What do you do in the build up to Christmas?

Bare Necessitie · 03/12/14 - 23:21

As the topic says. By this I don't mean the standard things like buying presents or festive food but little changes you make like putting up a shed load of Christmas lights or wearing knitted Christmas jumpers.

Billy_Value · 03/12/14 - 23:52

I Put The Tree Up And Decorations

Hank1234 · 03/12/14 - 23:58

Nothing Christmas hasn't felt like Christmas since my late teens

hunter23 · 04/12/14 - 00:00

Cut my balls off

Billy_Value · 04/12/14 - 00:01

hunter23 wrote: »

Cut my balls off

they have a set of 12 for five pound in pound stretcher

lemoncurd · 04/12/14 - 00:02

I go into the office an work each day. Like the rest of the year.

cnbcwatcher · 04/12/14 - 00:10

Study for exams or do essays.

howard h · 04/12/14 - 00:13

Find the best earplugs so I don't have to listen to sodding xmas bloody records in shops.

I could do with a list of stores that don't play music, Lidl for starters. Any more?

Jason · 04/12/14 - 00:34

I don't do christmas apart from buying some bits for my mum and sister, so nothing really.

Steveaki13 · 04/12/14 - 07:10

All the people that have answered are anti Christmas.... haha, that strikes me as funny.

As for me, I love Christmas. My build up starts After Bonfire night.

- Start Xmas shopping through November, then last weekend of November get the advent caldendars up. Then first weekend of December is Decs up.

I try to finish wrapping soon after and get the presents under the tree.

I then relax and enjoy the run in. I don't wear festive clothes though.

I buy the Radio Times Xmas asap.

[Deleted User] · 04/12/14 - 07:14

Try not to engage in the farce to begin with. Usually get guilt tripped into doing some "get together" just because it's Christmas, but frankly, I'd rather not go.

idlewilde · 04/12/14 - 07:15

I put the tree up and buy some Christmas presents funnily enough. Other than that life goes on as normal and I go to work each day. The above activities aren't exclusive to everything else going on.

LakieLady · 04/12/14 - 07:57

Go to work, walk the dog, cook, clean, all the normal stuff.

I'll go for a meal with people from work, and every year mother-in-law takes the whole family out for lunch. Unfortunately, it's a at a pub where the food is dreadful so it's a bit of an ordeal. No-one can bear to risk offending by pointing out that it's a) awful and b) a rip off.

At some point, I will have to venture into a shop to do the food shopping, and go online to buy something for the hopeless Mr Lakie, who never has any present suggestions, but for me Christmas starts on Dec 25th when we have bucks fizz with scrambled egg and smoked salmon.

Then we cook lunch.

Mr_Eye · 04/12/14 - 07:59

I don't think I've ever been on a more joyless forum than DS.

bookcover · 04/12/14 - 08:05

hunter23 wrote: »

Cut my balls off

Excuse me?!

:D:D

bookcover · 04/12/14 - 08:17

Light advent candles every Sunday, first one was lit last Sunday. Put tree up, decorate house. Change cushion covers, bring out sheepskins and scented candles. Bake. Buy and make pressies, write cards, go to Carol Services....wait for Santa to call round from the round table. Close the garden down for winter, wrap all the plants up in fleece. Hang wreath on front door. Put external fairy lights up outside on garden arch and tree.

Phew...put feet up and enjoy good food, wine and friends and family. Happy Christmas!

bookcover · 04/12/14 - 08:18

Mr_Eye wrote: »

I don't think I've ever been on a more joyless forum than DS.

:D:D

Slarti Bartfast · 04/12/14 - 08:27

Usually take a bit of time off work in early/mid December as I don't get the standard week/fortnight off over the festive period. This year it's this week. I've started my Christmas shopping, tested all the lights, got my Christmas playlist in order and today I'll be nipping to The Range to top up our decorations and lights.

Also, what is it with DS and this anti-Christmas one-upmanship on any festive thread? You lot are like a Monty Python sketch: The Four (Yuletide) Yorkshiremen.

shackfan · 04/12/14 - 08:32

Mr_Eye wrote: »

I don't think I've ever been on a more joyless forum than DS.

