As of right now there is not even 14 full days for you procrastinators to get your shopping finished. That’s assuming stores closing at about 5:00 pm on 12/24/08. Don’t be the sucky person screaming at the employees at 4:00 pm that they don’t have anything for your family. Don’t be the person banging on the door when the store is closed. Don’t be the person buying beef jerky, Doritos, a key chain, and an ice scraper at Kiwk Trip for $50 for your wife. You won’t have a merry Christmas if that happens.
Feel free to tell us all how you did mess up in past years as a lesson for this year.
It’s not that I don’t want to get it done! I have three people left to shop for, and they are all in HIS family. Two of them we’ll take care of tomorrow night. The third one is a thirteen year old girl, and we have to wait for her LIST.
I did almost all my Christmas shopping online the weekend after Thanksgiving. Mostly DVDs which are now sitting on a shelf waiting to be packed in my suitcase for my trip to Chicago.
However, I used to have a tradition of always waiting until Christmas Eve to buy one last present. We always got the afternoon off, and I would walk from the office to Marshall Field’s and wander around until I found something.
Cripes, I wouldn’t dream of Christmas shopping until mid-December. For me, Christmas is a one-week period in late December that I have with great reluctance allowed the rest of society to extend to a two-week period in mid-to-late December. I’m so annoyed at the catalogs I’m getting (and have been getting for the last week or so) that say stuff like “Last Minute Gifts!”. It’s NOT the last minute. Last minute is late on 12/24 or early 12/25.
As you might imagine, I’m just now starting to think about what my relatives would like for Christmas. Still to do are actually figuring out some gift ideas, making a list, buying the items, wrapping and mailing them. Oooh, I can’t wait.
