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when does xmas start for you?

It is xmas eve for us, when we crack open the chocolates and baileys and put out our selection of goodies to snack on:j
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  • Smickan
    Smickan Posts: 1,053 Forumite
    When my brother gets in (Usually Christmas Eve) from Sheffield, the shops are shut, doors are locked, curtains are closed, fires on and we're relaxing and looking forward to the next day
  • Mine will be starting at 9pm on Sunday when I leave work go home and open a lovely bottle of wine to share with my H to celebrate the start of our christmas, I get stupidly excited about christmas eve let alone christmas day. My mum reckons I have a christmas eve eve :o
  • Nix143
    Nix143 Posts: 1,130 Forumite
    Today - I finished work :T
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  • sillyvixen
    sillyvixen Posts: 3,642 Forumite
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    last sunday, christams always begins with the candelight carol service at our church.
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  • suzy_g
    suzy_g Posts: 732 Forumite
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    mine starts xmas eve, this is when i allow myself to open the chocolates
  • :xmastree: We don't put our tree up until the kids finish school -tomorrow. That's when Christmas will start for us, OH finishes work early too. It's also Midwinter Day tomorrow and I celebrate that too -any excuse for a :beer:
  • Shoey1610 wrote: »
    Mine will be starting at 9pm on Sunday when I leave work go home and open a lovely bottle of wine to share with my H to celebrate the start of our christmas, I get stupidly excited about christmas eve let alone christmas day. My mum reckons I have a christmas eve eve :o

    exactly the same for me. im working until 8 on sunday and i hate my job so i cant look forward to christmas until i finish work on sunday
  • JesaRose
    JesaRose Posts: 4,457 Forumite
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    5pm tomorrow when I finish work for the year. Looking forward to that because I have a really bad cold at the moment :mad:
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  • mumoftwo
    mumoftwo Posts: 1,903 Forumite
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    Mine starts tomorrow at 12 noon when my OH and I pick up our daughters from school, we will have a Christmas CD on in the car, quite loud and the window open as we sit waiting for them. And shout.... It's Christmas!!!!!!!! when they come into the car..... lovely, can't wait. finished work today, OH took tomorrow morning off so it's just the girls now....
  • alimac23
    alimac23 Posts: 260 Forumite
    Tomorrow at 4pm when I finish work!
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