Christmas Shopping  

Me too I find that it is way too worrisome to have to go and get the last minute gifts that you always forget about lol. That's why keeping a list, and just keeping it updated is the best way to go about it. Not including getting it earlier for cheaper. By you doing that you pretty much saved a lot of money. If you have a rough estimate it would be wonderful to let us in on it. I know already from some of the prices that the stores have and will have for Christmas I have roughly saved already about 300.00, and that's just a rough estimate.

Sometimes it is best to do it early and get it over with even if you do have to store it for a while, saves big money in the end, and also saves a lot of hassle. I'm right there with you, and props for getting it done so early, I hope you have a wonderful holiday season.

Whew man I hope she gets it done soon, could save a lot of money if she does it sooner rather than later. You are very lucky although I would have to say with my husband and me i am the one who does it too lol. Durn it lol. I always seem to find the better deals though, not knocking you hun if your looking at this, but truth is the truth lol.

Right around the holidays i do a checklist and make sure that I have everything. I plan as much as i can, but occasionally the times to arrise when I don't have what I was looking for getting them for Christmas, and that causes the dreaded store lines lol. Thanks so much for your responce, and Happy Holidays.

I completely understand. Sometimes though you can find really good deals also depending on how old your children are. Now i'm not trying to sound terrible or anything but honestly, my children are 3 years old and 1 years old. They don't know the difference yet between old and new. So if i go to the store and buy something new for 30.00 and see it in a thrift shop for 10.00 I realize i could have saved 20.00.

With my children it's easier to do because they are so young, so auction sites, thrift stores, community selling forums and things of that nature is what I use now. But of course when they are older i'll be looking more for auction sites with new toys lol. However now it is just easier. I hope that you have a wonderful Holiday, and everything will work out, it always does. If you would not mind to PM I'm sure I can think of something. Thanks for the responce.

Thanks so much for your responce, i love to hear about how other countries celebrate or if they do or not. A lot of the stores around my area have already started decorating for Christmas and of course have all the stuff that kids could ever want in the front for them to see lol. Makes it about 10 times funner for the children, and about 50 times more hectic on the parents, but you gotta love how the stores try lol.

So what do you do for Christmas, I mean do you give gifts, do you have a holiday like that or is it just America? I honestly have never been aware of anything like that. Thanks so much for pointing out.

That sounds absolutely beautiful. i have always thought that the best gifts were the ones that we handmade, because it not only shows that you care, but also shows that you thought about that person enough to make them something, which takes a lot of time. Props to you for doing that. I hope it all turns out very well, and I hope you have Very Happy Holidays.

Christmas is only popular with young people in China.So, I'm not bothered to buy the gift at an early start. But for the Chinese New Year, my family also starts to buy the food ,gifts and so on a littler earlier before the New Year's coming. We also do not rush at a last moment and the price is high during that time. Make out a shopping list is a good way to buy everything you want .

Yea i've been to ebates before, the only bad thing is that the success rates of the coupons are not high, simply because it's not affiliated with the actual stores. Just to let everyone know anything that clicks on that link will have paid her 5.00 and the coupons don't work. I have been there done that and have been back to try to find more with same results.

Hun you can't try to get referrals here, inserting a link is against mylot policy. And yes I know you get paid for the referrals, however a lot of the coupons on that site are fradulent. There is many other ways to go Christmas shopping, and actually find valuable coupons on different sites, and plus the site you mentioned only offers like 2% -6% cashback you can get more than that from another site that is better at paying. Thanks so much for the resonce, but next time let's try to keep the links out of it.