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minks · Post by **minks** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 11:18 am

Christmas ahahahaha

made ya look.

For those of you who shop way ahead of time, do you have your christmas shopping list completed?

Are you an early bird christmas shopper who spends the entire year buying gifts or are you a last minute shopper?

cars · Post by **cars** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 11:23 am

minks wrote: Christmas ahahahaha

made ya look.

For those of you who shop way ahead of time, do you have your christmas shopping list completed?

Are you an early bird christmas shopper who spends the entire year buying gifts or are you a last minute shopper?

Yes, Yes, & Yes!

Actually when shopping for ourselves, my wife & I always are on the lookout for bargains on that special something for our loved ones, for all occasions, including Christmas.

cars · Post by **cars** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 11:27 am

Far Rider wrote: GO TO THE PUB YOUNG LADY!

Stop this crazy posting go get a drink *Far grabs Minks and pushes her towards the pub*

on a side note, no, i havnt so much as looked at my christmas list.

You must be on "auto-pilot" or something, and answer posts I'm replying to 1 or 2 minutes before me, including last midnight!

minks · Post by **minks** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 11:31 am

Far Rider wrote: GO TO THE PUB YOUNG LADY!

Stop this crazy posting go get a drink *Far grabs Minks and pushes her towards the pub*

on a side note, no, i havnt so much as looked at my christmas list.

Oh bah Far you are such a killjoy, gosh dern it.

Cars don't you ever worry someone may purchase what you did over the couse of the year and then you would be giving them something they already had????

cars · Post by **cars** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 11:46 am

minks wrote: Oh bah Far you are such a killjoy, gosh dern it.

Cars don't you ever worry someone may purchase what you did over the couse of the year and then you would be giving them something they already had????

We have been doing this for about 7 or 8 years, and so far only once did we buy something that our friend could no longer use. :wah: It was a fine bottle of Dewar's White Label.

But we did not know that he just gave up the hooch, because he was having problems.

So it didn't go to waist we kept it, & then later on got him a new tennis racket, as he's a good tennis player. Where there's will, there's a way!

Post by **Betty Boop** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 11:48 am

I start out at this time of year saying that'll I'll be organised and start soon but I never am and I never do!!:D

abbey · Post by **abbey** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 11:53 am

CHRISTMAS??.....ARGHHHH!!

cars · Post by **cars** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 11:54 am

Far Rider wrote: bah farhumbug....

im a holiday killer...get back to work everyone!

Cars! I can think of no finer gentleman to post after!

Flattery will get you everywhere! I can be bought, Boowaa -Haaa-Haaaa!

But I'll buy you one at the Pub first, it will be waiting there for you when you walk in!

Rapunzel · Post by **Rapunzel** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 1:11 pm

Hiya Minks :-6

Like cars I like to shop ahead. I normally start about April and just buy things I think people will like.

I used to leave it til the last minute and rush out and buy overpriced rubbish because I couldn't think what to buy people. And because prices seem to go up just before Chritmas!!

But I find when I buy throughout the year, the cost is spread, and you often find beautiful things in sumer sales which can be packed away til Christmas. Last year my daughter was hugely into Felicity Wishes and saw these beautifully decorated (but expensive) set of Felicity Wishes notebooks in a local shop. I went back to the shop without her to see if they were worth the cost and I found they were all reduced to half price! So, of course, I snapped them up! Next time she returned to the shop she was upset to find them all gone! So imagine her face 6 months later when she found them in her stocking on Christmas morning!

You may laugh and think it anal to buy early, but it means no last minute rushing round the shops feeling hassled and trying to buy that 'must have' present that sold out 3 weeks ago! Instead you can wander round looking for last minute stocking fillers or bits and bobs and not give your credit card heart failure!!

Instead you can just enjoy the season, sing along to the piped Christmas carols and feel extremely smug that you have no need to rush around like all the other bozo's! hehehe :wah: :p

minks · Post by **minks** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 1:20 pm

Rapunzel wrote: Hiya Minks :-6

Like cars I like to shop ahead. I normally start about April and just buy things I think people will like.

