Please don’t hate me because my Christmas shopping is done. I swept through the gold souk this morning after my Day of Beauty and came back to the shipping container and checked a few boxes on Amazon. Now everything is done for the Yuletide.
Anyone beat me this year?
Oh, dear.
You’ve got me beat by a longshot! I haven’t started, yet. My husband has. :dubious:
Since I don’t buy xmas presents I’ve had this year’s done for a long time. And next year’s, and the one after that etc etc.
Sorry, I hate you. 
Same here. Feels good!
It’s better to give fuck all than to receive, evidently.
Does it count if last time we watched some football at my parent’s house on their HDTV, my husband looked at me and said “we’re getting one of these for Christmas”?
Of course, that doesn’t mean we’re done, but I consider that as started for the purposes of this thread.
Fact is we don’t even consider it until December; the (artificial) tree goes up the first weekend of December and comes down sometime in :mumblemumble: and that’s when we start shopping. Every year the “rules of Christmas” change in my family, with people either taking trips of being poor (lots of students) and doing exchanges rather than gifts for everyone, etc, and so we don’t really think about it until we have a chance to discuss how Christmas is happening. This year mom wants to rent a cottage and just ski and snowshoe for a few days rather than a traditional Christmas, so there’s less chance of gift buying if we are paying for that. Last year was my sister’s wedding (Dec 28) and a few years ago a family cruise… .
Well, I don’t receive them either. I don’t celebrate it so it’s not something I have to deal with.
I try to at least have ideas/plans in place for most people by Thanksgiving, if not gifts bought. It frees up more mental and physical energy for baking cookies and fancy wrapping and that sort of thing. Of course, there are some places we draw names, so that has to wait till later, but it’s easier for me to come up with 4 ideas on the fly than 20.
So far I’ve gotten my mom a necklace, my mil a carved broom, a friend of ours a bracelet, and planned my niece a quilt. My grandparents and one set of aunt/uncle will get restaurant gift certificates, Mom will have some sort of belly dance equipment that she wants and no one else will get her, and my younger sil will probably get some kitchen gear, depending on what she still needs and I can find a killer sale on. Beyond that, I just don’t know.
I’ve been done for weeks. Well, almost. I am getting Mom a memory foam mattress for Christmas and rather than have it delivered here and them me wrestle it into the car and drive up there in December, I have elected to wait and have it sent directly to her.
But I already have the money put aside and I’ve bought every thing else for everyone else.
I am requesting that family and friends donate to their favorite charity in lieu of me giving them a gift this year.
I bought something for my mom. Other than that, no shopping done yet. I like Christmas shopping during the Christmas season. The only reason I bought my mom’s gift is because it was a one of a kind and I didn’t want to let it get away.
Well congrats. I don’t wait til the last minute either. On Dec. 24th I start shopping first thing in the morning.
And…How do you know you’re done?
I haven’t started because I have no money. But, my mother is done and all her gifts have been sitting in my attic for 2 months now. We’re actually going to be wrapping them today so she doesn’t have to worry about it any more. She’ll continue to keep them in my attic because she doesn’t have room for them in her house but they’ll all be wrapped and the mailing ones will be additionally wrapped in brown paper for mailing.
That’s the spirit!
Yeah, that’s why I haven’t yet either, but it’ll be nice to start next month when I have some to spend on non-essential things.
I finished wicked early last year, before the end of November. And…it depressed me. I don’t think I’ll be doing that ever again because apparently I need to Christmas shop in December for mental health purposes.
I haven’t spoken with my ex-sister-in-law for a few months, but I can guarantee you not only is she finished shopping by now, every gift is already wrapped. To top that off, she generally has all of her Christmas trees (one in each room of the house) up by Halloween.
Let’s just say she likes Christmas and tends to overdo it a tad.
I only have two people to shop for (mom and sister). I didn’t go shopping yet, but we don’t usually exchange lists until halfway through November.
I hate shopping and gift-wrapping so bad. I haven’t gift-wrapped anything in years. It’s gift cards or gift bags all the way (or for items too big to be bagged, just slap a bow on top).
Wow, my goal is always to be done by Thanksgiving, and I thought I was really getting a jump on it this year–I have everything except perishables done. I decided that everybody who will be at the house on Christmas morning needed a big bag of nuts from Sam’s Club; also I always bake cookies to send to distant relatives.
You’ve got me beat, I guess.
I don’t understand how you all can shop so early. How do you know what people want? Have you already asked about Christmas lists? Don’t you worry about things being difficult to exchange if you shop so early?
I made a few small purchases at an art show over the summer, but generally the shopping starts after we exchange after Thanksgiving, when we usually exchange Christmas lists.