[Margaret Pilkington]

I buy presents through the year. If I see something that I feel would be appreciated by a family member....and I have the readies, then I buy it.
I have been making Christmas cards since early August.(these I will sell and all of the proceeds will go to Cancer charities)
That said, I would prefer that all the Christmas advertising did not start until the beginning of December.
If I were putting a tree up, it would not be put up until Christmas Eve.....and would come down on the second of January.

We do less and less of the celebrating as we get older.
We will not overeat, we will not buy anything much more than what we would buy for any other weekend....Carmudgeonly? Maybe, but it suits us.