Open the selection box- Christmas Forum Chat Thread

Toto Wolfcastle

Loughc wrote: »

I love that thread each year haha. Although I manage the odds for a white Christmas is very slim again this year.

So you're saying there's a chance? :pac:

Jude13

Been day dreaming of having the day off today to watch christmas movies, bloody cold. Instead I am googling christmas hampers, some of them are nuts, the wicker hamper they come in must be some unit if they are charging those prices.

OldNotWIse

I love that Christmas eve falls at the weekend this year. Also, I am in the process of moving from weekly to monthly pay. I know that sounds silly and not very Christmas related but it means I can actually budget for Christmas now, and do my shopping at the end of November, instead of having to wait until the last payday in December to do it at the last minute. yay!

miamee

Carraig Donn in Jervis Street have a few Christmas items outon the shop floor now, I was in there on Saturday. I also bought a book as part of my dad's Christmas gift, woohoo! I always buy one present early to get started and then most times I forget to keep going with the early shopping, hopefully I'll be better this year, lol.

donegal_man

Cakes, mince pies, stollen etc. in Aldi today

Glitzgirl

Milly33 wrote: »

They do turn out quite well. We do it for halloween sometimes, we had Michael Myers in one of the upstairs rooms.. caught a few peoples attention i must say it was quite fun.

Milly33 are you my neighbour :pac: I had this exact same convo wit a neighbour who did this last year lol

Glitzgirl

Just back from my christmas nail art class ! It was so festive, had a look at the launch of some of the new retail products and expected trends ! Our instructor even wore her christmas jumper and little santa hat clip in in her hair !

So which one of you was my instructor today ! :pac:

Littlehorny

Hello fellow Elves! Looking for some help/ideas here. I am involved in organising the companies Christmas staff do. Have any of you seen, heard or have been to any do's that something really good was set up? We are going to have a photographer there for the first couple of hours and decorate the venue. I have an idea to leave out crackers on the tables and maybe in 3 or 5 of them have a decent prize or voucher in them.

groucho marx

Littlehorny wrote: »

Hello fellow Elves! Looking for some help/ideas here. I am involved in organising the companies Christmas staff do. Have any of you seen, heard or have been to any do's that something really good was set up? We are going to have a photographer there for the first couple of hours and decorate the venue. I have an idea to leave out crackers on the tables and maybe in 3 or 5 of them have a decent prize or voucher in them.

I went to one where a man from our Sept dressed as Santa,we all got a small gift from him,he was just going around with a sack with bayliss n Harding gifts for ladies and lynx for men. It was actually brilliant such a novelty we all threw in a few quid for it.

Milly33

In one work place we used to have office parties in the office rather than heading out. It was great until two years in a row people started going to the pub for one or two and inviting people back which just messed things up. But anywho you had a theme going each year which was great. One year it was toys, so we had the entire place set up with toys and pressies, had a projection going on with movies. Then games were set up around the place, there were spot prizes all that goes. A few games like poke tables too which was good criac.. Must say that was about the best one

freshpopcorn

Just back from Aldi!

Milly33

Glitzgirl wrote: »

Milly33 are you my neighbour :pac: I had this exact same convo wit a neighbour who did this last year lol

haha maybe i was.. Think it was about 2 years ago we done in now, in the Corcaigh area it would have been...MM Christmas foods.... Yumie i hope you are enjoying..

I always end up getting the food bits too late or starting on the christmas foods too late. Gona have them on the go this year very early

Glitzgirl

Ha no milly sorry it must have been someone with a similar idea so ! :pac:

kitten_k

Just seen this on FB:

The dates for our Christmas in Killarney Parades were finalised today! They are as follows
Friday 25th November
Saturday 3rd December
Saturday 10th December
Saturday 17th December

There will also be a Parade on Saturday 31st December at 8pm for New Year's Eve! We hope to see you in Killarney to celebrate the Festive Season with us!!

Milly33

Never heard of these parades are they nice then, what times do you know are they normally on

kitten_k

I wouldn't have a clue I am from Dublin.

Loughc

Just got this email from Yankee.ie

Christmas is coming...

We will be launch The Yankee Candle Christmas Collections on Wednesday 19th October - watch out for our exclusive launch offer!

I wonder if there are any new smells this year.

French_Girl

Loughc wrote:

I wonder if there are any new smells this year.

Oh wow, love The Yankee candles!

I'm planning on buying tonnes for Christmas.

Alicat

Hey everyone! It's October! First Christmas post this year

Loughc

Alicat wrote: »

Hey everyone! It's October! First Christmas post this year

Welcome back Alicat we missed you

Alicat

I needed a break but bring it on now!

Loughc

Alicat wrote: »

I needed a break but bring it on now!

Well you're just in time for crazy season!!

SarahLil

Welcome back Alicat
Oh bring on the Yankee shopping I love it,
My first Christmas night out already planned for last Friday in November

Toto Wolfcastle

Welcome back, Alicat!

Aldi are launching their Christmas range tonight. Search for #AldiChristmas on Twitter. You'll also find Aldi UK's Christmas launch from July using the same hashtag.

https://twitter.com/easyfoodmag/status/783378621452935168

RentDayBlues

My sister was over tonight and I was showing her my halloween purchases from dealz today. She innocently said " they have christmas decorations", I nodded and said "really?"

I then showed her all I had bought!

Alicat

Loughc wrote: »

Well you're just in time for crazy season!!

Wouldn't miss it for the world!

Heat is on for the first time today, we've a Yankee lit, and I've a new dressing gown and pair of slippers.

It's beginning to look a lot like....

Jude13

Love yankee candles, I find some of them to sweat a smell though. Last year I ordered a load from amazon and they threw in incense sticks which are still be used to get rid of the smell of wet dog.

We need a poll for favourite yankee candle whiff.

miamee

Christmas is normally like Groundhog Day in our house but this year is going to be a bit different...my sister got married during the year so not sure yet whether her & husband will be at ours or at his parents; I've started living with my boyfriend (who I didn't know this time last year) so he will probably come along; and friends who always call on Christmas morning might not be able to make it this year (:( )! I'm kinda looking forward to something different, though I hope I still get to see everyone. First Christmas with bf, I can't wait...we've already booked a trip to Copenhagen for the Christmas Markets and he keeps asking what I want for Christmas :pac:

kitten_k

So who here suffers from this disease?

Jude13

I like the ornaments to be relatively in good order however I have found that its best to leave the decision to my OH.