My mum doesn't like chocolate hun

usually do most of it online so end of nov/early dec. Going to Bluewater in dec sometime so will get some stuff then too.

Agree with what Smithy said, I have a massive family and that includes a lot of kids, I don't buy for them due to the marketing led chaos I buy because I enjoy doing it, I enjoy both picking out and making gifts for people that I think they will love and find useful, giving them a treat and seeing them enjoy Christmas makes me happy, ours isn't all about the gifts either it's about spending time with each other as a family.

Also I'll spend my hard earnt cash however I want to, and if that includes treating my family and friends to gifts that I choose to purchase then that's what'll happen :idc:

Week before usually.

I like to be all done by the end of November.

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That's fine If you are spending money you have, so many people get into debt buying crap for people that don't need it all wrapped up in shiny paper. I think it's good if you think about what each person will use rather than just buying tut for the sake of it.

Mums are easy, go to her hairdresser/ beautician and get her a voucher

bath salts?

I am not having a pop at you Josy, you make good points

I am just hating on the marketing stuff I am seeing now for what is just one day. The more they hype Xmas the more disappointing it becomes.

I agree with you about the marketing and over commercialisation of it tbh and I hate how it has become a competition for certain people to see who can buy their kids the most expensive items and upload the pics to social media etc.

I do enjoy buying for my family and close friends though and I always buy what I think is needed and will be used rather than spending silly money on stupid things, I also make hampers and little gift baskets some years, not filled with expensive things but decent priced stuff that I know they will use and all of it together in the basket both looks lovely and shows how much thought/time I put into it iykwim.

And I do not believe for one bloody minute that you have ever given the mini LT's just a mars bar for crimbo :fist:

No i spend far too much. Christmas was magical when I was wee so i try to carry this on and make it so for them

But now thanks for exMrsLT its all complicated and fcked up :fist:

That's the thing for me and probably for a lot of adults we try to create that magical feeling we had as kids but it's never going to happen, the closest I have come is seeing my kids being enchanted by Christmas but now they are older it's just meh..

This will be smallest boy LTs last Christmas where he believes in Santa

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Enjoy! But how do you know it will be his last? some kids just believe no matter how much their mates tell them otherwise

Sounds like hell.

I can't believe you just called my mum easy though. :omgno:

I've heard the rumours :shrug:

Whats hellish about paying for your Mums manicure :suspect:

Having to go to the hairdressers/beautician. :worry:

I'm too butch for that kind of thing.

Oh of course :laugh:

You'll pick them up for me?

Cheers Chez.