Bah humbug!!

For God's sake whats wrong with people?

I took this thread at face value but now I find it's some kind of nasty sniping from Witzend towards littleAnnie.

For what its worth, I have refused all my life to go lemming like over the face stuffing, overspending cliff. Are my AC scared for life? No. We have some nice food and take comfort from the fact that the shortest day has past.

Can't stand all the faux" love" that is supposedly about. The Salvation Army feeding the lonely blah blah......some people ( the SA included ) do it 365 days of the year.

Do we all go back to being selfish morons on the 27th when the Christmas spirit has departed?

I have been admonished for putting doom and gloom on sparkly happy threads about Christmas, so can we keep this for the Humbug Fraternity please?

Many thanks.

The older I get the more I hate the dark, so I admit to welcoming the lights early in December (no earlier). But the older I get the more I also hate crowded streets and shops and marching around laden with bags, so because I have a large family I spread it out a lot, then usu forget where I’ve put things, or think of something that so-and-so really would like better, get that as well then stress about who to give the first thing too. So apart from the lights pre-Christmas is no fun these days.

That's nice, cornergran.

We will all face a few Christmases at the end of a bad year. It's bound to happen. The older we get the more common bereavements or illnesses happen.

But life goes on. My youngest daughter was home last week and we were actually watching Hallmark Christmas Movies! She's 23 and as mad as a hatter about Christmas.

We have 4 small grandchildren so I've started buying and wrapping up gifts. If I left it to December I'd be unable to cope!

Even though it is only October a lot of people I know have already started buying for C-------s because their finances dictate that that is the only way they can afford to buy what they need.
We have to make the reservations for our C-------s lunch in August because if we left it any later we would not be able to get a table as all will be reserved by end of September.

The family situation means a different, difficult Christmas for us so no, I’m not thinking about it yet. Why make myself miserable? It is too early. Come mid December I’ll decorate but hope to ignore it all until then. I’ve no problem with others engaging with it whenever they choose. Just remember we aren’t all the same and don’t assume. I’m still waiting for Autumn leaves .

Uncalled for Littleannie.

Ha ha! Another who thinks it is far too early to be thinking of it. When I was working I never started my Christmas shopping until school broke up. I was a teacher and had enough of Christmas during the Christmas run-up-which seemed to start as soon as we got back from October half term. ( Anyone else guilty of snarling at fed-up infants in their umpteenth rehearsal “Smile, angels!”) I haven’t made any plans, and I sincerely hope my children aren’t having a “who’s having mum?” conversation. I do have a tree, and send cards, and buy presents, and enjoy all the fun, but not until December!

I think this thread is aimed at me, after Witzend posted a rude comment about something I said on another thread.
It is nothing but people filling their houses with tinsel and plastic junk, eating like gluttons, and buying useless junk for people who don't want it, so they can buy useless junk back. Never mind, it can be thrown away - to landfill that is.
The original post I commented on, said she had got her decorations down from the loft, and hung her Christmas lights in the garden. Someone else said she was panic buying Christmas stuff in case of Brexit. In October, for goodness sake!
Knitted Advent calendars with felt robins and penguins anybody?
Incidentally, after 3 bereavements in the family, and 2 serious illnesses (me) this year, I don't feel much like celebrating anything.
So, my message of good cheer to Witzend is - p**s off.

I have DH, DS and GS’s birthdays in the week before C*******s!!

Yes, if only it could go back to being a bit more, well, simple. I don’t send as many cards as I used to, waste of paper really and postage! I feel I have to get them written by about Remembrance Day, am sure my mum never wrote on her cards until well into December when we were young. Can also recall the postman bringing a parcel on Christmas Eve from an auntie, nothing unusual about it being so late.
The time from Bonfire Night to Christmas seemed an eternity back then, and had never heard of Hallowe’en!

My mother was the original Grinch about C........s and her attitude has coloured my life.
I made sure my C enjoyed when they are young but my M spent everyone with us until she was 97 so it was an uphill battle.
My H died in April this year so no jollifications this year.
I am happy for those who love it as long as they keep it just to the couple of weeks in December.

Me too Grannybags and grapefruitpip.

Every year it’s a challenge to make it pass as quickly as possible ?

The very least of my thoughts at the moment. I tend to look out for the lighter nights after the festivities are over after a couple of months feeling like I've lived in a cave, dark days and nights.

grapefruitpip, it's certainly a challenge for those of us missing a departed one. I'm cutting down to the point where I can almost ignore it!

[Pittcity] I’m with you. That’s how it should be.

Youngest DD’s birthday is in November and I have always held off any C planning until after then.
Time enough!

'Looking forward to Christmas?', 'Done all your Christmas shopping?', people say cheerily (even this early) and really p* me off!

I'm not a fan of the whole countdown thing - get Halloween and bonfire night out of the way first!

69 days to go ?

Love Christmas - well in fact, loved - it has become far too commercial, just one big selling opportunity, and tons of waste and pollution, highlighting class/money divide and encouraging families to borrow money they can't afford. Sad that the UK is following the USA here.

Perhaps we could have a wee supportive chat , without being bashed for lack of magical sparkle.

Crossed posts. That was for grapefruitpip

Me too.

I like it low key and completely contained in December.