hawkward
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Post by hawkward on Dec 5, 2017 12:18:56 GMT -6
What’s your shopping style? Been done since July? Planning on finishing up Christmas Eve?
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Post by oldbaylover1024 on Dec 5, 2017 12:21:37 GMT -6
Me reading "been done since July":  I was excited I purchased gifts on Black Friday. THAT was early for me LOL I'll be done by CE though... hopefully. |
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Post by Rama on Dec 5, 2017 12:48:00 GMT -6
I am a terrible shopper. I've actually done shopping ON Christmas Day, whoops.
Basically, I like to buy things for people all throughout the year, but I can never wait to give them presents, so I just give them when I get them. It makes the mad December dash a very real thing.
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Post by hawkward on Dec 5, 2017 12:52:43 GMT -6
Normally I'm finishing up everyone's Christmas presents some time in January... (in my defense, we often don't see much of my siblings in the winter!).
This year, I'm almost completely done. I need to buy H's (I have no idea what to get) and finish up our parents' (picked out and partially purchased). Everyone else is done and I've actually already given presents to my siblings and their children!
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Post by hawkward on Dec 5, 2017 12:54:09 GMT -6
I am a terrible shopper. I've actually done shopping ON Christmas Day, whoops. Basically, I like to buy things for people all throughout the year, but I can never wait to give them presents, so I just give them when I get them. It makes the mad December dash a very real thing. I am the worst about this. I always end up giving everyone their presents early. I justify it by saying Christmas is overwhelming so I'm spreading that out! |
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Post by Rama on Dec 5, 2017 13:03:53 GMT -6
I am a terrible shopper. I've actually done shopping ON Christmas Day, whoops. Basically, I like to buy things for people all throughout the year, but I can never wait to give them presents, so I just give them when I get them. It makes the mad December dash a very real thing. I am the worst about this. I always end up giving everyone their presents early. I justify it by saying Christmas is overwhelming so I'm spreading that out! Exactly! Also, I just like giving gifts, man. Get off my back, Santa. |
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Post by hawkward on Dec 5, 2017 13:17:29 GMT -6
I actually *just* picked out H’s too. I’m such an adult this year.
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Post by skategirl128 on Dec 5, 2017 15:12:47 GMT -6
I’m almost finished shopping. I shop a little all year, but I wait until Christmas to give the gifts. Sometimes I forget what I’ve gotten and it’s like a surprise when I open up my hiding spots lol!
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Post by sunshiney on Dec 5, 2017 16:30:55 GMT -6
DH and I made our shopping list and budget before Thanksgiving. All the shopping and wrapping is done except for a few gift cards and candy/nuts/fruit for everyone's stockings. I like getting it done once the tree is up so I can enjoy the whole picture as long as possible!
DH's gifts were the last though. He's so hard to shop for! And it's almost impossible to surprise him.
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Post by boxerific on Dec 6, 2017 7:29:56 GMT -6
I'm like 90% done. I start to shop in the fall and then try to finish by early December, but then run into the problem of being at a store or seeing a really good deal on something online and even though I'm already finished a person, I buy it anyway because I CAN'T PASS THAT PERFECT THING UP. It's quite terrible.
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Post by oldbaylover1024 on Dec 6, 2017 8:02:56 GMT -6
To add to my post above, I'm usually "done". Then, I remember the kids are in a gift exchange, or I forgot someone, or I need to buy tins/containers for food gifts... that I need to bake/cook/whatever.
I seriously don't know what I would do without Ama.zon Pri.me. Like, how do people actually go to the mall these days?! It took me an hour to PARK the last time I tried to Christmas shop at our local mall. No thanks, Satan... not this season!
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Post by boxerific on Dec 6, 2017 10:16:28 GMT -6
oldbaylover1024 Online shopping is a miracle. Our closest mall (WM) is a nightmare (and also really going to crap, but that's another story) but it's the same direction as the Target/Old Navy/Dick's, etc. and traffic going anywhere in that general vicinity is TERRIBLE. My parents live over that way too, so I've had to learn back roads to their condo. Ugh.
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Post by oldbaylover1024 on Dec 6, 2017 10:28:44 GMT -6
oldbaylover1024 Online shopping is a miracle. Our closest mall (WM) is a nightmare (and also really going to crap, but that's another story) but it's the same direction as the Target/Old Navy/Dick's, etc. and traffic going anywhere in that general vicinity is TERRIBLE. My parents live over that way too, so I've had to learn back roads to their condo. Ugh. Seriously. TTC is a NIGHTMARE at Christmas time. The worst. (ETA: Not 'trying to conceive' LOL I am NOT trying to conceive!)
I shop local near me - at that new metro center that's building up. They have some really, really nice small businesses down there I like to support.
I'm sending you a PM.
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Post by menrandes on Dec 6, 2017 19:03:49 GMT -6
Somehow I managed to finish my shopping (other than goofy stocking stuffers type stuff) two days ago. I was really bored and lonely from black Friday to cyber Monday and I kept getting sales emails. I'm usually an in person store shopper, but the internet was just a little bit too convenient this year!
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