What do you want for Christmas?

The volunteering idea is brilliant but I’d suggest that you delay it until a random month next year. Loads of people volunteer around the holidays so make a mental commitment to say 20 hours and then do it in Feb or April etc next year when it might be more “useful”.
 
Colgates_shaving_foam said:
Not to have to buy anyone else any presents.

I'm not a hypocrite as I don't want any presents either.

I have floated this proposal on a number of occasions but it goes down like a fart in a lift, especially with my in laws.

I now just leave it all to my amazing wife to sort out, I do feel a bit guilty.
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I floated this idea also. Not avoiding buying any, but we have kids, as does my brother and my wife's siblings. I dared to suggest that the adults don't bother exchanging presents as there's already a crazy number of kids presents changing hands, however that went down badly with everyone.
 
My mother always buys me clothes I can’t stand from garden centres and the like. I always politely accept, then give them to homeless people. She’s probably getting me back for buying her Ferrero Rocher for over 30 years before her husband let it slip she can’t stand them.

I want a Maserati MC12, but reckon I might miss out again this year
 
I would want an end to commercialism.
Christmas is a time for families, so yes treat your kids but keep it to sensible amounts. When my kids were small, they received too much, and you could see that they couldn't cope, so we quickly hid some of the toys and brought them out over the year when we wanted to reward good behaviour.
Enjoy your time with your families, my parents have passed away, other family are too wrapped up in their own lives, and kids are having to spend time with their Mum. So another Christmas on my own, I looked into volunteering as I worked for a charity, however the number of forms and checks required put me off.
I try to celebrate christmas with my grown up kids on another day, so they arent split between parents.
Christmas day is spent with a nice bottle of something trying to getting obliterated.
 
ThatFragranceGuy said:
If anyone is struggling for a gift from the mrs, and you don't do it already, absolutely look into Double Edge shaving. It can be great gifts as there is loads of kit, and you will save a fortune in getting ripped off by cartridge razor blade companies. can get 100 blades for a DE razor for a tenner and use each one 2-3 times. there are kits to suit all budgets, some people spend £40 and that's it, some like artisan soaps and fine brushes etc and you'll actually enjoy shaving instead of finding it a chore.
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Must try and hoof my DE thread, so as not to hijack this one…..
 
I love Christmas, which can often bring its own problems. If your not careful the day can be built up beforehand and then doesn't live up to expectations.

Up until this year, we would have all the kids round, (they are all mid twenties now), late start, open the pressies, bucks fizz and scrambled eggs and salmon (made bam marie stye?) by our budding pastry chef youngest then a walk along the beach with the dog. Come back and crack on with dinner, while we played some games and just generally had a chin wag and a laugh.

Just before bed, we'd facetime family back in the UK, as they were getting up.

Now, our youngest flies out to the UK 16th December to start a new life with her partner in the UK. Can't complain as we did it to our parents 15 years ago, but still going to be odd. This year we are flying to Welly on christmas eve to have dinner with our eldest 2 children, then going to have a break in Martinborough wine country for a few days.

Next year will be different again, got the dog booked into kennels already and intending to go on a 5 day great walk somewhere, so for us christmas will change totally in the space of 2 years.
 
I am working solid over Xmas, I asked for it that way but have off from Wednesday 29th to the 3nd January. I tempted to go to Blackpool which would be my Xmas treat, but was looking at hotels last night and already they have gone up in price since yesterday. I want a big Boro win with at least 4000 Boro at Bloomfield Road.
 
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Colgates_shaving_foam said:
Not to have to buy anyone else any presents.

I'm not a hypocrite as I don't want any presents either.

I have floated this proposal on a number of occasions but it goes down like a fart in a lift, especially with my in laws.

I now just leave it all to my amazing wife to sort out, I do feel a bit guilty.
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we did exactly this 10 years ago , there was just too many people !
So we said, don’t buy us, we won’t buy you .
works well 👍🏻
 
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