Christmas- Is it just me?

benbenandme

My Mum was horrified when I said I only spent £27 in tesco this week I am going to my sisters for xmas day and boxing day so don't really see that I need to get much more than my normal shop. Mum then said she's making me some sausage rolls and a christmas log. I told her I don't need a log as its only me and ds and he won't eat any of it and she replied "but its not xmas if you don't have one" :eek: , hmm ... don't remember the bit where the wise men brought baby jesus a swiss roll covered in butter icing :rolleyes:

Penny2myName

I got a touch annoyed over sprouts yesterday when i went into asda, I bought mine the other day for 50p, went in yesterday and there was a bag of organic sprouts reduced to 10p, oh and they had loads of normal sprouts in too:rotfl:

specialhat

My friends and I do a Secret Santa between us, so we all only have to buy one pressie but everyone gets one too. Usually we pull someone's name out of a hat to buy for but we're doing it on the NYE party this year, so everyone is just bringing a unisex gift along with them to swap. The budget is £5-£10. Perfect!

postingalwaysposting

well i find it all amuzing i work in retail and watching everyone rush around to buy loads of stuff that will gend up in the bin baffles me but i find it so funny :rotfl: prob because i finish my xmas shopping really early (presents) and come december if i havent already brought it tough ~ if people dont like what i have tough :rotfl:

Food shoppings the fun one... i taught my mum to save for this year so armed with her £25 vouchers and a basket she tackled the crowds and she managed to get everything on tuesday. Yesterday we went out with a little list but we went to local shops and aldi/lidl and it was great in and out so the total for food was £29.80 plus £10 for the turkey when we brought it at my staff shopping night :rotfl:

I must say though i think xmas is all hyped for 2 days people get into £1000's worth of debt ~ why?

gallygirl

yellowmonkey wrote: »

Good grief. Xmas has arrived. Dont even like sprouts myself i would have been putting them in someones trolley to save me having them. As for the 20 loaves of bread they should limit people to 2 max. Then again she may have had to buy for a home and the bread was for the residents on xmas evening. That is the problem you never know

ym

Lucky residents - 20 loaves & 1 bag of sprouts between them . Is that the veggie version of the loaves & fishes :rotfl:.

As for what was in the lorries, my money's on sun tan lotion

benbenandme

Totally agree pap, people go mad. I think we all want to create a warm cosy loving environment. Would it really make a huge difference to our enjoyment of the day if we had one less boxes of choccies or one less bottle of wine?? But there is such pressure to buy into it all and yet most of us can probably only remember one gift we received last year ...

Actiongirl_2

Well, at the risk of sounding cheerful (i know, defeats the purpose of the OP!) but I went last minute shopping yesterday and REALLY ENJOYED MYSELF!

I could afford everything I bought, it was frosty and pretty in Cambridge which is my nearest town, and wrapping everything up last night made me happy - putting love and attention into the carefully planned presents I had bought.

I then collected my Goose from the butchers at 8am this morning, and OH is about to take me for a festive lunch somewhere pretty in the countryside.

My first baby is due in 10 weeks and I really couldnt be happier!

Have a nice day everyone!
xxx

Nenen

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Thank you SO much to all the extremely witty posters who have genuinely and literally made me laugh out loud! Ironic isn't it that a thread about the difficulties of being in the 'Christmas Spirit' is the funniest one around for a very long time!

Happy Christmas to you all... and I'll never be able to look at a chocolate log again as long as I live without a mental image of three wise men arriving on camels complete with Tesco carrier bag (hopefully recycled) full of chocolate log (no doubt it was slightly cracked and battered after its long trip across the dessert/desert)!
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ZTD

benbenandme wrote: »

I told her I don't need a log as its only me and ds and he won't eat any of it and she replied "but its not xmas if you don't have one" :eek: , hmm ... don't remember the bit where the wise men brought baby jesus a swiss roll covered in butter icing :rolleyes:

It's in celebration of the present the three wise men left behind when they discovered the stables wasn't complete with conveniences...

bathgatebuyer

I was in a few shops yesterday and there were certainly people flexing a lot of plastic - couple in front of me were buying two laptops as they have 'two boys and they would just fight if we only got them one'. :eek:

Or alternatively, they would learn to share and not be such spoilt little brats :rolleyes:

Great, just what the world needs, more spoilt brattish kids.