I used to leave it til the last minute and rush out and buy overpriced rubbish because I couldn't think what to buy people. And because prices seem to go up just before Chritmas!!

But I find when I buy throughout the year, the cost is spread, and you often find beautiful things in sumer sales which can be packed away til Christmas. Last year my daughter was hugely into Felicity Wishes and saw these beautifully decorated (but expensive) set of Felicity Wishes notebooks in a local shop. I went back to the shop without her to see if they were worth the cost and I found they were all reduced to half price! So, of course, I snapped them up! Next time she returned to the shop she was upset to find them all gone! So imagine her face 6 months later when she found them in her stocking on Christmas morning!

You may laugh and think it anal to buy early, but it means no last minute rushing round the shops feeling hassled and trying to buy that 'must have' present that sold out 3 weeks ago! Instead you can wander round looking for last minute stocking fillers or bits and bobs and not give your credit card heart failure!!

Instead you can just enjoy the season, sing along to the piped Christmas carols and feel extremely smug that you have no need to rush around like all the other bozo's! hehehe :wah: :p

I admire each and every one of you who has the dicipline to go and do this "fun" job ahead of time. I personally would way over buy, as I would find a million things over a span of a year to buy. and secondly I would loose where I hid all the goodies ahead of time and end up going any buying more, and likely something different cause I would have forgot what the original was and for whom it was intended. Sigh ! Oh to be so organized.

BabyRider · Post by **BabyRider** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 1:49 pm

Christmas???! Good god, woman, you are an evil, EVIL person bringing up the "C" word right now!!

It's currently 92 degrees here, I live in an upper flat with no A/C, I'm sweating buckets and eyeballing my freezer as a good place to park my ass for the next day or 3.

CHRISTMAS??!?!! Evil....

minks · Post by **minks** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 2:07 pm

BabyRider wrote: Christmas???! Good god, woman, you are an evil, EVIL person bringing up the "C" word right now!!

It's currently 92 degrees here, I live in an upper flat with no A/C, I'm sweating buckets and eyeballing my freezer as a good place to park my ass for the next day or 3.

CHRISTMAS??!?!! Evil....

Hehehehe sorry, but you know me, always gotta poke the wounded dog in the eye ahahahaha

well if it any consolation, it was 54F here yesterday, darn chilly, but then again you "southerners" may be liking that right about now tee hee hee:sneaky:

Sincerely

your evilness.

nvalleyvee · Post by **nvalleyvee** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 2:40 pm

minks wrote: Christmas ahahahaha

made ya look.

For those of you who shop way ahead of time, do you have your christmas shopping list completed?

Are you an early bird christmas shopper who spends the entire year buying gifts or are you a last minute shopper?

Pet peeve - get through one holiday at a time. Labor Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving THEN Christmas. :rolleyes:

along-for-the-ride · Post by **along-for-the-ride** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 5:47 pm

nvalleyvee wrote: Pet peeve - get through one holiday at a time. Labor Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving THEN Christmas. :rolleyes:

I am the same way. One at a time.

nvalleyvee · Post by **nvalleyvee** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 5:48 pm

:yh_worshp

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 5:54 pm

I think of Christmas after Thanksgiving, you have to be in the mood to go shopping and think of decorations. When the temperatures are 100, I think of summer!:-6

babygirl · Post by **babygirl** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 8:36 pm

I am a last min shopper i hate christmas i always end up skint lmao i have loadddssss of pressies to buy this year *baby girl runs and hides* but i do like to get drunk at christmas and i love to watch my young cousin open all his presants his face is just full with excitment

cars · Post by **cars** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 1:35 pm

nvalleyvee wrote: Pet peeve - get through one holiday at a time. Labor Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving THEN Christmas. :rolleyes:

I agree, but unfortunately, the Stores are they ones who "jump" the Holiday seasons. :wah: Just Today, we were at a store called "TJ Maxx", and there they already had up Halloween decorations on display for sale! Also were winter coats, & long sleeve sweaters & shirts, go figure. If you try to wait around for the time of the actual Holiday or season, everything (all the best stuff) for that Hoilday is already sold out. And there they are again, already displaying Holiday items 2 or 3 seasons ahead of their time. It's a cruel cycle!

minks · Post by **minks** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 2:07 pm

cars wrote: I agree, but unfortunately, the Stores are they ones who "jump" the Holiday seasons. :wah: Just Today, we were at a store called "TJ Maxx", and there they already had up Halloween decorations on display for sale! Also were winter coats, & long sleeve sweaters & shirts, go figure. If you try to wait around for the time of the actual Holiday or season, everything (all the best stuff) for that Hoilday is already sold out. And there they are again, already displaying Holiday items 2 or 3 seasons ahead of their time. It's a cruel cycle!

