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maggiemay

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Last night Claudia did one of those voice-over thingies where they tell us what's coming up over the next few hours or whatever and she started it by saying "merry Christmas". I can put up with the shopping channels flogging Christmas stuff three months early as that is what most retailers do but wishing us a merry Christmas on 28th October? We've yet to have halloween, bonfire night and, most importantly, remembrance Sunday. Talk about indecent haste!
 
Last night Claudia did one of those voice-over thingies where they tell us what's coming up over the next few hours or whatever and she started it by saying "merry Christmas". I can put up with the shopping channels flogging Christmas stuff three months early as that is what most retailers do but wishing us a merry Christmas on 28th October? We've yet to have halloween, bonfire night and, most importantly, remembrance Sunday. Talk about indecent haste!



This is a personal bugbear of mine maggiemay, as I have mentioned on many previous posts, No wonder everyone is stressed to the hilt, this kind of anxiety making needs to be stopped and we need to be allowed to live in the moment.
 
Its just all hype isn't it & designed to panic us I feel. Look at the shops. Christmas cards seen as early as September in some. And once the new year comes what will appear? Cabruarys Cream Eggs.:puke:
 
Yes we definitely need to live in the moment. The older I get the more I try to do so. Every season has something good to offer and I want to be left in peace to enjoy it. Trouble is, you just can't seem to get away from the madness. And as my birthday is on Christmas Day it makes me feel old before my time!
 
Yes we definitely need to live in the moment. The older I get the more I try to do so. Every season has something good to offer and I want to be left in peace to enjoy it. Trouble is, you just can't seem to get away from the madness. And as my birthday is on Christmas Day it makes me feel old before my time!




To carry on the tradition of immediacy maggiemay, Happy Birthday!
 
It is far to early to wish people "merry christmas" :mysmilie_503:
 
It really annoys me, I've not had my "summer" holiday yet.

(Mind you, i'm going to Florida and plan to do most of my Christmas shopping there :cash::cash::cash: )
 
I know I'm in the minority but I have to say I love Christmas! I'm not one of the bizarre people who eats a Christmas dinner everyday...honest :nod::blush:. But I personally don't find it stressful, just enjoyable! I'm really looking forward to this one as my little boy is three and will be the age to understand all the magic. I do know it's not a great time for everyone though, I worry (cos I'm a worrier) about the rates of depression which soar at this time of the year, and about all the people who struggle with financial management at the best of times getting into debt to buy things for people they don't like that won't appreciate them anyway...and I totally agree re: consumerism gone maaad and it all ending up in landfill. My OH says when archaeologists who aren't born yet dig up loads of plastic reindeers they are going to study the twenty-first century as some kind of aberrant mad culture...

When I first found QVC, around seven years ago, I couldn't believe they had a 'Christmas in July' event! It seemed ridiculous, and yet I saw Christmas cards etc in some shops at the start of August this year. They made QVC look normal [shudder] :giggle:. And when my father and I were waiting at a train station a few weeks ago the announcement over the Tannoy wished us a Merry Christmas! Have to say this was going too far, even for me :dull:
 
Hi Artdeco I'm the same; at a very simple personal level I love Christmas too. I like writing the cards and wrapping pressies. I hate daily cooking but I love planning and cooking the Christmas dinner. I also love the kid's faces when they open their presents because they never know what they're actually going to get until the do, even in their teens they'll make a list but I still want it to be a surprise. (Being a canny shopper we got my son a Sony Vaio lappy when he was hoping for any generic brand for the same ££ last year)

What I hate is the moaning from the cup-half-empty brigade...if you don't get any pleasure in planning Christmas, pare it right back to the elements that you do. I hear so many relatives grumbling about others' expectations and "tradition".

You're family will have a magical season this year AD, and if your little one wakes you very early, throw the dinner on and have ther whole sha-bang eaten and washed-up by 2pm! Bonus!

I love wishing people "Merry Christmas" but save it til December.

Jude xxx
 
Couldn't agree more with your comments let the 'anti early Christmas' campaign begin!Most of us 'love' Christmas ( me included) it's just the selling of cards in Aug/Sept. & the likes of QVC having a 'Christmas in July' event.I have yet to meet someone who actually agrees with it.
Artdeco is right, there are people who will get into serious debt who feel they have to keep the pace up, hence the adverts in January telling how to' consolidate your debts'.I ignore it all as much as is possible, But very difficult as I am in a large urban city environment where there will be 'leaping reindeer' on the roundabouts near a large shopping centre (must go & check if they are in place yet!)My favorite Christmas scene is the name of MANCHESTER on the airport as I raise above the clouds courtesy of Easyjet!
 
