Hello Dear Reader,
Another day of unpacking and recycling! It’s been a busy day for me and I’ve spent the morning with Tracy Wilson at Radio Cornwall and no surprise, we chatted about budgeting for Christmas.
You can listen to me here http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01l6z7q and move the slider to the last hour and Tracy and I chat away about the ridiculous costs at Christmas.
Over to you, who has a Christmas advertisement that they find totally ridiculous? I find most of them totally cynical as if commercialism is the spirit of Christmas!
Have a listen.
Until tomorrow,
Love Froogs xxxxxxxxx
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Couldn't agree more. completely cynical, it's become an over-blown commercial exercise.
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Don't know if you are getting email at the mo - but pleasure to play along today and could you message me on FB re a sponsor offer? Elaine X
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Jane hope you'll both be very happy in your new home. Last evening in one of the ad breaks on X factor was an ad for KFC; reuniting and peace at Christmas is great but eating KFC- no no no
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Froogs,
I've already given it a listen to, you were spot on about the materialism that is so widespread here in the US. Quite a stir this year as shops were open on THANKSGIVING-simply unheard of! A strong movement to boycott that, as well as Black Friday. Saturday is coined Small business Saturday to promote shopping locally. We still have Cyber Monday tomorrow as well. I'm the lady who has been done with whatever actual purchasing was required for Christmas for weeks now! I am quite content to sit at home, listen to some carol's, sip some hot tea and go about my crafting, sewing as I finish my holiday projects. While some things were put on the CC to earn cash back points, it will be paid off in full, as always, on the 17th when it is due this month. No worries about large debt looming overhear either as we enter the new year. We'll have a lovely ham dinner at home, French Canadian meat pies on Christmas eve, which is our tradition, and some home cooked sides, and a dessert-even if just simple, holiday butter cookies. Much more important is the relaxing time we can spend together and make our memories that way.
Best regards as always!
Carol in CT
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I think I've become immune to most of the Christmas ads. When they come on the TV, I have that feeling of 'here we go again' and mentally switch off. Today we went to watch our son play music at a local tearoom/gift store, and we had a wander round the shop looking at all the Christmas gifts. Living the frugal life for the last three years seems to have given us the strength to switch off from all the marketing hype. There wasn't an item in that shop I would have taken home if it was free! Lovely stuff, but we don't need or want any of it now. It's a very liberating feeling.
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I hate all the adverts that imply you are letting people down if you don't buy a new dining table/sofa/bed. What on earth does any of it have to do with Christmas? My 25 year old dining table, when covered with my favourite Christmas tablecloth looks wonderful to me and will do for many years to come. My sofa is 'comfy' rather than stylish and my Christmas decorations have been collected over the years and bring back happy memories, certainly not the latest colour scheme. Rather a welcoming home than a show home!!!
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Sue, we are finished with our Christmas shopping too. Going to enjoy December without the need to buy a new sofa or a ton of food that won't get eaten!
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I really enjoyed listening to it. Great ideas and I agree so much with what you said. All my Christmas shopping is done and I reckon the whole thing was under £50. Pretty good going when you consider what some people spend. Only give things to people that mean a lot to me and, like you say, it is not about what you give, I have chosen carefully and so have not spent much. More thought than cost.
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All the adverts actually work very well for me - they alert me about all the things not to buy ! Like for Sue they are sort of immunization for me, too.
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I hate the Boots ad atm, the one where the boy is buying gifts for his (ex) maths teacher and so on. Loads of people struggling for money, using food banks, etc and they've got an ad suggesting you buy a present for everyone you've ever had contact with.
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I love opening our box of Christmas decorations too - they are all hand-me-downs from parents or handmade (the stock cube boxes wrapped in Christmas wrapping paper and tied with colourful thread with a bow on top to look like miniature presents; we were too skint when first married to buy decorations) other decorations were made by my son at school or at home (cardboard stars covered in tinfoil). Some other tree decorations have been thank you presents to us or sent from relatives abroad. They're like old friends to us and bring back happy memories. We also made lots of paper snowflakes which are stuck on our windows. I wouldn't dream of replacing them, they mean too much to us.
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Is truly silly, like trade makes us feel bad if we give and receive it, have sensible thoughts when buying or better to refrain from debt, if you have money buy, but skip that. not only celebrated with money.
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I no longer have a tele and not seeing the adverts makes such a difference - even though before we knew about the 'power' of adverts and thought we could choose to ignore it!
Will have a listen to your Christmas tips 🙂 - woop.
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Our boys are 26 and 31 and we still put up the decorations they made at school. Every year they come out of the box they make me smile! Worth more to me than any latest bauble!
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ooh im actually liking the boots ad, it is waay better than the one they had at teh start of the recession 2007 or 2008 i think, group of girls in a coffee shop giving gifts and they all say something along the lines of 'i thought we were not doing gifts this year!'. I took from this years boots ad was to get thoughtful gifts for those that mean something to you - not because u have too.
I do switch off for ALL adverts though, and really wish they wouldn't put as many adverts on during childrens programes.
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