Christmas thread please.....it's really not too early for busy mums.

[mimififi]

Hi there,

Here on the AB there appear to be two camps of people. Camp one are people who are born organisers, fun loving, gift giving types who hate last minute madness. They want to get asking their christmas questions now so as to be ready for the pending festivities.

Then there is the other camp. The people who still wear shorts and thongs even though it's been raining for the last 4 weeks. They still eat alfresco even if they have to wear a coat and they are ALL armed with a fire extinguisher from the Ebeneezer Scrooge company of firefighting equipment and they not only pour buckets of contempt onto our glowing fires of joy, but seem to be positively offended by our mentioning of the C word.

So, in order to keep all the people happy, if we had a christmas thread, then all of us Love Joys could stick our Christmas questions there and the people who were Christmassly deficient could stay away, overt their eyes until such a calender date that makes the talking of the yule tide more comfortable.

just a thought, ho ho ho and all that,

I'm off to dust my baubles.

[Clanad]

...And very lovely baubles they are, I'm sure...

[stylinsam]

pleeaaassseeee can we have a christmas thread il be really good " i promise" <sits in the corner giggiling>

[mimififi]

|Yes, indeed they are. In fact I have a vast array of different sytles and colours in a variety of mediums, glitter, glass, fabric etc etc.....

And they form only part of my Christmas decoration collection.

Happy Christmas to You, btw, Clanad.....

[BigMac]

Only if you're very, very good....

[mycats]

I think it's a great idea mimi *thumbs up*

[dot.hawkes]

What about replacing the highly popular gambling hot topic with a Christmas hot topic?

(see main page)

[B00]

Be nice to have a Christmas category over there <<< filled with gift ideas, recipes, decoration ideas etc.............

[shaneystar2]

I really do not wish to know about Christmas at least until the first week in December.Luckily we are having superb weather at the moment and yes I am still wandering around in sandals,cut offs and t shirts and sitting in the garden.
We have a crazy woman in the next road ,who,any minute now will be sticking her decorations up together with a huge reindeer in her front garden lit up like Oxford Street...in September ?
Tescos last week had Christmas Puds and mince pies and all sorts of other stuff... while we are still wandering around in summer clothes.When I was young Christmas was at Christmastime ..not in the summer.All far too commercialised these days if you ask me .By the time Christmas gets here these days I am heartily sick of it .It is no fun when it is rammed down your throat 24/7 in the shops and the media.It must drive Mums with young children to despair.
Yours sincerely
Scrooge !!
PS. I love Christmas and do it full throttle every year ...but at Christmas not just at the moment thank you.

[Rock'n'Roll]

A Christmas thread sounds good... Somewhere near Christmas. I reckon Sept is way to early

[electricblue]

BAH,,,,,,,Never too early,,,i agree with mimi,,bring it on,,,,
My tree always goes up end of september,,always!

[lindapinda]

I'm with Shaney!!..No offence to Mimi's baubles!!

[Buenchico]

I once started my Christmas shopping (including the cards which had to be posted to addresses throughout the UK and overseas) at 3.00pm on Christmas Eve, so it would seem that I definitely fall into the second of Mimififi's groups. (Does that mean I've got to wear a thong?).

Despite that, Mimififi is my absolute number one favourite person on AB, so I'm happy to give my support to her suggestion. I'll certainly take a look at the posts (but not,of course until 3.00pm on Christmas Eve!).

Chris

[noxlumos]

Whilst we always end up running round like headless chickens at 6.00pm Christmas Eve, we have 10 children, some of them have partners, we usually have some of their friends who are having a hard time staying, plus parents, siblings, friends, customers and work colleagues, and try as you might there is no earthly way you can cater to that if you only start in December.Therefiore I'd like to support the lovely Mimi's idea and say PLEASE can we have a Christmas thread so those of us with titanic amounts of people to cater for or who just really enjoy Christmas can get on with it in our own little excited huddle and not bug everyone who thinks we're nuts.

[crete]

i have a friend who buys her christmas presents in the January sales .............

[45703]

Great idea, end of November sounds good.

[mimififi]

Ahhhhh, Beunchico and Nox you say the nicest things! A Christmas thread will be perfect for keeping Christmas contained until it becomes socially acceptable for all. Then us Christmas fanatics can swap ideas until our hearts are content and the people who object to being prematurely Christmasalised can keep clear....

Its a win win situation....

hohoho