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bif

(27,232 posts)
Sat Nov 30, 2024, 11:08 AM Nov 2024

Is everyone ready for the holidays?

Here comes the season filled with a ton of temptations. Are you ready to handle all the partying and wretched excess that's on its way?

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Clouds Passing

(8,196 posts)
1. Sweets and simple carbs would be about my worst temptations. No alcohol, nicotine, weed, drugs.
Sat Nov 30, 2024, 11:11 AM
Nov 2024

Too spendthrifty to go on a credit card binge.

Ocelot II

(131,242 posts)
2. Since nobody invites me to anything any more I don't worry about that.
Sat Nov 30, 2024, 11:21 AM
Nov 2024

It's what happens when you get old; you become invisible and people forget you exist - and it's fine; my temptation is all those sweets, and without exposure to them I can stay on my diet.

no_hypocrisy

(55,386 posts)
3. I've already got the Blue Christmas Service locally on my calendar.
Sat Nov 30, 2024, 11:31 AM
Nov 2024

I grind my teeth, listening to commercial Christmas music.

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