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I'd rather forget about Christmas until at least 1 December, but...

Christmas Cards now on sale in Next.

I thought they were in the 'reduced to clear/let's get rid of all the old rubbish we haven't shifted this year' section, but no, it's a proper 'Get your Christmas 2008 cards here' display.

And we haven't even had Christmas 2007 yet!!!

Oh heck - I promise, I've not been on the mulled wine!

I think I've been unduly influenced by Big Brother - it's BB8, so I thought it was 2008.

Well, at least getting the year wrong in the title resulted in a reply - wasn't expecting any 'till October or so.

I wished everyone a Happy New Year a few weeks ago GG and chatted about next years BB, but I was slightly inebriated. What's your excuse?

We have "some" stuff in the stock room at work my team leader was teloing us last week and all the plans have been rolled out for the store for christmas. Its madness im telling you!

yeah and it was removed


I vacumed up some tinsel from under my sons bed last night

Christmas! (runs away screaming)

I never realised Jesus was quite so premature...

i love christmas we have a real tree in the garden and i noticed last week its still got tinsel on it lol i couldnt reach so left it and forgot to get hubby to do it lol saves doing it this year i guess lol

It's nice to hear you love Christmas, ktmoomoo. I realise quite a few people are a bit keen on it.

Christmas was difficult for me, when I was a teenager. And attempts to convince myself that I really was having a ball - more booze, more everything! - during my twenties weren't altogether successful. (But they were quite spectacular!). In my thirties, as a mother to small children, I tried very hard, but still dreaded the whole thing.

Even up to last year, it was my dream to one year avoid Christmas entirely - just take off to some wild place, and climb a mountain, or something (preferably in a country where they said 'Christmas? Oh yes, we forgot!).

But now at the ripe old age of 46, the penny has finally dropped. I'm actually looking forward to trying to make it nice for my family, and am even pleased that the in-laws haven't been scared off by my previous culinary efforts.

I'll try not to turn into Scrooge - for a change.

I'm still in that place GG. Haven't moved on from it yet! There is every chance the kids are spending Christmas at their dads this year as he is getting married around that time (I think!) and my parents asked if I minded if they went on a cruise with their friends earlier in the year and of course I gave them my blessing to go. My brother and sister both live abroad so who knows where I might be on Christmas day. This year could be the year. I would like to think I would do some good turn somewhere but I may well end up on the couch with a tub of ice cream and a bottle of Baileys.

My local Co-op have selection boxes in already!

Nearly posted about this a couple of weeks ago but during our usual "Sunday Big Shop" at Morrisons, the seasonal isle was split between Summer stuff, back to school stuff and Christmas stuff! Selection boxes and advent calendars were on sale at the time in the Xmas stuff and this was only a few days after the kids had gone back to school.

I know August is quite utterly ridiculous but September is too much.

That's why Christmas is becoming less important to a lot of people, because it's being forced upon them by shops so early that it becomes a pressure.

I ended up joining the "I hate Christmas" club last year and probably will be the same this year

Bah Humbug!

xmas is lovely in our house we have lights all over the outside of the house ill try and post you a picture if i can work out how to do it lol