Our water is very hard.........kettles only last about 1 year before they are buggered....same with shower heads.
And we have shares in Domestos, trying to keep the pan clean.
We don't go overboard at Christmas...just a few extras in the food shopping.
If the weather was reasonable on Christmas day I would be more inclined to go out somewhere, instead of watching the shit on the tele.
No...I set the lawnmower on its highest setting (so it does not cut the grass) and it sucks them up into the grass box.....then I throw them over the fence onto council property....their leaves, they can have them back.