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Bah Humbug! What makes you Scrooge? |
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If I receive a present with really nice Christmas paper on, I will remove it as carefully as possible, smooth it out and use it again
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It's just another day Gleeky.
Forget about all the over the top hype and do your own thing. ![]() If I can get away with not joining in, but my mum will probably drag me out of bed or get upset so I feel guilty
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I'm gonna try it
If I can get away with not joining in, but my mum will probably drag me out of bed or get upset so I feel guilty |
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the part time supermarket visitors who think its a social club and block the aisles to have a catch up. or the same people (probably) who find it so difficult to park in a supermarket car park! don't they know how big there car is? don't they have spacial awareness?
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If your mum like the Christmas thing then do it for her, i used to do it for my Mum as she liked Christmas and having the family around.
It's just kinda hard to even pretend to be excited with suicidal thoughts, but I'm trying
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My plans seem to be going awry. Mr Lakie has caught my cold and is lying on the sofa groaning. If it affects him like it did me, he won't be wanting Christmas dinner tomorrow - I didn't eat for 4 days earlier this week.
I may be able to use it as an excuse not to go to his sister's on Boxing Day though. |
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The part time drinkers clogging up the boozers.
In my old local, we used to call them QPR's, or' Queens Park Strangers'! You only ever used to see them at Christmas & new year, as you say, 'clogging up the bar' |
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Basically, Scrooge was a sound bloke.
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What makes a Scrooge at Christmas? Is it not joining in with everything, refusing to spend money, not giving to charity, being miserable - what do you think?
The rat race in the shops and supermarkets makes going out from mid-December a fight for your life. I'm also impossible to buy presents for. Once I started working for a living and earning good money, anything I want I buy for myself. So another year of socks and chocolates it is. I tell all my friends not to buy me anything and not to expect anything either. They take no offence, they know me too well. My parents are tight fisted misers and will literally complain if I buy them anything "thank you, but you really shouldn't have wasted your money on us". They even tell me before xmas not to buy them anything. Suits me! Nor do I decorate or put a tree up, I don't have the room for a tree without re-arranging the room and whole effort strikes me as a waste of time for sake of some twinkly lights. I'm also an atheist so the event has no greater meaning to me. I DID enjoy Christmas up to about the age 18. Back when you have no significant income, xmas pressies become a big thing. And back in the days of 3/4 channels of TV - Xmas used to be a big TV event. But nowadays with so many channels, and films out to buy six months after the cinema, it has little to offer. Don't get me wrong, if I had a family of my own, I'd probably get into the spirit of things for the sake of the missus and children. In-fact I've been known to say "xmas is for kids and women". Yes it's nice that Xmas brings families together. But I can do that any time of the year and eat well any time of the year. So the whole thing is nothing to me, literally nothing, just a total chore of going through the motions... AGAIN. Yawn. If I had to find one really positive thing it would be that Xmas does help break and brighten up the misery of winter. |
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If I can get away with not joining in, but my mum will probably drag me out of bed or get upset so I feel guilty