It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas Off Topic Chat

Sheep Shagger

For those with a Nest doorbell, check your app as they have activated spooky sounds for your doorbell tone/theme.

Just switched ours on :)

Cork Lass

Watching Gogglebox and there was a Christmas ad on during the break 😍. It was a buy early for Christmas with the sone "it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas'

CheerLouth

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Have you got a pic of it built? I've bought it as a present and it arrived today...have had to squirrel it away

Smell the glove

Was out around this morning noticed these magazines......

SCOOP 64

Just ordered this for my front post and rail fence as you drive in,

Now beginning to have second thoughts worried people might start pulling in thinking its some sort of garden centre😄

PTH2009

Clocks going forward (or back?) Halloween is strange

Loughc

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Going back 😃 Fall back, Spring forward.

L1011

Fire lit for the first time tonight. Not expecting too many more years of solid fuel being OK, and in this house (early 70s!) it only heats the living room so its reserved for weekends only as a decorative thing

The Range has all their area set up for Christmas product now but still a lot of gaps. They are not coping with Brexit related issues that well although there was clearly more stock in the shop this week than many weeks recently. Food products still the worst hit.

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I can get a pic but it really just looks like the pics on the back of the box. People have asked me for pics of the full setup, so if I remember I'll get one when the second set is built and up with it.

The tree lights up when you push down on the top, which definitely looks more special when seen from below like a kid might if the tree is on a mantel and you press it.

Bananaleaf

Hi all. Starting to think about Christmas now. Mark's and Spencer are not doing their food to order this year, so disappointed. They will still be selling in store, but I loved being able to order it ahead of time and just pick it up on the day.

We have a brand new pup so trying to think how we will manage putting the tree up and keeping our sanity. Maybe he will have done a lot of growing up over the next two months

L1011

Ended up getting some of Lidl's processed wood scrap "logs" for that fire - "Flamers" is the slightly tittersome brandname.

They seem to be somewhat perfumed, unintentionally I'd guess. Smell lovely. Dear for what they are though.

Posy

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My dog is 6 and I still can't trust her around the tree! 😆😆

Bananaleaf

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Oh. Haha! Our 3yr old (dog) is fine with it so hoping this guy will be too.

I love spending the next two months gradually getting all my Christmas stuff in.

I started a vegetable garden this year so now that M&S are not doing their food to order, am thinking of trying to make a full Xmas dinner from food I've grown in the garden.

I bought some Christmas themed wine glass tumblers from Carraig Donn. I've been buying bits of the collection each year- I almost have the full set now

Jude13

Our mutt and kids never had anything other than a positive interest in the trees. Our mutt does savage our mint plants, we thought there was some terrible army caterpillars doing it until we caught her.

I noticed the Christmas themed magazines in the shops yesterday. We have had hamper delivered in the past from the UK, and have sent on some from the UK stores to relative in Ireland, however this year that is a no go. Should the ROI expect a reverse usual commuting consumers this year, with people from the north heading down south?

jellybear

€5 each in Dunnes for any Gaeilgeoirs out there, or they could make a lovely gift! I love the first one 🤩

Heroditas

M&S in Liffey Valley have some of their nice Christmas tableware and cushions out on display as well as a couple of trees put up.

Littlehorny

Was in the Range yesterday and bought a pencil 6ft pre lit tree for 48 euro for the hall so very happy with this.

Also bought some more decorations and started on a few Santa bits for our two kids, by the way the "kids" are 19 and 27 😄

tscul32

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Our new baby (4 legged, collie!!) will be 7mths by Christmas so we've no idea yet how a Christmas tree will fare with him. I think his puppy pen will be protecting the tree for a bit. Right now I think he'd destroy any decorations but hopefully we'll have him trained a bit better by then.

Bananaleaf

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Yes, I was thinking the same about the puppy pen

tscul32

Just back from a lovely family get together for my niece/goddaughter's confirmation. When we were going everyone was saying "see you at Christmas". That's how you know it's coming 😁..... soon!

freshpopcorn

I picked this up in Boots for €15 down from €30. It's very hard to get a male one of these generally.

TRS30

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Not sure about the Nordies coming down south however still plan to head up for our pre Christmas trip. Am just getting the days annual leave sorted today. The value and different range of items is not what it was a few years ago however it's as much about the day itself as the shopping.

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Same, was at my BIL's house yesterday seeing their new little baby girl and we were arranging the Christmas get together for my OH family :)

DvB

We had a night out with my Sister & her family and over dinner we all agreed our christmas plans too... great to have it all nailed down as to who's coming to who & for what days etc. Feels good to have it all boxed off nice & early.

SarahLil

Morning everyone

Wow it’s great to hear that see you at Christmas it makes me want to squeal

We went to Blanchardstown shopping centre yesterday it was so busy and we were there fairly early, went to Smyths and made a start on Santa for the bambino our first time doing Santa she will be 9 months then

thanks for the toys recommendations on here

I think I will order her remaining clothes online this week I don’t want to leave it too late

Finished the afternoon off with dinner out Turkey and Ham it was lovely

Elves have any of you changed your tree colour scheme in recent years? We had the same for ages I’m thinking I might change, some of my breakables I won’t put on the tree this year with the baby so I’m thinking a change plus redecorating most of the house?

Loughc

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I would love to do a proper Christmas scheme for my tree and decorations but I never really do. I stick to the messy, sentimental approach, almost everything no the tree and laid out throughout the house has a "Ah remember when we got this" story attached to it. Hard to let it go.

