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Today I finally started Christmas shopping - but...

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MerryPiffmas · 12/12/2006 17:33

braved the parking hell, the gales and the horizontal rain. Got dd in her buggybag all cosied up.
Got 2 hrs on the ticket.
Got my food order in at M+S
trawled through loads of shops
uninspired could not buy a thing
I have retail allergy
Now coming from me this is SERIOUS
Now what I want to know.
is it contagious
who did I catch it from
And who else has it?
Xmas lethargy 2006

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NannyL · 12/12/2006 17:58

just do it all online and have it delivered to your door...

tho you better be quick if u wanna do that to get stuff in time for Xmas!

astonishedandamazed · 12/12/2006 17:59

yep i have it too! it must have spread through the boards lol!!

But maybe mine is depression cos i have no money to actually buy anything! Got a right bargain in the charity shop today though..about 200 toy soldiers for 99p!

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MerryPiffmas · 12/12/2006 17:59

cannot even be bothered doing that...
Will have to hit toys r us or something for dd
Hmmm must get thinking....

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Stockingsofdinosaurs · 13/12/2006 09:57

Just spend a day online at Tesco, get clubcard points and all your food delivered too.
And charity shops are less crowded than Toysrus (I hate it there even out of season, )

santasaltire · 13/12/2006 12:03

We went yesterday into Dundee. I had done most of mine online, but needed to go in. It was very wet, very busy and i hated it. I got everything i went for, but it was awful. Got followed by a mad woman and had to get the Police to get rid of her. Everytime i went in the Overgate i got stopped by Asians wanting to know if they could ask me a question, and everytime i went in the Wellgate i got stopped by an Eastern European asking if i wanted my nails done!
I ended up shouting
"NO. I DIDN@T WANT THEM DONE ON MY WAY IN AND I DON'T WANT THEM DONE ON MY WAY OUT"

expatinscotland · 13/12/2006 12:06

I made the mistake of driving into Perth city centre last weekend and drove around for ages looking for a place to park w/the wee ones in tow.

Should have just kept rolling up the A9 b/c what I'd really wanted was to go for a drive anyhow.

expatinscotland · 13/12/2006 12:08

Salty, what possessed you to go into Scumdee?!

suedonim · 13/12/2006 12:24

Expat, if you want to go to Perth park the car in Scone and catch the Park & Ride bus. It's much less hassle than the big P&R, it's what we sometimes do.

expatinscotland · 13/12/2006 12:25

Ta, suedo.

I had the wee ones w/me. I ended up parking by some park about half a mile away from Tay Street.

But the walk was good b/c it was a dry day for hte most part.

DumbledoresFairy · 13/12/2006 12:28

Try being ill and still having shopping to do. I have until Friday, after that the kids are off school and it all becomes impossible, yet I want to do nothing but curl up in bed with a good dvd and a hot water bottle.

mummydoc · 13/12/2006 12:34

dumbledorsfairy - try having kids breaking up today, LO extreamly unwell, DH doing F**K all , and no more days off work until 23/12/06 - i have abandonned any hope of trip to hairdressers, have very bad 2 tone roots or eyebrow waxing - now have beetle accross forehead , and precious DH said cannot be home ot help with LO's bedtime tonight as has to go shopping to get himself something new to wear to christmas parties...what can i say i am defeated by christmas 2006.

DumbledoresFairy · 13/12/2006 12:41

Sorry mummydoc, but I have to lol! I feel like saying back to you, "Yes but are you ill? cos I feel dreadful!" but I won't compete. I can see, even through my haze of thickheadedness and fatigue, that you have it worse than me. Dh starts his holiday on the 20th so I have after that date although I should say that ds2 has his birthday on the 21st - just another little added pressure as if there weren't enough!

