It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas Off Topic Chat

EZ Living Christmassy shop has opened inside the Blanchardstown Centre

I got my paint.
Also got most of the cake/pudding stuff and tubs of sweets/biscuits.
It came to just over €200 and the lady went off and got me vouchers so it came to €170.

little bird wrote: »

My 76 year old Ma looked like a young wan this evening when I told her that I had made her wash & b/d appointment for Christmas Eve.

When I read ‘’wash’’ I trying to figure out why you were getting your mother washed on Christmas Eve and I had no idea what a B/D was!

That's it. I'm in the mood now. Trace Xmas has just played Driving Home For Christmas. One off my favorites.
Time to roll up the sleeves and get in the spirit
Choo choo

afternoon all I went to Blanchardstown Shopping Centre for 8.30 this morning, was home at 10.30 very happy with what I got I stuck to my list Christmas gifts and some birthday gifts, picked up the Christmas tea light holders I wanted for my Christmas dinner table

Lots of wrapping paper in søstrene grene and cute gift tags with gift boxes unfortunately they were not in the colours I wanted I got some cellophane there
that will come in handy with wrapping some things

For all the candle lovers like myself Dunnes have nice ones that will do as token gifts for 4 euro not all Christmassy scents but you could burn all year and some Christmassy scents too very nice

Dunnes had tins of afternoon tea, mince pies and Christmas slices scattered around the drapery department sure sign Christmas is on the way

For the Penneys lovers nice stuff in homewares that is Christmassy but not a lot of baubles yet, I spoke to another shopper and she had been on the hunt for small size in PJS and said the city centre had none she thought stock was low Blancharstown store was the best she had seen

Now time for some lunch and browsing the Boots gift guide picked it up at the door in the store,

The Argos Christmas Gift Guide for 2020 is out!

Sheep Shagger wrote: »

Whilst this is good did they not say they were ending the catalogue (or maybe its just the main one). People at the time sayng Christmas wouldn't be the same without the Argos catalogue...

From what I know. They were always very clear that the Gift Guide would still be out!

Anybody see Halloween pjs anywhere? Looking for some for my goddaughter

kitten_k wrote: »

Anybody see Halloween pjs anywhere? Looking for some for my goddaughter

They have some on Amazon.co.uk

L1011 wrote: »

Did a count of what Christmas cards I have here and I'm a few short for this years batch. Anyone have suggestions for Irish charity cards that are not explicitly religious? What I have left here are RNLI and Cancer Society

I get mine from the Irish motor neurone disease association. Think their website is www.imnda.ie

Mirrorwall14 I got Irish cancer society cards in Dunnes yesterday cute Christmassy home scenes, Santa, Robins, I also order cards from Barnardos

M50 Christmas shop announced on Facebook fully open now

None of the stuff is live online yet for Christmas, so hopefully it will be after Halloween. In saying that, hopefully what will happen will be not for long and will have a lasting effect. A great part of Christmas is shopping for new decorations. Might have to make a trip to the range in the morning

Very busy in Liffey Valley yesterday and Fonthill Retail Park was extremely busy earlier. Quote a queue into Homestore. People picking up what they can ahead of what I assume will be a Level 4 announcement tomorrow

Nervous wait now for wtf restrictions will come into play next week

Something we thought would never happen is very close to becoming a reality. No pubs (food or drink), no parties, limit shopping among others for December/christmas. This is a killer in terms of mental health and the government have to take some consideration for that. A few pints at christmas is good for the mind

Just back from the Blanchardstown SC (we were up ordering some new carpets for the stairs & landings) and the queue's outside the shops were as bad as I've seen them when the shops started to reopen. WIth levels 4 or 5 to be announced tomorrow a lot of people are out panic buying for definite. With Christmas less than 10 weeks away closing all the shops now will do untold damage to the economy, dreading to see the mess that will be left to clean up after all this. I just pray we manage to keep our own firm as a going concern as work is definitely drying up due to covid.

Loughc wrote: »

Homestore and more Shops are still open in level 4 though?

Non-essential retail closes at level 4.

Posy wrote: »

If they close non essential retail until December, I can't even begin to imagine the mayhem that will hit once they reopen! :eek:

Sending half the population out to shop in a 3 week period instead of a 10 week period? Sure what could possibly go wrong?

All messing aside, it will be carnage.

I work in retail and since the level 3 measures were introduced the shopping centre was a complete ghost town, actually eerily quiet. Yesterday was the first good day we had in forever. CovID is killing the retail sector. Hopefully the 6 weeks closure will push people to get out and spend when we open back up and right before Xmas.

I started my Mum's sweets and biscuit shopping a couple of weeks ago, had to break it to her that our annual outing to Blanchardstown to get the rest of her gifty shopping done won't happen this yrar.

My neighbour is 98 and lives on her own.... the thought of her having to sit down to Christmas dinner on her own just breaks my heart. It infuriates me that there's people who just don't want go give up their bag of cans/ bottle of wine on a Saturday night to help the rest of us out.