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

I think you'd have to hand back your Elf title if you didn't dress appropriately, given the day that's in it!

LOL veteran is right🤣

^where's the photo^🙂

Very busy weekend this weekend getting everything sorted for Christmas.

Deep cleaned the house yesterday and then put up the decorations, took all day but was worth it.

Then today we cleaned both gardens and wrapped all the presents 🎁

Definitely in the mood now 😁😁

Feeling very down atm but strength of xmas songs are keeping me going

Mine didn't go near the tree......they really didn't like the feel of it (fake tree) they were also afraid of grass though......little weirdos!!

Happy Toy Show week everyone

Got decorations up the weekend a few bits left to do, I’m a few broken decorations down already with my little one I think she may have had a go at Santa’s glasses too😂 Christmas fm was great on the app Saturday morning lunchtime

I haven't officially begun to decorate since we haven't opened the attic, but we've picked up Christmas throws, cushions, a large fuzzy polar bear and some candles and instead of putting them away they're out.

It's getting most festive by degrees.

Ok so the tree in Heuston is up but no lights yet....seems to be artificial but looks good

now - footlocker needs to hang their heads in Shame!!

their Christmas tree “effort” is beyond lazy - a stack of empty Adidas and Nike shoe boxes arranged in a half arsed triangle type stack

ffs like.

It looks so cold and depressing and commercial - not 1 bit festive !!

whatever happened to a lovely deep green fir tree decked out with nice crimson ribbons and baubles and is a bit of tinsel too much to ask for these days!??

that lovely smell from a real tree is so evocative of the Christmas for so many of us - empty shoe boxes are not an adequate replacement!!

I didn’t even ask if they had a crib on display - I can guess what their response would be.....grrr

foot locker - ffs it’s the laziest most cynical effort at Christmas decoration I’ve seen in a long time.

Yeah loads do - I’m all for it - after all it’s what Christmas is all about !

So many people young and old love seeing a crib

Lots of places like cafes, restaurants, pharmacies, convenience stores, post offices, pubs, bookshops etc.

you would rarely see a crib in the likes of the big supermarkets or bigger brand clothes shops, which is a shame.

Got out for a nice walk earlier, hats and scarves weather is certainly here

It was lovely to see houses decorated on our walk

Got my stamps from the post office while out, going to get my international cards wrote and posted this week, the last number of years I’ve posted by an post dates but they didn’t arrive till February

Wrote a list of food supplies we need for over the Christmas and a separate list of fresh stuff we will need nearer the big day

Picked up my Turkey trays too I couldn’t add them to an online shop they didn’t seem to appear so grabbed them when I seen them another thing ticked off the list

Just seen the Guinness add first time this year!

Heard the familiar tune in the background when I was busy earlier - made me smile 🙂

Christmas tree got delivered earlier & got my lights on Sunday & some little LED ornaments to go with it.

So just waiting on my decorations to get dispatched - Given that I’m starting afresh this year, I decided that I was going to make this tree a bit more personal & ordered a mixed theme of decorations that I have various passions about, so looking forward to blending them all together on the tree when they arrive.

The Dunnes shopping centre in Maynooth generally has one.

Often has the full complement of figures in it from day one!

Can notice more and more House with their decorations up as the days pass 😁😁