I'm skipping Xmas this year....

Richard Dower

......can't be arsed, wish i was 7 again

Tombi!

What's wrong with that? I live with my mother at home and I'm in my early 20s.

Christmas to me since I was about 13 or so was mostly presents and the dinner.
Then it's the dinner.

Just get the dinner, that's the most important part of Christmas

Richard Dower

Brutal Deluxe wrote: »

What's wrong with that? I live with my mother at home and I'm in my early 20s.

Christmas to me since I was about 13 or so was mostly presents and the dinner.
Then it's the dinner.

Just get the dinner, that's the most important part of Christmas

I want that old feeling back, 6am....running down the stairs, ripping off the wrapping and geting scalectircs set!

Now all i get is bills and thinly veiled contempt.

CianRyan

I turn into a total grinch at Christmas, a sly one though.
I'd love to just tell everyone not to get my anything because I'm not buying presents (I really couldn't give a **** about presents), it would take all of the stress out of it and I could just enjoy it for what it is, family time. All that money spends on gifts could have just went toward something for me, something I know I want, not leaving people guessing and stressing about what to get me.

I got my siblings to to a Kris Kindle this year, that'd less stress at least.

Tombi!

Richard Dower wrote: »

I want that old feeling back, 6am....running down the stairs, ripping off the wrapping and geting scalectircs set!

Now all i get is bills and thinly veiled contempt.

Why not invite all the family around and don't answer the door? You'll hear the pitter-patter of kids running around, then you'll hear their tears.

It's like Christmas but for adults.

Eathrin

Richard Dower wrote: »

I want that old feeling back, 6am....running down the stairs, ripping off the wrapping and geting scalectircs set!

Now all i get is bills and thinly veiled contempt.

Same here,
except maybe when I'm a parent I can feel the same way about my kids' Christmas experience as I dd when I was a child myself.

skeleton_boy

I thought Christmas came early for you, when you got to run and skip about HMV and Gamestop about a pair of headphones?

racso1975

Richard Dower wrote: »

I want that old feeling back, 6am....running down the stairs, ripping off the wrapping and geting scalectircs set!

Now all i get is bills and thinly veiled contempt.

Trust me it is not that thinly veiled!!!!

thebman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7Iu9gtnNuE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8X0sYpENco

MurdyWurdy

You can be 7 again, did you see that programme on channel 4 last night about adult babies? There is a way OP, there is a way

DipStick McSwindler

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starbelgrade

Richard Dower wrote: »

......can't be arsed, wish i was 7 again

I wish you were 7 again too.

*rubs knees*

giant_midget

Richard Dower wrote: »

I want that old feeling back, 6am....running down the stairs, ripping off the wrapping and geting scalectircs set!

Now all i get is bills and thinly veiled contempt.

That was my best christmas ever. I was 7 and i got a scalectric set. Im 31 and i'd probably still be excited if i got one now :pac:

Jaxxy

The only option you have now Richard, is to have a Little Richard, through whom you can relive that seven year old's memory of running down the stairs to find that Scalextrix. Again and again.

seamus

You just need to turn it into an adult's Xmas. Go to the local the night before and have six nice creamy pints while talking crap to people you haven't seen since school.

Then get up at 10am with a niggling hangover and eat the biggest fry-up you've ever had in your life. Et voila, hangover gone.

Nice hot shower, stick on some new clothes, and make your way over to the family home for your lunch and first wine/beer/whiskey of the day, while giving and receiving presents.

Continue to adminster alcohol on a half-hourly basis to increase your Xmas joy. About an hour before dinner, it can be appropriate to go for a little nap if that's your bag. Other people often choose to watch the movies that are on TV, or the Family Guy box set that your brother got. The important thing is to ensure that you do practically nothing which doesn't involve putting food or alcohol into your mouth.

Eventually dinner is over, it's 9pm and you're nicely toasted and looking for something to do. A large game of no-limits texas hold 'em is the superior choice at this time, but depending on the age of those present, you may have to go for a nice game of monopoly. Whatever you do, the game doesn't end until at least 2am or until you fall off your chair.

Ah, Xmas. Awesome.

Access Denied

See that's the thing, unless you have family or are a kid...or dare I say it...thrilled by celebrating the birth of Jaysus, Christmas doesn't really mean anything.

Which leaves me skipping it too.

I don't have family worth talking about, I won't be having kids, I'm not religious and I don't handle alcohol well or socialise.

So. it'll be me the hubbie and the dogs, they don't get very excited, monopoly with the dogs could be dangerous, especially if they're drunk:D

The local pub is shiiiiiiiiiiiite, and being in the country there's no taxis.

I get two days off as I work retail but I don't mind that.

I don't mind any of the above really, it's just magnified at Christmas and can be hard when people just think you're a bah humbugging Grinch.

So, I'd go with Seamus' plan, and if you can't, it'll be over before you know it.;)

SEPT 23 1989

Borrow some children for a few days

Wacker The Attacker

Richard Dower wrote: »

......can't be arsed, wish i was 7 again

Grinch Alert

Access Denied

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Borrow some children for a few days

The great thing about borrowing kids is handing them back:D