Any minor Festive Fuck-ups yet?

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Someone <ahem> decided to go and buy new lights for their 6.5ft really bushy Christmas tree today...and they decided 1000, on a 10m cable, from The Range, is plenty for this tree (bear in mind, their old ones are 600 on a 22m cable).

Dear Reader...

10m of lights, no matter how many are crammed onto it, are certainly not enough for a giant tree. They just about cover it's bottom half...if they're spaced very far apart <sigh>.

And I can't even couple them together because I lose the white and blue from the new set if I do that, and they don't quite sync properly <BIG SIGH>! So now I either put old on back/new on front, slightly out of sync OR I bus back to The Range to once again browse their many and varied aisles of festive lights 🤔 (I cba to bus back tomorrow & really want to decorate by the way).

My dad offered a sensible solution - he will collect 2000 warm white lights, in the morning, when he goes for garden centre cafe breakfast. But they're white. Not coloured. And might not even be enough! I need about 3bazillion metres looking at this!

Any other minor Festive fuck-ups going on? 🎅

My dog ate 5 baubles the first night the tree was up. Luckily none were the new expensive John Lewis ones I splashed out on.

@GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER that's stunning! My school would have had your hand off for it (in various classrooms!).

Loving the lack of discipline from posters who not only ate some items, they have now also eaten the replacements 😂

I appear to have ordered three identical personalised gifts for DFIL from a company. I can accept that I ordered 2 as I was sure the first one hadn’t gone through. Definitely not the third and I only ever received one confirmation. The company are adamant I did though.
It’s a pretty stressful time as DF is very unwell and DS2 has exams so I wouldn’t put it last me!

So, after reading this thread, I have permission to break out the Christmas chocolate?

I’m having new living and dining room windows installed.

Apparently I agreed December 23rd was a good date.

Last year after Christmas I bought 3 sets of reduced retro 90’s Christmas lights, love them, they looked beautiful in the shop.
Put them all on my tree the weekend just gone with a set of white lights and they were so dull and there were nowhere near enough lights (3 sets of 80 and a 600) but obviously using multiple adapters to plug them in.
Dh bless him then added a further set of lights (up to 5 now) asked me if I was happy with it and I sulkily said no so he headed to Homebargains and came back with 2 new sets of lights so I had to unravel the 5 we’d just spent over 2 hours putting on.

My tree is now festooned with 2000 bright lights and I’m very happy with it. I’ve repurposed the dull retro ones somewhere else in the house as I still love them, just not on my tree.

Really struggling with what to get everyone, so I think presents are going to be last minute and rather random this year.

@GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER That’s amazing - you are very talented!

Dh's advent calendar that I ordered on 12 November failed to get delivered and was out of stock. They did offer to send it back once it arrived but it still hasn't arrived!! It was a really nice and very expensive one and I'm really gutted cos he would love it! Now I feel it's past the 1st so it's ruined.

My dad has bought me the 2000 I said no to yesterday, and will drop them round tomorrow 😊. I'm not feeling the slightest bit festive so maybe the tree dressed properly will help.

My friend also sent me a link for a thing on amazon that is a circle with strands of lights that's cheap & might do to bulk them out a bit. She's bought one so I'll wait and see what she thinks first.

@MrsLeonFarrell if I'd bought any, I'd eat them!

Couldn’t face a well known garden centre but needed more Christmas tree lights as last year there wasn’t enough (but I styled it out). Ordered what I thought was the same…

CLEARLY I ordered white not warm white 😂Two tone lights this year and they work!

Ive also hidden presents too well. Can’t find them at all (and it doesn’t help we’ve had work done this year and still doing tip runs/organising now so there is a non 0% chance they are in the tip 😓

Its only the 2nd!

I currently have 6 boxes of Bendicks in my house. Not all for me, well that wasn't the plan but after this thread .....

Amazon delivered my dog's present today and I opened the box in front of her, fortunately on the kitchen island and above her eye line. But she knew! I've hidden it away by casually putting it on top of the wardrobe, she followed me as usual, sniffing and jumping up. I'll have to climb on top of the wardrobe to wrap it so she can't see.

On the back of another post about stocking fillers, I also had some marzipan fruit, fruit jellies, a mini panettone and chocolate mini Christmas pudding arrive. They are also on top of the wardrobe because I'll be sniffing and jumping!

Yes, it's just me and the hound for Christmas and New Year again!

I wonder how many lights I'd need to decorate the dog??

Seeing the tales of labradors eating things reminds me that when I was a child our Labrador ate an entire large Christmas cake with icing and marzipan when my mum popped out. Can’t remember what happened but the dog survived.

I’m on my third box of Bendy Dicks bitter mints, as they are known in this house (on the rare occasions anyone else gets any).

I've been frantically checking emails for the last week waiting for a gift I bought DC to be dispatched, only to realise I haven't actually ordered it yet!

This made me snort

Our church has a box of Christmas jumpers for everyone to help themselves.

My cock-up was persuading DH to pay for my spa day with a friend, on the basis that we want a detox to kick-start our new year Mounjaro weight loss. Unfortunately the booking page autofilled his details, so DH then received my “luxury Bollinger spa experience” confirmation email. 😬

so preoccupied by hiding my eldest’s presents I shoved my toddlers stash under my bed thinking they’d be safe. She managed to spectacularly wet herself the other morning so I was trying to strip her bed, then her, then shower us both and get the eldest ready and to school on time so she briefly had free rein in my bedroom while I fought with my bra. I heard “MUMMY I LOVE DAISY DUCK. IS PRESENT FOR MEEEEEEE?” fucks sake. Also two of my son’s presents I ordered a month ago haven’t turned up yet and the guy I ordered from is now ignoring my messages. I have somehow ended up with a spare real Christmas tree and no where to put it and the garland above my porch that I smugly made out of real fir branches has resulted in 3 million spiky bits of tree trampled through my house. At this rate I’ll eat the dog’s advent calendar.

Love the fact the vet had specific knowledge about the relative danger of Toblerone - clearly it happens a lot!

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Omg that made me laugh. What did she say😆

Mine has always been a Lindt Chocolate teddy I usually buy for my husband...I have purposely not bought it this year. I'm going to buy one on the next Tesco order and see if one of my adult children will babysit it