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).
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.
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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. <SNIP>
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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.
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
[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.
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We just used plain shipping tags, like these, tying ribbon through the hole and doing the curly thing with it, then decorated them with gold and silver stick-on stars.