Christmas is getting harder every year (My Perfect Christmas)

Member Name: roguephoenix

Product:	My Perfect Christmas
Date:	05/12/08 (67 review reads)
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Advantages: Spend time with family

Disadvantages: Spend money that you don't have

Who decides what is a perfect Christmas or not?

I think that this year will be the hardest Christmas for my family. My mum lost her battle with cancer in January this year so this is my first Christmas without her. Every year we would go around to my mum's for Christmas dinner and it will be really strange this year.

I have volunteered to do the Christmas dinner this year, simply because I cannot afford £50 - £60 per head to go to a restraint for the same food that would be roughly £20 per head the day before. It would be £100 - £120 just for me and my fiancé to go out for dinner on Christmas day, where I could feed and provide drink for my full family for that amount of money.

Christmas is for giving not receiving!

I wonder who made that up. Try telling that to a screaming kid on Christmas day, I doubt they would understand that Santa has been hit with credit crunch! I find that Christmas is getting more commercialised each year and everyone is trying to get the most expensive present for one another.

I do have a soft spot for this time of year as my fiancé proposed to me on Christmas day two years ago, so I do enjoy the time off work and everyone getting together to enjoy everyone's company and of course the booze does help too.

I hate the hustle and bustle, especially when going to the supermarket, everyone buy as thought the shops are closed for a year and I'm sorry to say that I find myself sucked in at the last minute on Christmas eve I'm usually around the supermarket buying items that we don't need but do it just encase I need it.

I think a perfect Christmas is spending time with you loved one's and remembering the ones who can't be with us to enjoy this time of year. To many others this is a difficult time of year as many people do not have families to go to over the festive season.

Summary: Nice time of year for some but not everyone