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Post by everso on Nov 21, 2010 23:36:42 GMT
Does anyone else feel like me? It's not Christmas Day that's a problem for me. I love the cooking and sitting down to eat part. I even enjoy the relatives. It's just the bloody Christmas present buying lark. I get so pissed off walking round M & S or Debenhams or Boots or whatever. All those useless bits of tat that are on sale, that nobody really needs, really annoys me. I'm hopeless at coming up with original ideas for presents and then I hate myself for resorting to pajamas or socks.
Even worse is taking Mr. E. with me. He's a great believer in leaving everything to the last minute and buying in a panic.
I feel there's a great weight on me from the middle of November until Boxing Day and I really resent it.
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Post by jean on Nov 22, 2010 0:37:06 GMT
I've long ago agreed with friends and relatives not to buy any.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2010 1:49:36 GMT
I'm with you Everso, dont like christmas... not at all. im by nature a pretty cheery sort of fella, but christmas knocks it all outta me. If anythink its the coupla days where i stop being cheery and qwuietly contemplate and reflect. i don't 'do' christmas, and dont appreciate the enforced 'jollity' that it foists on people. i usually stay in by myself on christmas day, and expect i will be doing the same this year.
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Post by housesparrow on Nov 22, 2010 10:31:41 GMT
The streets become unbearable in the weeks before Christmas as they fill with with bad-tempered shoppers.
Already people are walking around with miserable and harassed expressions on their faces.
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Post by Weyland on Nov 22, 2010 11:52:35 GMT
I've long ago agreed with friends and relatives not to buy any. I'm more or less in that camp. Makes for a better Season of Good Will. I say more or less because I/we've got in the habit of just buying a present for someone when you stumble upon something that's just right, which is rarely at the right time of year. And it's no good then keeping it until the right time, because by then I'll have forgotten its very existence, or if not, where it is. The Dutch gift season is already upon them. Sinter Klaas arrives by boat from Turkey and/or Spain every year in plenty of time for his birthday celebrations on 5/6 December, and he's here now. I saw the Goede Sint in 's-Heerenberg on Saturday. The Sint with the mayor and some of His Zwarte Piets. Two tasty Piets. Fancy the sultry-looking one on the left.
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Post by Patrick on Nov 22, 2010 17:43:48 GMT
We've solved the problem this year. With a little help from the Bastards at AXA Insurance of course. Christmas - to put it very simply - has been..... We'll send out a few cards, but apart from that - no pressies this year, and without pressies it's pointless putting up a tree. We intend to spend most of it inebriated until it goes away.
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Post by Patrick on Nov 22, 2010 17:48:05 GMT
The streets become unbearable in the weeks before Christmas as they fill with with bad-tempered shoppers. Already people are walking around with miserable and harassed expressions on their faces. Yup! Thank Gawd for Internet shopping! (In the times when I needed to at Christmas that is.) I've barely "Physically" been Christmas shopping for about five years!
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Post by tarzanontarmazepam on Nov 22, 2010 22:13:25 GMT
Oh, it's not nearly Christmas again is it? For crying out loud. I always end up talking with some relative I despise on Christmas Day about the plight of some lower league football side. I have no idea why that keeps happening. Then I have to take a pile of unwanted golfing novelty gifts through to another room, ( I don't play bloody golf) whilst having to find bloody bin liners for reams of torn wrapping paper. .. Then I end up rupturing my nasal septum by attempting to wear one of those miniature plastic moustaches from out the cracker at the dinner table...then fall alseep in front of The Great Escape before mid evening charades... Bloody Christmas!
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