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Well done Brown Thomas

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    #62
    Larianne
    Registered Users Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


    Well, the west wing takes a month to decorate, then the same for the east wing. Then the staircases at the front and at the back of the house. The meandering driveway and gardens also take some time to get right.
    Don't start me on the lighting scheme inside and out of the place!
    I find it really helpful that Brown Thomas stock the decorations this early, otherwise I'd get nothing done in time for the BIG day!


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    #63
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users Posts: 30,429 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    I don't know what the big deal is Harrods opened their Christmas shop in July!


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    #64
    kfk
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    mfceiling wrote: »
    Went in yesterday to get the nespresso capsules (only bricks and mortar store in dublin that sells them) and guess what??

    They have the full christmas shop set up.

    Yep...christmas shop.

    Now christmas day isn't in one months time, or two, or three or even fcuking four so what the fcuk are they at?

    They might as well put the easter eggs and valentine's shíte out for sale while they are at it.

    Its going to get to the point where people will be unsure if the retailers are early or late setting up the Christmas shop!


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    #65
    MadsL
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    freshpopcorn wrote: »
    I don't know what the big deal is Harrods opened their Christmas shop in July!

    I think they get a big crowd over for the Australian Christmas.


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    #66
    fussyonion
    Registered Users Posts: 7,819 ✭✭✭fussyonion


    I also hate the Christmas displays in shops in August and I also hate shopping for presents, but as much as it pains me, if I saw stuff online that I think it'd be a good present for someone, I would buy it, regardless of time of year.

    I don't want to get ripped off during the festive season and 9 times out of 10, I'll find what I'm actually looking for, during the rest of the year.

    But I do this VEDDY VEDDY quietly so as not to disturb my fellow Christmas moaners.

    But yeah balls to that, next it'll be Christmas all year..Like a reverse Narnia!


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    #67
    dmc17
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    This stupid ad from the Co-operative is more of it. It ruins Christmas if you're looking at it all year :mad:



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    #68
    Grayson
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    mfceiling wrote: »
    To be fair it's fierce handy and better than any shíte you buy in a jar.

    True coffee lovers will have the full gear but for a quick cup the nespresso is grand.

    To be fair, although I'm a coffee snob, i drink starbucks every day. It's because they are the best coffee shop nearby. Although I'd only give them a 6/10. Nespresso is probably the same. Not great, but the best available :)

    btw, thanks to this thread, I've had "I wish it could be christmas every day" stuck in my head


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    #69
    MadsL
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    So basically get a Nepresso for Christmas is the OPs subliminal message.

    Hmmm....

    *whispers* shill! :D:pac:


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    #70
    paddy147
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 15,858 ✭✭✭✭paddy147


    If you dont like Christmas and Christmas Trees/Decorations in certain shops then fine.

    But please stop moaning on and on about it.

    Get a life and find something else to do with your life FFS.

    Christmas is a great event and thing for people to enjoy and it puts a smile of alot of peoples faces.


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    #71
    Archeron
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    I still have my Arthur's day tree up. Totes embarrassment balls.


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    #72
    dmc17
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    paddy147 wrote: »
    If you dont like Christmas and Christmas Trees/Decorations in certain shops then fine.

    But please stop moaning on and on about it.

    Get a life and find something else to do with your life FFS.

    Christmas is a great event and thing for people to enjoy and it puts a smile of alot of peoples faces.

    Yes, but it loses a lot of it greatness when you are looking at it all year round. This is the problem.


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    #73
    Femme_Fatale
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,628 ✭✭✭Femme_Fatale


    Friend Computer wrote: »
    It's always bemusing to see how ridiculously irate people become about this. Why does it elicit such a response? Why does it bother you at all?
    I'm not being facetious, I really don't understand this.
    Yeh I don't understand utter rage at it - you can just avoid Christmas shops - but at the same time, for me personally, one of the best parts of Christmas has always been the excitement of the build-up (and yep, as a grown-up, not just as a nipper :pac:) to things getting Christmassy. The earlier this starts, the less of a novelty.
    After Halloween, when winter officially starts with the clocks going back, is plenty of time to start a gradual Christmas build-up. There's only so long it can be built up for without the end being anti climactic.


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    #74
    fussyonion
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    dmc17 wrote: »
    Yes, but it loses a lot of it greatness when you are looking at it all year round. This is the problem.

    Completely agree.

    I love Christmas but I don't like it when I'm inundated with ads on telly every five minutes in the run-up to it, the constant festive songs on the radio, the mad rush everyone's in, the expectations, the let-downs, the stress it causes, etc.

    But when the day arrives, of course I enjoy it like everyone else.

    I think when it gets to the stage when Christmas trees are being put up in shops in August, you have to agree that is taking away the novelty and spirit of Christmas.


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    #75
    MadsL
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    Anyone who Christmas shops before Christmas Eve is a zealot inho. You cannot beat the sheer terror of being utterly incapable of thinking of a suitable gift.


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    #76
    paddy147
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    dmc17 wrote: »
    Yes, but it loses a lot of it greatness when you are looking at it all year round. This is the problem.


    You could say that about alot of shop and store features and about alot of things in life.

    Less complaining and more enjoyment of life is whats needed.


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    #77
    RiverOfLove
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    The Janaury sales will probably start in September.


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    #78
    fussyonion
    Registered Users Posts: 7,819 ✭✭✭fussyonion


    RiverOfLove wrote: »
    The Janaury sales will probably start in September.

    Sure isn't today Valentine's Day! :P


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    paddy147
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    fussyonion wrote: »
    Sure isn't today Valentine's Day! :P


    No,its "Love Day"...:pac::D




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    #80
    RiverOfLove
    Closed Accounts Posts: 876 ✭✭✭RiverOfLove


    fussyonion wrote: »
    Sure isn't today Valentine's Day! :P

    It will be St.Patricks night tonight in Galway doing jigs and reels on Shop Street after closing time.


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    #81
    mfceiling
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    Grayson wrote: »
    To be fair, although I'm a coffee snob, i drink starbucks every day. It's because they are the best coffee shop nearby. Although I'd only give them a 6/10. Nespresso is probably the same. Not great, but the best available :)

    btw, thanks to this thread, I've had "I wish it could be christmas every day" stuck in my head

    This place for the coffee win......http://www.3fe.com/


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    #82
    1966
    Registered Users Posts: 1,655 ✭✭✭1966


    Christmas party tonight...............Merry Crimbo everyone !!!!


    🎄


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    #83
    Naos
    Registered Users Posts: 4,730 ✭✭✭Naos


    Spotted a few Christmas tins of beans in superquinn 2 months ago.

    Either trying to off some old stock or they're seriously forward planning.


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    #84
    lau1247
    Registered Users Posts: 2,138 ✭✭✭lau1247


    Hootanany wrote: »
    Are you sure?
    lau1247 wrote: »
    Fairly confident, they have a whole section for them nespresso machines at the basement floor beside headphone section.. Can't see why would they sell the machine and not capsules..

    I'm venturing in later, let you know what I find tonight

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    Grayson wrote: »
    I've seen them in harvey normans too. not that I'd drink that muck.

    I'm not much of a coffee drinker so doesn't affect me either way

    West Dublin, ☀️ 7.83kWp ⚡5.66 kWp South West, ⚡2.18 kWp North East



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    #85
    EuropeanSon
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    Anyone who suggests they are a "coffee snob" and then says they drink Starbucks regularly is taking the piss. Absolute muck.


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