* I wish it could be Christmas every day * - It's the 2017 Christmas Chatter Thread

murie

Peppa- I never liked gin as it always felt to me as if I was drinking perfume but todays offerings are a million miles away from that. Go on- be a devil and try some I think you would be surprised. (Doesn't the Queen drink dubonnet? Or am I imagining that?).

freespirit66

Morning everyone, another day of it tipping it down here but its still quite muggy, last night my duvet was on then off then on again then off again I just couldn't stay at the right temperature I was either too hot or too cold

PEPPAPIG I hope everything goes well for you my lovely will be thinking of you x Haha I could never understand how PRINCESSKITTY memorised 04624181s name but then it just clicked one day and stayed in my brain, a rare occurrence these days. I cant drink Southern Comfort from one night getting horrendously drunk in my teens haha

VULPIX your Christmas bags really seem to be coming on you are doing really well, ooh its getting closer to DS being home again

MURIE mmm that sounds lovely with Pink Rose Lemonade I also like the sound of the rhubarb gin

MANDCO I hope the migraine has gone now its so horrible when even the meds don't touch the pain, I hope your DD has fun arranging the sleepover

MRSINVISIBLE have a great morning with your family I hope the dishwasher doesn't cost and arm and a leg!

04624181

Good Morning all
Must be the time of year Mrs I as my dishwasher top shelf has broken, it too is old so we will have to replace it. Also my washing machine is smelling like burnt rubber on one of the wash cycles, have just changed the pogramme cycle and it has washed ok but that may be on the way out too. Iron conked out so had to buy a new one yesterday too! messing with my christmas purchases lol
Just waiting for a delivery of DS clothes rail then we can go and do finishing touches in bedrooms.

kerrigt-Hope the eyebrows go week, a few friends have had it done and it looks fab.
GYD-i do not think i have ever drank gin
Peppa- Good luck today, focus on christmas or just come on here and we will all keep you busy lol
Murie- that must of been so hard for your children to witness. I must say that some children today are so desensitised to appalling behaviour that they would of turned the other cheek. Well done to your kids, I just hope the poor outcome from the courts does not taint their wonderful sense of right from wrong. You must be very proud of them x
Free- lol yes you do always remember my numbers now x I do love the decluttering, it amazes me how much stuff we keep but do not use!
Vulpix- Sounds like you got some nice bits on your shopping trp. I too was out shopping yesterday, we went to a few £ shops and home bargains, lots of reduced stock and empty shelves ready for christmas yeah!
mandco- hope your migraine clears up. DS has also hinted at a sleepover for his birthday in october to show off his new loft room. Good luck with yours, let me know how you get on.

sammy_kaye18

So I have looked at my list so far and I have decided this year I have 9 to buy for. I have already brought a couple of gifts so I think I have my step mum and mum done and my sister. I brought some smellies packs when they were reduced in HomeBargains - they were £24.99 down to £3.99 so I couldnt resist a bargain! and my sister has a handbag from Ebay and a candle.
So I have 6 to get now. This is not including my husband and 2 children though!
although I work in a well known catalogue shop and have been picking up bits and pieces for my daughter already and a speaker for my son that was reduced from £25 down to £7.99
I emptied my christmas cupboard and have found 4 rolls of wrapping paper that were in the 5p sale in Poundland and have brought some cards from work that were 30 cards for 49p so thats us all sorted now for cards and paper at the minute. As well as a lamp I intended to give my daughter last year, a few packs of candles and a pack of giant chalks - oh and a top for my daughter so I have a few extra bits already..

I need to write my card list but I dont have many but most of them need sending but I like to buy fancier cards for family members as most are elderly and appreciate the old fashion type cards

I have already started to write a christmas cupboard list and have been trying to decide which cupboard to use because my family are like locusts and will graze their way through a cupboard at will if left to it. I think I might actually get a plastic box and store it with non perishables in my christmas cupboard!

