Christmas, Traditional or Not?

With Christmas looming and gifts to be bought, I decided it was time to look into getting my presents sorted out early.

When the children were younger, it always seemed that Chrismtas was quite easy. Back in the good old days when the wonderful Woolies were still on the high street, it was brilliant as all I had to do was call in there and pick up all their prezzies in one go. Now that they have hit the terrible teenage years, Christmas is far more complicated, not to mention expensive.

Whatever happened to the days of £5 toys being all you had to get for Christmas. This year, top of one of their lists is the 24 Series Box Set Series 1 to 7 no less. I thought that was going to be bad enough, so you can imagine my face when I saw the other one’s list and saw that she wants a laptop. Of course, it’s never that simple, it’s not a case of seeing which laptops are on offer, she has given me the precise model and colour.

It would be wonderful if just for Christmas I could turn the clock back and have them as little children again.

Don’t get me wrong though, I absolutely love the whole idea of Christmas, but over the years it all seems to have got out of hand.

If I had my way my perfect Christmas would involve all of the family sitting round the roaring open log fire with us all having a good old knees up round the piano.

However, the reality of Christmas will soon sink in and some of the family will arrive already drunk, I won’t be able to light the fire as all the Christmas decorations will be draped over the fireplace and the closest we might get the the piano is singing a few songs on Singstar. Oh my how things have progressed or not!

My nieces have already passed me over their Christmas lists. I have always said to both of them that I don’t care what I spend on their presents, but make it easy and let me know exactly what you want. Having cast a quick glance at their lists, it looks like one of them wants some silver jewellery, the other said could I get her some silver earrings or maybe if I could stretch to it some gemstone jewellery.

I know a lot of people might see their lists as being a bit cheeky, but me I’m more than happy with them. I know exactly what they would like, I know where I can buy it from and if I play my cards right, I won’t even have to step out of my house to get it. Oh the powers of the Internet are great and this year perhaps most of my Christmas shopping can be done without having to leave the house.

For now I think I had better get back to all my shopping and see if I can grab some bargains.

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