Bah humbug! A retreat for those lacking in Xmas spirit

[myglaren]

Hoping that it will pass by unnoticed.
There are so many of us now that we have agreed not to bother with presents, usually things that ho-one wants or needs. I prefer to give them when they are unexpected.
Only youngest granddaughter and the two great-grandkids will get presents.

[CitroJim]

We have a strict Christmas present policy in our family of buying only what's wanted.

We too give unexpected ones outside of the usual present giving occasions.

Not long to go now until it's all over for another year

[Gibbo2286]

I have a different idea to Dickens:

Young Ebenezer was a very poor boy but he worked hard at school to learn to read and write and especially maths.
When he left school at just 13 years old he worked in all sorts of labouring jobs and saved hard whilst his school mates sat around an moaned at their lot and spent any money they could scrounge on booze.
Soon Ebenezer had saved enough to rent a room to set himself up in a small accountancy business, he looked around for staff and paid them well but they pilfered his goods, pens and paper, toilet rolls and coal from the shed all went missing on a regular basis.
The rent rises and the taxman wants a bigger bite every year so the business is struggling, Ebenezer spends long hours trying to keep things afloat and on Christmas Eve he's still struggling to make things work, he looks out the window and sees his workers partying, think's 'Sod it' gathers all the funds he can from the tills and joins the party.
New years day the business goes broke and all the staff are unemployed..............It is of course all Ebenezer's fault.