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I went to the dump today, you know that trip you do before Christmas to clear out space from some of the s*** from your house so you can add some new s*** after Christmas?

I wasn’t really there for that though, I was taking some bottles to the bottle bank and a broken Nespresso machine (which i’m sure could have been repaired by someone who knew what they were doing but nobody wanted to touch it)

When I got there, I took the coffee machine to the ‘broken electricals’ skip and looked in with despair.

There was a Marshall amp in there – I bet somebody could have fixed that.

I went straight from there to Asda (last minute Birthday card shopping for my wife because I’m so disorganised) and I saw everybody running out of the shop with their new electricals, probably after they’d just been to the skip to put the old ones in.

I didn’t plan on becoming a ‘weirdo’ it just kind of happened and it has just kind of happened to our house.

It was Callum’s Birthday last week and we didn’t wrap his presents, we don’t wrap any of our presents. It’s not really or completely about the ecological nonsense of wrapping Christmas presents or Birthday presents, it’s just that we would spend ages the night before wrapping presents, often up until about midnight, only to get up the next morning for them to be torn open without really any attention paid to the fact that they were wrapped. Then I would take the paper, scrumple it up and put it in the recycling bin.

That seemed a bit mental.

We don’t have a Christmas tree.

It’s not that we don’t love Christmas (we really do) and it’s not that the house isn’t nicely decorated (it really is) it’s just that we stopped feeling the need to either have a plastic tree in the corner with neon lights on it or a real one that had been hacked down in Norway and transported across in a container ship. That came from the fact that I got really fed up taking the tree back to the dump only to throw it in a skip full of trees a few weeks after Christmas.

Because I think about things and look for a reason to do them doesn’t mean I’m a weirdo (although maybe in society now it does)

I don’t have a fancy car, not because I don’t think fancy cars are great, but because I thought about it before I bought one.

I don’t have a Christmas tree for the same reason.

Most of the time when I don’t have things it’s because to have them would take time away from me and that’s the one thing I don’t have enough of.

Blog Post Number: 1858