When you do your Christmas shopping...

I started a couple of months ago when I found an awesome buy on an auction web site and got it for my granddaughter. Since then I've been picking things up when I see them.

I start my Christmas shopping on the first part of December.I don't have that much people to buy for really.Just my mother,my dad,my mother's friend,Which he's been friends with me and my mother for about 4 to 5 years now i think.But,he's always gotten me something for Christmas,
so,i feel that i should buy him something too.And than that's it.Oh,and plus my g/f.hehe i knew that one all along.

i dont wait til any particular time of year to buy stuff i just buy it when i see it...if it is good for that person, then i buy it...currently i have about one third of my stuff bought already.

We just started our Christmas shopping. It will be easy though since we are buying everyone gift cards this year. Since everyone lives so far apart it is much easier than trying to transport a bunch of big gifts.

hello lifez2short

i usually start my christmas shopping sometime in November, then shop until the holidays approach. and some of the things that i buy, i know in advance what i am going to get, but i always have some people that are on my gift giving list and i just have to go look around and try to pick them out something that they will like.

and for my Christams dinner shopping list, it mostly stays the same from year to year, unless i add or change a dessert to or from it.

and i usually do not buy the mailman something, but instead i put a tin of homemade cookies and candies in the mailbox for him and i also do the same thing for the garbage men that come around here once a week.

have a wonderful day!

Too be honest i usually start late summer picking up things i see here and there on sale etc but i just didnt have the time or money this summer so i actually started this week! i dont usually go out looking for a particular item but i have a variety of ideas and when i get to the store or mall i focus on those ideas. i hvae ALOT of people to shop for and my christmas gifts at the end come out totalling very large amount of money (or atleast for me, i budget about 2500$ for gifts give or take )so i started this week and i probably will be shopping up until the weekend/days just before Christmas.

I kinda know what I am going to buy for Christmas presents but sometimes I will see something else that I like better. I don't buy presents for my mailman but I do buy presents for my kids teachers if the teacher is good at their job.

We don't buy gifts for those type of people as we get a letter stating not to give gifts. But they will take a card with cash. Sometimes we leave the mail lady a card with a 10 or a 20 in it. Not too often though. I can shop easily and quickly except come Christmas time. That's the time I shop like a woman not knowing what I want or what I'll end up buying. Hahahaha!!
HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB!!~

I usually shop year round, so I don't always know what I'm going to buy. If I happen to be somewhere and see something that I think someone will like, I buy it, and put it away for the holidays. I don't like to just buy gifts because I see something on sale or what happens to be big that year. I always try to think about the individual, I usually end up giving some unusual but thoughtful and appreciated gifts. This year will be different, I haven't really done too much, my sisters want to exchange names and we won't do that until Thanksgiving, so who knows what I'll end up buying. I have a few things for my husband and I know what we're getting for my mother-in-law. I don't buy things for the mailman, since we don't always have the same one, I used to when I was still living at home because we had the same mailman for so many years, he even bought me a graduation and a wedding gift.

I have started already with my christmas shopping. My son did this awesome art picture that I am going to get printed onto a hand towel, pot holders, note cards etc for my family - they will get a peice of his artwork for life!