What have you run out of/forgotten at Christmas?

[Daisy]

A couple of comments on Chat made me wonder who has run out of something basic and/or important at Christmas? Nowadays the shops are hardly closed, but years ago Christmas Day on a Thursday often meant shops were closed for 4 days, and even when they opened the shelves were mostly bare.

One year, before we had a dishwasher, we ran out of washing up liquid on Christmas morning.

[Gemini]

This year I forgot to add ibuprofen and Iams to the order! OH picked up some ibuprofen yesterday and today I got the Iams. I also bought a Melton Mowbray pork pie for OH. I rarely eat them so often forget to buy one!

A few years ago, when my mum still came to us for Christmas Day I realised that morning we had no cranberry sauce! OH asked our neighbour if we could borrow a couple of spoonsful (OH doesn't eat it so we didn't need much) Fortunately they had a whole spare jar they let us have

[Daisy]

Gem, you're a star! I had forgotten cranberry sauce, but have been able to add it to my order for Tuesday. xx

[Gemini]

You're welcome

[WeeGranny]

Lemons! Necessary for the fishy starters and I'd completely forgotten them! OH went off into Cambridge where the Asian shops were open on Christmas Day and saved the day!

[Oma]

We had forgotten the cranberry sauce one year,
My lot love it , we did without and no one even asked where it was ,
So all the panic over it was for nothing 😁

DD makes her own now
I remember one year forgetting the bacon to wrap the pigs in blankets , that year we just had pigs 🐖

[Daisy]

Oma, we ate our pigs in blankets for dinner last night! They're not the same without a slice of turkey and a dollop of cranberry sauce.