Christmas Shopping

Post by **YorkshireSquare** » Wed Oct 30, 2013 2:37 pm

Well I'm nearly half way through my Christmas shopping now so just a reminder to you all that if you do happen to do any shopping through Amazon this Christmas please use our affiliate link...

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Velotrax · Post by **Velotrax** » Thu Oct 31, 2013 12:11 am

Don't do Christmas shopping that's her job, I just pay for it

Twiggster · Post by **Twiggster** » Thu Oct 31, 2013 12:27 am

It's only fekkin Halloween FFS!

Not even thought about chrimbo yet!
But buy from amazon on our link please, when you do!

Stout LUFC · Post by **Stout LUFC** » Thu Oct 31, 2013 12:46 am

Christmas shopping is best done online...

With a beer.

LUFCRACE · Post by **LUFCRACE** » Thu Oct 31, 2013 4:08 pm

The shopping is the one bit of Christmas I don't mind starting earlier, I like to buy things when I see them, and it's actually quite sensible to spread out the cost.
Everything else can wait until December the 1st!

Wolfetoneleeds · Post by **Wolfetoneleeds** » Thu Oct 31, 2013 6:41 pm

Not for me Christmas!

Stout LUFC · Post by **Stout LUFC** » Thu Oct 31, 2013 8:10 pm

Wolfetoneleeds wrote:Not for me Christmas!

"I wear the chain I forged in life....I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it."

Charles Dickens

Twiggster · Post by **Twiggster** » Thu Oct 31, 2013 9:07 pm

I just detest xmas....

Armleywhite · Post by **Armleywhite** » Thu Oct 31, 2013 9:27 pm

Twiggster wrote:I just detest xmas....

Really??

I love it. Kids faces over new pressies, the troffing of far too many sweets / chockies, the family round and all hell breaking loose.

This year i'll be cooking for 16. Doing the Floyd thing of a few glasses of my Chateauneuf-du-Pape dear Hector.

Twiggster · Post by **Twiggster** » Thu Oct 31, 2013 9:47 pm

Armleywhite wrote: Really??

I love it. Kids faces over new pressies, the troffing of far too many sweets / chockies, the family round and all hell breaking loose. This year i'll be cooking for 16. Doing the Floyd thing of a few glasses of my Chateauneuf-du-Pape dear Hector.

Commercialised crap. I'm not a christian, so nothing to celebrate. Just an increasing media exercise to get you to spend more than you can afford. Xmas is a major ball-ache for families on the breadline. Give the kids the pressies they hope for, or pay the rent/leccy etc.

Glad you can afford it.

Armleywhite · Post by **Armleywhite** » Thu Oct 31, 2013 10:26 pm

Twiggster wrote:
Commercialised crap. I'm not a christian, so nothing to celebrate. Just an increasing media exercise to get you to spend more than you can afford. Xmas is a major ball-ache for families on the breadline. Give the kids the pressies they hope for, or pay the rent/leccy etc.
Glad you can afford it.

Thats me told then eh? Edit to add:

Thats xmas in the 20th / 21st century!! xmas for a long long tims has been commercialised and not about it's supposed initial meaning. You think i have always been able to have a good time at xmas?? You think I have no idea on those less fortunate?? Am I to feel guilty for being in a position of being able to afford things??

Twiggster · Post by **Twiggster** » Thu Oct 31, 2013 10:51 pm

Armleywhite wrote: Thats me told then eh? Edit to add:

Thats xmas in the 20th / 21st century!! xmas for a long long tims has been commercialised and not about it's supposed initial meaning. You think i have always been able to have a good time at xmas?? You think I have no idea on those less fortunate?? Am I to feel guilty for being in a position of being able to afford things??

No mate - if it's your bag and you can - fooken enjoy it!

Armleywhite · Post by **Armleywhite** » Thu Oct 31, 2013 11:16 pm

Twiggster wrote:
No mate - if it's your bag and you can - fooken enjoy it!

Apologies, I mistook your reply for a sarky comment.

Believe me, I know full well how it is to have nowt at such a time. I remember when sam was quite small how we scoured the free ads paper for cheap toys for him and gifts for my step daughter. I'd spend an age cleaning and making them look new. Our xmas dinner was a bernard mathews turkey roll and a few baked potatoes and beans. My daughter knew the stuff was not new but never said, she just made do. We were so lucky that Sam was too young and Shona was so lovely about it all.

We don't go over the top now, just enough to make sure we have a really special day.

Twiggster · Post by **Twiggster** » Fri Nov 01, 2013 12:18 am

Armleywhite wrote: Apologies, I mistook your reply for a sarky comment.

Believe me, I know full well how it is to have nowt at such a time. I remember when sam was quite small how we scoured the free ads paper for cheap toys for him and gifts for my step daughter. I'd spend an age cleaning and making them look new. Our xmas dinner was a bernard mathews turkey roll and a few baked potatoes and beans. My daughter knew the stuff was not new but never said, she just made do. We were so lucky that Sam was too young and Shona was so lovely about it all.

We don't go over the top now, just enough to make sure we have a really special day.

Poverty has a way of destroying festive occasions, unfortunately.

Obobby-bobby · Post by **Obobby-bobby** » Fri Nov 01, 2013 11:35 am

Bah humbug.

Pay over the odds for overpriced toys and gifts, made in bulk from overseas, in China or summat'. Over fill the cupboards with food and cakes, then half the population are depressed for the next 6 months, because they look like

.

Naturally, I will be putting on a ''happy'' face - because my kids are still quite young and its all for them, really.

It's too commercialized if you ask me - all for the sake of one day.

LUFCRACE · Post by **LUFCRACE** » Fri Nov 01, 2013 3:40 pm

Obobby-bobby wrote:Bah humbug.

Pay over the odds for overpriced toys and gifts, made in bulk from overseas, in China or summat'. Over fill the cupboards with food and cakes, then half the population are depressed for the next 6 months, because they look like .

Naturally, I will be putting on a ''happy'' face - because my kids are still quite young and its all for them, really.

It's too commercialized if you ask me - all for the sake of one day.

Yes, it is too comercialised, but it doesn't have to be. If you are lucky enough to be surrounded by the people you love, that for me is reason enough to celebrate.

MeeTa · Post by **MeeTa** » Fri Nov 01, 2013 3:42 pm

LUFCRACE wrote:
Yes, it is too comercialised, but it doesn't have to be. If you are lucky enough to be surrounded by the people you love, that for me is reason enough to celebrate.

Exactly, spending time with family, eating great food. Counts for way more than the pressies tbh.

Armleywhite · Post by **Armleywhite** » Fri Nov 01, 2013 7:50 pm

MeeTa wrote:
Exactly, spending time with family, eating great food. Counts for way more than the pressies tbh.

Yup, which is exactly what I was rather clumsily trying to say but you and Anna said it so much better.

Post by **YorkshireSquare** » Mon Nov 25, 2013 10:24 pm

Hoof

barryanorak · Post by **barryanorak** » Tue Nov 26, 2013 8:11 am

LUFCRACE wrote:
Yes, it is too comercialised, but it doesn't have to be. If you are lucky enough to be surrounded by the people you love, that for me is reason enough to celebrate.

What Anna said.

After the hideous year that has been 2013, the thought of a couple of days with my family, and no other pressures is something to really look forward to.

If I never saw another present, it wouldn't bother me.

Be with those you love and appreciate them for what they are and what they mean to you.

The rest is irrelevant.