mummydoc · 13/12/2006 12:52
  • i am not ill though actually feel sick with tirdness (dd2 up on the hr every hr crying last 4 nights ) and i am sorry but i can so trump you dd1 is 7 on new years day and wants her birthday disco for 40 on that day !!!! oh no....well actually lol but the disco man is solidly booked until feb...but i said " no you can't have it on the day as mummy will have aheadcahe - end of conversation" i am afraid christmas fatigue and general tirdness has rendered me a grump mummy as opposed to a scrummy mummy, hoping christmas carol service at school will bring a little christmas spirit ... hope you feel better soon.
dmo · 13/12/2006 12:57

i'm ill too cant talk at all
my children love it

i'm a childminder and have 10 children after school 5 of those are staying for tea so i'm cooking for 9 of us then i am takin the 5 children plus my 2 to the christmas play at school they have to be there at 6.30pm, i will then be watching the play, really just want to go to bed

DumbledoresFairy · 13/12/2006 13:04

dmo - just think of the money. That is how I got through bad days when I was earning.

Mummydoc - I have to say, I am sick to the back teeth of school Christmas productions. I have attended 3 in the last week, plus had to sit through dd's last ballet class of the term. It is not that I don't enjoy watching these things (though I don't always) but the fact that ds3 has behaved so badly throughout and spoilt my enjoyment. Ths last show today was his and I nearly didn't go, just to spite him, until I realised I should raise the level of my behaviour above his!

Anyway, rant and hijack over. Perhaps I should start my own thread if I want a moan.

paulaplumpbottom · 13/12/2006 13:12

I don't know how anyone shops this time of year.

santasaltire · 13/12/2006 13:43

Well expat, it was closest to us. I hate shopping with a passion and didn't want to have to go somewhere i didn't know! At least with Dundee i know exactly where each shop is. Of course the inevitable happened - it happens every time i go in a shop. I got the dodgy till, or the shop assistant chatting to customer because its her neighbour, or someone paying by card and it won't work. The woman following me incident shook me up a bit though

brookeslay · 13/12/2006 16:44

I went to visit Shrewbury today aka mouseville

*parking horrendous

  • shops chocoblock
  • got rained and wind swept
  • went to boring victorian fair all too expensive and not alot of choice
  • got food gifts at deli but no nibbles for me

So wished I stayed in, internet shopping is alot more stress free and I can chat here too!!

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iota · 13/12/2006 16:49

the only time to go shopping IMO is at 9am immediately after the school run. It's heaving by lunchtime

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MerryPiffmas · 13/12/2006 16:49

Well if it is a competition about who is the worst off
I'm 26 wks pregnant, recoveringt from appendicitis, have SPD and a dd with minor SN who needs to be carried quite a lot.
But today I did buy my mums and MIL's presents
Off t'internet
Out of guilt I bought them lusher things than I would have if I'd gone to the shops..
oh well

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suzycreamcheese · 13/12/2006 16:57

Brooksville - why do you call shrewsbury mouseville?
I know the town but dont live there, just interested!
I hate shopping with passion, way too ill lately and left it too late order on tinternet and anyway hate feeling forced to buy something anything for folk at this time of year... only not moaning too much as love all public holidays we dont get enough of them!

suzycreamcheese · 13/12/2006 16:58

sorry, brookeslay! got towns / villes on the brain!

brookeslay · 13/12/2006 19:31

Thats okay its quite funny ( only quite though!)

Well some people who are faux posh pronounce Shrewsbury as Shrosbury.

So my DP calls it mouseville. Mouse type creature the shrew and ville part town. Hence Mouseville.

love brookesville.. I mean brooke

suzycreamcheese · 13/12/2006 22:40

ah, like everything it makes sense once explained! My ILS say it the posh way, I always say it as its spelt! will be visiting at christmas lookin out for the mice squeak squeak!!

1980cat · 13/12/2006 22:50

I've bough one present and still don't feel like buying any more.
Dundee is actually really good to go shopping (to reply to earier posts) no roads to cross and everything is on one street. May be biased but have been round every Scottish city recently and still like dundee the best.
Saying that I lived next door to Marks and Spencer for five years so managed to avoid the busy times and go shopping whenever I wanted and avoided spending half my day looking for a parking space however now I don't have it on my doorstep think I have only been in twice since the start of November.