So the champagne has popped, the ham has been eaten, presents unwrapped … what do you think is the biggest waste of money at Christmas? Toys for babies, fruit mince pies that everyone hate but gets served up every year, excessive wrapping paper, Christmas cards?
Biggest waste of money at Christmas
[Deactivated] on 29/12/2021 - 08:26
Last edited 29/12/2021 - 09:53
Last edited 29/12/2021 - 09:53
Poll Options
- 2Baby toys
- 8Fruit mince pies
- 71Crackers and the dinky toys inside
- 6Wrapping paper
- 80The whole shebang
- 29I love Christmas and all it's trimmings
Comments
Fruit mince pies are the best. Should be sold year round.
Best? Yeah, nah. Christmas is over, bring on the next four months of hot cross buns
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Vegemite ones
you deserve every neg vote that you get
theres cadbury caramilk ones this year
they are already in colesworth…
I love fruit mince pies! Wish they were sold year round too.
I love them too but if they were available year round I would be headed to an early grave in a specially reinforced hearse because of my size.
Mmmmm Fruit mince pies, so unhealthy but so enjoyable.
Aldi had some very cheap ones a couple of weeks ago. I stocked up.
I'm rationing them out, only two a day.
Dammit I’m off to the supermarket now!
Agreed. We don't celebrate Christmas but I love my chilled fruit mince pies. 1 pack of 6 is all I need till next Xmas!
Crap lollies. We had a chat with the in laws about cutting back and the amount of lollies and chocolate was just stupid. We just regifted 90% of it on Boxing Day.
Oh that and the 4 kinds of meat no one eats. Just pick one 🤦♀️
Do pork and Turkey. Next day turkey leek pie for dinner the day after pork tacos :)
Surge Pricing on Uber Christmas Eve/Day. :+(
Just use taxis
Using up annual leave spending time at the mother in law's
:/
OMG! where is the "all of the above" option in the poll???
Bah humbug
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Worst is the crap in Christmas crackers. Literally landfill
We had a few boxes of crackers on the table. All had the same toy (spinning top) and only 2 jokes. Everyone at one end of the table got joke 1 and everyone at the other end got joke 2! We had 2 boxes left over that we threw out unopened.
At least a spinning top sounds fun. I got a luggage tag which I really wouldn’t trust.
You can get quality ones with like metal bottle openers.
Ours had a bottle opener, but I still consider it garbage. It also had a useless torch, small notepad, photo frame etc… the only thing that seemed good was a measuring tape.
@savas
We hate them, too, so for the last couple of years we've tried this instead:
Bought the crackers with the joke and hat but no trinket. First time we inserted a chocolate, but don't and bother now.
Prior to that, used little box from Spotlight, like for bonbonieras, and put in a couple of FerreroRocher chocolates and home made jokes.
The crack without the crap.
What kind of home made joke ?
Just downloaded terrible puns and cut and pasted them into a Christmas tag template. No bursting balloons or farty things!
The whole concept of Christmas in general is a waste of money
The things that cost money and isn’t needed. Eg. Anything beyond what your regular non festive routine.
AFTER christmas buy crackers, wrapping paper, etc for 25% of pre-christmas price for next year.
basic ozbargain101
All the useless shit that's bought for the kids that they use once, if you're lucky.
Love Christmas. Just the few days before hand dealing with crazy shoppers queues and traffic on the road. Makes getting all the useless stuff almost worth while. Seeing how happy the kids get
Tickets to day 3, 4 and 5 of the boxing day test.
Isn’t it anything that you spend time, money, effort but don’t want or need?
Even if the crackers are crap, if they gave you, or someone you love a laugh you may consider it valuable.
Probably the amount of time I spend with my family instead of browsing OzBargain.
(Jokes, we all use OzB)