What do you want to rant about today? #25

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My dad being a bleeping miserable bleep. Honestly he does my head in at Christmas. Went to two with mum who asked him to arrange to visit my cousins so we could drop presents off today or early next week. He sits at my grans for nearly 2 hours and does duck all and just left the presents with her "because the others will pop in" that's not the bleeping point, it's nice to actually see people and get properly thanked when you hand presents over.

He doesn't want mum to cook christmas dinner because she gets stressed and shouts (because he doesn't help...).

He doesn't want to get up before 10am as its Christmas so he should get a lie on despite the fact he's bleeping retired and doesn't get up until at least 10 most days.

I love him to bits but he is so bleeping miserable right now he is really bleeping me off.

Oh and my grandma who usually spends Christmas day with either us or my auntie and boxing day with the other might be spending both days with my auntie becasue golden boy cousin is spending Christmas day with his "in laws" (they aren't as he and his partner aren't married) but will be at my aunties for boxing day as his partner will be working. This is the same cousin who didn't come to my sisters wedding and gets a bleeping pass when the rest of us would have been torn a new one for missing his wedding.

Finally my aunt and cousin have no quarms about asking me to use my qualifications to help them for free when my parents abev always paid my cousin for the work he has done for them.

I'm just bleeping done right now.
 
Work is absolutely vile.. Every time we get a new store manager they've y to change everything this ones colleagues can't tell to other colleagues you are caught chatting disciplinary God forbid you have mental health issues or actual health issues they've been giving loads of disciplinaries for illness at the minute even sacking someone who has a chest infection. No one dares do anything we are walking on eggshells. I'm worried I got stressed today and out in the wrong amount for my roll and if they catch it I might get a meeting just constantly worried I'm going to lose my job
 
Starlight_100 said:
There have been a lot of sick kids exactly like that little girl in my local garden centre recently going to see Santa. You'll also see parents going "yeah! we are going to see Santa in a minute" and you look and they are with a child or 2 or 3 who are looking really pale or with horrible barking coughs. Have these parents not thought that maybe it's selfish to make other customers, the staff and the man who is Santa, sick with their kids germs right before Christmas? All so they can get a photo. The amount of sick, crying children I've seen being dragged out who are clearly fed up and want to be at home resting is unbelievable.
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I work in early years and the past few weeks I’ve given up doing any activities as the kids are all dead on their feet. They’re so full of cold that they can’t sleep, so they’re sleeping here half the day. They’ve all got hacking coughs, runny noses, temperatures, random rashes - all of which seem a complete surprise to the parents when we ask them to collect…
 
Chocolategoggler said:
If I had children I'd buy drawstring sacks and put the presents in unwrapped. The child would probably appreciate it.............and it's also saving the environment! 😁#smug
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I got some wooden boxes from Hobbycraft and just put a load of little bits like colouring books, crafty things, stickers etc for my nieces and nephews. I didn’t wrap any of it, just put a ribbon and their initial on. They can paint the boxes or put stickers on them.
 
whoareyouu said:
£9 for a trifle in Tesco. What the actual duck is going on.
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sadly not shocked.. Tesco are just taking the piss and the only place still raising their prices, I stopped shopping there a while back after going most days, Went in Sainsburys midweek to get a few things they dont have elsewhere and to see what festive things they had in.. While i was there noticed quite a few things that werea pound or so lower in price than Tesco
 
Chocolategoggler said:
If I had children I'd buy drawstring sacks and put the presents in unwrapped. The child would probably appreciate it.............and it's also saving the environment! 😁#smug
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Wrapping paper is produced/bought just to be thrown away. It's the most useless product there is, along with it's cousin tissue paper. Da not get me started on the shiny, glittery, foily wrapping 'paper' that is basically plastic.
Boxes, sacks, baskets, bags fir life, Hessian, old paper/newspaper - paint it if you want or add a sticker, cushion covers, brown cardboard is handy if you are a gardener ...
 
aulty said:
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Wrapping paper is produced/bought just to be thrown away. It's the most useless product there is, along with it's cousin tissue paper. Da not get me started on the shiny, glittery, foily wrapping 'paper' that is basically plastic.
Boxes, sacks, baskets, bags fir life, Hessian, old paper/newspaper - paint it if you want or add a sticker, cushion covers, brown cardboard is handy if you are a gardener ...
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I couldn't agree more.
I don't think kids need toys wrapped, they need them assembled and ready to play with. Little ones can't unwrap things themselves, so not only do I have to wrap things, I have to unwrap them . I only wrap things so I don't have to justify why I haven't. And I'm rubbish at it. Our sacks have gone awol since last year.
The same gift bag comes out for everyone's birthday. We've had it years.
 
Last year I got my little boy second hand toys from Father Christmas so they went in a sack unwrapped. Best thing ever, just dived in and started enjoying the presents.

but while I’m on this subject. I seemed to have been inundated with charity pleas for presents for children that otherwise wouldn’t get any. I wholeheartedly support this and donate but is it petty of me to think it’s annoying that they only want brand new toys? Firstly I have an immaculate wooden train set but I’ve struggled to find a charity to give it to. Secondly, I buy my little boy quite a bit second hand as quite frankly there is too much plastic tat in the world so by doing this I’m saving money and helping the environment in a very small way
 
neverbeeninfluenced said:
Last year I got my little boy second hand toys from Father Christmas so they went in a sack unwrapped. Best thing ever, just dived in and started enjoying the presents.

but while I’m on this subject. I seemed to have been inundated with charity pleas for presents for children that otherwise wouldn’t get any. I wholeheartedly support this and donate but is it petty of me to think it’s annoying that they only want brand new toys? Firstly I have an immaculate wooden train set but I’ve struggled to find a charity to give it to. Secondly, I buy my little boy quite a bit second hand as quite frankly there is too much plastic tat in the world so by doing this I’m saving money and helping the environment in a very small way
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I think this is possibly to stop people donating their old crap that they're too lazy to dispose of? One of the volunteers in my local charity shop said that they get loads of rubbish left with them at this time of year, puzzle with bits missing, broken toys, mouldy boxes, etc etc. (I don't know why, our local rubbish tip is excellent, and free to residents).
When my kid was small, we used to pass around toys between friends, or give them to the local playgroup. You know when you buy a toy but your child just doesn't play with it? I donated a large plastic play tunnel that my son hated. He loved the large box that it came in though!🤣
 
Allllll the comments say only 8p in Aldi. duck off to Aldi then 🙄😆
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