Can't be arsed with Christmas

[hairymuffet]

Is it just me?
As I get older I can't be bothered
I used to love it all
The excitement, shopping, wrapping
Putting up the tree
I'm putting the tree up today and I can't be arsed with any of it

Supermarket okay but apparently will be open overnight a couple of nights?
WTF is wrong with the world?!

Ps yes I realise people work shifts as I do...it's the general insanity of Xmas that is making me go WTF.

I was meant to be out tonight with my last friend thing before they all vanish for Xmas but she's not well.

This has been the worst year of my life so far, for personal and wider reasons. I've barely bothered with Christmas, just enough to keep it a bit special and fun for DS. It's actually been liberating. I am growing to detest the commercial orgy which starts around Hallowe'en.

mmmm I have become more entangled...is hard to ignore

Whyistherumgone, if someone gave me a list like that,i would make a point of buying them soap on a rope or something equally shite and bloody daring them to say a word in protest. Cheeky bugger

I have just raged at the husband he said are we organised WE he has done feck all not a jot Im so angry hate the whole palava

Maybe this explains why no ne ever gives me what I want for birthday, I dont like assume gifts and say here is my wish list.

X post MrsJayy, don't do it or do the bare minimum.
This is my year. I'm starting the Lorelei Movement for a stress free solstice. All we need is a beverage of choice, a don't care attitude and each other. Who's with me?

Im in . He used to be great but as the years have gone on he has done less and this year zilch he doesn't even know what the dds have except 1 thing he ordered next year he can do it

Maybe Lorelei's Solstice Strike?

Just had the first stroppy text from a mate, he has this gigantic extended family and he loves to cook. You'd think it would be fine. But no, last couple of years they've turned up late, pissed etc. He does a buffet dinner thing as well (very nice, I've been) This year he's got some people saying "I'm not sure if I will make it for lunch, can't I let you know later"? I told him anyone who hasn't checked with the chef by 20th can piss off.

I can imagine we will be down pub on 26th. Seriously I'm relieved when mates run from their families that early as I miss them otherwise!

Oh i am not really speaking to my sister either she woke me up banging thd doof pissed on saturday looking for taxi money then phoned me out of bed for her spare key sunday is going to be awkward

Went into the city centre again today.... I swear i am getting a cattle prod for next year...

Big roll of wrapping paper sticking out of your bag say oopps sorry when you poke them by accident of course

Oh that's genius

I went round the supermarket muttering 'FFS' at everyone just dawdling round

OMD the dawdlers have arrived in London in force this week!

I swear someone is actually going to hear me muttering

Last year I remember needing to get some cheddar while a throng of people were staring at all of Aldi's special Xmas cheese, so I said loudly "right folks, coming through to just get one thing, will only be a sec..."

They parted, I nabbed the cheddar, then they all returned to gazing at the cheese.

I wish I liked shopping that much!

^^ 👑

I did a late night shop in hell at the local giant Tesco about 10 years ago. It was I think 2 nights before Xmas day. There were people throwing punches over parsnips.

I left my very full trolley and left the store. We ate beans on toast that year - it was worth it not to have to have a scrap for parsnips!

Supermarkets at Christmas confuse me... the shops are shut for one. Fucking. Day. I get that people don't want to spend their precious days off work shopping but surely doing, say, three small shops is easier than spending all day in the seventh circle of hell that is a supermarket pre Christmas?

Serious....seriously people fought over parsnips?!

I'm short and baby faced so when I announce I'm coming through - happens on the Tube when people crowd in the bit near the doors - no one is alarmed, so it's easy to get away with it! Being short does mean I can slip through crowds more easily but this was like a five person deep crowd in a small Aldi just totally transfixed by the cheese selection.

Maybe there was something in the cheese and no one told me!

I'm almost tempted to go into Aldi tomorrow to see if the cheese really is that fascinating

Yep! I was

god I'm dreading it.