Hop aboard the good ship JS Grads for it's sweet 16th pregnancy party. Don your party hats, grab a bouncy ball and quaff copious amounts of raspberry leaf to celebrate our coming of age!

[Minion]

Welcome, welcome, welcome to the 16th grads thread... celebrating the success of Just Shagging in getting us viroids upduffed!

For those that don't know, a 'viroid' is from the original JSing thread 1, where someone was trying to type ladies (in reference to all the JSing ladies), but their phone decided to call us all viroids instead!

The name stuck and we've been the JSing viroids ever since.

The thread we have graduated from is here in its 33rd outing. WARNING: they're all a bit kerazy not to mention randy!

There is also a Just Mumming thread in postnatal clubs here for once your babies come along, or to keep up with the graduated graduates! It's a bit quiet at the moment, but with all these upduffed viroids hopefully it won't be for long!

There is also a private facebook group (so it doesn't give the game away in your news feed!)... if you want to join to see photos of new babies etc, just ask in-thread!

So, roll call below please, viroids!

[Leela5]

15 Disney DVDs!!! I used to get 1 if I was lucky!

I think a sensible list would be

1 big present (the toy they really wanted, a computer gadget like you said Lauren, or a bike)
A few books
A colouring set or CDs for older kids
Some stocking fillers - sweets, pens, perhaps some socks
A few smaller toys or games
A selection box

I just don't understand why they need all of that stuff on that list! It's insane!

[BothersomeB]

Jeeeeeze! That Christmas list thing is giving me RAGE!
What is wrong with people? And how big are their houses? All that shit has to go somewhere...I know we don't have kids yet and maybe I'll change my tune but surely no child needs (or even wants?) that much stuff? They can't possibly comprehend the expense involved and will grow up thinking that they can automatically have everything they want. Grrrr.

Rant over...in other news, I'm working from home, it's freezing but I can't remember how to over-ride the heating timer so am wearing 2 jumpers and a pair of fingerless gloves...considering putting the oven on a leaving the door open. or I could call Mr B and ask how to do it but that would be far too sensible and would mean admitting to girly silliness

[ChatEnOeuf]

Quite! DD's list (she's 3) will be (when I'm done, which will be never because I can't find anything I like here!)
Mr Men box set - £30! for 50 books
Doc McStuffins jigsaw
Big bag of craft stuff (glitter, pipe cleaners, that kind of shit)
Dora PJs (for Christmas eve)
A Leap-pad game (hopefully a learning French one)
Five pairs of socks, two pairs of tights, ten vests
A pretty dress and tights set
Three pairs of leggings and four long sleeved T shirts
Some extra bits of railway for her trains
Snakes and Ladders/Ludo
Chocolate coins (total is probably about £110)

My dad is getting her a dressing gown and slippers set
My mum, a doll's house and furniture
PiL, a ticktock and a Dora plush toy
My sister, some extra bits for her Duplo

I reckon that's more than enough, and I KNOW the relatives are lying and will have bought her other things too!

[ZylaB]

I wanna chicken sandwich now but am not going out!

wanders off to the kitchen to see what's there

[ZylaB]

I'm going to have to go shopping soon! Might make myself go in the next couple of days hmmmph

[Pisghetti]

I'm starving but haven't brought lunch in and can't decide whether I want a baked potato or chips from the canteen.

[Fleurchamp]

Wowsers! My sister and I would usually get a big "joint" present like a particular game or the my little pony dream castle and then a stocking with little things in like pencils and pens. The most that was ever spent was £50.

My niece, bless her, is 8 and never asks for anything. Although it's annoying when you ask her what she wants for Christmas and she says "a surprise". I am 34 and have no idea what an 8 year old would like!!

[laurenamium]

Mmmm chips. I want chips and gravy now! Might be my dinner

DD has my DM looking all over for a fur real panda, it's the "panda with the flower on its head" on her list and its £50 I've told her to only get it if she can get it cheaper than that! Fur real toys are rubbish

[freshstart4us]

I have clicked on the lists link and decided, on the basis of the last page alone, that I am a cheapskate and that DD and her soon-to-be-sibling will grow up calling me Scrooge. And I don't actually care!

I LOVE Christmas but to me it is about the WHOLE December thing - putting up the decorations and the tree, going to meet Santa when they're of that sort of age, going to Christmas services and carolling, and a day of eating and spending time with family. Presents are ancillary, I'm much more about birthdays anyway and always will be, and when reading the OP's list all I could think was "these children's home has just down, right, and they're starting from scratch, right?!?!?"

