I promise to......

theres your humbug part of it

to kids its just about presents obviously, and pretty decorations.

yes. forget about the name, just celebrate a nice holiday with the family, some presents, decorations, a tree and good food.

Good food yes, presents yes, enjoyfull time with family yes, tree no

GET THE FRIGGIN TREE I TELLS YA!!!

No tree this year, save the environment

they don't just chop down trees indiscriminately for xmas, i think they grow them special-like.

it's supposed to be a happy time of the year. what are your kids going to tell their friends? "my parents are too miserable to celebrate xmas"?

Finti, get an artificial tree.

my parents are too miserable to celebrate xmas

But this is starting to get fun, NO I aint gonna get a tree. We have deceided that we aint gonna have a xmas tree this year.
main reasons I DONT WANT ONE and that we going to Monikas parents the 21. Dont need no tree, and artificial tree yeah just as fake as the entire xmas celebration

EBENEZER!!!

Why ebenezer?

because that's what you are, just like Mr.Scrooge

ok explain further, cause scrooge was all about Money.
we deceided not to have a xmas tree cause we aint gonna be home for xmas.
The custom in my family and Monikas is to decorate the tree day before xmas eve. Well we aint gonna be home so we dont need a tree

ok, fair enough

Monika has hung up angles and other xmas decoration things, got no help from me😄

We went for a fake tree last year and so we're going to use it again this year. We had to get one in the end cus our cats kept going crazy with a real tree, they'd go off their heads completely with another real one.

Anyhoo, still wasn't feeling at all Christmassy until I went and got all Mrs.MM's presents on Monday. I booked the day off and did it all in one big shopping spree, then had to go to Uni on the afternoon to get some computer time in on Pro-Engineer.

Gonna have a bath now and wrap all her prezzies and put them under the (fake) tree for when she gets home, Mrs.MM does love xmas so.

so you gonna tempt her for a week or so then... I like the idea😈

Nah, she gets all excited and stuff.

Its nice for her and I like to see her so happy, so I try not to be too much of a misery. If I lived alone, Xmas would go by without much of a fuss at all.

if only

Tee hee! Yeah I feel like that sometimes, but who'd warm me up in bed and wash my socks?