tis the season....B#LL#X!!

ferdi

first off let me say, no i'm not a miserly scrouge/cheap b@stard but i really hate Presants!!!!!!!

i hate giving them, choosing them and most of all i hate receiving them!!!!!!!! i hate it, it fills me with dread,fear,loathing etc.. (lots of more negative adjectives)

its not that i dont like spending money (in fact its quite the opposite), its not that i'm greedy, i'm not a kill joy or a nark. i just dont like them. i hate the way when you get them you have to adopt a false happiness - "OH JOY, OH RAPTURE, OH GLEE, I AM FOREVER IN YOUR DEPT", 9 times out of 10, you really dont want what you get and if you do its cause you asked for it and even then it dont usually come. practicaly everything i own i bought for myself, i dont get presants cause i ask not to get them.

i also really dislaike birthdays, particularly my own(because people try to give me presants), and i also have a mild dislike of christmas. xmas would be ok if it werent for the gifts.

let me restate, i'm usually a relativly up beat kind of guy, but presants really p!ss me off. dont get me wrong,i like free stuff such as free food, free drink, free accomadation, free clothing - i just have a problem with gifts which are "specially for you"

i just needed to say that and was wondering if anyone else has the same violent dislike

cheers

ferdi

Seraphina

if you dont want your pressies, send them my way!

chernobyl

Heh guys...jesus is back in da house.
Go jesus..show us the error's of our commercialized ways!

thedrowner

i violently dislike mis- spelling present.... (yes i do know this is rich coming from the person who averages 12 typo's per sentence)
;)

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

typo's

and the odd grammar error too


I don't mind getting presents, in fact I love it

Beruthiel

you should be glad you have people who care enough about you to actually go out and buy you prezzies!!
I love getting them, but I must admit I find it a chore to have to tramp around town trying to buy them for others, and trying to think of stuff they will like which I can afford! Once that part is done, I'm happy

Kell

I sort of agree. On the point of "you should be glad that someone cares about you enough to go and buy you a present" then if they cared about you enough, they would actually know your likes/dislikes and buy you things that are actually either nice or useful.

I am a complete wa*ker to buy presents for but then I give the best presents too (according to a recent survey) because I take the time to decide what it is someone might like rather than the "Thats within my budget, that'll do" approach.

pickarooney

I'd love to be organised enough so that if I see something that I know a friend or family member would like at any stage during the year, I buy it and hoard it until Christmas, so I actually end up giving appreciated presents, and not rushing around like a blue-arsed fly in mid December in a panic cause I have to get buying.

Kell

Originally posted by pickarooney
I'd love to be organised enough so that if I see something that I know a friend or family member would like at any stage during the year, I buy it and hoard it until Christmas,

Only mothers do that!

Mossy Monk

Originally posted by pickarooney
and not rushing around like a blue-arsed fly in mid December in a panic cause I have to get buying.

i wish i was like that. it's always Christmas Eve for me, going around and basically buying anything i can afford then go for a well deserved pint or 2. but then it gets me out of the house away from warring siblings for some peace and quiet

thedrowner

i get frightened when i ahve to do christmas shopping-not because i dont really enjoying looking for things for people, but because of shoppers. shoppers, especially the ones who always walk in front of poor little me REALLY BLOODY SLOWLY and u cant side step out of their way because there's 10 million more walking really slowly in behind u, and to the sides of u. i usually get dragged by crowds up various streets.

you can never find anything u want and you spend 10 hours in town looking for it becoming more and more miserable (or if ur me, angry). i don't know how many times i've worried that i'm going to just drop everything and start screaming at anyone who even looks the wrong way at me or start whooshing old ladies up the road to make them walk faster. i could home very very angry from christmas shopping....

Kali

Just go christmas shopping absolutely wasted... every present will seem brilliant and the perfect gift for so and so... and you'll be walking the same speed as slow shoppers as well.

seamus

I hate buying presents.....not the spending money bit, but trying find **** bit. To me, everyone is hard to buy for. I still manage to do my shopping in around an hour though.........once I get going, there's really no stopping me

TwoShedsJackson

About seven/eight years ago, my family decided to stop getting each other Chrimbo presents. We were fu<king sick of getting the same old $hite every year: socks, jocks, aftershave, blah blah blah.

