did some christmas shopping today ..just thought I would drop that in....now sneaks of to hide as I mentioned the c word!

I hope you got me something nice and expensive. lol

a book called 'how to make friends and influence people' ...ha ha ha:)

Be no good I can't read.
I like your Avatar, there you go that's being friendly, but some on here would take offence even at that, just coz it came from my mouth.:(

Xmas - bar humbug me!!!

Saying that i've got 3 presents and i'm almost on the verge of boycotting it full stop.. Full of festive cheer, yeah right!!

its come supplied with a cd ...so if you cant hear either then I will have to return it !

oh suejaw know the feeling .....had to walk around a ***TOYSHOP*** there I said it I do feel better.....

> had to walk around a ***TOYSHOP***

Oh no!! Now I'm depressed!! I was so glad when my sons grew up and there was no need to visit the dreaded ToysRus anymore. But now I have a granddaughter so it's back to the dreaded toyshop!!

Kind Regards

We not really doing presents this year because of Tiva's eye being removed- but we are still going to buy the children something small which they don't no about and of course the poopy dogs :-)

not trying to do bigger brag...but I have all my card written & stamped, all my pressies are wrapped an sitting on the stairs ready to go and all my things for my clubs christmas party are ready in the boxes. the reason? I have holidays to take before the end of the year and I knew that if I didnt to the christmas thing just now I would waste my holiday by spending time wrapping writtng etc! now I can spend going for nice long walks and relax

Suejaw got to agree with you - the older I get the more stressful Christmas gets.  Family never sort themselves out until last minute - My Mum can't help it this year because she hasn't been too good but everyone else dithers so never know how much food to get in.  We don't have children and grandchildren this year because they are all off to partner's parents.  We can't go to stay with my family because of dog and parrot (we parrot-sit for our son and d-i-l) As for presents - I think we have all realised that it has got too much.  Ban pressies (except for under 10s) and just get together for good nosh and chat!  As for all the commercialism - yep!  Bah Humbug!!!

> its come supplied with a cd ...so if you cant hear either then I will have to return it !

No don't return it I need all the help I can get, just checked me Facebook and I'm Billy no mates me. ;)

I dont do christmas anymore only for little ones,I usually have to work anyway which I enjoy,and of couse me and the dogs have a nice christmas dinner but thats it.

Sheila                

> and of couse me and the dogs have a nice christmas dinner but thats it.

Any room at the table for a little 'un, I don't eat much. lol :) But I can't cook see. ;)

I've got most of my presents bought as I like to buy when I see something that suits a person:-)

Also cards bought and dabbling in making some too. Next thing is making wrapping paper.

:-D now sneaks of to hide as I mentioned the c word!

A lady after my own heart :-) ............... got my first two today as well, this year I am getting it all out of the way early before the shops start filling up, probably doing the wrong thing as no doubt competition may drive down prices nearer the time, but it may put them up either, taking pot luck and just getting it out of the way.

I am turning humbug though, could quite happily jet off to a desert island and come back when it is all finished. :-D

five grandchildren all presents wrapped and posted to their mothers so they are there for xmas,

daughter that is still at home just wants some money to go to hmv and the games shop

hubby has not got a clue what he wants

food sorted as been saving with the postoffice xmas club all year

so i am finished apart from
for the first time in over 15 years we are having a real xmas tree
i know the needles can be a pain especially if they stick in your foot but i am
looking forward to a real tree

Hey, I too, am getting a real tree this year!  I LURVE christmas!!
I have 4 small kids(under 10), loads of nieces & nephews and we have a huge big christmas day at my mums house.  We all pitch in and it's a exhausting but brilliant day.  I have some pressies in allready as I buy as I see for people but I still have my own kids to buy for.

I do have the dogs christmas outfits and pressies(before the kids)(am I sad?!)

love the smell of a real tree.

So do I. :-) And it's much more environmentally friendly too.

Me too with the tree, I am sorry to say it's the only bit of Christmas I really enjoy since my children have grown up, it's just lost it's magic :( I decided to go all designer with the theme one year but somehow all the bits that they had made over the years crept on and the first decoration my husband & I bought ( mummy & daddy Christmas in bed about £4.00 from Paperchase in 1981- very extravagent!!!) 

