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.....fraking hate Christmas?:lol:

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I am with you on that one.

BA HUMBUG!!!!!!

Paddy:thumbup:

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It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year;)

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I hate it more every year. Had hoped to escape it here but they still get all excited by it. You are forced to take part :sneaky:

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Yeah. Same old.

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I hereby declare this the humbug thread, for having a whinge about the commercial juggernaut that is Christmas!!!

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We're not having Christmas this year. The old man and I have decided that we will buy things for ourselves/each other when and if there is something we need or want and do not need any particular day set aside for it. Our daughter has said that rather than buy her Christmas presents she would like to go to Canada for her 16th birthday in August so that's what we're doing. With the money we save not buying crap for the sake of buying for each other we're going to take a trip to visit family, with stops in New York and San Francisco on the way there and London and Dubai on the way home.

I'm another non-Christmas type. Hate the music (where's the puke smilie?), hate the crowds, hate the fakeness of it all, hate the having to buy $10 "gifts" for people at work because you're part of a secret santa. Just hate all of it!

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Hurrah!!!:thumbsup: Secret Santa is $30 at my work. Bastards.

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Seconded. The last couple of years I've found myself particularly disliking Xmas carols . . . the words are just plain daft.

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Hells teeth, how much do you spend on Christmas? :eek: The amount I spend wouldn't get the four of us to Sydney, let alone a trip like that :blink:

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The old man got a nice redundancy package from his employer, so that's paying for the tickets. The spending money is what we would have spent on pressies.

Usually we do one big thing ($200 or so) each then the usual little stuff - pjs, socks & undies, books, etc.

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I love Christmas.

Next year my boy starts at an Anglican school so we'll get proper Christmas carols again which will make a nice change from all the government school secular Christmas stuff they sing at the moment.

The Mrs bought a huge turkey the other day. Can't wait...

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Humbug!

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Jeez, it'll be rancid by the 25th :eek:

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Love Christmas, I think its as fake as you make it.

Give your cards/good wishes and presents with sincerity and it isnt fake. If I dont like someone then they dont get a car, I buy Mr PP a pressie and thats it.

In fact, I have a set of reindeer antlers at home that I shall be wearing at work and we are decorating reception - cant wait.:lol:

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I love Christmas the lights, the glitter, the good will to all men, the church services, the breathless anticipation on kids faces, the whole kit and caboodle and the odd glass of champagne too :thumbsup:

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I love it, wish it was Christmas everyday - just a break for my Birthday:D

Cooler

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Can you lot of Xmas lovers get lost to another thread!:lol:

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I am a rebel in the secret santa set ups - I think its pathetic. I dont even have any idea of how much anything costs. I regularly give Sara $20 for milk etc as I am never sure what is enough. So I jut go buy some random thing I want to buy and stuff the bloody stupid budgets. As if I dont have enough to buy and I hate shopping. Or I get that amount worth of scratch cards.

I like christmas though, I like any holidays. I like being nice to people and people generally being easy going. I love christmas lights and the bbq and the children you see on the street being excited.

I hate all the pets left at home alone or given in like people just forget their responsibilities. My poor dog and chickens are being left home alone in January and I am already worried about them.

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Viv, ffs, only xmas negatives here!!!

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That was my negatives - dont get me started on the bloody positives.

Heres a negative - I hate christmas cards (sending them not getting them) - so for the last 15 years I send 4 cards.

anyway - I realised my christmas card list have all gone and bloody died on me. Now its like I dont even have a card responsibility at all. selfish gits.

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What irritates me is the whole Santa in department store thing...

"And what do you want for Christmas?"

Teaching kids to be materialistic, sadly the economy lives off materialism.

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That does my head in. What does Jeebus have to do with money?

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Now now Viv, you don't give to recieve!;)

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miserable git - I used to LOVE father christmas. You spend 50+ years with the real life problems, cleaning, working, trying to get by. Get a bit more fantasy in before you realise it was all a sick joke I reckon. I encourage my kids in every imaginery dream they can have. It doesnt make them materialistic at all if you bring them up the right way - the world does that. Its a far bigger problem than santa and has come about years and years later. I wish I could pretend some nice bloke cared enough about me to come in the night all the way from the north pole with things that I have wanted.

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actually never thought of that - I never got any cards back anyway! Thats actually true but hey, they did love me honest

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No it's the commercial side of Christmas, the side that stores use for $$$. The spirit of Christmas I like.

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Could you not just pretend that some nice bloke cared enough about you to come in the night all the way from the north pole with things that you have wanted?

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I hate all the family negotiations. Does my ****ing nut in. What food to have. Who's buying who presents. How much to spend. Whose house to go to on the day. And on and on and on ... and someone always gets miffed and says, "Well I'm not coming then," like some sulky 14 year old teenager. This year I have decided to say **** 'em all - and you will find me on patrol at my local beach.

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We never had family negotiations. Everyone said they were coming to me, they would then buy me and my family crap presents whilst I would sweat blood finding the perfect present for them. Not one bugger ever said they weren't coming, well not until one year when I said I was not doing christmas for everyone, we were having a 4 person family christmas for once. They all sulked and then found they could afford to go away or go to a restaurant. Families should be shot at christmas.

Disclaimer: last comment was a joke in poor taste.

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Thats one way of reducing the Christmas present list :D

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Miserable bastards (not all).

I love christmas......not in this steaming shitehole of a place.....but I love a proper Christmas with all the cards and food and drink etc.:thumbsup:

I will miss it this year again:(

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Not just us by the looks of it...

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A proper xmas went long ago. It's all about materialism now.

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sorry but its a yes and no from me :unsure:

hate the way its dragged out for over two months with the shops full of chrissie stuff form late sept early oct to the jan 1/2 price decorations sales
that and friggin piped chrissie music in the malls that does get on me tits very quickly :frown:

love the time of work with the family, and for a few days alls forgotten and most people try that bit harder to get on with each other:thumbsup:fingerscrossed:

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Its not though, thats just if you make it so. Yes there is more available, people spend more, the shops dress up more but you make your own christmas. I love it here now I am not trying to make it like home.

I love carols in the park and at the local church. I love doing nothing and eating finger food. I love making things with the children and the lights in the garden. I love staying up late and swimming in the pools under fairy lights.

Christmas dinner is still good - I still drink lots of port and get joanna lumley on everyone.

It doesnt have to be expensive or hard work, the thing is to just kick back and enjoy

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Its not though, thats just if you make it so. Yes there is more available, people spend more, the shops dress up more but you make your own christmas. I love it here now I am not trying to make it like home.

I love carols in the park and at the local church. I love doing nothing and eating finger food. I love making things with the children and the lights in the garden. I love staying up late and swimming in the pools under fairy lights.

Christmas dinner is still good - I still drink lots of port and get joanna lumley on everyone.

It doesnt have to be expensive or hard work, the thing is to just kick back and enjoy

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Its not though, thats just if you make it so. Yes there is more available, people spend more, the shops dress up more but you make your own christmas. I love it here now I am not trying to make it like home.

I love carols in the park and at the local church. I love doing nothing and eating finger food. I love making things with the children and the lights in the garden. I love staying up late and swimming in the pools under fairy lights.

Christmas dinner is still good - I still drink lots of port and get joanna lumley on everyone.

It doesnt have to be expensive or hard work, the thing is to just kick back and enjoy

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Ok, oK one post was enough.......!:lol:

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bloody computer. Things dont respond fast enough so I just click lots of times :)

I am procrastinating instead of working again....