Cancel Christmas

[Brimoan]

In view of the financial situation this year why not cancel christmas.

[daisya]

Yes please would suit me fine lol.

[emmie]

please don't mention the C word, when it's not even September.

[daisya]

I know em, crazy isn't it...for me it's the X word lol. Mind you if we're going to cancel it we do need advance warning!

[albaqwerty]

That word shouldn't be mentioned until the 20th of December.
It's all over-hyped and too expensive.

[Brimoan]

em10

There are many places advertising christmas meals now.

[daisya]

It certainly is Alba, I really detest it and am called a party-pooper (that's the polite version) by those who lurve it...

[daisya]

Yes I know there are Bri and all too soon it really tees me orff.

[friedgreentomato]

Because restaurants and pubs have to try and drum up business.

[Brimoan]

They are closing a pub near where I live. I can not understand why. I have never been in it.

[albaqwerty]

There were 2 pages of various restaurants etc advertising book early for Chrimbo in my local rag last week.
I appreciate they need to drum up business but if folk don't know if they will be working to spend their money.....

[emmie]

i know they are having seen the signs, but as far as i am concerned it's the worse possible time of year. Overhyped, mega expensive and can't be doing with it.

[dzug2]

Whilst sharing some of the sentiments expressed here, Christmas is in fact a boost to the economy and should surely be encouraged?

[factor-fiction]

I remember you also hated the idea of the recent Jubilee.

[Graham-W]

"Christmas is in fact a boost to the economy and should surely be encouraged?"
A boost to whos economy? Most of the gifts I see are from China, Taiwan etc.etc.
Perhaps we should start a "Buy British Christmas Presents" campaign, but I suspect the choices would be severely limited.

[emmie]

graham, exactly, tat from china, queues at the supermarket a mile long, what is wrong with people.

[China Doll]

I'd have thought christmas gets people spending which is probably a good thing for the economy... such is my limited understanding of how the economy works.

[starone]

Nothing wrong with people em. There isn't much choice apart from foreign made goods and they are so much cheaper than the available British ones. When you are short of cash you have to go for the cheaper stuff. My kids had always broken their stuff by New Year's Day anyway, or got tired of it. Also mothers are worn to a frazzle during the days leading up to it and during the actual day. I vote to get rid of it - I am definitely a 'Bah, Humbug' person.

[emmie]

starbuckone, so am i, the way might enjoy it is being elsewhere, somewhere warm and sunny by the beach, Australia perhaps.

[starone]

continued:- Also a lot of card debt is run up during the Christmas period. I read somewhere there are more bankrupts registered in January than in any other month of the year. (Don't know if that is true but perhaps someone else knows).