I have looked in the clothing shops for reduced pyjamas for my daughter as well as tops etc that she might like (shes only 7) and I am keeping an eye in the sports shops for a brand my son likes as well

Im workign my way through the freezer so I can do a pre christmas freezer stock up - plus I will be apple picking soon (Ive already started blackberry picking) and will need the storage space

We are due a new puppy in a month or so so she will be the newest pre christmas arrival. She will 8 weeks old and a little jackhuahua :-)

Im busy working on bills getting paid and starting to try and get some savings with Christmas savers with Tesco and waiting on a bonus card with iceland to start topping up for the freezer shop

So I feel like Im doing fairly well. Just need to concentrate on some bills getting reduced now before Xmas.

My son wants tickets to a car show in January so I am going to book them in advance to save us some money.

My daughter has made her Xmas list as well so I am slowly working my way through that although at 7 years old I have managed to talk her out of a laptop and a hot tub :eek::eek:

My husband as always is not telling me anything he wants

And I have a few more things to find for gifts so am going to stalk ebay - Id also like to make a few bits for Xmas decorations and presents as well

Hope your all ok and hope you dont mind me joining in - Im looking forward to hints , tips, bargains etc

Sammy
x

murie

046- my 'kids' are 27 and 21, perhaps I didn't make that clear. I am very proud of them as they both have a strong sense of community and public spirit. I think it bothered DD more as it was domestic violence . Plus it is their continual gripe that both their car insurance premiums are so high because of idiot drivers etc which is what got their attention - erratic driving in the first place.

kerri_gt

Peppapig wrote: »

I do love this thread, all the random chatter is just so .....well I can't think of the word but I love it, it's a proper little community.

Thanks for all the good wishes, I go in at two o'clock today (hopefully sneak home after that), stay overnight (taking my iPad so I'll probably be reading on here) then have the biopsy at ten tomorrow morning. I'll be nil by mouth for another three hours then all being well I'll be back home in the afternoon. I'm taking the good advice and using the time to plan pressies plus the car insurance is due so I need to shop around for that. Plus I'll be on here of course.

I've got to find out how to change the payment card linked to my Apple ID because I can't download any apps. I don't download anything I have to pay for but they have in app purchases so I can't get them without the security number on the back of the card and I don't have that card anymore. I won't do that in hospital though in case the wifi isn't secure.

KERRI your comments are really funny, not always totally PC but they do make me laugh, you have the knack of summing things up. :rotfl: It sounds like you've got the eyebrow thing sorted so I hope you go for it. Will we get pics when it's done?

blushes - yes I'm afraid my sense of humour was mainly formed by watching Ben Elton / Jasper Carrot and Hale & Pace on a Sunday night (oh and Spitting Image - which used to make politics interesting) - so pc didn't always come into it. Coupled with also watching Catchphrase on a Saturday (say what you see) and sometimes I really shouldn't be allowed out in public

I will post pics of my brows if anyone is interested - so long as I don't look like a long lost Gallagher sibling - which I'm sure I won't, as said I have total faith in the beautician and promised to warn her if I was going to sneeze.

Hope all went well today and you're home now - if not I hope you remember your ipad charger x

Murie I'm thinking if the tree looks a bit sparse I'll drink the contents of the baubles and voila - instantly the number I see will have doubled :rotfl: I'm sure they'll look fine - OH will prob complain about me hanging things on it at which point I'll threaten to shove my home made (aged 6) xmas fairy somewhere sideways if I'm not allowed my gin on the tree.

Love the idea of the ginger and rhubarb gin *adds it to xmas list*. i made elderflower syrup this year and i must say it went rather well with GnT.

