Just that.
I’ve personally been hit by some unexpected shit, this week, particularly financially, but hearing the neighbours up the street party it away, all day and all night, yesterday (and yes, I really, really considered trying to crash it. Just ended up feeling more alone, though, lol), reminded me, perhaps it did in the same way as one of you the other day, that this is a time that really brings people together, and is about far more than spending money and decorative seasonal tat. Today, in Aus, so happens to be the solstice.
I don’t know “where” I’m going with things, and I don’t know what my Christmas will be like (thrifty, if nothing else, lol), but I sincerely hope you all have good, relatively smooth and unstressful Christmases (or whatever you celebrate) and New Years. Remember what the holiday was supposed to be truly about.
That’s all. Keep it real.
I guess tat is slang. It means junky or cheap items for sale.
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/tat
Yes! That’s what I meant, ahaha.
Britbong slang, is it? I dunno, it’s always just been in my (Aussie) vocabulary…
Like, I suppose, as a short form of “tattered”, but also not really?
I would say it’s close to “kitsch” or “dross”, but it’s kind of hard to pin down…
Generic dime store Christmas junk. That’s probably what I was thinking, lol…