AIBU to point out, yet a-fucking-gain that it is still only fucking OCTOBER

[MaryZcary]

Yes, it's October. You know. The month before November.

It isn't even Hallowe'en yet.

It is still autumn.

Keep your fecking Christmas threads in the Christmas topic.

You are a crowd of wankers. You just don't care

It's all wrong, I tell ya, wrong.

I have just been shopping.

It was like Christmas Eve . The shops were mobbed.

And the Christmas trees are up (up but not lit, apparently that's happening on Saturday).

And in the middle of it, looking vaguely confused, were a load of children in Hallowe'en costumes [hgrin].

btw, Cadbury's scream Eggs are all sorts of wrong [yuk]. They are green, they are eggs (wtf have eggs to do with Hallowe'en) and I agree they are runny.

Yes, Shutup. I will really leave it until December. But then I don't have a massive amount of money to spend, and if I start shopping now I would just buy more and more and more right up until Christmas Eve and would be really broke come January.

YANBU. Christmas starts so early now that by the time the day actually arrives people are actually bored with the whole thing.

No prob with people starting to buy presents early to spread the cost. But why does that mean the shops all have to be decorated and Santa and his grotto have to be helicoptered in from the North Pole on 1st November?

I am sure, when I was a child, Christmas didn't start until the end of November allowing just enough time to be in a fever of excitement by 25th December.

I just had to go to London and visit Hamleys and Disney.

It wasn't too bad.

Then I came home and as I walked through the shopping centre they were playing Last fucking Christmas by George fucking Michael!

its October !
Stop it.

No no no, love love Christmas, my Dcs will be home and me and dh on holiday so roll on I say.

My dad died this year so I am trying to keep my head in the sand about Christmas. But its not easy when the Christmas trees are already in the shops and the wrapping paper and the Christmas cakes and soon everytime I go into the shopping centre Slade or Wham or John Lennon will be coming at me from every loudspeaker. Aaaagh!

I love Christmas.
Christmas is in December

FACT!

I had a Scream Egg yesterday that had Turkish Delight in the middle, that was all kinds of wrong.

Sorry about your dad, Jusfloatingby

thebody, I too love Christmas. I keep saying that. Just not all year round.

Maryzed, I've been planning my Christmas name since January.

You don't have to start shopping in August or whenever to budget the cost across several months! You could, I don't know, save some money each month so you have to to spend...
December is soon enough to sort things out! How can one day, which is actually only a roast, plus a present each for your nearest and dearest, take 8 weeks to plan?

However, like MaryZ I will generously allow you to be silly in this manner if you will just do it in the CHristmas topic!

*it to spend, not to to spend. THat makes no sense.

Pish cardi, you know perfectly well that expenses swell to fit the amount of money available. The only safe way to save would be to use one of those dodgy catalogues, that only let you buy stuff with your initials on or hampers full of Pressed Tongue.
I like to have the stuff and gloat over it when I feel anxious. I do.

Sue, I'm not entirely sure I am happy with your posts tonight . Firstly you tell me not to open the and now you admit to 12 months of Christmas [hshock].

How do you stand on Trick or Treating?

I daren't start spending, I'd be broke by halfway through November. I save by not collecting my children's allowance from October to December, and shop on the day after the first Tuesday in December.

I love Christmas. I have been TOTing for the first time today and it was as crap as expected. But SmallPurbles brought sweets with her to hand round the houses we visited (only decorated houses, natch) so we were the Good Fairies of TOTing, no egging.

Gosh, I feel like I've been tested and found wanting

Thanks MaryZ.

As cardibach says.

Anyone who claims that it is a choice between
Start shopping in summer
Spend hundreds in December
Clearly has no concept of saving.

True. But planning what you are going to buy, budgeting accordingly and picking up a good deal when you see it does save money. As long as you stick to your list and don't keep on buying.

MAryZ - saw this on Pinterest last night and thought if you. I know it is slightly out of date today but what the hell. Am crap at doing links on iPad so hope it works.

OMACTUALGEE, Cider, you made Father Christmas say Fuck.
You're getting coal. And you made the baby cheeses cry.

Justfloatingby - I'm sorry to hear about your Dad :(

MaryZ - unsurprisingly I agree with you. Christmas is great - in DECEMBER! It is getting spoilt by shops starting in sodding August. Like you, I understand people making Christmas cakes, buying some presents, saving etc - but for the love of all things tinsel - can we not save the carols, trees, decorations until DECEMBER?!

It is spoiling Christmas as I'm so bloody fed up of it all by Dec, let alone Christmas Day!

I didnt Sue! Honest! It wasn't me. I just found it. Someone else did the bad word thing. Not me. Oh no. It wasn't me. I just though Mary would like it.

sorry Father Christmas. I didn't mean it.

He's making a list. He's checking it TWICE.

He's not making it yet! He said calm down. He's still on his long summer holiday. So there.

Cider - I am SO going to use that on some threads.