Happy Christmas 2023…
Discussion
My first job as a 14 year old was a a shop assistant on the local Co-op, in their Garden and Toy shop.
Christmas stock would start arriving in June, so by the time Christmas Eve came I was thoroughly sick of the whole thing.
(I do wonder how much some of the toys would be worth now!)
Oh, and anorak fact, I know the woman who was the model for the Tiny Tears doll, her Father was a toy designer at Palitoy.
Christmas stock would start arriving in June, so by the time Christmas Eve came I was thoroughly sick of the whole thing.
(I do wonder how much some of the toys would be worth now!)
Oh, and anorak fact, I know the woman who was the model for the Tiny Tears doll, her Father was a toy designer at Palitoy.
Yep. I owned a garden centre and unfortunately Christmas was necessary to get us through the Winter.
Our stuff arrived through July and we didn’t have the space to store it, so it would be put out for sale. Then we had the sales in January to clear anything left over and finally we had to attend the Christmas Shows in March to purchase stock for the next Christmas.
Plus the fact that we spent the summer selling quality plants but the winter selling dead trees and plastic tat.
I don’t like Christmas anymore.
Our stuff arrived through July and we didn’t have the space to store it, so it would be put out for sale. Then we had the sales in January to clear anything left over and finally we had to attend the Christmas Shows in March to purchase stock for the next Christmas.
Plus the fact that we spent the summer selling quality plants but the winter selling dead trees and plastic tat.
I don’t like Christmas anymore.
wibble cb said:
Just spotted this in the local chemist..July 27th and they are selling Christmas tat already
They also had Halloween sweets by the front door !
I dispute they were 'selling' much, if any, of it. They also had Halloween sweets by the front door !
However, perhaps they've been fooled by the 'weather'?
This is the coolest, wettest, and worst July I've even known in my 'life', born not long after the war ended.
Roll on a bit of 'warmth'.
dandarez said:
wibble cb said:
Just spotted this in the local chemist..July 27th and they are selling Christmas tat already
They also had Halloween sweets by the front door !
I dispute they were 'selling' much, if any, of it. They also had Halloween sweets by the front door !
However, perhaps they've been fooled by the 'weather'?
This is the coolest, wettest, and worst July I've even known in my 'life', born not long after the war ended.
Roll on a bit of 'warmth'.
21TonyK said:
Yep. I did a rota for Xmas last week.
Where I used to work it was first come first served with holidays so I'd book the week before Christmas off as holiday as soon as I got back to work in January. Where I am now the HR bod knows I like to have that week off to the point where they remind me to keep 5 days back and to book it!
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