrieve some photos from somewhere. I've lost photos in the past because of computer glitches and it makes me sad to think of those lost photos . As much as I love my technology there are 2 things I still prefer to have hard copies of and those 2 things are books and photographs We have hundreds and hundreds of digital photos but every so often I will go through them and get them all printed off. I remember when I was younger and we'd be at my nans and get all her photos out of the cupboards and look through them all. There's just something about holding a photo in your hand. It's the same with books. Yes Kindles and e-readers are good, but I just prefer to actually hold a book in my hands.


I've not ordered any Christmas presents for a few days. I need to have a think of what else I need now because I've got quite a bit sorted so I think I need to have a proper think about what is left to get otherwise I'm going to end up with things I didn't need in the first place :rotfl:

quidsy

We have a portable hard drive & a cloud account so that no way will we ever lose a photo online again.


Have you checked facebook or any of the missing ones?

samsamesggsandham

savingmonkey wrote: »

Now that is a great idea, I got the top ones from here last year which are reusable self cling ones if anyone else is liking this idea!!

http://snowflakewindowstickers.co.uk/

Started present buying today, in Boots got some of the reduced Champneys toiletries down to £1.50-£2 to put in Christmas hampers (see the Grabbit thread)

@savingmonkey - Thanks for the tip. I am starting early this year!

Crowdpleaser

Hi all.

No more presents bought here but did spend a bit of time googling Xmas table ideas....

Have sorted Xmas eve for kids as me n hubs have to work so my friend is happy to have them for couple hours until o finish at lunchtime. She always does a kinda open house thingy so 2 more makes no odds to her lol!

Tell a lie I bought dd2s shopkins pyjamas for Xmas eve. Asda have a fab star wars onesie on for Dd1 but oos online and her size not in in shop. Grrr. Will keep an eye out. Struggling with onesies for Dd1. Primarni had none. Hoping more will come out as Xmas ranges....

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nic2075

I'm a bit late with the Christmas Day routine but I was away to a caravan with the kids for a few days.

On Chritmas Eve we do lots of christmas crafts with the kids, make mince pies, follow Santa on NORAD, watch Elf, polar express etc, then we go for a walk after tea to see all the Christmas decorations. My eldest dd likes to help peel spuds and carrots etc while I cook the turkey and gammon. The Kids are in bed pretty early in their new jammies. Then we sit down with a few nice nibbles, bottle of Proecco and watch It's a Wonderful life.
Christmas morning the kids are usually up early, but last year we woke up first and rang a few jingle Bells quietly. The kids crept through not long after saying they heard Santa going home.
We pile downstairs, the kids open their stockings first, then I hand out the rest of the pressies, taking our time.
We then have rolls in sausage for brekkie, the kids play for a while, then we get dressed. The last few years dinner has been here. Everyone arrives about 2-3pm, usually after they have visited inlaws, aunts etc. last year there was 15 of us for dinner.
Once everyone arrives they get mince pies and a drink, once everyone arrives we do more pressies.
Then it's Christmas dinner time, followed by sitting down to board games and a few drinks.

I must admit I prefer Christmas Eve to Christmas Day. It's so magical. I get excited watching the kids get excited,but also reminiscing about the great childhood Christmases I had. :xmastree::snow_laug

nic2075

Just went caught up. Was lovely reading everyone's Christmas Day routine. Made me feel all warm and fuzzy.

My DD was doing a dancing champ up in Inverness, so I decided to do a Sun holiday so we could have a few days away too. We tried Grannies Heilan hame in Dornoch. It was lovely, such a lovely area, with beautiful beaches, the weather stayed good too. A bit chillier today but we were driving home. Also my DD got a trophy in the Champ, so it was a good weekend :-)

I picked up my youngest dd a take a long kitchen that Tesco have for £5 just now, ideal for her as she loves wee playsets she can take to competition with us or when visiting.

Also ordered eldest DD some clothes from China for her American girl doll. They are only a few pounds each and so nice. Just hope they arrive in plenty time.

cant beleive we are almost half way through October already!

lazysheep

I do like reading about everyone's Christmas's, it reminds me of when I was younger and we used to pile into mum and dad's room to open presents from them and santa then everyone else's presents had been put under the tree so there was round 2 with a drink of Buck's Fizz and some carols playing.

Now the family is a little more spread out and my sister has her baby I'm not sure what's going to change in the next few years.

