why do we do this?

[crete]

just before xmas does anyone buy new tea towels ? change the bed linen on xmas eve ?

[yinyang]

Sorry crete, I forgot to answer your question!
Might change the girls sheets on Christmas Eve so that santa comes to a sparkling clean bedroom ( and the littll'uns have informed me we're leaving him tomato soup this year because it's not good to eat too many mince pies) but tea towels, no - this is my first year with a dishwasher. :)
The whole house will get a good clean to see in the New Year though.

[crete]

now im giggling ??????????????????

[B00]

That's possibly hypothermia?

[yinyang]

The weather up here has been truly awful and it is starting to affect people. I know three people who have been diagnosed with depression in the last few weeks and when people do venture out we're all bent against the wind, heads down just trying to get home again as quickly as we can.
Not saying you're depressed ,crete - just agreeing that it is grim up here just now!

[noxlumos]

Yeah I buy new towels, tea towels, table cloths and change all the bed linen and launder the curtains, plus clean the house from top to bottom and shampoo the carpets. Clean freak and christmas sends me into overdrive.

[maggie01]

When I was young, my mum always had to put new nets up about a week before Christmas. Quite a few neighbours did the same.

[maximo]

Well, I'm gonna do that this year, just like last year...You know, since I live alone, and, let's face it, am not as strict with the changing of bed linen as I would be if I was one in a couple (ie: regarded as a defaultless kind of princess, as should be)....I want to wake up on Xmas day in fresh sheets, have a Xmas breakie in bed (lots of coffee, brioche, pain au chocolats...mmmmh). So, yes, I'm gonna do just that.

I draw the line at the purchase of tea towels though. To be honest, if they don't sell it in Centra, I don't buy.....lol

[ummmm]

What did I do wrong?

[whiffey]

ummmmmmmmmmmm you have done no wrong, but this seems to be a Scotty thread and certain allowances have to be made the noo. It is very strange up there where the trains fear to go.

Cheer up, it's Friday !

[enigma]

I don't buy new teatowels but I like to have a pre Christmas blitz and I also sort through the kids' toys before they get new ones to see what I can give to charity shops if they've outgrown it or throw out if it's broken. I also gut out my cupboards and attic to free them of all the things which my hubby has held onto "Just in case". I don't especially go out of my way though to make sure that I have new bed linen on the beds on Christmas eve as such. I just do my laundry as normal but there is no significance with this day in particular. Hogmanay however is another matter. I scrub my house from top to bottom , change all the sheets and duvet covers , hoover etc then I pour a drink for hubby and I , cut some madeira cake , put out shortbread and boot my hubby outside in the freezing cold on the stroke of midnight to first foot us. No matter how clean our house is , I always follow the tradition of bringing in the New Year with a gleaming house.

I'm in Scotland too and the weather is atrocious. My hands seem to be permanently bright pink and although we finally avoided the rain today - apart from light spitting - when it came to picking my daughter up from school at 3pm , we got caught in a shower of hailstones. When will it ever let up ?!! Still at least i'm not in Stirling. The old bridge burst it's banks and flooded a lot of houses and residents had to be rescued in dinghys. I'm too high up where I am to worry about that.

[enigma]

Where the trains fear to go ? You are a strange one Whiffey lol !

[whiffey]

enigma, I love your "light spitting". Down here it's huge flobbing gobs.

I think I need a top-up of mad Scotty heartiness and I feel "Whisky Galore" coming on !

[joby1]

Greyfriars Bobby! Ahhh XX

[yinyang]

try' The tunes of Glory' whiffey. Always makes me laugh; even though it's not a comedy.
Or 'comfort and joy' - ' I said a sanity clause, no a Santy claus!'

[enigma]

Anything but Gregory's girl. Now that was just awful !!! You've got to feel it for the occupants of his house and their neighbours though eh ? This was Stirling yesterday :

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[ummmm]

I'm happy Whiffey, just waiting for carriage to arrive to take me on a night out on the town with the boys!!

[caz247]

42 days of rain???????
how many times do i tell u lot it
rains every day in glasgow


caz x

ps. sorry crete forgot to answer the question
i change bed linen once a week every week
and my sis bought me tea towels last week with
santas on them

[caz247]

ps. whiffey please stop talking like an
extra from Brigadoon


caz x

[orangelady]

oh gosh I am horrified I change my be linen every week . eeeeer don't you