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Really don't want to make a gingerbread house this year,make me feel less guilty!

14 replies

MrsHeffley · 07/12/2011 21:14

Dp has refused to do it with them after the collapsed shack incident of 2009 so it would be me and I'll have enough to do and can't be arsed. There is also the question of what to do with it after-nobody ate it last time. But dtwin2 has mentioned it already.

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LilRedWG · 07/12/2011 21:15

I've bought a kit for the first time ever - when should I put it together or should I run away now?

NatashaBee · 07/12/2011 21:18

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MrsMuddyPuddles · 07/12/2011 21:23

how old is dtwin2? Old enough to do it more or less on his/her own? Young enough to distract with other things tv and chocolate?

EverybodysScaryEyed · 07/12/2011 21:23

get a kit

my MIL always makes one with the kids and they love it. sure it goes uneaten but then that's not really the point!

EverybodysScaryEyed · 07/12/2011 21:24

And don't put it in the fridge - treat it as you would a decoration

joanofarchitrave · 07/12/2011 21:24

I've never made a gingerbread house. In a life filled with a myriad strands of guilt, I can safely say that I have never felt a moment's discomfort about that fact. Let dtwin revel in his unsatisfied nostalgia, in twenty years he will probably write a song about it called 'Sugar No More' that will make him a fortune.

JKSLtd · 07/12/2011 21:25

After a nasty melted sugar burn I'm never doing one again - it was my first & only uneaten gingerbread house.

Don't feel guilty, if you must, make some men, or use Christmas cutters to make different shapes :)

BranchingOut · 07/12/2011 21:26

I didn't even know of this tradition.

Could this come under the category of 'rod for your own back'?

RambleOn · 07/12/2011 21:29

Do you know that you can spray them with acrylic spray, and they last forever?!

ChippyMinton · 07/12/2011 21:32

Buy a cheapy kit in Lidl. Use cocktail sticks to hold it together while the icing dries. Don't let the DC near t for at least 24 hours.

Then leave them to it with icing and sweeties.

QueenMaeve · 07/12/2011 21:41

ikea £2.50 ready made house. I am cutting corners all roads and directions this year as I am making costumes for school play, organising a disco and having a family dinner 1 week before xmas. I think the house is the least of my worries

whomovedmychocolate · 07/12/2011 21:49

Mine just fell apart and I threw it away and made a chocolate cake. At least everyone ate the cake. Do not feel guilty.

Methe · 07/12/2011 21:51

whats the point in making something you're not going to eat?

JustifiedAncientOfMuMu · 07/12/2011 23:11

Yes. They look nice but taste vile. And no one eats them.

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