to spend all my Christmas money in four shops and two hours?

[prettybutterfly]

I went and had the most terrific binge in Smiths, Borders and Hobbycraft (and the ELC!).

DH eyed my Christmas cheques beadily when they came and I know he was calculating how much undercoat and emulsion he could buy with that .... but now it's pretty much all gone. I did buy him a bottle of very nice Chateauneuf du Pape, so he can't complain that much, can he? Or can he?

We do still have to decorate.

Am feeling a bit self-indulgent. AIBU or is it ok?

Christmas money?!

Are you 12 years old?

I am three times as old as that, notnowbernard!

so what did you buy then? and how much did you spend?

I call mine christmas money and I am 31!

I think that you are meant to indulge on christmas money. ELC doesnt sound like you were self indulgent anyway! Unless you have always wanted a dolls house?

Spending it all at once saves on petrol and car parking.

Ah yes the amount might make a difference. £3K would be a lot to fritter in ELC!

At least you are trying to help the economy either way, as I keep saying.

I am guessing less than £500????

I don't think I've received 'Christmas Money' since my mid-teens! (Instead I get given interesting pot-pourri/scented candle/mirrored photo frame type tat gifts)

How are you managing this?! Do you still get a stocking? (I have 2 friends whose Mothers still do them a stocking, despite them having dc of their own...)

Of course you should have spent it on yourself, though... 'tis your money

IL's gave 'us' a substantial amount of money to fritter away this Christmas. They specifically said we were not to put it in savings or use it for anything boring.

Dh, has, however paid the lot into his account and has now said that it is all 'accounted for.'

So the purchases I was planning in my head have all gone out the window!

So, YANBU, but I am

I still get a stocking and an advent calendar

Ooh, well now.

I got the boys some Planet Protectors stuff in the ELC sale, plus a new baby present for a friend and an ITNG colouring book and chunky pens for the baby's big sister.

Then to Borders. I got Kidnapped, The Phoenix and the Carpet, a Where's Wally book, a jazzy tote bag, a pencil case, a card and a postcard and a sheet of wrapping paper.

Hobbycraft next. New sketching pencils (mix of graphite, charcoal, pastels etc in blacks and neutrals (very expensive and utterly lovely, in a tin)), a tin of blendable coloured pencils, two coloring books and a sketch book, and some elastic for putting little gloves on and stringing them through coat sleeves.

Smiths was box files and colouring pens (good bargains).

The wine was a tenner in sainsbury's.

I spent £100.

Another one calling it my Christmas money and spending it on treats, mainly for myself, what's wrong with that?

(Although a fair few quid has now lined Johnnies ((hotchpotch)) pockets, and these items are all for DD's)

It's only what would have been spent on presents for me anyway.[brattish emotion]

We get a cheque from my DH's nana, normally for about £200 to "fritter". I think other people may be talking about more than this though?

This year it has disappeared in to our joint account to help the over draft

My parents gave us a similar amount and we bought a dinner set, wedgewood (2 days before they went in to flippen administration)

I'm not American ... that was a typo.

I still get a stocking too.

£200 for xmas

Erm - sounds like you spent the majority on others anyway - and even if you HAD spent it on yourself, pffffft. When CAN you? I don't think YABU at ALL. (and ps - I still get a stocking at Christmas too - but I do my Mum one as well - and even her dog gets a little present to tear open as well!)

My 'christmas money' was £25 from my aunt - my elder brother, who earns twice as much as me, got £50. AIBU to feel a bit miffed there? Btw, I'm in her bad books, so I think she is making a point! Moo.

The nana in question is 95 and trying to give her money away, we would like even more than £200 really. She is fairly wealthy.

Mum & Dad have always given me about that amount for Xmas. I think its overly generous but who am I to refuse it.

I make a stocking up for my mum too

Not really saus - I did very well! One of the colouring books, the sketch book and all of the pens and pencils are mine all mine!
The new colouring book is some really complicated celtic patterns which will each take hours and hours to colour in, and be amazingly theraputic, except that I will probably go blind.

I probably spent £60 on myself. That feels like a LOT for me.

gecko I do think your dh should give you some of that cash ... I really do. Seems very presumptuous of him to spend it for you!

am roffling at grown-ups getting christmas money

tee hee

sorry

MP, I enjoyed looking at all the lovely scrapbooking stuff in Hobbycraft. I was very nearly tempted!

YANBU at all.I am almost 30 {{eek}} and I still get Xmas money an advent calendar and stocking off my Dad bless him.I always feel a bit guilty though having 3 littleones that he spoils rotten too.
I have pencil envy now.

Christmas money from aunt = a present. Hmmmf. I traipsed all around London to get hers. Ah well. Am sure its the last one as I doubt I'll hear from her again!