# I just started my Christmas Shopping **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 10, 2006, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-started-my-christmas-shopping/368143 "2006-08-10T12:41:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2006, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-started-my-christmas-shopping/368143/21 "2006-09-24T23:37:18Z")
I buy gifts for people when I see something I think they’d like. This means that one of my Hannukah gifts for my mother will be something I purchased in Fall 2005 and set aside for this winter. That’s probably my record–14 or 15 months in advance. I also have some gifts I bought on a recent trip to Europe, and some gifts my mother bought for my Hannukah when she visited in the spring (so they won’t have to be shipped). ---
**Author:** ![medstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f07891/32.png) [@medstar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/medstar)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2006, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-started-my-christmas-shopping/368143/22 "2006-09-24T23:47:27Z")
I take the easy way out–I order fruit and dessert baskets online from Harry & David and am finished buying gifts for 10 people in about 20 minutes. Please don’t hate me, I loathe shopping for Christmas gifts and everyone likes their gift. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2006, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-started-my-christmas-shopping/368143/23 "2006-09-25T00:34:58Z")
[QUOTE=Shayna] Not only were we, oh, about 90% done buying Christmas/Hannukah presents by the 1st of August, but the gifts we’d already bought are wrapped, labeled and delivered, too. \ [/QUOTE] I would have wrapped mine, but don’t have any labels. I usually have some from the year before, but I must have thrown them out. As insane as the stores are for putting stuff out early, I have not yet seen labels. But I suspect soon. After all, Halloween is coming. ---
**Author:** ![brendon\_small](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brendon_small/32/17101_2.png) [@brendon\_small](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brendon_small)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2006, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-started-my-christmas-shopping/368143/24 "2006-09-25T00:48:38Z")
I already bought my mom’s present, as well as wrapped it. It’s in my basement. She loves lighthouses, and I found a set of them on Ebay (kind of by accident) so we bought them. I also have started shopping for GF’s (probably buy it next month when she’s out of town) just because she’s so hard to shop for. I know she’s picked out her parents gifts from various places, just waiting on money to order them. She might be ordering next paycheck, actually. Before we got together, I always went on Christmas eve and bought something for the people who I could remember, but often took my sisters shopping and got them something and dinner the day after Christmas or right before New Year’s… Brendon ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2006, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-started-my-christmas-shopping/368143/25 "2006-09-25T01:50:21Z")
[QUOTE=Khadaji] I would have wrapped mine, but don’t have any labels. I usually have some from the year before, but I must have thrown them out. As insane as the stores are for putting stuff out early, I have not yet seen labels. But I suspect soon. After all, Halloween is coming. [/QUOTE] We just used plain shipping tags, [like these](http://europeanpapers.com/Merchant5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=EP&Product_Code=CM-STS&Category_Code=CM), tying ribbon through the hole and doing the curly thing with it, then decorated them with gold and silver stick-on stars. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-started-my-christmas-shopping/368143.md?page=1)