MandCo hoping that horrible migraine is feeling better now. xx

i've done a bit more xmas prep today (as well as spent the GDP of a small country renewing various insurances) A few years ago I made DN a santa sack with her name on. She now has a little sister so despite the fact the previous sack nearly reduced me to tear making it at times, I feel I should make her sister one too. Thankfully i still have the patterns and took a photo of the final article so have a reference. So now I have a list of the materials I need to buy and shall get a wiggle on with those so I'm not sewing it half cut on baubles come 24th Dec. Only problem so far is the lady I bought the sack from on fleabay no longer has them listed and gingham sacks seem harder to find than 4yrs ago - so i've messaged her and fingers crossed...else DN2 will be getting a lovely applique scene with santa and her name on and no sack :eek:

murie

Sammy-kaye- can I have the hot tub off your DDs list please???? I would love one!
Don't forget to look for discount codes off shows and exhibitions, there are usually some knocking around for the big venues.
I have been looking on the Jo Malone site as I was thinking of buying my Uncle and Aunt a candle from there- erm not at £300 !! The basic candles are £44 and aren't that special so I thought I would look at the deluxe and luxury ones- eek I nearly choked when I saw the prices! I would cry at the thought of burning a candle that cost £300- literally money up in smoke! Back to the drawing board for them.

Peppapig

SAMMYKAYE I am liking your DD's style, hope you can talk her out of them next year too

MURIE, I think I did hear that somewhere about the Queen and Dubonnet - unless it was you who told me of course. Maybe I will try the newer gins, it would be nice to like something alcoholic when we go out. Ooh I sounded like we have a social life then. OMG how much are those candles! I know Jo Malone is good but they're still just candles. I used to buy my mum candles but she'd never burn them so in the end I gave up.

KERRI you absolutely must post a pic - especially if you look like a Gallagher :rotfl:

Well you all seem really organised for Christmas already. I'm hoping that once the kitchen is moved and I get my room (DH insists on calling it the spare bedroom) sorted out then I can start properly and have somewhere to put things. Pressie wise I've got to get 12 adults (Mum, sis, BIL, DD1 and OH, DD2, DSD and her DH, DSS and his OH and honorary DD and her OH) plus 3 grown up children and 10 young children. I'm hoping we'll be doing the £10 a person thing again for the adults (£20 for the singlies- mum and DD2) and I aim to stick at £25-£30 each for the kiddiwinks including the grown up ones. I'll be basing that on full price though so if I can get things reduced it'll save a bit. So far I've got one adult done, a just started hamper for another adult and a couple of 'bargains' that will probably turn out to be no good for anybody!

You can probably tell by the waffling I've got time on my hands tonight. I came into hospital this afternoon and I've had bloods, obs, cannula is in and I've seen the doc. Managed a couple of hours at home for dinner (yay) and back here for eight o'clock. It's actually not bad, I've got my own little room which is heaven if a bit plain and tatty. The staff are all nice and if it wasn't for having my biopsy tomorrow I'd be quite enjoying it.

Oh I've forgotten the big festive news.....(drumroll please).....we've booked our Christmas Day dinner so no cooking for us this year! Mind you we'll be on bread and water for January!

kerri_gt

Hey Peppa ohhhhh....own room, very swish Seriously though, I'm glad you're doing ok even if it's not quite the Ritz.

Wow that's quite a shopping list - we stop 'kids' presents when they get to 18 which means a considerably cut down list this xmas - although it would usually 'just' be gift cards it was still something else to sort out.

Yay to booking Xmas dinner - I often think of that (as I cook) but then would miss the left overs for the next[STRIKE] day[/STRIKE] week. OH is very good at randomly inviting people, which is a lovely gesture but also makes it harder work for me (it's not so bad if dinner gets ruined if its just family). This year I think there's just going to be three of us and I'm planning a 'lucky dip' meat purchase from YS sticker items on Xmas Eve - for someone who likes to be totally organised it's going to be a test of nerves :eek:

04624181

Sammy_kaye- Sounds like you have got everything under control for your christmas prep. Lol your DD has certainly got the right idea x
Murie-Your kids are right! DH was talking to me on his mobile today whilst he was walking through manchester on his lunch hour. Hi and some other passers by had to calm down a guy shouting abuse at his GF. He said it was awful, and that was only verbal abuse!. Happening all too often.
kerrigt-renewing insurances suck! seems like we are all paying more and receiving less
peppa- nice to hear you managed to sneak off home as planned. Good news on the own room front. Wow christmas lunch out, sounds amazing.