Oh we have summer clothing sales on already, blow out end of summer sales. crikey give me a break, in 2 more days I will be all hyped and stressed due to the looming christmas season bah humbug I think I am going to run away from home hehehehehe

pina · Post by **pina** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 2:32 pm

I found chocolate easter eggs in a few shops here.....don't know if they are for next easter or left overs from last.

The shops here don't have any xmas stuff until first week Dec. thats when they put the lights and things up in the streets.......We actually have two xmas's one on 25th Dec and the Spanish Three Kings which is their:D xmas on 6th Jan

minks · Post by **minks** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 2:45 pm

pina wrote: I found chocolate easter eggs in a few shops here.....don't know if they are for next easter or left overs from last.

The shops here don't have any xmas stuff until first week Dec. thats when they put the lights and things up in the streets.......We actually have two xmas's one on 25th Dec and the Spanish Three Kings which is their:D xmas on 6th Jan

How cool. Here after halloween, Oct 31 we start to really see Xmas stuff hard core.

jasmund · Post by **jasmund** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 3:37 pm

-Yes, other early shoppers!

I am 1/2 way done, hope to be done by Halloween. My sons birthday is December 28th, so it is two completely different holidays, and my future stepsons is New Years Eve.

-Every year my son and I go and watch the mall rats scurry to grab anything and everything because they waited until the LAST possible minute.

Raven · Post by **Raven** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 3:50 am

minks wrote: Christmas ahahahaha

made ya look.

For those of you who shop way ahead of time, do you have your christmas shopping list completed?

Are you an early bird christmas shopper who spends the entire year buying gifts or are you a last minute shopper?
Oh dear! :yh_laugh

How long did it take you to think this one up???

I still have your mini teapot for LAST christmas! LOL!! I also brought you back something special from wales.:sneaky: MAYBE......if you're a good girl, I'll send 'em in time for christmas THIS year!:wah:

minks · Post by **minks** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 9:17 am

Raven wrote: Oh dear! :yh_laugh

How long did it take you to think this one up???

I still have your mini teapot for LAST christmas! LOL!! I also brought you back something special from wales.:sneaky: MAYBE......if you're a good girl, I'll send 'em in time for christmas THIS year!:wah:

Oh crap I have your book here too, signed and all nuts we better get our poop in a group huh ahahahahahahaha

Jives · Post by **Jives** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 10:20 am

My wife loves those catalogs like, "Pottery Barn". so I surepticiously order the stuff she fawns over during the course of the year. I hide it in a high shelf that she can't get to and Then....

surprise! At Christmas time, I've already gotten everything she wants, and they are all the kind of presents you can't get in stores. No holiday shopping, no hassle of the corwds, I just decorate the tree and wrap them up!:D

minks · Post by **minks** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 11:23 am

Jives wrote: My wife loves those catalogs like, "Pottery Barn". so I surepticiously order the stuff she fawns over during the course of the year. I hide it in a high shelf that she can't get to and Then....

surprise! At Christmas time, I've already gotten everything she wants, and they are all the kind of presents you can't get in stores. No holiday shopping, no hassle of the corwds, I just decorate the tree and wrap them up!:D

ya know all this talk in this thread has me scribbling down my christmas shopping list on bits and pieces of scrap recycle paper here at work ahahahahah

Raven · Post by **Raven** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 12:40 am

minks wrote: Oh crap I have your book here too, signed and all nuts we better get our poop in a group huh ahahahahahahaha
you KNOW I was never the most organised of people!:wah: But I even have the mail by date on my calender now!