Who else is finished with their Christmas shopping?

Re: Who else is finished with their Christmas shopping?

• FirstSchatz

  November 2011

  I'm not a big shopper myself, but at Christmas I LOVE going out and picking out gifts for friends and family!

  This year, though, we are on a REALLY tight budget, so I'm knitting most of the gifts we're giving this year.  If they're not knitted, they'll be baked goods!  I'm almost finished with the out-of-town gifts (just two and a half more pairs of slippers to go!), and then I have about ten other gifts to knit, all of which should only take a day each.  My MIL and I will be having a "knitting finishing day", where we literally tie up all the loose ends on our knitting!  Then my sister and I are having a baking day; she'll send the kids to day care, and we'll bake all our Christmas treats in one day.

  So, not finished by any means, but I certainly have a plan!
  

  

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• jen-dale member

  November 2011

  I need to buy two giftcards and some stocking stuffers but otherwise I am done too.

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• sapphirebride06

  November 2011

  Yes I'm done too.  I have been doing a little here and there since August so it wasn't as much at once.  I just need to wrap everything now but it's stashed here there and everywhere - my grandma's and my mom's since we don't have much closet space.  And with DS I didn't want him to see something accidentally.  I plan on wrapping everything the weekend before Christmas. 

  It feels great to know it is done!

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• sapphirebride06

  November 2011

  I did 95% of mine online - I hate the crowds, finding a parking space, looking for sizes, etc.  It's so much easier to do it online.  And Amazon makes it even easier!  I knocked 4 people off my list just with one Amazon order.  And finished H today since I bought him a new pair of sunglasses.

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• nickelpickelpink member

  November 2011

  FirstSchatz:

  I'm not a big shopper myself, but at Christmas I LOVE going out and picking out gifts for friends and family!

  This year, though, we are on a REALLY tight budget, so I'm knitting most of the gifts we're giving this year.  If they're not knitted, they'll be baked goods!  I'm almost finished with the out-of-town gifts (just two and a half more pairs of slippers to go!), and then I have about ten other gifts to knit, all of which should only take a day each.  My MIL and I will be having a "knitting finishing day", where we literally tie up all the loose ends on our knitting!  Then my sister and I are having a baking day; she'll send the kids to day care, and we'll bake all our Christmas treats in one day.

  So, not finished by any means, but I certainly have a plan!
  

  I'm impressed! I LOVE getting handmade gifts. I bought some great fabric on sale and will be sewing my mom, friends and the women in DH's family, scarves for Christmas. I wish I could knit though...:)
  

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• Mrs_Est11.11.06

  November 2011

  We are planning to finish next Sunday, I love the holiday shopping and in previous years waited until Christmas eve to shop because its fun, but due my bump and my cute yet unbalanced waddle, I do not think I would get much done before I'd give up.  
  

  
  

   
  

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• jju_stb_jju member

  November 2011

  lucky!! we havent even started, but at the same time i love going out and looking for a good deal, and i love just being in the holiday spirit and going to stores where they are decorated or playing christmas music! i need to start asap!!!!! i always end up procrastinating and almost always end up buying a gift or two the day before christmas!

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• PhysChic7685 member

  November 2011

  I have two more people to buy for because I'm being indecisive, but otherwise, my shopping is done.  Well, I do have to finish baking cookies and making chocolates, some of which are gifts for folks.

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• LAIM

  November 2011

  Not even close! Shopping and wrapping are where I fall behind! I have started which is better than in past years. We have 14 people to buy for besides each other and dd.  They're all really difficult to buy for, ie don't need/want anything, have to travel home overseas, etc.  H and I took two days off of work this month that dd's at daycare and hopefully will finish everything up then.  I don't find online shopping in Canada to be all that great (although it's definitely improving) so we will be fighting the crowds at the stores.

  
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• mle5d member

  November 2011

  Good work!  My question would be...who has not started their Christmas shopping?? That would be me. I have lists made, and plan to start shopping and decorating this weekend.

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