Littlewoods Christmas advert has people talking...

[Slowpoke]

It's easily the most shameful advertisement I've seen since in recent years


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INJ5Q16EntU

The top rated comments say it all


"Excluding the necklace she bought for herself, I make it about £2,150 mum spent on all the gifts called out. That's about 8% of the UK median after-tax household annual income."

Cute advert, but absolutely despicable

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http://citywire.co.uk/money/should-mums-spend-2000-on-christmas-presents/a539300

[Recursion]

That's just taking the whole idea of a material Christmas way too far. What happened to it being about family etc rather than the amount of £££ you get? :rolleyes:

[dirrty]

i hate that advert.

[Neversoft]

Why are these adverts always about mums and make out the father isn't involved in Christmas at all.

[Slowpoke]

Dad's far too busy at the office earning the pennies so Mum can go shopping, obviously :rolleyes::P

[dirrty]

That's just taking the whole idea of a material Christmas way too far. What happened to it being about family etc rather than the amount of £££ you get? :rolleyes:
lol, christmas hasn't been about anything besides commercialisation for a long, long, long time. that's why i hate adverts/shopping/everything during the christmas period. it's like BUY THIS, BUY THAT, YOUR KIDS WON'T BE HAPPY WITHOUT IT and you get parents running around town trying to get thatspecific gift for whoever. no thank you

[Slowpoke]

All of the holidays are just another way of getting money out of people. Christmas, Valentines New Year, Easter, Halloween, Bonfire Night - you name it, we spend like crazy for it

[dogboy123]

the new john lewis advert is so much better, its about giving presents whereas this is just about whiney kids who want everything

[Slowpoke]

It's not until you get a bit older that you actually begin to appreciate Christmas and understand what it is meant to be about. Spending time with family, giving as well as receiving (innuendo :P) and just generally having fun with the people you care about and the people who care about you :)

[Inseriousity.]

lol i watched the advert and dunno what's the complaining about? it's not all for the kids, itclearly saidbuy this for grandad, buy this for "mother", buy this for dad, buy this for uncle, buy this for kids which is after all what christmas adverts are all about.:P

[Red]

LMAO its really catchy, my mothers wickeddddddd. But seriously, who spends that much on gifts? A macbok pro for granda? NA

[beth]

not only the material value of the advert:
there's no mention of father christmas or santa at all in this advert. i have a younger sister and she's 9 now, so it's probably the last year we'll get to pretend santa is coming down the chimney. and this ******* advert is just so annoying. WHO BOUGHT THE GIFTS? oh yeh ma mom.

there's no magic to it at all. and the kids are ******* annoying so cringe.

[Kyle]

lol i watched the advert and dunno what's the complaining about? it's not all for the kids, itclearly saidbuy this for grandad, buy this for "mother", buy this for dad, buy this for uncle, buy this for kids which is after all what christmas adverts are all about.:P
because most people have to tighten their belts around christmas as it is without having to buy top-of-the-range digital cameras for their uncles. the kid in the spider costume is cute tho


LMAO its really catchy, my mothers wickeddddddd. But seriously, who spends that much on gifts? A macbok pro for granda? NA
mine would prob use a macbook as a dinner tray or something

[Slowpoke]

lol i watched the advert and dunno what's the complaining about? it's not all for the kids, itclearly saidbuy this for grandad, buy this for "mother", buy this for dad, buy this for uncle, buy this for kids which is after all what christmas adverts are all about.:P

It gives the impression that we are still living in the late 90s/early 00s when the general public actually had disposable income and could afford expensive gifts. It's sending out a bad message - but that's just my opinion. :P It also "blows Santa right out of the chimney"...

[Suspective]

Not a favourite of mine. I do agree that it is pretty shameful the whole format.

And the little girl also gets on my nerves :P

[geo]

the new john lewis advert is so much better, its about giving presents whereas this is just about whiney kids who want everything

aww that advert was cute haha.

i quite like the rap on this advert to be honest, i also like the iceland and very.com advert for christmas :)

[Ford]

Can't stand this advert, epically that annoying little ginger girl but worst of all it telling young kid's that santa is not real.

[Oleh]

Isn't Littlewoods a pay weekly deal? Therefore it is a whole lot less being forked out at once.

[peteyt]

Sorry but people should chill. It's the worst advert ever, the most shocking?

No, there are far worse. It's quite a nice bit of fun. You don't have to buy the stuff, no one expects you to and most won't.