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Just thought as we are nearing the end of September,won't be long before the first sado puts Festive decorations up:)Dont get me wrong I enjoy Christmas and the New Year but,its getting near that time when some people sort being abit premature :)

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Don't you start Mthead !! saw some selection boxes in Sainsburys today with a picture of Santa on his sleigh ... :rolleyes:

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We got the Galaxy Mistletoe Kisses and some boxed Xmas biscuits and stuff in last week lol

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we aint put last years up yet.:D:D:D:D:D carry on saddos.:rolleyes:

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Marks And Spencers In Cleveleys Have Just Stacked Loads Of Xmas Puddings In Their Window,,so It Looks Like The Decorations Will Soon Follow:d

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Tesco at haslingden have their selection boxes and advent calendars for sale along with some stuff thats marked for christmas - saw them on Sunday when i went!!!!

My neighbour who gave me a lift said its too early to buy the selection boxes - i'll eat them before the weeks out!!!!

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Blimey MT :eek::eek:... Talking like that in the middle of Sept , ON HERE!!!!! will be getting you a one way ticket back to second life :tongueout................lmao!!!!
Now go and wash your mouth out and dont come back till DEC 24TH:whip::uzi:

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They have to put the selection boxes out and decorations up to make room in the warehouse for the delivery of Easter Eggs & Hot cross buns thats due in next week.
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It's the mince pies that really bug me.

Last year, Sainsburys had a huge container of mince pies blocking the access to almost every aisle.

It really gives me a bad case of trolley rage:mad:

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I love Christmas, I used to put the decs up straight after Halloween, but, moving in with Phil has changed that. :(

Gail xxxx

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dont know about the decs but i did start buying christmas prezzies yesterday :D

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I bought my xmas cards last Jan, you don't have get um cheep at that time of year, as for decorationds, I ain't put any up for years:rolleyes:

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Only got two small silver balls,they will be hanging around somewhere.:alright:

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you call the people that put their decerations up early sados, but what about the people that don't even bother to take them down?

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me too ,its a good time now to get bargains

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mine usually go up at the beginning of dec.

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they are up all year in Accy on the outside market :-)

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Ossy Mills have a fine selection of artificial Christmas trees!

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My outdoor lights are already up. But that's because I never took them down. I spent two frigid days on a ladder last year; so now that the sob's are up they can damn well stay up ... but I won't turn them on until my birthday (which is Dec. 1, for all those who wish to send expensive gifts):dancedog:

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Suet on it's way.:gooddog:

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I love Christmas when it actually arrives but I don't want to know about it before December.

Before I had children I would put the tree up round about Dec 20th.....now I cave in to pressure and put it up round about Dec 12th.....I can't do it any sooner, I'd go mad!

I take it down on New Year's Day. :)

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We neither... might put this years up in 2009 lol! Dunno though, after 37 years of xmas for the kids, it gets a bit of a chore and pointless! Even annoys me that I am supposed to have turkey for dinner and all that goes with it... loved it when they were little but now...
just call me Ebenezer Cazzer :D

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Halloween is one that I absolutely loathe. :mad:

I shut my curtains at 4.30pm on the 31st Oct, the doorbell rings incessantly but I never answer it.

Hate Halloween.....go away!

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You're not the only one! We seem to import everything that the Americans do over the last decade or so. Why on earth should I give money or sweets to someone who comes to my door wearing some sort of outfit, be it good or not...then be called a misery for not participating.
Then it's "penny for the guy" ....often non existent...
Then not long after that we have the Carol singers..
I will throw money in a bucket at an organised caroling event, if i think they are good, but they are totally ignored when they come to the door.

The other American thing that gets my goat is the Prom evenings these days.
My older kids didn't go through any of that, but the younger boys had it. £25 quid for a meal, new suits..... only got out of the limo expense because they were doing "Pop Idol" at the Town Hall the same evening, so had to be rushed to the Dunk in a taxi afterwards.

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Me too willow, i love the kids comming round,,,its got now that the kids that came round years ago are bringing their little ones...We are just big kids at heart

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the sooner the better christmas is brilliant,halloween and bon-fire night are as well kids have to have fun sometimes.this country is getting so miserable no wonder we have an angry generation of juviniles when the adults are so miserable and dont know how to have fun without gettin ****ed up no future no fun = angry drugged up generation of kids ............anyway im off to have some fun:D:theband:its a jumpin jack flash....