Im pretty poor this year but was really happy with myself when I found 2 very expensive designer handbags in a charity shop by me for wait for it... £12 and a brand new scarf from Monsoon in the same charity shop for £3.

I do love Wimbledon sometimes

We've all just turned really boring and make out lists of stuff we want, which the other half then emails around if asked. So I get some unasked for (and unwanted!) stuff but mostly things that at least I do want, even if it doesn't take much thought to buy off Amazon! We need to get the Xmas newsletter out right at the start of Advent though because last year we were in temporary digs with the in-laws and we've hardly got round to telling anyone where we actually live now! :-p

Well done Triona, I leave near Banstead and it's definitely a good place  place to get stuff, wall to wall designer in the charity shops. It's amazing how good a bargain can make you feel :)

Too early!!!! too early!!! Christmas isn't allowed til December 1st! LOL

Had a shock on Monday. Sunday - 31st Oct - local Tescos had witchy things & pumpkins wall-too-wall
Went in Monday morning all swept away (with a broomstick?) but in its place was a twinkling decorated Christmas tree! Run...run... and hide.....

How is a real tree more environmentally friendly than a fake tree?

I don't do deccies, so never had a tree fake nor real, but maybe a real tree could be replanted, not sure like.
I'm no Titchmarsh.

>How is a real tree more environmentally friendly than a fake tree?

A real tree absorbs carbon from the atmosphere all the time it's growing. If it's pot-grown or carefully dug up it can be returned outside after Christmas to carry on growing and absorbing carbon; it's carbon-negative. If it's cut it just stops removing carbon and simply returns what it's previously absorbed to the atmosphere as it decays or it burned; it's carbon-neutral. They're also generally fairly locally grown so not a lot of carbon is released during their transportation.

A fake tree is made from plastics and other fossil-fuel based materials, made in a factory which is powered by fossil fuels and then transported, usually from China where the majority seem to be made, using enormous amounts of fossil fuels in the process. Their carbon footprint is enormous.

A real tree is much 'greener'.

getting a tree in a pot so it can go outside and come in every year
OH still upset that we are getting a real tree, told him he must wear his
slippers or it is his fault when he gets a needle in the foot,
the only thing i am worried about is my male cocking his leg up it when it comes
into the house

The person who posted about the 'designer christmas' reminded me of my mum!!
My mum always has 'tasteful' decorations and all including the tree are colour co-ordinated to match her decor.  My house, which the kids decorate, so imagine all the home-made macaroni & tinsel decorations and the toilet paper fairy, ect.  Just imagine if christmas had threw up, my house looks like that.  My mum walked in, rolled her eyes, and make a nasty comment about me being 'tacky'.  The next day when she left for work, I took the kids to her house armed with spray snow in all colours and loads of tinsel hanging decorations and totally annialated her' tasteful christmas'!  Thing was, she couldn't take the decorations down cos the blue tack had stained her roof and she had blue spots all over it so she had to keep them up till after the new year!
Serves her right, snob!!
PS  OH went over and painted her roof after new year to make it up to her.

Real tree for me this year as well it wouldn't be the same without the lovely smell.  I haven't even thought of pressies yet.

Our tree always looked like 'Christmas threw up' (great expression!) when we were kids, no style or taste whatsoever. Nowadays hubby enforces rule of only 2 or 3 colours allowed, so it's an explosion of red and green one year, blue & silver another, green and gold and silver another etc. And it goes up on Dec 1st unless I'm out all day and can't get to it!

Thanks for tht JG, never thought of it that way before!

If I am going to put up decorations for Christmas then I like a 'thrown up' look 'cos it reminds me of being a kid when it was so very exciting and new.  Never got that same feeling as I did when I was a kid but I do try. 

It's a rooted tree in a pot for me too and then outside in the garden it goes until next year.  I've moved house six times in the last ten years and I've left a tree in the garden of everyone of them.  I hope they've survived!  :-)