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To try and recreate a Christmas market in my back garden.

213 replies

Namechabged · 27/11/2020 23:26

All I’ve got so far is an extension lead so I can plug a slow cooker and a microwave in outside, and taking £100 out of the cash machine. I’m thinking I sling four bottles of Aldi mulled wine and some sliced oranges in the slow cooker and charging myself £7 deposit for a mug and £6 for a top up, and then mircrowaving some hotdogs and doughnuts and Nutella and charging £6 for them too. I haven’t got any further than that but welcome ideas.

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Tombero · 28/11/2020 09:18

Love this thread, we’ve been planning similar.

Don’t forget tiny samples of the cheese you’re selling. This will help guilt trip you into paying £15 for a lump of tesco value Brie. (Preferably presented on my Christmas market bought overpriced artisan chopping board, lovingly hand made from reclaimed floorboards and treated with something that still smells odd 2 years later).

And teeny weeny plastic shot glasses with 2mm of booze should entice you to buy 6 crackers for £50 with some gin miniatures in. Grin

lunalulu · 28/11/2020 09:16

@moralminority

You need a bottle of baileys so you can add so little of it to your hot chocolate that you can't taste it but charge yourself an extra fiver for it.
😂😂😂
TheSockMonster · 28/11/2020 09:15

@ShaunaTheSheep

Get the paddling pool out, add a splash of water, and treat yourself to ice skating for £17.50.
Or queue for 30 minutes before learning that sessions had to be pre-booked online and the next available slot is 4th January.
Mydogneedsabath · 28/11/2020 09:14

😂 you have made my entire year 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
I LOVE this

WanderingMilly · 28/11/2020 09:09

Ha ha, this is great.
But I thought you meant you were really going to open up your garden to the public!!
Why not? There's a house our way which has done this, they have taken down the front fence, plonked a mobile pizza van on their small front lawn and are busily selling takeaway to passers by. There's a market for this sort of thing....

DeeandraReynolds · 28/11/2020 09:07

@Whammyyammy, I used to live in Bath too! Best city ever, but my God that market Envy (not envy).

cactusisblooming · 28/11/2020 09:02

You need to buy some acrylic jumpers on Shein and flog them as Peruvian hand knits, charging £99 apiece or 2 for £200.

Whammyyammy · 28/11/2020 09:01

@Aroundtheworldin80moves

I came on here for a good reminisce about Germany, but instead got a firm reminder never to try a British version of the German markets!

If you want some more authentic, you need churros as well. How they have become 'traditional' german street food I have no idea, but they were goooooddddd.

German markets are fab, UK ones are awful. I was so happy when my local town(Bath) Xmas market got cancelled. '50 sheds of sh*t' is what its affectionately known as
sittingonacornflake · 28/11/2020 09:00

Oh, should have added, definitely do not provide a napkin with the filled churros.

sittingonacornflake · 28/11/2020 09:00

@Aroundtheworldin80moves

I came on here for a good reminisce about Germany, but instead got a firm reminder never to try a British version of the German markets!

If you want some more authentic, you need churros as well. How they have become 'traditional' german street food I have no idea, but they were goooooddddd.

Oooh yes but they should be those hollowed out ones with a delicious filling of hot caramel sauce. But don't forget to make sure there is a hole at both the top AND the bottom so you drip the molten lava sauce all down yourself.

Don't rip any one off though. £6 is a reasonable sum for this pleasure. It is Christmas after all.

Aroundtheworldin80moves · 28/11/2020 08:57

I came on here for a good reminisce about Germany, but instead got a firm reminder never to try a British version of the German markets!

If you want some more authentic, you need churros as well. How they have become 'traditional' german street food I have no idea, but they were goooooddddd.

Stinkyjellycat · 28/11/2020 08:55

If I’m not invited YABU

shinynewapple2020 · 28/11/2020 08:54

@viques

Don’t forget to put some wonkily iced stale ginger biscuits in a little bag tied up with Christmas —ribbon— string .

You can buy these ready made in Lidl for 99p then sell them on for 5 times the price .

DeeandraReynolds · 28/11/2020 08:53

@sashh

Chestnuts.

Burned on the BBQ so they are inedible.

🎵 ...Jaaack Frost nipping at your nose🎵
sashh · 28/11/2020 08:51

Chestnuts.

Burned on the BBQ so they are inedible.

emilybrontescorsett · 28/11/2020 08:51

Don’t forget to buy jars from the pound shop, fill them with a string of cheap fairy lights, write Merry Christmas on them then sell them for £12.
When buying plastic cups for the drinks make sure you buy the flimsiest ones available. This will ensure you spill your drink all over your new coat and hands.
Make sure you do not offer napkins, then you will have to stand wondering how to dry your wet lager covered freezing hands.

EssentialHummus · 28/11/2020 08:49

It’s important that popcorn and candyfloss is available for £5 each, and that the latter immediately falls off the stick after you’ve handed over the cash.

MissBaskinIfYoureNasty · 28/11/2020 08:43

You really need to start flooding the garden now to get that festive Somme experience.

InMySpareTime · 28/11/2020 08:42

Sliced up logs with googly eyes on, and those creepy elf things that are hats with feet.
Make the whole garden smell like patchouli and cloves for that authentic olfactory experience.

sapnupuas · 28/11/2020 08:41

You've forgotten the handmade ceramic alphabet tiles.

And the stall two doors down selling the exact same thing.

DeeandraReynolds · 28/11/2020 08:38
Grin
Twilightstarbright · 28/11/2020 08:34

A warzone with Wham and Santa hats Grin
You've made my day, and possibly month with that.

emmathedilemma · 28/11/2020 08:33

Have you got space for a very small ice rink? A metre square should be sufficient for 20 skaters and a handful of,plastic penguins which the adults must not be allowed to use.

Botherfreedays · 28/11/2020 08:31

You're going to make a killing op.