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Just ordered 3 laptops...one for my son, one for my daughter and one for me!!!!! My husband is getting a gift certificate for some golf clubs that he wants. Christmas shopping was a breeze this year! No mall, no traffic, no noisy crowd!

CajunMama wrote:Just ordered 3 laptops...one for my son, one for my daughter and one for me!!!!! My husband is getting a gift certificate for some golf clubs that he wants. Christmas shopping was a breeze this year! No mall, no traffic, no noisy crowd!

Shopping for what? I have a wedding to get through before I think about anything else!!

LOL.. My Christmas shopping won't get done till about a month from now..

I'm done, too! My husband usually handles it all. He's disabled and has more free time than I do, and he manages a lot of the shopping with 1-800-"sendmesomestuff", or online "sendmesomestuff." This year he asked me to handle the shopping for "the girls" -- daughter-in-law and granddaughters. Got that accomplished with one excursion.

The past 4 or 5 holiday seasons I've had gifts bought by this point. Usually online purchases. This is going to sound very HGTV'ish, but I need that inspirational piece to get started. My daughters are usually the last ones I shop for, they change their lists a lot. Gone are the days when they were happy with Fisher Price toys! One year I found Lands' End snowflake design wool couch throws on sale in Feb. For something as low as $13 each! We no longer exchange names in my family so I thought this throw was perfect for my brothers and their wives, also my mom. I rounded out those gifts with caramel popcorn. Another year I discovered Crate & Barrel terra cotta muffin "pans", which are ideal for taco or burritto ingredients. Ordered 5 of those for neighbors, friends' wives we knew. A huge hit I might add, I even bought one for us (they were something like $9 each!).

Another year I found the neatest Amish baskets, perfect for coffee tables to either hold magazines or remotes. One SIL said she was going to turn hers into a dried or silk flower arrangement. The handles and sides had color accents. Found these at a flea market, at an Amish Furniture booth.

I just need inspiration type gifts like this and I haven't found them yet! That's my excuse.......

Mary

My Chirstmas shopping gets done on 12/26 and all is wrapped:)

Only thing to wait for is time to bake and make my gifts:)

No credit here so I pay cash and no need to worry about paying interest on anything and have the item in hand, I love the post sales!

Wait, let me get this straight angelwing - you are 364 days ahead - each year! Wow......that's the earliest I've ever heard of! Sure beat my mom, who shops early, stashes the gifts and then forgets where she put them. LOL

Always, it saves me a ton of walking so on Black Friday I can buy for myself:)

Well, I am impressed! I think you deserve the "S2K Earliest Christmas Shopper Award!"

What could her prize be folks? Now be kind...he he.

For some odd reason, I want to give you Easter Candy! Now that makes no sense at all but it's the next holiday I thought of (after xmas). Wait, you probably have any gift items bought for that holiday too (not the candy though). LOL

No candy Miss Mary, Bernat Camo Yarn, Blue Frost and Lion Brand Fun Fur Blue Coral:) Making myself a shawl, it is getting cold

I usually go crazy and buy all my friends and their kids gifts. But, I told them I probably won't be able to buy any gifts at all this year. It all depends on how much I get from the insurance agency from my wreck. Otherwise, almost my whole check will have to go in the bank to start saving again for a car. I don't have anything saved up at all for a down payment and I still owe $425 left on the car I wrecked. They still can't prove who was in the wrong even though I know I am telling the truth.

Me too....actually, I finished last MONTH Of course I have stocking stuffers to go yet but I wait until the last week, I LOVE crowds around Christmas...makes it feel like the holidays!

Huh?! Christmas?! Shopping?! What's that? I can hardly believe it's almost Halloween and haven't even begun to think about Christmas. Skeert!

JenBayles wrote:Huh?! Christmas?! Shopping?! What's that? I can hardly believe it's almost Halloween and haven't even begun to think about Christmas. Skeert!

Ack. Same here. Time is flying too fast...

I'll manage somehow again this year. One thing I'd like to do differently this year, is buy all new outdoor xmas lights. The ones we have are pieced together, not all the same brands and hand me downs from my FIL's condo back in the mid 90s. They go out on me, strand by strand some years, and need to be pitched. So if I get my act together, it will be to buy lights all at once for the shrubs out front. Which isn't cheap. Sorry presents - you'll have to wait. Of course I could just put up a wreath and candles in the windows. And be done with it....LOL And then begin the shopping.....oh the dilemma.

Large wreaths with big red velvet bows on all of the windows, spotlights on the house, a lighted christmas tree in the picture window and several symetrically selected little shrubs lighted with white lights. NO NEED FOR A LOT OF LIGHTS FOR ME.

Then you would hate the inside of my apartment Pburgh, lights around the bottom of the baseboards, around the entry ways, in the bedroom window, around the slider door,around the door frames, the doors are wrapped in foil paper with a stocking tacked on them, around the old man's computer desk, around my desk, around Digger's tank, around the TV stand, around the Bureau in the dining room, plus the 6 ft tree had lights...I think thats it (and its a one-bedroom)Oh I forgot, on the little 2 by 4 deck they give ya, lights around that too

I usually buy gift certificates for all so shopping is real easy and I don't do it until December.

Well, I'm usually the one who chimes in and says, "everybody's grown, here -
we eat a big Christmas breakfast, no gifts, I love you - Merry Christmas"...
blah-blah-blah! BUT - since my neice married a young gentleman a few years ago, with
a now 4-yr.old, AND just gave birth to an 8lb. 5 oz. baby girl on Oct. 9th,
there will be TWO young individuals in the family who receive Christmas
presents, this year! And, after I buy those two gifts, chip in with two
brothers and get Mama something that she really wants,
I'm done!

~Annette~

I haven't even begun to think about Christmas shopping! I hate going out in the crowded stores. I just usually give my 3 kids an amount of money and 1 gift of some little something. The grandsons get toys that I think are age appropriate and don't get destroyed in one afternoon. Getting together with siblings is almost impossible, one out in Calif. one in Ga, and the other two are in Tampa and Bartow. Parental gifts are not an issue since both parents have been gone now for 3 years for mom and 10 years for dad.