I popped into the Range for a christmas fix at the weekend and may have slipped a new tree decoration into my basket oops!

Also popped into Lidl and they had their gluwein, pannetone, pandoro (normal and lemon), stollen and mini stollen out. They also had some lebkucken (not the ones with apricot filling) and spekulatious spiced biscuits (based on speculoos I imagine). I also noticed more christmas things going out when I did my shop in Tescos last week - and did think it odd that they had advent calendars out for pets before they had the chocolate ones out..

ooh just noticed Tesco have their Christmas stuff online here

princesskitty29

mrs-moneypenny thanks for the tip about looking on Pinterest, I never thought to look on there which is crazy as I go on there a lot!

starlet hello neighbour! :wave:

linz ha ha it sounds like we have similar lives! Ah such a shame about the birthday video, it's frustrating isn't it?

Money Mission I'm afraid I'm not too good at printing photos nowadays. I agree about books though, e-readers are good and I can see their appeal but I just can't part with real books. I also like to read in bed before I go to sleep and by that time of day I just don't want any technology around me.

quidsy unfortunately we didn't post any of the pics on Facebook. We have an external hard drive but we hadn't backed up for a couple of months and we didn't have a cloud storage system which we will get now. So even though it's Microsoft that have put us in this position it is also our fault for not being vigilant with our backing up. Massive lesson learned here!

nic congrats to your daughter for winning a trophy! :T

lazysheep I thought that, I was doing an online shop with Tesco and I searched for advent calendars and only a pet one came up!

Mojoworking

Been in home and bargains and I've missed the elf mum and dad pjs. I should've known better and snapped them up there and then
So today I've invested in
a santa pinata
reindeer headband with bells
reindeer head band that lights up
and an elf.

Am cross as I have a photo of elf on my phone and can't figure out how to attach what the heck does url mean???

freespirit66

Evening everyone, my yankee candle was delivered today oh it smells lush, its ages since i have had this one i cant wait to burn it but need to finish my Cassis off first (anal as usual)!! Also i forgot to say there are a few different christmas mags out now i was umming and ahhing yesterday whether to get them in marks with my vouchers

RUTHHONEY dont know if you are reading but i now have a fully decorated halloween lounge :rotfl::rotfl:after i told DD1 about yours, that was it i knew she would get all her stuff out early!! I must admit though she has done a fab job it looks wicked and now the real cobwebs can merge into the pretend ones :rotfl:

PEPPAPIG ooh can we see any pics of your cabinets they sound lovely, well done you!! You deserve to be big chief proudface

PRINCESSKITTY oh glad DH has calmed down now that is fab that you found some video of wiggles birthday, i think we are all guilty of not backing things up as often as we should (i know i am)

STARLET aww that would make me feel very christmassy too! Yes i have just asked DS to pop heating on for an hour i am really cold tonight, i will have to get my hot water bottles out again, only the other night i used two (i am soooooo oooold) and woke up with a blister on my stomach

ELLIE your brother sounds a scream, i love it! Funnily enough my DS is 23 and the biggest kid ever at christmas! Oh i have given in and the heating is on atm omg can you imagine all the moaning that is going on now in ikea :rotfl::rotfl:Wow fab saving on your pressies

LINZ aww i hope your DS feels better soon, Thumper is now on antibiotics after the dr heard his cough today (i didnt think they gave anything out for coughs now but...)

MONEYMISSION yep thats me that is what the january sales are for arent they ??? Glad the moaners werent in today

CROWDPLEASER glad you have christmas eve sorted while you are at work, i had to google shopkins pjs i have never heard of that programme

NIC ahh your christmas sounds lovely, glad you have had a nice few days away, and well done to DD on her trophy! I have been in the American Girl shop in NY oh wow it was my most favourite shop there :rotfl::rotfl:i had to get an outfit for my niece and they even have a beauty salon, for the little girls and their dolls, in the toilets they had special holders to sit their dolls in on the back of the door, it was fab!

LAZYSHEEP it for nuts like me who buy the dogs advent calendar before anyone elses and spends double the money :rotfl:will have a look on the tesco site thankyou

MOJOWORKING oh no its always the same isnt it if you dont buy the item there and then then they sell out, those pjs were great, i havent seen if our local one has their christmas stuff out yet, i was thinking of buying one of those big elves for Thumper especially for £3.99 but no doubt by the time i get to one they will have gone! I like the sound of your haul though, sorry i cant help with the pic