Open the selection box- Christmas Forum Chat Thread

I've only a hand full of presents left to buy too

Toto Wolfcastle wrote: »

I need those pillows in my life.

I think a few of us Elves on here need them, also you love pjamas don't you? did you see the ones in Dunnes the say this girl loves Christmas, they are 12 or 15 euro (think my godmother is getting them for me)

Toto Wolfcastle wrote: »

Excellent! Thanks for that. I'll have a look.

Newlook are also doing a Christmas jumper with same slogan

It's been decided; a christmas movie every day from yesterday to the big day in our house.

i think il have to dip into my savings this year, I have NO decorations.
I moved in with my other half two years ago.. and i go to mams every year..

so I've never decorated this house.

this year, i don't care if I'm here or not.

IT WILL BE FAAAAANCY

Anyone in Portlaoise or the surrounding area, Baker & Cook, formerly Gings hardware, have a Christmas shop at the moment.
You can see snaps of it on Snapchat if you follow kellyloucakes, she runs a cafe within the store also.

SMJSF wrote: »

oh..... my... god...... has anyone been in the Arnotts Christmas shop!???:eek: :D
Seen the window display on Henry Street this morning and felt like a giddy 4 year old again! I must say their stuff is fabulous - I much prefer their stuff to BT now - I noticed their stuff is kind of similar, but 10 times nicer & cheaper! I would have taken a picture, but I was distracted by the sparkles and glitter! [typical woman!!].

I got distracted in town Saturday after buying my Christmas table cloth and forgot to go to arnotts Raging now maybe this weekend I might get in

Call me Al wrote: »

Broke is the word for it! I've just had a browse through the Christmas decorations in Woodies. The prices are mad. €3.99 for a solitary glass bauble, and they're not even THAT nice. Artificial medium length swags with a bit of decoration for €59.95. (You can buy a proper 6ft artificial large tree for twice that for Gods sake!
=-O :O ).
I was going to stock up on a few new bits but not at those prices.
Ok I'm putting the Grinch back in the box and not going into another shop like that again for fear of upsetting myself.

Woodies are ridiculously over priced. I get some lovely bits in there but only when they are on sale or clearance. I spent 2 years looking for a gorgeous pre lit wreath for my front door, think from their Washington range. I finally got in the sale last year at a third of the price. I love it but would not have paid the full price for it !

Anybody have recommendations for where to go for Christmas markets?
I wanted to go to Prague but its costly!

shakencat wrote: »

Anybody have recommendations for where to go for Christmas markets?
I wanted to go to Prague but its costly!

I've been to:

Germany (Frankfurt, Berlin, Cologne)
Poland (Krakow)
England (Birmingham and Cornwall)

and I'd rank them this way:

1) Cologne (With a bullet, no comparison)
2) Krakow (First ones I went to, lovely a cold, but not a huge diversity)
3) Cornwall (Surprisingly awesome, we did a whole roadtrip thing and ended up in these tiny villages for local parades and markets. Very odd but brilliant)
4) Berlin (Markets weren't amazing but the city is just so cool!)
5) Frankfurt (Everything about Frankfurt, to me, is meh. Meh markets, meh atmosphere, just meh)
6) Birmingham (although it is HUGE it was a bit dull. Birmingham isn't exactly exciting outside of it so that won't have helped...)

My GF has also been to the markets in Vienna and she said they're amazing, but even she would admit that Cologne was something else.

scream wrote: »

But I love Halloween. I miss it already. On the plus side, I decided to have a listen to christmasfm while I was browsing the other morning and lo-and-behold they have a classical christmasfm channel too. Who knew??? It's bloody good too. I love all the choral music. Such an atmospheric version of the normal christmasfm. Really loved it. My wife came in and 'caught' me listening to it this afternoon and asked me if it wasn't a bit soon for that? I felt like I'd been caught on a porn site. :eek:

Great station anyway.

What frequency is it on?

when are the lidl sprout kettles in that's brilliant

OMG listening to Classic Christmas FM now!! LOVE it!:D Currently playing: Bing Crosby, Oh Come All Ye Faithful

Hollister11 wrote: »

You can always listen to christmas fm via the app, or website. They just stream christmas music. But they only have a licence to broadcast live shows for a month every year. Only a few more weeks left.

Thanks I had a feeling the radio channel only broadcast in December.

Came down with horrible fluey thing overnight and just want to lie in bed but can't as kitchen needs walls prepped for painting and papering ahead of S's birthday party on Sunday. Got up and made my very needed coffee and took a mouthful to realise the milk had curdled. Bleurgh!! Had breakfast with orange juice while headache worsened. Got S to agree to come to the shops with me without protest (he's easy to upset since his leg broke and his last two teeth started coming in) halfway to the shops I realise it's because he thinks we are going to Toy'r'us rather than Aldi. Get to Aldi where major building works are happening and some sort of mongrel son of a giant crane crossed with a jack hammer is smashing up the car park. In Aldi everyone is moving like molasses at the checkout while S lobbies hard to go to Toys'r'us next. Finally got out of there, raced up hill home, S started crying when he saw the house. Thankfully he got over it as soon as I let him out of the buggy and now I am sitting down with what I've decided will be the first of 3 cups of coffee and the lovely box of Christmas Florentines that are finally back in Aldi. Let the Christmas gorge-athon start here!

Yesterday I was in a shop as I had to get stationery for a course I'm doing. While browsing I saw they had their Christmas cards in and I ended up buying most of my Christmas cards then and there. All are lovely and have some beautiful artwork and words on them. So yeah I've started my Christmas shopping.