I too love Christmas but it seems to get earlier every year and by the time Christmas arrived I'm so jaded by it all that I find myself thinking "Oh heck, not ANOTHER mince pie!"

Surely mid November is early enough to start with the lights, trees, songs etc?? Then by the time the big day is here we're all revved up enough to really give it some welly!!!!
 
Thanks Jude! If he gets us up at some ungodly hour (unlikely as when it comes to stopping in bed he's a teenager in training :giggle:) we'll take your advice! My cousin made a decision years ago when hers were little to let them open their presents at 3am if that's when they woke on strict condition they took it all back to their bedrooms and canned it till 7am :rock:

Silver Fox you made me laugh! Having done the same flight I can just picture it! I love those urban Christmas decorative monstrosoties - in fact, if anyone on the forum lives in Aberdeen, can you tell me, is that horrific singing Lapland scene still resident in the Bon Accord shopping centre? I had honestly never seen anything like it, wonder if there are pics online :thinking:. It really was like one of the QVC Christmas musical ornaments magnified to the size of a Boeing 747. They were surveying people as to whether it should be kept when I was last living there, and my parting shot to the good folk of Grampian before running away to England was to heartily recommend it stayed. Apols if you're a local :grin:

To go back to topic, I do think QVC have a bit of a different Christmas vibe going on this year (as Glen might have it). There used to be an Eeek TSV weekly from October years ago, but with the price of metals that's been knocked on the head, so now we get technology gift ideas every other day :yawn: :sleepy:
 
Artdeco I don't think you're in the minority. There's an awful lot of people who love Christmas, me included and, it seems, most people on this forum. It's because I love it so much that I hate the over-commercialisation that starts earlier every year. It just spoils it. I don't like to go to the other extreme either, and rush round like a mad thing at the last minute because that spoils it too. There's a happy medium somewhere!
 
I love that feeling on Christmas Eve afternoon/early evening when you know there's no more last minute shizzle you can do. Sigh of relief and start peeling the veg in front of a cheesy film, love it!

I confess I hassle Mr Akimbo to put the tree up early in December simply because my parents waited until about the 23rd and it was a childhood promise to myself that I'd put up the tree when I wanted to! :rock:

Jude xx
 
Believe me, I used to love Christmas. Always spent with family gathered around...such happy times and lovely memories. But when all of your family have passed on, and your friends spend Christmas with their loved ones, it can't come and go quick enough for me. Sorry to be an old misery. But I do understand how those of you, (especially with children), will be looking forward to Christmas so much.
 
Believe me, I used to love Christmas. Always spent with family gathered around...such happy times and lovely memories. But when all of your family have passed on, and your friends spend Christmas with their loved ones, it can't come and go quick enough for me. Sorry to be an old misery. But I do understand how those of you, (especially with children), will be looking forward to Christmas so much.

That's exactly it, Maria, when you've lost everyone you love, Christmas is a horrible time, and those of us in that situation don't need to have it rammed down our throats from late summer!
 
Maria & iclaudipuss have hit another point.Not everyone in this lovely country of ours have an extended / loving family. Me for one, no children & my partner the same.I remember lovely Christmases with Mum & Dad, very simple & special times & treasured memories. But those times have gone for me so I am able in terms of cash & am at the moment, bodily able to get out of it. So many are not as fortunate & all this buying for family plus a host of friends will make them feel as though they are isolated.
 
My friend is on her own with 3 autistic teenagers, no sensible contact with their Dad or his parents and own father is showing early signs of dementia. The relentless bombardment of perfect family Christmas really twists the knife, when she and her kids will never have a "normal" festive season. They keep any grumbles I might have about Christmas in perspective.

One of her kids hasn't opened all his presents from last year yet because there's nothing he wants!! He knows damn well his family life doesn't resemble the stupid adverts and sit-coms etc on TV; heartbreaking.

Wishing everyone a peaceful winter.

J xx
 
Christmas Day has become a day of relief for me - and I love Crimbo.

At least IW haven't got too bad yet with it all - still selling same old with the word 'festive' attached.
 

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