Christmas Shopping...

[Josy]

When do get your start getting Christmas shopping in? I don't mean food shopping obviously but gifts for others...

I'm about half way done although it's all the bigger stuff I still need to get, I'm only buying toys and clothes for my younger nieces and nephews this year too and the rest of them are just getting money and either a selection box/gift set so that's less hunting around for toys.

[Will.]

We did most of it last week... a lot easier.

[Smithy]

Done about half got a load of stuff last week on double discount and i'll get the other stuff when it comes into stock/when i decide what to buy people :joker:

[Josy]

Done about half got a load of stuff last week on double discount and i'll get the other stuff when it comes into stock/when i decide what to buy people :joker:

This is what I hate about buying gifts, I don't like getting people the same things all the time and I think for ages what to get them and then once ive bought it start wondering if it was a **** idea

[Dollface]

I haven't started yet, I usually start in December but this year i'm going to try and get it done earlier, so i'll probably start looking at bits and bobs soon

[Smithy]

This is what I hate about buying gifts, I don't like getting people the same things all the time and I think for ages what to get them and then once ive bought it start wondering if it was a **** idea

Yeah like last year i got my parents fragrance and a few other bits and bobs, this year I'm at a loss, i don't want to get them fragrance again (even a different one) so i have no idea what to do :joker:

[Dollface]

I find it sooo hard buying for my parents/grandparents :(

[Denver]

Is it really bad I don't buy gifts ever for anyone?

[Josy]

I find it sooo hard buying for my parents/grandparents :(

Can you not do them a little hamper containing a few bits each of what they like?

[Josy]

Is it really bad I don't buy gifts ever for anyone?

No it's not bad, it's what you choose to do.

[Dollface]

Can you not do them a little hamper containing a few bits each of what they like?

I have no idea what the hampers could contain though :laugh: I'll probs end up getting my dad socks and my mum candles, as usual :laugh:

[Marsh.]

Yeah like last year i got my parents fragrance and a few other bits and bobs, this year I'm at a loss, i don't want to get them fragrance again (even a different one) so i have no idea what to do :joker:

Neither do I. I never get the right one anyway.

My dad's fine and used it but my mother's is still in her bedroom and full. :laugh:

[Josy]

Yeah like last year i got my parents fragrance and a few other bits and bobs, this year I'm at a loss, i don't want to get them fragrance again (even a different one) so i have no idea what to do :joker:

It's brutal isn't it

I'm the same with my OH's dad, I feel as if we always get him a bottle of whiskey, gift set (lynx etc) and either a playstation game or a foo fighters album.

[Dollface]

My dad loved his present last year, it's the first time i've thought outside the box and got him something other than a Lynx gift set :laugh: (It was an Alien boxset with all the Alien movies, which he loves)

[BigSister]

I usually start about beginning of October then get most of my things beginning of November

[Jason.]

I usually start around the weekend in mid-November. So in about 3 weeks time I'll probably start - the 14th/15th of November.

[Moosething]

Early December

[Johnnyuk123]

When do get your start getting Christmas shopping in? I don't mean food shopping obviously but gifts for others...

I'm about half way done although it's all the bigger stuff I still need to get, I'm only buying toys and clothes for my younger nieces and nephews this year too and the rest of them are just getting money and either a selection box/gift set so that's less hunting around for toys.

I start in the January sales.

[Firewire]

Haven't started yet. Should really start.

[Crimson Dynamo]

2 weeks before as i amnot a mentalist

Its one day

Get a fkg grip

[Crimson Dynamo]

Aldershot

[Smithy]

2 weeks before as i amnot a mentalist

Its one day

Get a fkg grip

Tbf some people have a lot of people to buy for and would struggle taking one big hit to their bank balance :shrug:

[Crimson Dynamo]

Tbf some people have a lot of people to buy for and would struggle taking one big hit to their bank balance :shrug:

Then they are buying too much for too many

Its a bloody day. Stop being drones and get control.

Buy them a fking mars bar and stop thinking youll be judged

Its time to stop this marketing led chaos

[smudgie]

Bottles of wine in, great for emergency presents and Aunt Mary, plus my neighbour friend.
Litre of rum and litre of whiskey in wardrobe for hubby.
All bought on offer over the past few weeks.
Daughter is home this week for half term so she is off shopping tomorrow with her daddy, she will get our surprise present for son, he will pick his own main present nearer the time.
She got the money to buy some clothes last time she was here and we bought her surprise pressie a fortnight ago.
Hubby will get some cash to buy what he likes and that is it..all done and dusted.

[Locke.]

Usually the 23rd or 24th but I'll probably just do it online this year so a bit earlier

[Marsh.]

Then they are buying too much for too many

Its a bloody day. Stop being drones and get control.

Buy them a fking mars bar and stop thinking youll be judged

Its time to stop this marketing led chaos

My mum doesn't like chocolate hun

[Drew.]

usually do most of it online so end of nov/early dec. Going to Bluewater in dec sometime so will get some stuff then too.

[Josy]

Then they are buying too much for too many

Its a bloody day. Stop being drones and get control.

Buy them a fking mars bar and stop thinking youll be judged

Its time to stop this marketing led chaos

Agree with what Smithy said, I have a massive family and that includes a lot of kids, I don't buy for them due to the marketing led chaos I buy because I enjoy doing it, I enjoy both picking out and making gifts for people that I think they will love and find useful, giving them a treat and seeing them enjoy Christmas makes me happy, ours isn't all about the gifts either it's about spending time with each other as a family.

