My least favourite christmas activity...

[MetalMilitia]

Buying cards... ugggggggggg

I have just returned home from a fun 30mins of card buying... i hate it so much, im not sure why exactly, it should be the simplest of things to buy over christmas and yet for some reason the mere thought of standing in that endless isle containing row apon row of vomit induceing, santa covered, crap fills me with loathing.

Its not just the fact i have to leave the house either, the process of picking out that special christmas message from thousands of others is a tricky business. Its like a mine field in there. You have to find the most unimaginative and plain, yet still conveying the christmas sprit, card.
luckily the shop keepers arranged the cards into nice sections.
We have....
Animals
Kittens frolicing in an icey tundra or puppies with ammusing oversized santa hats. Also a few tasteful portraits of reeindeers and such like. :puke

http://www.norfolkterrierclub.co.uk/shop/images/Xmas%20Card%20Cool%20Enough.jpg

Bears
While technically animals over 50% of the cards i saw today had god awful teddy bears holding flowers and hearts and stuff.... ugggg. Fucking awful crap.
http://www.mg-usa.com/productImages/2380b.jpg

Old fasioned style paintings
Picture-esc landscapes with snowey cabbins and christmas trees next to open fires with children playing with their newly aquired toys.
Tacky shit.

http://shilohpostcards.com/p10894.jpghttp://www.shilohpostcards.com/p10891.jpg

Novelty oversized cards
For the people which a regular sized card just isnt good enough. These are the tackyest pieces of crap on the planet. If anyone buys one i hope they die.

"WOW LOOK HOW BIG THIS CARD IS :eek . I FEEL SO LOVED :love "

:puke

Comedy

Usually obcene, these allow the family joker to look funny. an example of one of these i saw today with a message similar to

"for christmas i want a man so well endowled that his balls sound like four nuns clapping on my ass"

i didnt read the inside but it no doubt had an equally witty punchline. ugggggg

http://www.shopping-for-christmas.co.uk/Site/Images/Groovy.GIF

There are plenty more types featuring all manner of seasonal messages but these are the main offenders i can think of.

Oh well, at least now is the longest possible time before i have to go again.

[MetalMilitia]

oh. wait, this thread actually had a point when i started it..

Whats your least favourite christmas activity?

[GADZOOKS]

I'm confused, is this observational or is this slapstick???

[MetalMilitia]

its a rant. tbh

[Dole]

bit late for cards, innit??

[MetalMilitia]

I like to do all my shopping at the last minuite. It adds to the excitement of christmas... and i cant put it off any longer.

[GADZOOKS]

its a rant. tbh

Oh, ha ha

[MetalMilitia]

shut up. dont like it? piss off and shut that stupid fat hole under your nose.

i can already see this thread is doomed.

[Cosmo Electrolux]

MY least favorite activity is the mad dash to purchase a gift for someone whom I didn't buya gift for, but got one for me....this late in the game, the things that are left look picked over. I hate that...:(

Oh....but I love Chex Mix.....my friend gave me a bag this morning. :)

[Dole]

I did all my xmas shopping by mid-november. MID-NOVEMBER! :posh

[MetalMilitia]

:eek

[Cosmo Electrolux]

I told my children to have their Christmas lists finished by July 4th...I will be finished by August >:

[AChimp]

I trick other people into doing my Christmas shopping for me.

"Hey, you're heading out to whatsit. Can you pick up a thingamabob for me while you're there? I'm giving it to so-and-so, and I'll pay you back right away. I'm just really busy right now :("

:)

[Dole]

You might as well just rape santa, achimp >:

[sspadowsky]

I agree with MM about the cards. It's a pain in the arse. That's why Ive decided that, this year, all my gift recipients will be getting cards in foreign languages that do not pertain to Christmas.

[AChimp]

One of my uncles is living in Saudi Arabia for a few years on some work program, and he sent us a card in Arabic. It was really weird and tacky.

[Cosmo Electrolux]

Arabs are weird and tacky.....so are Eskimos....I've never gotten a card from an Eskimo. :(

[Jamesic]

There is one thing which makes the lead up to Christmas a nightmare: having to buy cards and presents! (Yes, I know that MetalMatilda already mentioned the problem about cards)

At least Christmas day itself is special...

[Anonymous]

an example of one of these i saw today with a message similar to

"for christmas i want a man so well endowled that his balls sound like four nuns clapping on my ass"
I think if we had cards like that here Jesus would get upset.

[Ninjavenom]

I don't plan on sending christmas cards to anyone. EVER.

[MetalMilitia]

:eek :eek :eek

When people ask you how you are enjoying christmas do you respond... "BAH! HUMBUG!" ?

[Jixby Phillips]

I refuse to do greeting cards of any kind. I don't buy them, I don't make them, and I don't care. I flat out refuse. Because I'm better than all of you.

[Brandon]

My family -- immediate and extended -- never really did the Christmas card thing, and I don't plan on bucking the trend. It always seemed like a tremendous pain in the ass, and this thread verified that for me. :)

[glowbelly]

i actually sent out christmas cards this year. then again, i'm all sappy christmas cheery.

plus my christmas cards rule cause i go to a nice shop and buy expensive ones that are pretty or funny.

[Big McLargehuge]

Any kind of card is impersonal. Unless you make it yourself. When you send me a card what you are telling me is "Hey i care enough about you to stop by the card isle when i am at the grocery store and spend a dollar."

[Burger Lord]

In my family cards were only given on the lesser holidays (mothers day, valentine, etc) when some kind of gift had to be given, but no one wanted to spend more than a dollar. I guess because of this, I really don't understand the card giving thing at all.

[ReadLou]

Shovelling snow only usually happens during christmas.

:o

So, yeah - that.