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The Daily PollWE’RE A MERE 11 days away from Christmas Day
While some people like to get their Christmas shopping out of the way months in advance, there are others who like that last minute panic on Christmas Eve.
So today we’re asking: How’s your Christmas shopping going?
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Nothing to do with being tight but I’m really thinking hard about presents this year. So much waste for the sake of keeping up appearances. I’ve no problem with something decent that people want and will use but all the junk people buy to save embarrassment needs to go. Yes there will be a few things people want and need but how many presents are unwanted, unused and a chronic waste of energy and resources?
In a rich first world country so many will already have more than they need. I know I’m sounding a bit Grinchy but the materialism and pure cynicism of the Christmas advertising industry has really gotten to me this year. You look at children in Gaza or Ukraine, the poor in our own country and it puts those manipulative ads in their place. How many will have those supposedly idyllic and 100% stage managed Christmas ad scenarios play out in real life? It won’t even snow here!
@SerotoninWars: Well said,we have cut out all the present buying for family,it’s just the kids we buy for…….it’s not about the money,it’s more the waste and hassle of the whole process.We also have a limit on what we buy the kids because they have everything and get lots during the year.
@John Terry: Bang on,we did the same,so far it’s been hassle and stress free.
@John Terry: This is it. It’s not about being mean or stingy or being a grump throughout Christmas! A few drinks, chats, lots of music and catching up with family and friends is all I want. The last thing I’d like is people stressing about buying me something I likely don’t want or need for the sake of saving face. I think lots of people feel the same so it’s really good to just say it out loud. So many will actually be relieved and it will save on adding more unnecessary junk to the pile. I know some people will roll their eyes and call it virtue signalling or whatever but giving a few euro to charity would honestly make me much happier. I’m not rich but I have enough.
Christmas is love, Christmas is peace
A time for hating and fighting to cease.
Christmas is a wonderful time of excess :)
All heading abroad for sun Christmas holidays this year first time ever the whole family going for 10 days worked out about the same price as staying in Ireland for Christmas and no rain .and getting a nice holiday, might make it an annual thing will see .
Just when you think a Journal poll can’t get any more nonsensical. Does anyone really give a dog’s testicle how it when you do your Christmas shopping
@Patrick MC Dermott: A dog’s testicle for Christmas, eh? Interesting and imaginative. That’s another difficult present sorted! Good one. Cheers…
@Patrick MC Dermott: I think it more to see how many viewers they are losing every week or month
@William Tallon: That’d be the dog’s boll!x.
@Seamus Enright: You got me! What gave it away?
@Seamus Enright: How did you get that dirty word past the Journal censors . Comments should e closed right away
@Patrick MC Dermott: The old “quotation mark instead of a lower case ‘i’” trick.
Many years ago, before marriage and children, etc., myself and a friend would go to the pub at 11.00am Christmas Eve. 3 or 4 pints later we would hit the shops!! Made the experience more pleasureable and nobody ever complained about the presents!
Wha’? It’s Christmas already? Oh, sh…
Its the most capitalist time of the year, where the business owners are singing for its christmas money making season, and the debt collectors happily wait for new victims come the new year…..
@Tom Newell: True, they should have vultures on the cards this year.
Has it now become Christmas = shopping?
Christmas is the time where hypocrisy is the highest, especially toward the homeless …
Shiny happy sheeple ….
Just getting the training in for an anxiety inducing dash around town on christmas eve buying absolute shit before a misguided celebratory pint after.
Frankly Journal.ie, that’s really none of your business.
Thankfully I will be able to afford a great Christmas thanks to Fine Gael, more money in our pockets, more spending, the country is thriving and everyone is benefitting
@Boris Blank: FG are truly awesome
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