holidays are coming....

psymon

ARRRRRGGGHHHH!!


just seen an advert for the Argos christmas catalogue!

not be long before the bloody coke advert is on.

Anonymous

They advertise coke in Wigan now? Holy crap. There's no wonder the country has an epidemic of it.

psymon

yeah we have coke now.
but you have to search hard for a bottle without petrovodka in it.

Anonymous

Oh, a bottle of coke?
I misunderstood completely.

psymon

ooohhhh coke coke.
no thats far too upmarket.
we have booze for the fighters, crack for the proper down and outs(most of wigan) and reall bad/cheap E for all the chav wigan pier bounce knob heads.

Stevo_666

I hate shops that sell Xmas stuff too early. I mean, has anyone actually met these wierdos that do Xmas shopping in October?

Anonymous

i love christmas so much.

Anonymous

Stevo 666 wrote:

I hate shops that sell Xmas stuff too early. I mean, has anyone actually met these wierdos that do Xmas shopping in October?

There used to be a shop in Llandudno, which only sold christmas things. It was open all year, but didn't stay open very long, obviously!

toby_winkler

I was watching something on Channel One (what used to be Virgin) like a week ago and just before the adverts it said 'Christmas Entertainment on Channel One'. I mean you can sell stuff early, but watching something in October is not Christmas entertainment.

projectsome

Stevo 666 wrote:

I hate shops that sell Xmas stuff too early. I mean, has anyone actually met these wierdos that do Xmas shopping in October?

I normally start in September

bobcheese

Hold the press! We have coke here in wigan? No one told me. Right I'm off to the shop for a sugar rush :shock:

sherbert19

psymon wrote:

ooohhhh coke coke.
no thats far too upmarket.
we have booze for the fighters, crack for the proper down and outs(most of wigan) and reall bad/cheap E for all the chav wigan pier bounce knob heads.

See you next tuesdays the lot of them, one of said wigan pier bounce knobheads give my girlfriend some abuse outside the dominos up the road. Needless to say i threatened to 'wigan pier bounce' them up and down wigan town centre if they didn't go away and die.

And this was on the under 18s night :shock:

Stevo_666

projectsome wrote:

Stevo 666 wrote:

I hate shops that sell Xmas stuff too early. I mean, has anyone actually met these wierdos that do Xmas shopping in October?

I normally start in September

Feckin' wierdo

Anonymous

Stevo 666, I don't think there's a need for a winking smiley there

projectsome

Stevo 666 wrote:

projectsome wrote:

Stevo 666 wrote:

I hate shops that sell Xmas stuff too early. I mean, has anyone actually met these wierdos that do Xmas shopping in October?

I normally start in September

Feckin' wierdo

the less i spend near christmas, the more i have for beer at christmas

paul.skibum

I get all my Xmas cards out the door in November so I dont have to send them from Canada - I normally spend Xmas skiing then have a slap up feed cooked by a bunch of us in one of our houses and get trollied then have to teach people to ski with a hangover on boxing day - it's as traditional as holly and misletoe.

That said I saw xmas stuff in Smiths the other day - I burned the place down.

Stevo_666

yeehaamcgee wrote:

Stevo 666, I don't think there's a need for a winking smiley there

That said, 'feckin wierdo' doesn't really narrow it down much in this place, does it.

Anonymous

true

MountainMonster

projectsome wrote:

Stevo 666 wrote:

projectsome wrote:

Stevo 666 wrote:

I hate shops that sell Xmas stuff too early. I mean, has anyone actually met these wierdos that do Xmas shopping in October?

I normally start in September

Feckin' wierdo

the less i spend near christmas, the more i have for beer at christmas

I follow this method. I'm normally done with shopping by the end of October. Leaves the beer money as you say, and i've got more money to spend around xmas time on nice things for meself when everything else is already bought.

Stevo_666

MountainMonster wrote:

I follow this method. I'm normally done with shopping by the end of October. Leaves the beer money as you say, and i've got more money to spend around xmas time on nice things for meself when everything else is already bought.

I don't get it. If you spend the same amount of money on Xmas gear but sooner, how are you left with more money for Xmas beer?

MountainMonster

Stevo 666 wrote:

MountainMonster wrote:

I follow this method. I'm normally done with shopping by the end of October. Leaves the beer money as you say, and i've got more money to spend around xmas time on nice things for meself when everything else is already bought.

I don't get it. if you spend the same amount of money on Xmas gear but sooner, how are you left with more money for Xmas beer?

Because I spend my money in October on getting the presents, which means i've done all the shopping off my October paycheck, and when December comes, the money that I would have spent from that paycheck can now go to whatever I want it to be spent on since I don't have any presents to buy.

Get it now?

Anonymous

MountainMonster wrote:

Get it now?

Nope, because the total spend would be the same.

MountainMonster

yeehaamcgee wrote:

MountainMonster wrote:

Get it now?

Nope, because the total spend would be the same.

It's not about lowering the total spend, but about when I spend it. If I buy everything in October I will have spent all the money I need to on presents in October, therefore would need to buy nothing with the paycheck from December. That leaves Decembers paycheck to be spunked on lots of beer, goodies for myself and possibly a trip somewhere for a night or 2 for the mrs and myself.

Anonymous

But if you DON'T buy everything in October, that money will still be there in December. :?
You're just kidding yourself.

Stevo_666

Yep, you're not making yourself any better off with this, total spend is the same, you've just spent it sooner.

(Thanks for standing in for me over lunch Yeehaa )

MountainMonster

No if I didn't buy the stuff now, I would have to spend the money in December to buy the presents, and would not have money for the month of December. I have a bad habit of spending every penny I get it as soon as I get paid, so there would be no saving the money.

For me it works well because I then can spend my money in Decemeber on whatver I want.

Anonymous

MountainMonster wrote:

I have a bad habit of spending every penny I get it as soon as I get paid, so there would be no saving the money.

Like I said, you're just making excuses.

gazeddy

prices go up in december too. my xmas shopping starts in jan finishes aroud sept