Luke

God it is getting expensive....

MarkO

£5.37, but then I'm hardly the most generous person on the planet.

TopBanana

At least a grand

AnDy_PaNdY

Best part of a grand

MarkO

Actually, you're right. It'd probably be the best part of a grand for me, too.

<note to self> Must try and save money by not eating quite so many mince pies this year.

Jen

Nothing! Already done my Christmas shopping

TopBanana

Mince pies are the best bit about xmas if you ask me. Love the puff pastry ones with a generous portion of extra thick cream

MarkO

Did mine in late September, so you're right - cancelling it now wouldn't affect me.

ChrisB

Home made mince pies are the best.

Maybe save £200?

Jen

Ahhh, Mark O - you are even more organised than me! ...did wait until October to do mine

...although thinking about it I would save a fortune in Mince pies and cool sparkly things

super_si

£0.00

havent started shopping yet

MarkO

Well, we did have good reason - we wanted to get the presents bought and delivered before we moved to Scotland, otherwise the postage would have been daft.

Having said that, when I said "I did mine" that wasn't technically accurate. Luckily, my wife enjoys doing the christmas shopping and is very good at it.

Mice_Elf

Hate shopping...not too keen on Christmas, per se and if it was cancelled it wouldnt bother me that much... ...as long as we still got the days off, of course.

I'd save loads, too!

Jen

Ahh, it's all becoming clear I went to Bluewater but cunningly fed the husband several pints before we entered any shops! Lasted 2 hours before he claimed he was sobering up and could we go home now?!

Dream Weaver

About £500 - dont have to buy too many pressies, but then the nights out get fairly expensive.

On the other hand, it is a chance to get pressies that you wouldnt normally afford, so you save money, such as the drill and copy of GTA:Vice City I am getting.

Swings and roundabouts

Sheepsplitter

Last year it cost me over £2K.
That's about £500 of food and drink (partys don't come cheap) and the rest of presents for family and friends.
I am told I am generous, some say stupid!!
This year hasn't been so prosperous for my industry, so I am going to have to cut back a bit.
Most likely I will still end up £1K out of pocket.

rik1471

But it's worth it isn't it?



Isn't it?

Mice_Elf

No. No, it's not.

Why do we need a particular day set aside to buy people things? (Let's face it, the true meaning of Christmas is lost now.)

Dream Weaver

True meaning of Christmas = new PS2 games

[Edited by Dream Weaver - 11/29/2002 11:11:15 AM]

Sheepsplitter

Mice_Elf: You mean we should spend this sort of money every day ? ;-)

barge

about £2K

& I have the kids this year

result

Bajie

Depends if you can get down to what the real meaning of "Christmas" is ...

Its not that expensive to be kind to your fellow man is it?

Dream Weaver

Oh, and new socks

Mice_Elf

SheepSplitter - yeah, why not?


Bajie - that's my point. Why set aside one day a year to be nice and kind to people - why can't this be done throughout the rest of the year? Even the act of giving gifts - in my immediate environment, if one of us needs something or is in difficulty, the whole lot of us rally round and sort it, whatever it is. We don't sit there and say "Sorry love - got to wait till end of December before I can help you with that"... It's ridiculous.

MarkO

You're absolutely right. I have no idea why spending a day celebrating the birth of a fantasy character who didn't actually exist as part of a religion based purely on heresay and the ludicrous rantings of a few apostles and scribes in a book based entirely on fiction and loose circumstantial evidence, should cost quite so much.

Jen

lol!

Mark O - you're one of my favourite people on Scoobynet, you make me laugh every day

Btw, I'm not saying a word

MarkO

I aim to please.

22BUK

It's hearsay, Mark.

MarkO

No, it's LibertyX - Hear'say have split.

JackClark

My Christmas presents to myself have hit 2k already. One benefit of being single.