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Old Dec 22nd 2005, 6:06 pm
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Default Re: Weird US traditions drive me bonkers..

Originally Posted by Wintersong
Doesn't that have the same stigma attached to it as going to Poundstretcher in the UK?
cor poundstretcher......that's going back a bit..yeah the stores are great...everything is a dollar you'll spend $40 easy
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Old Dec 22nd 2005, 6:07 pm
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Originally Posted by basementwaj
how much were things in there then?
Really cheap, a couple of quid, but it all depended on what you were buying, it's not quite like a dollar store.
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Old Dec 22nd 2005, 6:09 pm
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Originally Posted by Celtic_Angel
cor poundstretcher......that's going back a bit..yeah the stores are great...everything is a dollar you'll spend $40 easy
We were poor, I had huge boobs as a kid & my mum would sometimes buy me a bra, if I was lucky, from Poundstretchers, I still remember picking one out!!! Man it sucked being poor.
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Originally Posted by Partystar
Really cheap, a couple of quid, but it all depended on what you were buying, it's not quite like a dollar store.

poundland is still a store that my gran buys my chritmas pressies from!
gotta love those shoe polishing kits, year old chocolates, clothes pegs, tuppaware, durasmell batteries (i before e) and lanx deoderant!
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Originally Posted by Partystar
We were poor, I had huge boobs as a kid & my mum would sometimes buy me a bra, if I was lucky, from Poundstretchers, I still remember picking one out!!! Man it sucked being poor.
you start by telling me you have huge boobs.....and expect me to sympathise

nothing wrong with poundstretchers or 99c only stores.....expensive crap ...cheap crap when Jan 1st comes around it's all crap
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Originally Posted by basementwaj
you have far too much time on your hands!!!!!!!!!!!
Once you've learnt how to spell you can move on to mastering the art of cut and paste.
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I dont know what all the stress is personally. Once again Christmas will pass me by with barely a whisper. Just a quick round of pressy opening early in the morning. And thats about it.
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Originally Posted by Celtic_Angel
you start by telling me you have huge boobs.....and expect me to sympathise

nothing wrong with poundstretchers or 99c only stores.....expensive crap ...cheap crap when Jan 1st comes around it's all crap
They were such a bane in my life that I had them cut off!
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Having a HAM for xmas dinner, a lot of my american friends have asked me this week "have you got your ham yet?"
Don't have one, don't want one, thank you very much
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Originally Posted by Celtic_Angel
nothing wrong with poundstretchers or 99c only stores.....expensive crap ...cheap crap when Jan 1st comes around it's all crap
And all that crap wherever it comes from has loads of crap packaging that you have to get rid of at the time in the year when you don't have trash collection.

Come to think of it cheap crap has less packaging than expensive crap. That's got to be worth a trip to Big Lots.
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Originally Posted by Partystar
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Originally Posted by franc11s
1. Can American women understand how unattractive it is to see them in a Christmas cardigan (straight after the organge pumpkin ones). they are pathetic.. Something you might wear if you were two years old and it was knitted by Granny... Ladies - unattractive is an understatement - DON'T wear them..... :scared:

2. Please STOP sending me christmas cards disguised as photographs of your entire family. What is that all about?

3. Americans who turn up for the Christmas party / dinner party in a jumper, jeans or less than even Friday casual wear (or said cardigans). You can tell the Europeans because we all make an effort and it's nice and the women look great....

I LOVE Christmas but these things make me cringe. Bah humbug .
They don't have real traditions here, America hasn't been around long enough. They only have things they remember doing last year.

How many times do you hear of people "starting a family tradition" ? Is that an oxymoron?
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Originally Posted by AmerLisa
LOL!
What made it worse is that everyone said to me "oh that's so nice; wish we had more people like you in the office"!!!!

I was thinking to myself, why don't you get off your lazy cheapo arse and spend $10 to do the same thing.
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Originally Posted by TRPardoe
They don't have real traditions here, America hasn't been around long enough. They only have things they remember doing last year.

How many times do you hear of people "starting a family tradition" ? Is that an oxymoron?
That's a bit unfair. A tradition has to start somewhere. Our family has a "traditional" Christmas day breakfast of scrambled eggs, crusty bread and champagne. We've done it for about the last 20 years. Just because my Grandparents didn't do it, doesn't mean it isn't a family tradition.
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Originally Posted by izibear
Oy, leave my Christmas jumpers alone.

I love the way that people celebrate over here.
Yeah I agree to a point as they do go out to make the effort a little more than us Brits but as usual over here they go OTT as with everything, kinda in your face too much..it'll be Valentine's next, wreaths on the door and all that...lol not sure what comes after that, is it Easter or the little green leprechauns...lol Have fun whatever you are all up to and keep your glue gun handy..I think not
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