Also I'll spend my hard earnt cash however I want to, and if that includes treating my family and friends to gifts that I choose to purchase then that's what'll happen :idc:

[Ashley.]

Week before usually.

[joeysteele]

I like to be all done by the end of November.

[Smithy]

Agree with what Smithy said, I have a massive family and that includes a lot of kids, I don't buy for them due to the marketing led chaos I buy because I enjoy doing it, I enjoy both picking out and making gifts for people that I think they will love and find useful, giving them a treat and seeing them enjoy Christmas makes me happy, ours isn't all about the gifts either it's about spending time with each other as a family.

Also I'll spend my hard earnt cash however I want to, and if that includes treating my family and friends to gifts that I choose to purchase then that's what'll happen :idc:

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[Cherie]

Agree with what Smithy said, I have a massive family and that includes a lot of kids, I don't buy for them due to the marketing led chaos I buy because I enjoy doing it, I enjoy both picking out and making gifts for people that I think they will love and find useful, giving them a treat and seeing them enjoy Christmas makes me happy, ours isn't all about the gifts either it's about spending time with each other as a family.

Also I'll spend my hard earnt cash however I want to, and if that includes treating my family and friends to gifts that I choose to purchase then that's what'll happen :idc:

That's fine If you are spending money you have, so many people get into debt buying crap for people that don't need it all wrapped up in shiny paper. I think it's good if you think about what each person will use rather than just buying tut for the sake of it.

[Cherie]

Neither do I. I never get the right one anyway.

My dad's fine and used it but my mother's is still in her bedroom and full. :laugh:

Mums are easy, go to her hairdresser/ beautician and get her a voucher

[Crimson Dynamo]

My mum doesn't like chocolate hun

bath salts?

[Crimson Dynamo]

Agree with what Smithy said, I have a massive family and that includes a lot of kids, I don't buy for them due to the marketing led chaos I buy because I enjoy doing it, I enjoy both picking out and making gifts for people that I think they will love and find useful, giving them a treat and seeing them enjoy Christmas makes me happy, ours isn't all about the gifts either it's about spending time with each other as a family.

Also I'll spend my hard earnt cash however I want to, and if that includes treating my family and friends to gifts that I choose to purchase then that's what'll happen :idc:


I am not having a pop at you Josy, you make good points

I am just hating on the marketing stuff I am seeing now for what is just one day. The more they hype Xmas the more disappointing it becomes.

[Josy]

I am not having a pop at you Josy, you make good points

I am just hating on the marketing stuff I am seeing now for what is just one day. The more they hype Xmas the more disappointing it becomes.

I agree with you about the marketing and over commercialisation of it tbh and I hate how it has become a competition for certain people to see who can buy their kids the most expensive items and upload the pics to social media etc.

I do enjoy buying for my family and close friends though and I always buy what I think is needed and will be used rather than spending silly money on stupid things, I also make hampers and little gift baskets some years, not filled with expensive things but decent priced stuff that I know they will use and all of it together in the basket both looks lovely and shows how much thought/time I put into it iykwim.

And I do not believe for one bloody minute that you have ever given the mini LT's just a mars bar for crimbo :fist:

[Crimson Dynamo]

I agree with you about the marketing and over commercialisation of it tbh and I hate how it has become a competition for certain people to see who can buy their kids the most expensive items and upload the pics to social media etc.

I do enjoy buying for my family and close friends though and I always buy what I think is needed and will be used rather than spending silly money on stupid things, I also make hampers and little gift baskets some years, not filled with expensive things but decent priced stuff that I know they will use and all of it together in the basket both looks lovely and shows how much thought/time I put into it iykwim.

And I do not believe for one bloody minute that you have ever given the mini LT's just a mars bar for crimbo :fist:

No i spend far too much. Christmas was magical when I was wee so i try to carry this on and make it so for them

But now thanks for exMrsLT its all complicated and fcked up :fist:

[Cherie]

No i spend far too much. Christmas was magical when I was wee so i try to carry this on and make it so for them

But now thanks for exMrsLT its all complicated and fcked up :fist:


That's the thing for me and probably for a lot of adults we try to create that magical feeling we had as kids but it's never going to happen, the closest I have come is seeing my kids being enchanted by Christmas but now they are older it's just meh..

[Crimson Dynamo]

That's the thing for me and probably for a lot of adults we try to create that magical feeling we had as kids but it's never going to happen, the closest I have come is seeing my kids being enchanted by Christmas but now they are older it's just meh..

This will be smallest boy LTs last Christmas where he believes in Santa

:bawling:

[Cherie]

This will be smallest boy LTs last Christmas where he believes in Santa

:bawling:

Enjoy! But how do you know it will be his last? some kids just believe no matter how much their mates tell them otherwise

[Marsh.]

Mums are easy, go to her hairdresser/ beautician and get her a voucher

Sounds like hell.

I can't believe you just called my mum easy though. :omgno:

[Cherie]

Sounds like hell.

I can't believe you just called my mum easy though. :omgno:


I've heard the rumours :shrug:

Whats hellish about paying for your Mums manicure :suspect:

[Marsh.]

I've heard the rumours :shrug:

Whats hellish about paying for your Mums manicure :suspect:

Having to go to the hairdressers/beautician. :worry:

I'm too butch for that kind of thing.

[Cherie]

Having to go to the hairdressers/beautician. :worry:

I'm too butch for that kind of thing.

Oh of course :laugh:

[Marsh.]

Oh of course :laugh:

You'll pick them up for me?

Cheers Chez.