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Old Christmas Threads (gifts, well wishes, etc)
- Thread starter Kaz
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December Book Shopping
I just finished my december book shopping at amazon and it took me bloody ages!!!
As I tend to buy 2-4 books a month it can get fairly complicated.
Furthermore I have to consider certain criterias like:
+ over 20 euro (because of free shipping)
+ under 25 euro (gets too expensive)
+ at least one "classic"
+ only really great books
+ .....
After a lot of thinking I made the decision for the following 3 books:
To Kill a Mockingbird - Lee Harper
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur Charles Clarke
I just finished my december book shopping at amazon and it took me bloody ages!!!
As I tend to buy 2-4 books a month it can get fairly complicated.
Furthermore I have to consider certain criterias like:
+ over 20 euro (because of free shipping)
+ under 25 euro (gets too expensive)
+ at least one "classic"
+ only really great books
+ .....
After a lot of thinking I made the decision for the following 3 books:
To Kill a Mockingbird - Lee Harper
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur Charles Clarke
I hate Christmas!!!
I really hate Christmas. All this f***ed up merchandising, the stupid expensive shopping sprees and the presents you detest (but you have to act like you love them in order to not hurt anybodys feelings).
I don't know what the problem is with these hurt feelings. If I get a present for somebody I keep the bill and if the person doesn't like it, it's no big deal. It doesn't hurt my feelings cause taste is something you don't argue about.
It drives me nuts! I can't stand it anymore.
My siblings are too busy to think of a present for my parents and if I don't look for something they won't get anything and Christmas will be a disaster!
I love to chose presents for others and I'm really good at it, but most of the time I get something I don't like very much.
I really don't know what the problem is this time. I told them I would like some money to buy a great snowboard jacket (which is my intention to purchase now for 3 years). And no I won't let them chose my jacket because they have a different taste and try to convert me. But besides that they try to give me something special which is a surprise to me (that's code for horrible disaster!).
And believe me I probably won't like it. I really try but I'm horrible picky and need hours to chose clothes etc. for myself.
By the way I'm 22 now, my parents sponsor college and living for me, I have a little job and at the moment I don't feel the urge to have something special (maybe a MD-player but I've not yet decided about that). So why can't we delay the whole present thing till I have a wish? Christmas is like a final deadline.
Tons of books aren't accepted as a wish anymore 'cause they think I've already too much (never ever will that happen!).
I really hate Christmas. All this f***ed up merchandising, the stupid expensive shopping sprees and the presents you detest (but you have to act like you love them in order to not hurt anybodys feelings).
I don't know what the problem is with these hurt feelings. If I get a present for somebody I keep the bill and if the person doesn't like it, it's no big deal. It doesn't hurt my feelings cause taste is something you don't argue about.
It drives me nuts! I can't stand it anymore.
My siblings are too busy to think of a present for my parents and if I don't look for something they won't get anything and Christmas will be a disaster!
I love to chose presents for others and I'm really good at it, but most of the time I get something I don't like very much.
I really don't know what the problem is this time. I told them I would like some money to buy a great snowboard jacket (which is my intention to purchase now for 3 years). And no I won't let them chose my jacket because they have a different taste and try to convert me. But besides that they try to give me something special which is a surprise to me (that's code for horrible disaster!).
And believe me I probably won't like it. I really try but I'm horrible picky and need hours to chose clothes etc. for myself.
By the way I'm 22 now, my parents sponsor college and living for me, I have a little job and at the moment I don't feel the urge to have something special (maybe a MD-player but I've not yet decided about that). So why can't we delay the whole present thing till I have a wish? Christmas is like a final deadline.
Tons of books aren't accepted as a wish anymore 'cause they think I've already too much (never ever will that happen!).
novella
Active Member
Wow, Gizmo, you sound miserable. Why don't you just opt out of the presents thing for a while?
I have a big family and we decided a long time ago not to give any presents. Now we just have a good time drinking and fighting and crying. Kidding.
But really, if you object to the presents thing, just opt out instance by instance. I haven't bought an obigatory Christmas present for anyone in years, but I always cook a nice goose, get some decent wine, and invite people over.
If you want to change the system, you just change it. No one really minds, after the initial bump.
I have a big family and we decided a long time ago not to give any presents. Now we just have a good time drinking and fighting and crying. Kidding.
But really, if you object to the presents thing, just opt out instance by instance. I haven't bought an obigatory Christmas present for anyone in years, but I always cook a nice goose, get some decent wine, and invite people over.
If you want to change the system, you just change it. No one really minds, after the initial bump.
My tactic for getting through Christmas day is to get as drunk as physically possible on Christmas Eve, hopefully not wake up at home, make my way home somehow after receiving several threatening phone messages off my mother, come in, still drunk and therefore still able to deal with everything and not be a grump, then go to bed, sleep til Christmas lunch and spend the rest of the day eating chocolate and watching crap TV If you can possibly swing that, I'd recommend it.
If you can possibly swing that, I'd recommend it.
Martin
Active Member
I don't get that kinda attitude. Of course Christmas is being overrun by commercialism, and of course Christmas in general stopped being about 'togetherness' a long time ago .. but Christmas will always be what you make of it. If you plan on making it a shitty time, it will be just that, that's easy, but if you plan on making it a good, fun time, with good contacts with family and friends, it could be that, too!
Why be miserable about something that's (in its heart) a good thing.
Cheers
Why be miserable about something that's (in its heart) a good thing.
Cheers
Ice
New Member
I like Christmas but agree it is far too commercialised! I guess i'm lucky in a way - my parents decided years ago that I was difficult to buy for and ever since they either took me shopping and let me choose something I really wanted, or else gave me the money for it and let me buy it myself - the same goes for my sister. This way I get exactly what I want
Now I just ask people what they want and they do the same in return. Sure it spoils the suprise, but I'd rather get something I want and that I will use.
Now I just ask people what they want and they do the same in return. Sure it spoils the suprise, but I'd rather get something I want and that I will use.
Scratchy
New Member
I love Christmas. I just hate the way everybody else screws it up. But this year, I hate it even more because now, I'm on the other side of the equation. I'm the idiot that sells you crap so that you can crap it on to other people. Plus, I'll even wrap it up all tight and snuggly for you. In other words, this year, I hate xmas even more because I HELP other people screw it up.
No wait... I got it wrong. Sorry, its not xmas that I hate, its me that I hate.
No wait... I got it wrong. Sorry, its not xmas that I hate, its me that I hate.
