How much will you spend on a significant other this Xmas?

[sasguru]

Just think about that poor old pensioner who fought so you can enjoy your freedom, and he's lonely and cold this Christmas. If it wasn't for the likes of him you'd have to act like grown ups instead of lavishing 100s of pounds on toys for adult children. I bet he feels like a proper sponger.

FFS I want to top myself. I agree with Baggy. What's the world coming to?


PS I will be making a donation to the Legion, thanks for the prod.

[Churchill]

Yep. We have a thing where we open our big pressies in the morning, then we fill a big santa stocking for each other..and by the time you add it all up, easily over £500 quid...

I see it as the one time in the year that I get to splash out on her..so why not...

What about Birthday? Valentines Day? I've got PMT and want a nice shiny pressie day?

[daviejones]

The other thread is here.

Thanks. I remember the original story in the papers about the tight footie players....was shocking....

[sasguru]

For all you selfish over-indulgers, this is a charity well worth contributing to.
You can't accuse them of being spongers, they have put their lives on the line for you:

So make or a donation or I'll send the heavy boys round

http://www.britishlegion.org.uk/

[daviejones]

What about Birthday? Valentines Day? I've got PMT and want a nice shiny pressie day?

Nah, not really. I see valentines day as over inflated bollorks...her birthday is one she doesn't really ask for much...but I buy her little pressies all the time..

[Bagpuss]

FFS I want to top myself. I agree with Baggy. What's the world coming to?


PS I will be making a donation to the Legion, thanks for the prod.

I was half joking

[SallyAnne]

What about Birthday? Valentines Day? I've got PMT and want a nice shiny pressie day?

Are you feeling alright?!!!

You missed this

"the one time in the year that I get to splash out on her.."

and instead wrote something constructive and quite loving

Is Ferret writing your posts again?

[sasguru]

I was half joking

But I'm not.

[chef]

For all you selfish over-indulgers, this is a charity well worth contributing to.
You can't accuse them of being spongers, they have put their lives on the line for you:

So make or a donation or I'll send the heavy boys round

http://www.britishlegion.org.uk/

for once, i fully agree with you sas, done, just donated..

[Lucifer Box]

For all you selfish over-indulgers, this is a charity well worth contributing to.
You can't accuse them of being spongers, they have put their lives on the line for you:

So make or a donation or I'll send the heavy boys round

http://www.britishlegion.org.uk/

Seconded. I give regularly to the Legion via Giftaid. A worthy UK based charity that genuinely does good work.

For putting in the tin I give to the Salvation Army. Whether you agree with their religious beliefs or not they do good work and my dear granddad would spin in his grave if I walked past and didn't contribute a little. He was very anti-religion but wouldn't have a bad word said against them due to his experiences in the war. He used to say they were some of the bravest people he'd come across when he was fighting in Normandy - "without exception they were always the first in and the last out", he said.

He got into more than one altercation during and after the war with the stay-at-home folks who spat on them in the street and called them cowards.

As for people less well off than me, I choose thoughtful and hopefully useful gifts that would be within their budget too. I feel it puts those on a budget in an awkward and embarrassing spot if you lavish gifts on them.