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Just stop all this crap buying?

336 replies

PassingStranger · 26/11/2025 14:15

Woman in front of me today at shop buying a load of secret santa stuff this morning. I heard her telling the assistant. She also mentioned some of it was for a lucky dip. It was all sweets and chocolate too.

Can people not make a stand now and refuse to get sucked into all this crap.

Just because of a fairytale about a virgin birth sometime in December possibly the whole countries been brainwashed for years,into thinking people have got to have presents and secret santas and lucky díps etc?

Does anyone actually need any of this stuff anyway and more chocolate?
Will the world end if we start to push back?

Its so heavily entrenched into people's minds, they feel its Just something they must do.

I look forward to the day more people start to reject these things and think for themselves?

Is this really want I want to do or am im doing it because its something I have always done?

Do people really need what i am buying?
Martin Lewis seems to be on track with it.
Its ugly.

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Brefugee · 26/11/2025 14:34

largeredformeplease · 26/11/2025 14:20

I Love Christmas but I agree because I hate the tat.

id rather ppl buy chocolate than plastic crap destined for landfill though.

my nan went all out at Christmas, decorated her whole house. Same decorations every year. Now people go to B+M and buy tat by the trolleyful every single year.

Edited

and therefore you don't buy plastic tat?

tbh i am bemused by all the virtuous posts here about all the other people who buy plastic tat. I, and nobody i know, buys plastic tat nor ever has.

I mean, clearly some people are buying this stuff - they have their ressons i guess.

WiggyWiggyImGettingJiggy · 26/11/2025 14:32

You'll have changed your mind by the time the third ghost comes and visits you.

Wheech · 26/11/2025 14:30

I might be being a bah humbug but I agree. Its all just CONSUME CONSUME CONSUME and so much disposable plastic tat and palm oil sweets that lots of us can ill afford but feel the need to do because we're conditioned to see it as the norm. And it's easy to say you don't have to but realistically children expect things like chocolate advent calendars and workplaces do secret Santa events and nights out and there's only so much you can bow out of. A couple of friends have talked about work doing secret Santa where you either buy the silliest gift you can find, or ones where you don't know who you are buying for. What percentage of those gifts do you think are well received and end up anything other than in landfill or a charity shop?

Ambridgefan · 26/11/2025 14:27

No one is forcing you to buy it but presumably she did

washinwashoutrepeat · 26/11/2025 14:24

I agree. I hate all the crap. I would much rather have a couple of indulgent treats than à bucket load of shite. Also… stuff that can be really enjoyed and consumed is what I am choosing for gifts this year.

its just never ending… (as a teacher, I get a double load, most of which ends up in a charity shop!)

CharlotteFlax · 26/11/2025 14:21

It's CHRISTMAS! You buy what you want, I'll buy what I want.

GlassofRosePorfavor · 26/11/2025 14:21

Alright Ebeneezer calm down

largeredformeplease · 26/11/2025 14:20

I Love Christmas but I agree because I hate the tat.

id rather ppl buy chocolate than plastic crap destined for landfill though.

my nan went all out at Christmas, decorated her whole house. Same decorations every year. Now people go to B+M and buy tat by the trolleyful every single year.

DinoLil · 26/11/2025 14:17

Just buy what you want to buy and let other people buy their stuff. None of your business, really.

didntlikeanyofthesuggestions · 26/11/2025 14:17

"And a happy New Year"

ObtuseMoose · 26/11/2025 14:16

Wind yer neck in love.