Scrooge-like I know but all this lark is getting a bit much...

[Jacobandcara]

Are we ruining Christmas? I remember only 30 years ago Christmas was mentioned a few times the weeks before, I got a quick visit to Santa at the garden centre, wrote a letter and sent it up that chimney and wore an angel costume made out of a pillow case. Magical times.
Nowadays it's all gone crazy. Mums on our local facebook 'what's on' page are clamouring over booking several 'experience' events which cost 20-30 pounds a ticket. So Santa on a train...or visit Santa cove or lights all over the local zoo and we will charge you an arm and a leg. And from the reviews on Facebook people are splashing nearly 100 quid and often these events are badly managed with hours of queing and disappointment.
Christmas eve boxes. And now today I'm a grinch for not doing a 1st of Dec box. Wtf.
The bloody elf on the shelf....yawn.
It used to be just the occassional oddball that put their decorations up in November and now it's ten a penny.
Supermarkets selling ready made nativity costumes for 15quid.
A friend of mine has just paid 20quid for a personalised Santa letter reply. Honestly.
Wheres the charm and magic when it's all drawn out over weeks and weeks?
Bah humbug

[Hotheadwheresthecoldbath]

Apart from the advent calendar no decorations up her until the week before.I do however keep them until 12th night but more and more people seem to start at the beginning of December and put it all away the day after boxing day.
I am not a fan of new year but would love a 12 the night party with bonfires made of the used Christmas trees and eating the last if the Christmas goodies.

[Purplealienpuke]

Lunas yep cliff Richard can fuck off! 😂😂😂

[LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726]

.... and my husband, who is a Christmas freak has been watching True Christmas channel for what seems like weeks and weeks and is happily snoring whilst awful Larry Levinson productions are showing on a neverending rollercoaster of terrible storylines (where there is one).

I'm going to put headphones on and watch 'Ultimate Force' and imagine myself in fatigues, with a kalashnikov, without a single giant candy cane in sight.

I love Christmas... but at Christmastime and only then.

[dingdongdigeridoo]

Why even watch True Christmas on repeat? I can tell you every Xmas movie storyline ever: busy businessman/lady moves back to small hometown, hates it at first but then has a genius business idea, opens a bakery/charming little shop, falls in love, learns true meaning of Xmas.

[LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726]

I'd go further and say, why watch it at all, but he loves that schmaltzy stuff. Your synopses are bang on and made me laugh.

All the films are repeated anyway.. or maybe it just seems like they are? I've never willingly watched one.

[RaquelWelch]

The older I get (and I'm not that old) the less I am spending. I tell my kids I would really like something very small and not at all expensive, as I have everything I need so a box of chocolates or a £5 lippy are fine by me. It has totally become about the spend