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Not to mention the dreaded baby showers that have crept in recently. :mad:

We'll have to disagree on that one. For me there is nothing about going round to folk's houses, frightening the life out of them and begging for money and sweets that comes under the banner of fun.

You are right when you say that fun can be had without drugs and alcohol though....on halloween when the curtains are drawn and we're pretending we're not in me and the kids will be playing matching pairs or snakes and ladders. Hey, we know how to enjoy ourselves. ;):D

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there was a time when people conversed and had fun outside .the majority of people should get out and about to make the idiots the minority.they would soon halt their anti-social activities if the majority took a stance but the majority are too busy in their dreamworld dreaming about their perfect world would be like and then complain about things when they do nothing...:theband: paint it black:)

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I'm all for outside fun.....days out in Ribchester, afternoons in the park, sunny days spent on Ainsdale beach at Southport are all my idea of outside fun. ;):D

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Definitely with you on this - used to do the tree on Christmas Eve but have to give in much earlier now.

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Now that you mention it, I'm fresh out of suet:( .... Any xmas recipes that require suet:confused::D

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They should be illegal until 20th December. Anyone seen putting them up is took out by police snipers. And the money saved from the electric bill of the £135,000 worth of lights found on most council houses should go to the G.C.A.N.G. campign.

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Have you used it already? You never told us how the dishes turned out:)

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I'd have said illegal until the 1st of January, that way the Council workers could charge double time plus a day in lieu for fitting them during a holiday.
:)

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Our Christamas stock at Boots was supposed to go out last monday, I have point blank refused to put it out and the suntan lotion will stay put till at least mid October if I have my way ! ( the Arndale still has Easter decorations hanging up !!!!!)

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Actually, not all that bad .... the dumplings were really good, so good that I made them twice. The first batch was the better of the two ... beginners luck. The crust on the hot pot was passable ... need practice here .... however, the steak and kidney pudding was a disaster, altho' the dogs thought it was fantastic .... I will most definitely have to work on this one.

For Christmas, after the I get my tree up (I go out into the bush and cut my own) I think I will try to make a few dishes that I remember: trifle (?), mince pies, maybe I will attempt a cake.

Oh, and to keep on track, it is sort of traditional in this area that folks start thinking of christmas in a big way once halloween is over.

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Me to lily.

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LOVE IT , LOVE IT, LOVE IT........but i think its only because it lasts a day, much prefer it to Xmas , probably for that reason, i hate the fact that Xmas starts in september because retail says it does...!!! i just want to disappear at Xmas like my side of the family who always hotfoot it to Tenerife....so this year we`ll be hotfooting it to Disneyland Paris for Halloween but stuck here for Xmas as usual.....:(

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I would hate to live on a street where houses are lit up like Blackpool.
Those same people will grumble and complain about their fuel bills.
Serve 'em right........HUMBUG!!!!

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Awww I think its nice to see folk go to so much effort although i doubt many will be doing it this year the way our economy is at the moment

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yummy i just love HUMBUGS

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:) Especially the ones with the squidgy centers :)

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I think a certain someone is in for a shock on the 1st Dec when the 8ft Homer Simpson dressed as Santa comes out his box!!!!!!!!!!!!;)

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lol

think i need to invest in some outdoor decorations lol

not sure if i can afford the leccy though :rolleyes:

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I love Xmas!!!! I buy more things every year.
It costs me a fortune in batteries alone lol..

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Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo, Mishyfoote!

Don't do it! :eek:

Those things are vile!

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Not going there:tongueout

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I think anyone would be shocked if that came out of their box :eek::eek::eek:

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how funny would it be if she set it all up while he was at work, no warning or anything.....

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I wouldn't stay if I came home and my fella had put one of those outside the house.

I'd be off for as long as it took for him to take it down. ;)

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tbh, he's a man, he probably would notice lol

ive changed the furniture round when tys at school before now and he didnt notice,

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Xmas should be stuck in december!!, i cant believe ya on about it now!!....LOL, what about Halloween and bonfire night??.....:eek:

I put my decorations up on the 1st of december or the first saturday of the month:D

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my tree go,s up begini of november and dec,s go up 30th , i have you children , and openin there calanders on the first with no dec,s up , just dos,nt seem right to me ,

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Know what you mean ... I can feel the vibrations from here:)