Not in a party mood.

Christmas Day with my family, lovely, anything else brings me out in hives! Another one on the partypooper list?

I have always enjoyed going out for a meal with a few friends around Christmas but not to a Christnas menu meal.
The food is expensive and poor as it is mass produced.
The thought of a party no longer appeals to me and hasn't for a very long time.
Partypooper, moi? You bet.

I've always avoided Christmas do's. I'm also with those who dislike the glittering, smiling, turkey laden, bauble sparkling Christmas ideal that's peddled in the adverts. Miserable b*gger that I am!

This is the sort of advertising which most of us can ignore but all adds to the feelings of loneliness and isolation so many people of all ages suffer at Christmas. So it’s the Party Season is it? Tables heaving with food and drink? Happy smiling families with silvery haired grandma and grandpa surrounded by rosy cheeked cherubs by the (huge) Christmas tree?
For so many many people the reality is far from that. I wish we could realise that even in happy families life is far less lavish.
I also hate the idea of the “Christmas meal” with (now ex ) colleagues in an indifferent pub. While I was working I used to organise our departmental meal for January on the basis that you got better value for money and it was such a long dark month, anything to break it was a bonus! Actually also because it was easier to get a booking!
So forget the sequins or Christmas sweater - bah humbug!

I can remember ever going to a Christmas 'do'
The last do of any kind was SiL 60th three years ago.
I wouldn't need to buy anything new as my 'dressy' stuff never sees the light of day !

We have no Christmas do’s at all, so no need need for any ‘must haves’ from the shops. At the risk of sounding like an old misery I am always rather relieved when Christmas is over. So much expectation mixed with a good dash of disappointment. Ha humbug !

I can't stand 'dos' of any kind.
I don't enjoy getting dressed up, and spend the time surreptitiously clock watching, waiting for the end, so I can go home and have a nice coffee.
Happy soul that I am..

Nope! I don't. Family fun and perhaps the food at our lunch group might be a bit more Christmassy - but that is it.

Do I mind? - not a bit of it! I am very happy with things as they are.

I cannot think of anything worse than a whirl of parties that demand false jollity and dressing up!

We have a few 'do's' to go to but I will probably search the back of the wardrobe for something to wear!
No-one will remember that I was wearing it last year (and the year before etc)