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Its the Most Wonderful time of The Year

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  • tommix
    tommix Posts: 41,256 Forumite
    Sure is..:beer::santa2::xmastree:

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  • Correctamundo :xmassign:
  • SamsReturn
    SamsReturn Posts: 2,489 Forumite
    I think a lot of people will disagree with you Jingle, those on their own; the homeless living on the street, the homeless living in some dirty temporary b&b who can hardly afford clothes for the kids, never mind toys.
    Happy Christmas stories only help many people see that it's not a happy time.
  • spadoosh
    spadoosh Posts: 8,732 Forumite
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    SamsReturn wrote: »
    I think a lot of people will disagree with you Jingle, those on their own; the homeless living on the street, the homeless living in some dirty temporary b&b who can hardly afford clothes for the kids, never mind toys.
    Happy Christmas stories only help many people see that it's not a happy time.

    The ironic thing is chirstmas is usually the only time of the year those people are thought about by anybody.
  • colinw
    colinw Posts: 59,967 Forumite
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    SamsReturn wrote: »
    I think a lot of people will disagree with you Jingle, those on their own; the homeless living on the street, the homeless living in some dirty temporary b&b who can hardly afford clothes for the kids, never mind toys.
    Happy Christmas stories only help many people see that it's not a happy time.

    It is a good point you make Sam it does just rub in the loneliness and misery some people feel when everyone is telling what a great time they should be having.
  • SamsReturn wrote: »
    I think a lot of people will disagree with you Jingle, those on their own; the homeless living on the street, the homeless living in some dirty temporary b&b who can hardly afford clothes for the kids, never mind toys.
    Happy Christmas stories only help many people see that it's not a happy time.
    spadoosh wrote: »
    The ironic thing is chirstmas is usually the only time of the year those people are thought about by anybody.
    colinw wrote: »
    It is a good point you make Sam it does just rub in the loneliness and misery some people feel when everyone is telling what a great time they should be having.

    Nobody really cares that people are alone for the rest of the year but all of a sudden a wave of guilt hits them at christmas and they feel that they should be at least seen to be doing something.

    I find this sickening :( :mad:
  • Bogof_Babe
    Bogof_Babe Posts: 10,803 Forumite
    Nobody really cares that people are alone for the rest of the year but all of a sudden a wave of guilt hits them at christmas and they feel that they should be at least seen to be doing something.

    I find this sickening :( :mad:

    Or is it because all the usual places the homeless etc. go for sanctuary are closed over Xmas? The lonely, who might sit in a library all day to keep warm and save on home heating bills, will be grateful for a community service maybe offering a cut price dinner, and of course the rough sleepers who won't have access to soup kitchens or night shelters for a couple of days.
    :D I haven't bogged off yet, and I ain't no babe :D

  • worried_jim
    worried_jim Posts: 11,631 Forumite
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    Can’t wait till all this plastic niceness is over and we can go back to hating one another on Jan 2nd. Humbug.
  • donnajunkie
    donnajunkie Posts: 32,412 Forumite
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    It is so long as something doesn't happen to screw it up. Dad has flu and i have things planned for later in the week. It had better not screw it up for us.

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    Not really no.
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