What a load of twaddle.

[Leela5]

I just welled up at the frozen song in the supermarket

Not my finest moment.

[freshstart4us]

The smart crack was supposed to read "these children's home has just burnt down, right, and they're starting from scratch, right?!?!?" Very annoyed, typing fail...

[freshstart4us]

Oh and Santa should only ever bring ONE present, otherwise how on earth would he get the entire planet's worth of children's presents into his damn sled???? LOL

[DulcetMoans]

haha la, let it go already!

Agree with all your festive point fresh. Doing some sneaky christmas shopping now. Its black friday week on amazon in case you didn't know!

Hardest part of pregnancy so far - I want more tuna than I am allowed.

[laurenamium]

La!

[Minion]

What got me was the iPad mini PLUS more gifts,. Don't want to sound like an old fart but to me, that's the only gift you need to give surely?
Jeepers. I feel sorry for those who read this, think they're a bit crap and go get themselves into debt or struggle just to keep up.

I hope I never feel like that. It's quite sad really.
Plus we all know kids like wrapping paper and boxes. Scrooge much?

[KatoPotato]

Someone tell me to step away from that Christmas list thread! Op of 15 dvd fame is now justifying these and another poster says she feels like a crap parent compared to this awfullest!!

[KatoPotato]

DVDs are for snuggling up and watching in the cold afternoons, anyone work out how many hours that is for me? 90mins x 15? 1350 hours? how many days?

[KatoPotato]

DVDs are for snuggling up and watching in the cold afternoons, anyone work out how many hours that is for me? 90mins x 15? 1350 hours? how many days?

[Leela5]

It makes me sad. Think about all the kids who get nothing :(

[KatoPotato]

La I've just cried reading the posters actual christmas list, because she chose things her children would like, including curly straws yet she still feels she's not put enough effort in.

Actually crying, and don't want to patronise her, I typed 'your DC will lovel their curly straws and started sobbing' IM AT WORK FFS!

[Minion]

The first year of going to India on holiday we were in the cabin with some truly awful kids, even though it was a night flight, services had finished and lights were dimmed, these 2 still whined and moaned at their equally ignorant parents about not having the DS for Xmas they wanted (and it was mArch), parents just supped Stella and ignored them.
Awful children. Loud, noisy, boisterous and wouldn't turn the sound off their DVD so the others could sleep.
We get to goa, settle in to the life, get to grips with the crippling poverty of the street kids, to be faced with 2 kids who were absolutely cock a hoop of a sweetie phone they had been given.
No sweets in it, just the plastic tat part.
Honest you would have thought they'd struck gold.
Was very moving to see. Especially when other kids on the beach were crying cause their parents had taken their games console of them so they could have some fun in the sun.

Sorry for pointing out the Fred though.

[Leela5]

I saw that kato. I loved curly straws when I was wee!

[Leela5]

I know min! I lived in Kenya for a bit and the kids were delighted with anything!

[Leela5]

Those mums do make me a bit :(

'I can't wait to see their faces'. True. But they would probably make the same face with less. I'll always remember my spoiled cousin used to get whole dining table full of presents. She'd open as many as she needed til she got the one she'd asked for then go off. Her mum would then open the rest.

[TheBooMonster]

There are also people on there who are giving stockings AND santa sacks O.o am I missing something? thought the stockings were 'from santa' and some of those kids are under 2 and getting more for one xmas than DD would get for the next 5! I understand it (ish) if they don't have any other family, but I expect most of those posters kids do have other family who will similarly buy them piles of stuff they're never going to have the time to appreciate... Can someone also explain this xmas eve hamper and North Pole Breakfast thing to me? This is something I've only ever come across on MN...

My blinking Lakeland parcel finally arrived... in a car... I'm not going to question it, at least it's here now... I can get cracking with the Birthday party prep now pushes xmas firmly out of my mind Just need to find a way to distract DD as she keeps eating the icing butterflies playdough is clearly not on the cards until she stops eating everything brightly coloured produced with a cuter and rolling pin

OMG laurenamium chips and gravy!! There is a chip shop in the city that has started doing a christmas dinner on chips! (turkey sausage, battered stuffing balls cranberry sauce on chips all covered in gravy) It is my new favourite thing, and I will by one every. damned. day. next week after payday as I'm too poor to even get into the city this week let alone buy chips