No as in before Christmas and boxing day. Then there's the dead week before New Year where people don't really do a lot. I imagine they are still catching up from last year thoughWhat do you mean? Are you expecting another lockdown?
No as in before Christmas and boxing day. Then there's the dead week before New Year where people don't really do a lot. I imagine they are still catching up from last year thoughWhat do you mean? Are you expecting another lockdown?
Boo I didn't see any in my local boots at the weekendI picked up the Boots xmas mag today.
Christmas Eve boxes are usually given (obviously) only Christmas Eve night and they’ve got stuff like new pyjamas/slippers maybe a bath bomb and a hot chocolate and a new Christmas film. IMO it’s just another cash grab and don’t see the point but think they’d be cute for kidsWhat do you mean? Are you expecting another lockdown?
I adore Christmas more than Mrs Claus herself but this whole comment has sent meChristmas Eve boxes are one of the biggest “basic witch” movement of the last ten years.
it just get more and more extra every year,
- Trees go up in October,
- A bleeping ADHD elf bounces around your gaff for 24 days because we don’t have enough to do before Christmas.
- Boxing day sales start on the 5th of December.
- Christmas day and “Santa” now includes Christmas Eve boxes and Pre Santa gifts,
Just what every child needs,
More bleeping presents 12 hours before they get spoilt rotten by a fictitious character designed by Coca-Cola.
roll on January,
Although the January sales probably start a week on Tuesday.
I’m about to go queue for the Black Friday sales,
Black Friday in the uk - because, we haven’t yet adopted thanksgiving but hey,
there’s always 2022.
happy Easter, eggs will be in Tesco in 2 weeks
I love you and your kids. I need an update to this story though!! What happened? Were parents knocking your door? Were the school involved? Was your name mud at the gates? I need answers!My kids asked me why we don't have an elf, so I told them the truth. That it is a wacky game parents with nothing better to do play tricks on their kids and that your mama has enough to do without cleaning up flour a fake elf spilled everywhere. Then they blew the lie wide open in their school and nearly caused ww3.
#itisallalie
I did exactly the same although no idea if my children told any of their friends or not but no angry watsapps from other parents. It took ages for one of mine to believe me. He just kept explaining all the exciting things his friend's elves do. The message got through in the end.My kids asked me why we don't have an elf, so I told them the truth. That it is a wacky game parents with nothing better to do play tricks on their kids and that your mama has enough to do without cleaning up flour a fake elf spilled everywhere. Then they blew the lie wide open in their school and nearly caused ww3.
#itisallalie
I feel the same way. I love christmas but I really dislike the commercialism of it. I lived in Germany and commercialism is only just catching on there but christmas is a lot more about spending time together and having time off. I was telling my colleagues about how I used to work xmas eve and then boxing day and they were so shocked that we re-opened on Boxing Day. They usually shut and don't re-open until 2 days after new year. Some shops re-open on the 27th like supermarkets but most shops stay shut.Usually I don't bother with Xmas, was never a fan of the crazy shop rush to buy things an having to move everything in the house to put up a tree only for the dog to pull the damn thing down, but now I have a niece an it's opening my eyes into how much extra now goes into making it Xmas, when I was a kid we got a cheap ass chocolate advent calender an we're quite happy with it, now it's like parents want to try outdo one another with who can buy the most expensive calender or the most, I've had family members spend over a hundred just because their kids want these £25 to £50 calanders filled with toys, make up, bath stuff etc it's completly insane an also that damn elf, swear to god if am told to buy this ridiculous thing for her am gonna have its head lobbed off an tomato ketchup everywhere an it will be the end of the elf, who's idea was this, I also find the Xmas eve boxes mad, presents were Xmas day an Xmas day only, I honestly feel like am being a scrooge cause everyone is so excited for Xmas with her now an I do want to enjoy that whole Xmas day excitement with her but jesus it's like a work shift just trying to prepare for the one day
Yeah I totally feel like Xmas has really been taking from what it was for me as a kid, we never got a ton just because we didn't have the money an somtimes my parents would even go out on Xmas eve just because some shops sold things off a little cheaper an they would get us stuff, everything we got we were generally happy with, for me it was mostly art/craft things, pretty cheap an I was super into that, still am but I agree, a lot of things I have no idea what they were an maybe they probably ended up put away days later to collect dustI feel the same way. I love christmas but I really dislike the commercialism of it. I lived in Germany and commercialism is only just catching on there but christmas is a lot more about spending time together and having time off. I was telling my colleagues about how I used to work xmas eve and then boxing day and they were so shocked that we re-opened on Boxing Day. They usually shut and don't re-open until 2 days after new year. Some shops re-open on the 27th like supermarkets but most shops stay shut.
I also don't see the point of buying loads of presents. As a kid I got loads from my parents and then loads from my Nanna and honestly, I can't remember a single toy that I got from either of them now and chances are I was bored of them by Boxing Day. Once they'd be put away I probably forgot about them.
My thoughts exactly, am always like am I being a scrooge here because am now the one having to run out to shops an get all this and having to work out who's coming for dinner to prepare for it, an the endless changing of gifts because its not the right one, rather than be a kid an simply miss the behind the scenes of what actually makes a Christmas dayI often wonder if Christmas doesn't feel as magical anymore because I'm an adult, or because of the ridiculous pressure and commercialism of it all.
I think it's the pressure, in particular the pressure to enjoy.I often wonder if Christmas doesn't feel as magical anymore because I'm an adult, or because of the ridiculous pressure and commercialism of it all.