Last minute panic!!
By Wizzywig
@Wizzywig (7847)
December 18, 2009 9:26am CST
I tend to do my Christmas shopping all year round so I shouldn't really have any last minute panics BUT, every year its the same... I've got a stack of presents for my closest family and its all looking impressively under control. Then I start to question my judgement & convince myself that everyone will hate what I've got them. Luckily, none of them are materialistic and will, basically, be happy with whatever they're given - the more unexpected the better
Doesn't stop me having a few pre-unwrapping days of "could've done better" though. Are you happy with the gifts you give?
Doesn't stop me having a few pre-unwrapping days of "could've done better" though. Are you happy with the gifts you give?1 person likes this
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@purplealabaster (22085)
• United States
18 Dec 09
When I had the money to buy everybody presents, I used to have to wait until the last minute and literally run around, sometimes as late as Christmas Eve, to get all the "last minute" gifts. If I didn't wait until the last minute, then I would inevitably give the presents out early, because I would be so excited knowing how much they would like them that I could not wait until Christmas to give them the presents and see the expressions on their faces when they opened them. Then, I would have to scrounge around and find other presents to give them for Christmas, which would not usually be as good as the original present that I had gotten them (although they always liked and appreciated everything that I got them), because I could not stand for them to have nothing to open on Christmas, even though they had already gotten their Christmas gifts ahead of time.
@Wizzywig (7847)
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18 Dec 09
I have delivered a few during the last few weeks but I know they wont be opened before Christmas. I have given birthday gifts ahead of time because the person actually needed to use the gift ... &, like you, I bought other stuff just so they had something on the day.
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@purplealabaster (22085)
• United States
18 Dec 09
Oh yeah, then there is always the ones that I used to buy way ahead of time and put in a "safe place" so that they would not be discovered before Christmas. The problem with that was that I would either forget that I had gotten them, buy other presents and then find them after Christmas and say "Oh yeah, now I remember that I bought that", or even worse I would remember that I had bought the presents but found that I hid them so well that even I couldn't find them until well after Christmas, usually when I was doing my Spring cleaning.
One year, I even tried to write down the gifts and who they were for, so that I wouldn't forget, but I obviously had to hide the list, so that didn't work out all that well, either.
One year, I even tried to write down the gifts and who they were for, so that I wouldn't forget, but I obviously had to hide the list, so that didn't work out all that well, either.@Wizzywig (7847)
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18 Dec 09
Oh, you have made me feel so much better!! Those safely hidden presents last year, I managed to give my son his 'best' present first because it was about the same size/shape as a cheap insignificant bit of trivia I'd bought, so, this year, I've done what he does and numbered them as I wrapped whilst writing a list of what each gift is.
last year, I managed to give my son his 'best' present first because it was about the same size/shape as a cheap insignificant bit of trivia I'd bought, so, this year, I've done what he does and numbered them as I wrapped whilst writing a list of what each gift is.1 person likes this
@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
22 Dec 09
Mostly I usually am. Every so often I take a wild stab at something and maybe i get lucky...
@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
23 Dec 09
Yep, sometimes it really can be. Of course, I'll never forget the time my sister-in-law asked me where I had bought a gift that I had given to her. Never saw that item in her house after that. I just assumed she asked so she would know where to return it!
I just assumed she asked so she would know where to return it!
@cream97 (29085)
• United States
21 Dec 09
Hi, Wizzywig. Yes, I am happy with the gifts that I give. But, sometimes, I don't have the money that I would like to have. I would rather buy someone something that carries value but I know that I can't afford these expensive gifts. So, I will just buy what I know that I can afford. It is the thought that counts anyway..
@maezee (41985)
• United States
19 Dec 09
I'm usually happy with the gifts I give, although even after I buy everyone a sufficient amount of stuff, I always get this panicky feeling like it's not ENOUGH. And that I could get them this and that and this and that in ADDITION to what I already got them..It gets a little crazy to resist the temptations, that's for sure!
