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? 🎅

Assuming I'm not in prison, I'll certainly try!

My dear Sally located wrapped chocolate under the tree. She got the paper off, ate every chocolate without nuts, leaving those neatly in their wrapper. No ill side effects except for the caffeine buzz resulting in zooming for hours. Hence a long visit to the off leash dog park.

Keep the second one hidden, for when she loses it on the bus in some obscure place when you’re on holiday and is inconsolable.

Every year I leave it too late to send out the few Christmas cards that we still post. I’ve done it again, we aren’t at home for the next week so it will be another rush job. I don’t suppose ours ever arrive in time for actual Christmas.

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Just get two packs and be done! Been there done that, it’ll drive you insane otherwise lol

We do what we usually do, smugly purchase wine, spirits, food, snacks that will keep and then eat it. Now need to buy it again. 🐷

Chihuahua or St. Bernard?

@DinoLil would you like the spare 3miles of warm white lights I now have? 2000 of the fuckers is far too many and they go round the tree almost 3 times 🤣. They're staying like that! I'll figure out a solution next bloody year 🎄

Contrary to username, I am really not feeling it this year, just tired. My Christmas tree was delivered this morning, despite my requesting and supplier confirming a delivery date of the 16th. So I'd better get on with decorating, then...

This thread has made me smile, though, thanks all.

Not exactly a Fuck Up but DH has managed to come down with a nasty bug just as we are away for a pre Christmas break. Our plans to attend the local town’s switching on their Christmas lights have had to be shelved, he just wants to huddle under a blanket, poor thing.

I just wrapped a parcel for the postman (God bless Click and drop) - all Jiffybagged and securely taped - before realising that I’d forgotten to put a gift tag on the present. Twit!

I need a new one you can send it to me if you like!

One of ds’s present has been delivered to dh’s old place of work. He left there 5 years ago and it’s an hour and a half from where we now live! I’ve still no idea how that particular company have got that address……

Every year I leave it almost too late to make the few cards I still make. Every year I curse myself for not having bought a guillotine for cutting the card, yet every year when I am in the art shop buying art materials I tell myself that it's daft to buy one just to make a handful of cards and I decide the wretched things are too expensive for what they are.

Might be worth trying acetone which is used in nail polish remover (you can buy a small bottle from chemists) usually works on things like superglue.

Really sorry if this is offensive but do you have ADHD by any chance? Sounds a lot like things I’d do!

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In the spirit of thrift and recycling, I tried the 'hack' I've read about of cutting up the red-striped Primark paper bags to use as gift wrap - in fact the bag even says 'This bag makes great wrapping paper'. But it doesn't. It's too thick, especially at the seams and around the handles where it's re-enforced. The tape was coming unstuck even before I finished wrapping.

A thousand lights on a household Christmas tree is nowhere near enough ?...................Blimey !

A few years ago I bought early on, a mega pack of mixed nuts for dh’s stocking (he’s a nut addict,)
I hid them so successfully, they have never turned up, and dh swears he didn’t find and scoff them - he can hardly ever find anything he’s actually looking for anyway. B

A few years ago I bought early on, a mega pack of mixed nuts for dh’s stocking (he’s a nut addict,)
I hid them so successfully, they have never turned up, and dh swears he didn’t find and scoff them - he can hardly ever find anything he’s actually looking for anyway.

I fractured my toe and part of my foot at soft play yesterday so the pre xmas outings I’d planned are now off as there is no way I’ll be able to hobble all that way in my fancy boot 🤣

did that with a few boxes of very nice sweets for Xmas presents. hid so I wouldn't give in and eat. couldn't find them found them 7 years later when we moved house while packing up🤣

I hope they were still more or less edible!

no expiry date well gone. 🤣 caused so many laughs, though, and still brought up every so often

That is absolutely fantastic!