to ask if anyone here wants to talk about christmas?

[knittedbreast]

i really want to talk about christmassy things ...anyone else want too?

i did some shopping yesterday-i bought a tardis!

anyone?

hello?

[CarrieOakey]

I would like to talk about Xmas please - only because I am going to be spending it in AUSTRALIA!!!! Whoop whoop , so excited!

[WhereYouLeftIt]

I am planning to make Parsnip, cranberry & chestnut loaf this year for my lovely vegetarian MIL. I'm thinking of doing a test-run sometime next week. That may start to get me in the mood!

[ENormaSnob]

148 days to go

[SpecialFriedRice]

I'm actually a bit of a wanker and hate xmas. :O

The only person I enjoy buying for is my DD - It comes so easy and I love seeing her wee face on xmas morning. She's 3.5 so this is the first year she's really "getting" what santa is all about.

I have just bought my first xmas present (books for DD from the book people - highly recommend). I have to start early to afford it.

I hate the stress of how to afford it all and what to buy everyone though. Spend half the year worrying about it. If it was acceptable to only buy for my DD I would... But think I'd get some faces from my family.

[NoHunIntended]

Which Panto are you going to?

[TeaOneSugar]

I collected our Panto tickets this afternoon, we usually go on christmas eve but DH is working this year (and christmas day), so I wanted to make sure we got good seats for the 23rd.

Hopefully I'll manage to get the 23rd off work and we can have our traditional christmas eve a day early.

[NoHunIntended]

Five months to go ... and counting! :)

[highhopes2010]

I have finished my xmas shopping completely-except for my dh!really pleased that I can relax and enjoy xmas this year.

[PaperBank]

Nooooooooooooooo! Not yet!

[knittedbreast]

i got some good stocking fillers. i got a ben 10 flannel, a map of the solar system and a map of the world all for 99p each!

[NoHunIntended]

girlywhirly, well, it's £5.99! :)

[peeriebear]

I love Christmas and though I have not started any preparations, I do get excited thinking about it already :o Haters gonna hate! If only I had the bloody cash I'd start secreting stocking fillers away for the DDs.

[Squiglettsmummy2bx]

I'm going to start early as my baby is due early February so I doubt I will enjoy the packed shops this year. If is my DD birthday on the 5th of December so may try & get as much done as I can by October??? I normally do mine early then do my mum & brothers shopping & wrapping at the last minute, will have to warn them that it won't be happening this year. I love Xmas well I love any excuse to buy presents & celebrate actually

[girlywhirly]

NoHunIntended, that is priceless! I never knew that nothing could be so funny.

Shiney, we went to see Shakespeares Much Ado About Nothing at the Globe this year, perhaps a copy of the play for DH's present? Especially as the word nothing was a slang term for a lady's private parts in Elizabethan England! Maybe that is what he meant when he said he wanted nothing for Christmas? You lucky girl. Get thee some sexy apparel forthwith!

[PenguinPatter]

I have to get DC birthday out the way in August before serious Christmas planning can take place here but I have started thinking about Christmas.

I am trying to book pantomime tickets and make list of presents to try and avoid over sending.

[mumdrivenmad]

I am absolutely dreading Christmas this year, I am already getting stressed out obout it

[NoHunIntended]

For the man who wants nothing.

[knittedbreast]

i do it bit by bit because we dont have very much money and i need to do it this way to afford xmas. i dont have cc, and wouldnt shop that way.

my children are 5 and 2 and so easy to buy for.

you are right that its half the fun but i dont wrap them until late dec-its a very happy time!

[onehellofaride]

*find

[onehellofaride]

looking forward to xmas but need to fine a house first

[EdwardorEricCantDecide]

ZipZap i love your idea, wish my DH would ask for nothing just so i can do that

[girlywhirly]

zipzap that is wicked. But also very funny!

[zipzap]

shiney if tour dh wants nothing then give him nothing... Wrap up a great big empty box, a little tiny box (think jewellery size) and write on the front 'concentrated nothing' or 'extra special nothing' or something similar that will make your dh laugh. Also an empty box of chocs/sweets - relabelled as 'nothing chocs', empty bottle of 'nothing wine', blank cd labelled as 'sound of nothing'...

You'll end up with some nice looking presents under the tree, everyone will have a good laugh and if dh gets disappointed because he was hoping that xxx was going to be in the parcel then you'll be able to go and get in the Christmas sales. He'll also learn his lesson about asking for nothing if that's what he then gets!

[girlywhirly]

My Mum used to buy for so many family, she would take all their presents and deliver them at Autumn half-term when we went to visit the rellies! It must have saved her a fortune in postage, as we were going there anyway. She used to give the childrens gifts to their Grandmas to put away out of sight.

She also had to buy 26 gifts for the elderly patients in the nursing home where Dad was Matron. For some, it was the only Christmas present they got, so it made sense for Mum to get some of the presents sorted before the next round.

[Mummy2LZ]

I am feeling very christmassy right now coz it is winter and freezing where we live and I always feel like this in winter!
Cant get my head around a summer christmas.
I have done my shopping for my kids ( mid year half price toy sales are on) and I have ordered a few other christmas bits for my niece and nephew and new bubs that are on their way.
Thinking of having a christmas in July dinner on Sunday with SIL and her kids. Should be good fun.