Just a gentle reminder that it's only 4 pay days away

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...For most people.
This is for the folk who say it's only August , but at the same time are surprised to find that Christmas has just crept up on them.
Also, spare a thought for those poor January born children who will have a lifetime of not being celebrated as much as because people are always too disorganised skint on their birthdays .
No excuses 🫵 😠.

Eh?

It’s not that hard! OP is reminding js we have 4 pay days between now & Christnas, assuming one is paid monthly, and it’s probably wise to start planning (I need to remember this!)

Well thats a hard pill to swallow!

January born children never get celebrated, really? I think you are projecting, let me guess your birthday is in January and you have an issue with this? My new year DC is celebrated every bit as much as my June DC so you are wrong as far as I'm concerned.

Thank you 😊. I only mentioned it to my friend the other day when she was complaining about the Christmas merchandise in B&M and she said she hadn't thought of it like that.

🙃

🤣🤣🤣🤣

Well not for people who are paid fortnightly. I have twice as much time as you so I’m fine.

My birthday is in October and if you are one of the organised or rich people of the world, then please ignore, this isn't for you 👍.

Thank you… I think 🙃

And on January birthdays… oi. I reckon it’s not that bad. Ds will get everything on his list because we’ll mop up anything that he didn’t get for Christmas on his birthday.

Thanks for the reminder OP 😐

No really, thanks! 🤣

And I have a (now adult) DC with a January birthday and you're quite right, most of his mates were too skint to party!

They won't be when they're an adult though, their friends will all be doing dry January or will have just generally overdone the partying in December.

And even if they don't really mind, they will have to suffer people saying "oh a January birthday how RUBBISH" I would be rich if I had £1 for every time I had heard that!

I'm neither rich nor organised. I just don't care about Christmas and have no wish to be reminded of it . And I have a January birthday as well.
I clicked on the thread because I thought it might be an observation that many of us are only a few monthly pay days away from financial insecurity.

I get this more than you know, truly. I earn less money than literally every person I know, but my lack of money means that I have to be so much more prepared than anyone.
If you don't do Christmas then that's fine, but lots of us do and it doesn't care if you are skint or not.

I've mainly shopped for Xmas but I do need a kick up the arse to get wrapping so thank you OP

The thing with having a DC with an early January birthday is that it falls before the January payday, so you have to put a lot more money aside for Christmas.

You end up having to buy their birthday presents during November/December along with the Christmas shopping because you can guarantee whatever they wanted, would be sold out otherwise.

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January birthdays are shit. This is a fact.

Five paydays for most people I would have thought, because most people get paid earlier in December. So that’s only one payday short of being six months, which is a half a year. I feel better now!

I think you've got enough time between now and December

What you should be doing is asking for any leave you would like over Christmas, and if there is a discussion to be had about who is working when, do so. Don't leave it until December.

My family was used to shit birthdays. My mother, my father and I had January birthdays in the same week. My sister's is at the end of November.

Exactly. How long can it take to do a bit of wrapping?
The few presents I buy go into gift bags. I hate wrapping.

Single person, No kids.

Christmas is dead easy:

• teenage nieces and nephews get bank transfers
• something for mum

finished.

I honestly don't buy for anyone else! All my friends have kids and we stopped Christmas gifts for each other long ago when the babies came along.

Edited to add: actually, I get the sister that hosts Christmas a nice candle or something. And I never turn up without bottles....hicccc
I'm the cool aunt who brings the cocktails 💁‍♀️

But then you have to wait a trillion years to be paid at the end of January if this is the case.
Like I said, most people.

This is genuinely very helpful, thank you!!!