None of us are religious, quite the opposite in most cases, so that aspect means nowt to us, and we realised that we were just being suckered in by the whole 'it's Christmas, if you don't spend loads of money on presents you're a bad person' ridiculously commercialised mentality. Additionally, certain sections of the family who had had young kids or had other circumstances were low on money anyway, and found themselves taking out loans and stuff just to cover Christmas presents!!

So now we just go to one family member's house for Christmas, they cook, everyone else brings drink, and a good time is had by all - vastly superior way to do it if you ask me.

Shinji

I actually really enjoy buying presents at Christmas - have done since I moved away from home. I only see my family once every 4-6 months so it's a good way to spend a day wandering around with them at the forefront of my mind; I guess trying to think of something worthwhile to buy (and I do try and buy stuff that is specifically matched to people and a bit quirky; I'm a big believer that if someone unwraps your present and laughs out loud, you've done good ) makes those people closer to you in a way.

(I'd also like to point out that I almost spat a mouthful of coffee on my keyboard when I read the first line of this post and was convinced that the chap had just announced that he despised peasants...)

logic1

Originally posted by TwoShedsJackson
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Awww it's alright CT I'll buy you something nice... and lacy.

.logic.

Turner

I hate buying pressies. Tramping around town along with all the other 20 million christmas shoppers. Might head out to liffey valley some monday morning and rap it up (excuse the pun) in about 30 mins.

Nevyn

all can be solved with two words


GIFT VOUCHERS

Winters

Well....someone never got presants as a child ..

spooky donkey

well thats the easy and cheasy way out!

Shiminay

Originally posted by Thaed
all can be solved with two words


GIFT VOUCHERS

I think they are the worst present imaginable. It suggests that "I didn't care enough about you to think about it." I don't mind receiving them because I know not everyone thinks that way, but I think you could always out more thought behind it.

I like buying and giving pressies too. Especially when you know it's something the receiver is gonna love and make use of.

Makaveli

Buying presents is a pain. It usually only takes half an hour or so. Have a rough idea of what I'm gonna buy, go into town and buy it. None of this aimless walking around shops business. I dont like shopping. It's a waste of time. I hate shops at Christmas because they are always packed. But I do leave it all til the last minute.

Nevyn

if you know that person you are getting pressie for dislikes
it as bad as Ferdi does you are better geting them a gift voucher.

I know i'd reahter get a voucher for books or games or to get my hair done then the sad and silly amount of face scrubs and soaps no matter how prettily they are packaged.

Yes i'd rather get something that i've had my eye on but passing arround a list is not the done thing. Thankfully i have a sister that loves knowing what everyone is getting and what they want makes it lil easier.

KdjaCL

Hmm you need to know the "art of presents"

Kdjas list
mom dad lil bro ,wife + 3 kids.

0900 any morning im off work.
0910 on 78A into town
0950 in 1st record shop(behind central bank) find cd for bro
0955 found something stupid for mother in raggy shop /also scarf for dad (double kill )
1015 fought my way up to Smiths bough kid 1 trainset i wanted ,kids 2 Disney DVD i wanted ,Kid 3 small toy with cute pink on it
1025 in Japan bought undersized clothers for wife
1030 in Boots hand women with weird cream €100 tell her be beack in 15 have osminf ready
1035 in MC Donalds eating
1045 back to Boots girl with weird cream hands me basket of cream crap and some change
11.00 on bus home

She buys all presents for her side of family.
Whats so hard about that ??


kdja

smiles

kdja.... got no real imagination

I dunno, i keep my eyes open all year round until i see something for someone and then buy it and save it until its needed

Thats why i've got 4 christmas presents sorted so far

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Tellox

I love xmas, although I like the pressie part, I hate when I have to be surprised/delighted. Im not the sort of person to squeal, jump up and down and shout "thank you" at the top of my voice, so it results in a "jaysus, thanks" session with me putting on a smile that'd crack my face after about 10minutes

petes

For me buying pressies is a simple affair. I dont buy them personally. I get each family member to buy gifts for me for someone ele i.e I get my sis to buy my mam somethin and vice versa. Only time this fails if im going out with someone around christmas and then the torture begins. When I do buy presents its always the last min.I hate christmas eve shopping, far too many people, and anyway its a day for the pub.

Petes