I think you're right. There seems to be an above average number of really miserable gits on here who seem to enjoy putting others down and not enjoying anything. Thank fu c K I don't know any of them in real life.

Jason · 04/12/14 - 08:56

Just because I don't really do christmas doesn't mean i'm not perfectly happy or walk around saying "bah humbug" all the live long day

There does seem to be this regular "battle", if you will, between many of those who like and get in to this time of the year and those who don't. Obviously I know not everyone is like it, but for many, there does seem to be this idea that you're basically not allowed to dislike, or not be bothered about, christmas.

[Deleted User] · 04/12/14 - 09:14

I start watching Christmas films from 1st November, I love watching Christmas 24 even though I'm fully aware the films on it a budget movies they have that feel good factor which makes me smile at this time of year!!! Come December I start on the good Christmas films🎅

I also have a selection of Christmas books I read over November and December and add a couple each year.

My tree is usually already up but I needed a new one and I've been too ill to go get it so ordered one online that's went missing so I'll have to wait for that but I do have a small table sized real Christmas tree which smells amazing as well as being super cute!!!

I always buy a Christmas TV magazine and highlight stuff I want to watch or record.

And I have a few Christmas jumpers that I wear over December. They got bought as a joke but they are cozy and make me smile so I love them!!!

I also love Christmas food... Lebkuchen and panettone are my favourites!!! I better feel better for Christmas!!!

Basically I love Christmas... I'm single with no kids but I just think Christmas is magical and it really is what you make of it!!!

Merry Christmas folks!!!

bookcover · 04/12/14 - 09:20

boobyloo wrote: »

I start watching Christmas films from 1st November, I love watching Christmas 24 even though I'm fully aware the films on it a budget movies they have that feel good factor which makes me smile at this time of year!!! Come December I start on the good Christmas films🎅

I also have a selection of Christmas books I read over November and December and add a couple each year.

My tree is usually already up but I needed a new one and I've been too ill to go get it so ordered one online that's went missing so I'll have to wait for that but I do have a small table sized real Christmas tree which smells amazing as well as being super cute!!!

I always buy a Christmas TV magazine and highlight stuff I want to watch or record.

And I have a few Christmas jumpers that I wear over December. They got bought as a joke but they are cozy and make me smile so I love them!!!

I also love Christmas food... Lebkuchen and panettone are my favourites!!! I better feel better for Christmas!!!

Basically I love Christmas... I'm single with no kids but I just think Christmas is magical and it really is what you make of it!!!

Merry Christmas folks!!!

Clinks glass of Eggnog...Happy Christmas to you too

nessyfencer · 04/12/14 - 09:22

Drink different flavoured coffee (Christmas blend, cinnamon, gingerbread...), use different air-fresheners and candles, eat a lot more...

Frankie_Little · 04/12/14 - 09:31

Mr_Eye wrote: »

I don't think I've ever been on a more joyless forum than DS.

Me neither. Bah humbug. If I could afford it, I'd buy them all Christmas jumpers and battery operated light-up antlers and force them to wear them until December 25th.

malpasc · 04/12/14 - 09:40

Wake up, sleep, breathe, have showers, eat food, drink things, dress, undress, blink, speak, go to work. come home from work..... and so on.

lemoncurd · 04/12/14 - 10:18

Frankie_Little wrote: »

Me neither. Bah humbug. If I could afford it, I'd buy them all Christmas jumpers and battery operated light-up antlers and force them to wear them until December 25th.

I think that's part of the problem isn't it? With Christmas particularly, there is almost an expectation that you will participate and that if you don't you are somehow being "miserable" (blame Charles Dickens!).
I don't mind people celebrating the birth of Christ. It is a religious tradition and I'm not one to poo-pooh that. But then you have some people who would never condone others for ignoring Rosh Hashanah, or Eid-al-Futr, or Holi, but if you fail to put tacky decorations up and have a forced knees-up with your family for Christmas.....oh, there's something wrong with you! >:(

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