# 13.5 days to get your Christmas shopping finished. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 11, 2008, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/13-5-days-to-get-your-christmas-shopping-finished/476704 "2008-12-11T12:00:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/13-5-days-to-get-your-christmas-shopping-finished/476704/1 "2008-12-11T12:00:26Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/13-5-days-to-get-your-christmas-shopping-finished/476704/2 "2008-12-11T15:58:44Z")
Evidently we are all avoiding the topic of the shopping we have not done. Try again on the 24th. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/13-5-days-to-get-your-christmas-shopping-finished/476704/3 "2008-12-11T16:01:29Z")
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. Sigh. Lord save me from teens. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/13-5-days-to-get-your-christmas-shopping-finished/476704/4 "2008-12-11T16:03:39Z")
Going to actual stores? How 20th century, how Luddite. Shopping is properly done from a keyboard in your underwear eating cheetos. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/13-5-days-to-get-your-christmas-shopping-finished/476704/5 "2008-12-11T16:07:54Z")
I got my dad a nifty new wine opener. However, he developed a blood clot after I bought it. He can’t drink while he’s doin’ the rat poison. Question: Do you give a gift that can’t be used for 6 months or keep the nifty wine opener for yourself and try to buy another gift? Other than that, I just have a few kid gifts and Kid Kalhoun (and Mr. K’s, which cannot be purchased until a couple days prior to xmas). ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/13-5-days-to-get-your-christmas-shopping-finished/476704/6 "2008-12-11T16:14:40Z")
> [@wolfman](#): > > Going to actual stores? How 20th century, how Luddite. > > Shopping is properly done from a keyboard in your underwear eating cheetos. My keyboard doesn’t fit in my underwear and it doesn’t eat cheetos. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Kinthalis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kinthalis/32/16084_2.png) [@Kinthalis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kinthalis)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/13-5-days-to-get-your-christmas-shopping-finished/476704/7 "2008-12-11T16:15:43Z")
Yep, I’m doing 99% of all my holiday shopping online. And I’m not even doing most of it until the 19th. Thank goodness for 2 day shipping. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/13-5-days-to-get-your-christmas-shopping-finished/476704/8 "2008-12-11T16:35:13Z")
100% online shopping. I know what everyone’s getting. It’ll be over and done with in an hour. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/13-5-days-to-get-your-christmas-shopping-finished/476704/9 "2008-12-11T16:54:00Z")
I’m guessing \*\*Fiddle Peghead’s \*\*a guy. Most women don’t shop that fast. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/13-5-days-to-get-your-christmas-shopping-finished/476704/10 "2008-12-11T20:42:57Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/13-5-days-to-get-your-christmas-shopping-finished/476704/11 "2008-12-11T20:51:40Z")
I was buying something at a jewelry kiosk last night and the sales girl said “Ah, getting an early start on your Christmas shopping?” Early? EARLY?!? ---
**Author:** ![brad\_d](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@brad\_d](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brad_d)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/13-5-days-to-get-your-christmas-shopping-finished/476704/12 "2008-12-11T21:04:18Z")
I haven’t even begun yet. Crap… ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/13-5-days-to-get-your-christmas-shopping-finished/476704/13 "2008-12-11T21:10:51Z")
I think you’ve assumed that I have the money to purchase gifts for my loved ones. I hope they’ll be content with my company. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/13-5-days-to-get-your-christmas-shopping-finished/476704/14 "2008-12-11T21:14:07Z")
> [@brad\_d](#): > > I haven’t even begun yet. Crap… I think it’s about time you got an early start. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/13-5-days-to-get-your-christmas-shopping-finished/476704/15 "2008-12-11T21:21:39Z")
Amazon says there’s only SEVEN more days to shop for Christmas. Unless, like some of you guys, you shop in “stores” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![SpecialAgentJem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f6c823/32.png) [@SpecialAgentJem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpecialAgentJem)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/13-5-days-to-get-your-christmas-shopping-finished/476704/16 "2008-12-11T21:53:39Z")
> [@Harmonious\_Discord](#): > > As of right now there is not even 14 full days for you procrastinators to get your shopping finished. OK you have officially scared the crap outta me! :eek: _must go shopping!_ ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Woo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7c8e57/32.png) [@Dr.Woo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Woo)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/13-5-days-to-get-your-christmas-shopping-finished/476704/17 "2008-12-11T22:16:39Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![czarcaztic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ec9cab/32.png) [@czarcaztic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/czarcaztic)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/13-5-days-to-get-your-christmas-shopping-finished/476704/18 "2008-12-11T23:01:44Z")
> [@wolfman](#): > > shopping is properly done from a keyboard in your underwear eating cheetos. testify! ---
**Author:** ![Mrs.Cake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2acd7d/32.png) [@Mrs.Cake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs.Cake)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/13-5-days-to-get-your-christmas-shopping-finished/476704/19 "2008-12-11T23:04:53Z")
So how long do think it takes me to cruise the liquor aisle? ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/13-5-days-to-get-your-christmas-shopping-finished/476704/20 "2008-12-12T00:19:14Z")
> [@Mrs.Cake](#): > > So how long do think it takes me to cruise the liquor aisle? I can see some people may have a problem buying that ahead of time. Glug. Glug. Glug. You know.😉 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/13-5-days-to-get-your-christmas-shopping-finished/476704.md?page=2)