The CHRISTMAS Thread

[The Bear]

I've not even thought about it yet. I've asked my mum what she wants but she doesn't know yet. Can't say I want anything either really.

 

[Pablowolf]

I know, I know. I've let you down, I've let the forum down but most of all, I've let myself down.

But you've made me very proud. I've only got to get a bottle of whiskey and a bottle of gin and I'm done and dusted. I've even saved up gifts that have come in tarty bags over recent years so I don't have to do any wrapping. Christmas is my bitch.

 

[Tyrannosaurus Dan]

I haven't bought anything for my wife yet but the kids are pretty much done.

We started buying presents in August. There is no possible way we could have got all the presents for both kids out of 2 months pay.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

You could have bought fewer presents.

 

[Parkins left foot]

I haven't bought anything for my wife yet but the kids are pretty much done.

We started buying presents in August. There is no possible way we could have got all the presents for both kids out of 2 months pay.

They need to start learning the meaning of austerity really!

 

[Pablowolf]

I haven't bought anything for my wife yet but the kids are pretty much done.

We started buying presents in August. There is no possible way we could have got all the presents for both kids out of 2 months pay.

If you want to spoil your kids at Christmas, it's your prerogative, but WHAT.THE.FUCK?!?!

 

[MARKakaJIM]

If you want to spoil your kids at Christmas, it's your prerogative, but WHAT.THE.FUCK?!?!

Maybe there isn't a lot of disposable income available?

 

[Tyrannosaurus Dan]

If you want to spoil your kids at Christmas, it's your prerogative, but WHAT.THE.FUCK?!?!

Most of our money goes on bills, hence why we buy spread it over buying some each month.

We probably do spoil them a bit, though.

 

[Tyrannosaurus Dan]

You could have bought fewer presents.

I like buying Christmas presents. Maybe I'm weird.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

I don't celebrate Christmas (I have no cause to now). So we're two ends of the same scale, but on the same side.

This is like Berlin in 1989.

 

[Pablowolf]

Most of our money goes on bills, hence why we buy spread it over buying some each month.

We probably do spoil them a bit, though.

Ahh, I just read your post the wrong way. Apologies.

 

[Pablowolf]

I don't celebrate Christmas (I have no cause to now). So we're two ends of the same scale, but on the same side.

This is like Berlin in 1989.

You're going to be visited by three spirits this Christmas Eve.



I wonder who Tiny Tim is in all this?

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Vodka, whisky and er, amaretto (there's always some dick who brings that)?

But no, I don't celebrate Christmas. I live on my own. My parents aren't in the area at that time of year, my grandparents are dead, I'm single, I have no children (I don't particularly like other people's children either as a rule, they're just annoying), I have no other family I really want to talk to (well, I'll be at our kid's, but he's even less festive than I am), my friends have their own stuff going on. I'm an atheist. So I don't see the point. Who am I supposed to be celebrating with and what am I supposed to be celebrating exactly?

Don't get me wrong, I'll watch Home Alone and Die Hard, and buy a Christmas jumper just for the Liverpool game, because I like to enter into the spirit of things and they are two fucking great films. I'll watch It's A Wonderful Life because it's a cinematic masterpiece. But I don't celebrate Christmas.

If that makes me as empty as Hugh Grant in About A Boy, so be it. No man is an island, well I fucking am. And it's a good island.

 

[Alan]

Vodka, whisky and er, amaretto (there's always some dick who brings that)?

But no, I don't celebrate Christmas. I live on my own. My parents aren't in the area at that time of year, my grandparents are dead, I'm single, I have no children (I don't particularly like other people's children either as a rule, they're just annoying), I have no other family I really want to talk to (well, I'll be at our kid's, but he's even less festive than I am), my friends have their own stuff going on. I'm an atheist. So I don't see the point. Who am I supposed to be celebrating with and what am I supposed to be celebrating exactly?

Don't get me wrong, I'll watch Home Alone and Die Hard, and buy a Christmas jumper just for the Liverpool game, because I like to enter into the spirit of things and they are two fucking great films. I'll watch It's A Wonderful Life because it's a cinematic masterpiece. But I don't celebrate Christmas.

If that makes me as empty as Hugh Grant in About A Boy, so be it. No man is an island, well I fucking am. And it's a good island.

If a friend invited you to join their Christmas day activities, would you go?

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[The Bear]

If I didn't have my mum and other family we go and see at Christmas, I wouldn't bother celebrating it either. I only do it for other people.

 

[PPB]

A few days of not logging on then you come back to Jellybean eating Christmas tree crisps, Langers is Christmas shopping in NOVEMBER, DW is going Christmas jumper shopping, PPB has made her Christmas cake, and Johnny might be getting his own ' Ask Johnny ' thread! :icon_lol:

 

[PPB]

If I didn't have my mum and other family we go and see at Christmas, I wouldn't bother celebrating it either. I only do it for other people.

Did you like Christmas as a child? I didnt, in fact I have a mental block on them. Think that's why I'm so annoyingly Chrismassy in me later life.

 

[The Bear]

Yeah I did. Once I hit my teens I knew it was just for show.

 

[AndyWolves]

Vodka, whisky and er, amaretto (there's always some dick who brings that)?

But no, I don't celebrate Christmas. I live on my own. My parents aren't in the area at that time of year, my grandparents are dead, I'm single, I have no children (I don't particularly like other people's children either as a rule, they're just annoying), I have no other family I really want to talk to (well, I'll be at our kid's, but he's even less festive than I am), my friends have their own stuff going on. I'm an atheist. So I don't see the point. Who am I supposed to be celebrating with and what am I supposed to be celebrating exactly?

Don't get me wrong, I'll watch Home Alone and Die Hard, and buy a Christmas jumper just for the Liverpool game, because I like to enter into the spirit of things and they are two fucking great films. I'll watch It's A Wonderful Life because it's a cinematic masterpiece. But I don't celebrate Christmas.

If that makes me as empty as Hugh Grant in About A Boy, so be it. No man is an island, well I fucking am. And it's a good island.

I'm jealous of you.

Christmas becomes such a palarva trying to keep everybody happy, there's always some family member who is a dick and I could do without it.

I'd much prefer to stay in for two days and enjoy the peace & quiet but that's not an option.

Christmas for kids is fine, but once you get past the age of say 13 we should stop buying each other presents. It'd stop all the rubbish, stressful Christmas shopping and would stop loads of pointless debt

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

If a friend invited you to join their Christmas day activities, would you go?

Depends.

I'm not rabidly Christmas hating, I don't judge people who are really into it (except in the middle of November). I just don't celebrate it, I don't want gifts off anyone, I see the people I care about often enough through the year.