[Closed] 114 days until Xmas

Because we've just had the last bank holiday before xmas- like when crème eggs are in the shops on boxing day and the shops proclaim "back to school" when the summer holiday has only just started.

C**** can go and f off.

I'm not a fan.😁

C**** can go and f off.

I’m not a fan.

+1

I can't wait, time with the family, tins of chocolates, stout, time off work....

So why in the heckety blinking flip has my local Sainsos stacked a shelf with mince pies, Xmas pud, Xmas cake and stollen slices?

The boring answer is that ‘back to school’ has ended, which is a ball ache if like me you tend to buy stuff the day before you need it, anyway - it’s not worth reorganising thousands of super markets (it’s a huge undertaking) for a few weeks, so you get Pre-Cmas now for about a month, then it’ll be Halloween (which in retail terms has overtaken Easter, what that says about the state of our souls I don’t know) then Cmas ‘proper’ kicks off 1st Nov.

Pre-Cmas used to be just a place holder, somewhere to stick some stock and something to fill up the seasonal isle, but it turned into a real money spinner. Lots of people (data shows it’s Middle Aged Women but we’ll stick with people coz 2020) buy tones of over-priced, over-packaged Cmas crap to ‘stock up’ in Sept, only for it to be consumed and replaced sometimes multiple times between now and December.

C**** can go and f off.

I’m not a fan.

Me either, the one saving grace? The dreaded Office Party is off this year ‘coz Covid’. I’m willing to accept a slight increase in lose of life if they can hold back on the vaccine until it’s just too late to organise*

*this, in case you’re wondering is clearly a joke.

Wonder if I'll get my CRC refund before the end of the year?

Mince pies on sale in Morrison’s too. With a ‘use by’ date in mid-October.

Chances are your local garden centre will now be stocking up on fireworks and Christmas trees/lights.

Regarding the ‘dreaded office Christmas party’...
You do know it’s optional, right? I’m 55 now, been in work every Christmas since 1987, still haven’t been to one

Christ on a bicycle, not bloody Christmas

I can’t wait, time with the family, tins of chocolates, stout, time off work….

Dude! You should have got that out of your system over lockdown.

Excellent can’t wait to start scoffing some.

Regarding the ‘dreaded office Christmas party’…
You do know it’s optional, right?

Yeah... but it’s not completely consequence free to miss it in my place and I’ve never felt I could just say ‘no thanks’.

Let's hope for a second wave, so Xmas gets cancelled.

Gotta love a bit of Slade. Oh wait no I ****ing hate Slade.

https://www. independent.co.uk/life-style/winter-wonderland-cancelled-2020-coronavirus-a9700731.html

deliberately broken link, but im sure you get my drift

Yeah… but it’s not completely consequence free to miss it in my place and I’ve never felt I could just say ‘no thanks’.

I think you need a new job. Or a new house sufficiently far away that the office party isn’t realistic

Let’s hope Santa isn’t a super-spreader

As others not really bothered, the deaths of 2 relations on the previous 2 Christmas Eves have but a dampener on festivities.
Not looking forward to doing the dreaded Christmas food shop!
Usually it's horrendous.
This year the in store experience might be better, just not looking forward to waiting outside in the cold and wet!

Bring it on, love it.

Mmmm, stollen!!!!

113 now.

More than happy to see mince pies and Christmas pudding in the shops, but cards and decorations can **** off till November