advertising christmas dinner

[gina32]

just opened my local paper and their are 4 pages of restaurants advertising christmas dinner, give us a break for goodness sake. although ive see diaries and christmas cards and big tins of quality street in the shops, although i suppose now that the kids are due back to school we will start to see gifts in the shops

[pastafreak]

This makes me sick.....it's not even September,and the pressure is starting. We are in the midst of a credit crunch-yet the spending spree is being encouraged already.

[gina32]

i agree

[Michael52]

Christmas is real unlike the illusion called "Summer" promising us long hot days when the reality is rain, Cheap holiday getaways, When the reality is the Airline company will go down taking all your money and leaving you stranded and miserable etc..
With our summers being a washout year after year it's no wonder that Christmas is the highlight of our year because with Christmas we know it's going to be freezing, miserable and we will put on weight, spend all of our wages and will tolerate hated friends and relatives into our homes with forced smiles. Yep unlike summer at least we know whats coming with Christmas.

[mrs_overall]

Our local garden centre has been selling Xmas paraphernalia since the first week in August.

[4getmenot]

I've seen xmas cards in shops

[Bbbananas]

I booked our staff christmas party this February - but that's cos there'll be 60 of us, and we want the best venue, the best food, and a private party room so we can be disgraceful (there's always the risk of patients observing us pished, swearing and being very provocative on the dance floor.....)

However my own personal christmas planning does not start until the beginning of december at the earliest.

[gina32]

i did say that as well.

[yinyang]

I did see the big tins of chocolates in Tesco this morning and think ' ooh, that time of year already?'.

Having said that, I do already have quite a few stocking fillers that ive bought just over the last few weeks. It just makes sense to me to pick up things I now the girls will like when I see them and an extra couple of pounds every week is less stressful on my purse than buying it all in one go in December ( altough I have been putting money aside for Christma since January ).