If I win the lotto I would have loads of trees and a fancy room decorated in a proper colour scheme almost straight out of a magazine haha.

DvB

My Mrs has our colour scheme nailed down, with no deviations permitted!! 😨😀

TBH previously when living with my folks & then by myself I always loved the quality street multi colour look, but I've gotten used to the more 'stylised' look and quite like it now, people visiting always comment on it so what do I know eh?? It does make decorating a longer task than before (scatter gun approach worked fine for me previously 🤣) but with christmas fm on in the background its all good... takes a full day to do it all now & dread taking it all down and packing it away.

jellybear

Called down home at the weekend and the mammy had bought us a Milkybar advent calendar....she knows us so well 😁 She also bought our little boy a gorgeous Christmas jumper!

Have started picking up a few bits. Ordered a balance bike for little man- thanks for the recommendations from here 😁 Just need to get a helmet now and a few stocking fillers.

Really want to be sorted early, don't fancy the busyness of the shops come December!

Hope everyone had a lovely weekend 😊

TRS30

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I could have written this!! My job in the decorating is to get the boxes down from the attic and get the tree home. The OH has a place for everything and a colour scheme for each room. In fairness the place always looks amazing and anyone who is ever in the house say so, so happy to leave her to it!

Jude13

^^^Ditto DVB. I love teh Quaility street colourted tree. My Mrs has a system!! She lets me and the elves decorate it with her to keep us happy, then does it all again

freshpopcorn

Our main tree is multi coloured. We've a second tree in our hall that's blue, white and Silver. We ended up with the second tree bceause we ran out of space in the first one.

I ordered a L'Occitane Advent calendar for my mother for €65. It will be her first Advent calendar I'd say. It will be one of her Birthday Presents because she's 60 in November. I just hope it doesn't arrive in a big L'Occitane box.

Heroditas

Anyone see the Foil, Arms and Hogg sketch where the mother allows the son to decorate the tree? It's brilliant.

We're very much a sentimental tree household. Every decoration has a story and we have our tree since we bought our first house in 2007. Every year we say we'll replace it and every year we put the old one back up for "one more year" 😂

We're now a good bit into getting stuff for the kids. Just have a nagging fear there will be shortages in a month or two.

Posy

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Just youtubed that, brilliant!! 😁

Loughc

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I love foil, arms and Hogg. They are spot on in most of their sketches.

PTH2009

Hope McDonald's bring back the celebrations mcflurry and the double Big Mac which got a bit of a slating for some reason

SarahLil

Thanks everyone for the feedback Re tree themes,

@Loughc yeah I am the same myself I have a lot of decorations from various places we have visited and knew I have gotten as gifts

I will probably stick with the same as usual as I love all my little Santa, Snowman etc I have around the tree

Im raging I was just about to put an order in for Christmas outfits for the baby and every single outfit I wanted are gone in the size I wanted, I don’t normally dilly dally but she is so long I wanted to measure her to the get right size 😧 hopefully they come back into stock plus there is 20% off

TRS30

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One of my favorite decoration is Santa on a surfboard that we got in Haiti on our honeymoon. It's probably the only 'off style' decoration that makes it into the main room 😂

tscul32

Quality street tree here too. Decorations made by the kids over the years plus ones we bought in different places, some that my mother in law made, etc.

Loughc

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who saw that coming 3 months ago 😂😂

Posy

Hahaha. 😂

The One Doctor

Got fired today for looking for another job. Two kids under six and a wife on maternity leave.

Gonna be a great Christmas.

Sorry to had to vent, fcuked up country.

Lord Spence

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That sucks, but sometimes these things happen for a reason and a better job will be right around the corner. Means little now I get that but things usually work out for the best, fingers crossed for you.

Loughc

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I didn’t think you could get fired for that?! You need to get some legal advise ASAP.

DvB

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Beat me to it, that's illegal, definitely challenge that, you may not get your job back (sounds like you don't want it now anyway) but you may be compensated for the manner of your being fired. Its not that easy to actually fire people nowadays.

SarahLil

Morning everyone

@The One Doctor like the others said get legal advice immediately I am sure it is wrongful dismissal

last night was funny strange everything down, I did some online shopping for the baby got sorted with the outfits I wanted to get her and got an early night, that’s more ticked off the list

TRS30

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These 100%. Speak to a solicitor as no way can you be fired simply for looking for another job!

TRS30

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Was funny on twitter, as everyone was gloating (twitter have nothing to be gloating about!) that they were online and all other platforms were not.

Didn't really affect me at all as not on FB or Instagram and was nice not getting lots of Whatsapp messages to groups I'm in that are not relevant to me (other parents asking silly questions in kids sports groups!).

DvB

I wasn't aware of the SM outages until one of the lads in a signal group mentioned it. I would have been oblivious to the whole thing otherwise.

SarahLil

@TRS30 yeah my OH on Twitter said Twitter sent a tweet out it was funny

I had a lovely early night 😂

my little bambino is 7 months old today ❤️

Loughc

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It was a good night for me to go down, got to watch Spectre without being distracted by my OH's phone as a quick refresher to go see the new Bond Movie tonight.

Loughc

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Oh wow, 7 months, flying it! So exciting for you and their first Christmas in a couple of months as well.

TRS30

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Going to see it next Wednesday. Day off work, lunch and movie date, can't wait :)