Just stop all this crap buying?

But I don’t buy seasonal shite. I buy carefully considered presents, which I don’t consider shite. I know some people will buy tat either a. Because it’s cheap and they can’t afford to to buy none tat stuff, or b. Because they pad out gifts to make it look like a lot, going for quantity rather than quality. Not my way of doing things, but if others want to do that, it’s none of my business.

Oh jog on
Where do you get off on telling People what to do ? Who are you to decide what people buy is "crap" ?

No chance of that not happening.

Well, for those who gorge on ultra processed food over the Christmas period, please don’t go complaining in the new year that you have put on so much weight 🤣

I am with you on this one.

• I have used the same plastic tree and decorations for years

• I don't think Christmas should be about consumerism

• In general I no longer have any interest in consuming to excess & if I need something I will go to a charity shop or look at what is available in places like Freeglenor Facebook marketplace

I think we are so conditioned to see buying more and more stuff as something that makes us feel good when really it is all just a marketing ploy.

I agree. Plastic tat and sugar overload. It’s not for me but lots of people love it, who cares.

Does it?? 😂

Completely agree with the concerns about buying plastic tat that will take millennia to degrade and poison our land/ water as well as harm animals on land and sea.

Maybe all plastic goods should come with a land fill or disposable surcharge to truly reflect their costs to society.

We as a family are also guilty of buying plastic tat- mainly driven by DH for youngest DC, and it makes me feel guilty. If the items were more expensive - I am sure DH would think again.

I’ve currently got a temp job in ‘posh’ supermarket and do the online shopping, it’s quite fascinating what some people buy compared to others. But it is Christmas so people are not buying their usual shops so you probably shouldn’t judge this time of year.

Yeah this. ^ I get sick of this shitty attitude (from some) on here, who rush to every thread like this to declare how stingy they are, how they HATE buying gifts for people, how no-one needs more than a lump of coal and an apple in their Christmas stocking, and a book and a Terry's Chocolate orange for their entire gift list. 🙄

DH and I have both our adult DC and their partners at our home this Christmas day, so 6 of us in total, (they're coming around 12.30pm,) and I am doing a massive buffet with no expense spared. 3 of us are vegetarians, 3 are not, so the food will be a mixture of both (obviously,) but about 70% vegetarian...

I have not added up what I've spent/am going to spend, as IDGAF, and I have am putting on the nicest, tastiest, good quality buffet, and I'm apologising to anyone, or explaining myself.

The race to the bottom attitude on MN really pisses me off.. And no-one is rejecting TAT as a pp suggested. My family and friends, and I don't buy TAT, thank you very much! It might be YOUR choice to buy 'tat' for people, (being a Scrooge!) But you don't get to speak for other people. My family, friends, and I do not buy tat!

Oh, and DH and I are buying each other loads of lovely gifts. Including a bottle of perfume for me that has a 3 figure price tag. DH and I will spend around £900 in total on our 2 DC and their partners. And we won't spare any expense for our other close family members, and our close friends will receive nice gifts too... And there will be LOADS of delicious (good quality) food in our house over Christmas. #sorrynotsorry

Also, pretty shitty thing for @PassingStranger (the OP) to declare Christmas as something that came from 'a fairytale.' As pps have said, dissing and mocking peoples beliefs, traditions, and customs is incredibly rude and arrogant.

I'm so glad to see that two thirds of posters voting on here, and commenting on here, think the OP is being unreasonable, and ridiculous! (And frankly, quite rude!)

YABVU @PassingStranger

Agree. It's boring now. 😴

Agree. It's boring now. 😴

It’s not a race to the bottom by rejecting tat, rejecting the need to buy stuff in order to have fun.

its like the exact opposite - rejecting the men who say your life will be better if you give me your money. Rejecting the stress, rejecting the cost is a way to have a happier life but you are considered strange if you decide to live happy.

look at the weight threads. The money threads. The stress threads. The threads making people
feel dreadful because their gifts are considered naff. No wonder some want to reject that and focus on human contact and the better - higher - uplifting - aspects of Christmas

Maybe read the invariable threads that will pop up soon, stating how harried, and stressed some posters are having to buy presents for everybody, including hard to buy for Aunt Maude, and the neighbours cat! Half of which, may not even be really appreciated by the receiver, whether it is deemed tat, or not.

Well, that sounds like a you issue.

You don’t have to buy landfill tat … I don’t.

I’m sick to death of the race to be Most Austere on here, as if we are all going to collectively tilt our heads and clap.

Same every year on here, always has been.

Or…it’s something you can’t afford to treat yourself to, or its something one of your loved ones saw and just knew you would love it.

What a lovely Christmas spirit you have!

I haven’t shat on anyone else’s Christmas like you just did.

Nasty.

NOBODY can have too much sweets and chocolate.

I think the huge uptake of weight loss drugs might suggest otherwise.

I actually agree with you!

I agree that it should be about a treat. But it isn't a treat if its just the same stuff we're consuming the other 364 days of the year, or it's stuff we would never want enough to buy for ourselves.

Everyone on this thread seems to view themselves as the voice of reason amongst everyone elses' tat consumption.