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Christmas Shopping

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I LOVE shopping for presents! Did some shopping today. My MIL calls me the family Christmas elf, lol. Do any of you enjoy Xmas shopping?
 
My wife and I bought our first big screen tv. Online. That's how I shop.
 
Actually we shop for Christmas all year round. We bought gifts in Europe and Israel. A few off of Amazon.

It's our favorite time of year.
We also give cookies out every Christmas. Lots and lots of homemade cookies.

My FIL is the difficult one. But he made a request this year so we are going to fill it. (Meat grinder for venison sausage)

Should be interesting as always...

But the SIL (18) and niece (7) both gave the same answers when asked about what they want.... gingerbread house.
They love decorating one every year with candy.
OK....I can do that.
 
What a waste of cash all for one day. I dont shop or spend at Christmas. Acturally I lied, I buy bait to go fishing, sometimes hooks and other gear as needed.
 
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I got my parents more thoughtful presents this year. I got my dad a book with artwork from an "outsider" artist with a cool backstory, plus a ViewMaster and some "grown up" ViewMaster reels (Frank Lloyd Wright).

I got my mama a big ol 72 count box of colored pencils in a shiny tin, a pencil sharpener, a bunch of adult coloring books, mostly flowers and animals.
 
I will get my nephews something. But thats it. I dont need to get my parents anything, I am there gift for life. :biggrin2
 
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kiwidan said:
I will get my nephews something. But thats it. I dont need to get my parents anything, I am there gift for life. :biggrin2
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Well,
We do it because we love giving. We have more than enough junk but when we see stuff we are reminded about all those people we know and just go ahead and get it.
Christmas is our one season each year that our giving is licensed. If you give stuff the rest of the year people look at ya funny. But usually I give away somewhere around 60 dozen cookies (made from scratch) and trinkets bought during the rest of the year. So we save the trinkets and give them out at Christmas. We aren't guilted into giving or pressured.
It's just an extension of who we are and licensed one day a year.
 
JohnDB said:
Well,
We do it because we love giving. We have more than enough junk but when we see stuff we are reminded about all those people we know and just go ahead and get it.
Christmas is our one season each year that our giving is licensed. If you give stuff the rest of the year people look at ya funny. But usually I give away somewhere around 60 dozen cookies (made from scratch) and trinkets bought during the rest of the year. So we save the trinkets and give them out at Christmas. We aren't guilted into giving or pressured.
It's just an extension of who we are and licensed one day a year.
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I love recieving. Freely give freely recieve. There both equally biblical. Everyones all about giving but recieving is just as great.
 
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kiwidan said:
I love recieving. Freely give freely recieve. There both equally biblical. Everyones all about giving but recieving is just as great.
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Think that maybe there is a reason everyone is about giving?

Just a thought.
 
JohnDB said:
Think that maybe there is a reason everyone is about giving?

Just a thought.
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Depends. I never go out of my way to give, I freely give and help people when i am directly faced with it in my lifes journey. Im not trying to impress God.

Some people go a bit crazy with there giving, like its a commandment and they must impress God.
 
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Depends. I never go out of my way to give, I give when i am directly faced with it in my lifes journey. Im not trying to impress God.

Some people go a bit crazy with there giving, like its a commandments and they must impress God.
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They are nuts...
Who can impress God?
Not the likes of either of us for sure.

But I don't do it to impress God...
Like I said before...I am a giver...I like giving. I use Christmas as an excuse to give stuff that I've wanted to give for months but felt it would be poorly received.

I know I know...I hear it all the time. (I'm doing it wrong.)
 
Christmas for me is actually depressing to a degree. Shopping gives me a feeling of materialism that drags me down, especially if I can't think of anything the person might want or need. To buy a gift just to be able give something is pointless to me. Every year I tell my family the same thing. "I do not need or want anything. If you want to do something for me for Christmas, give to a charity or someone you know who is in need." Literally every gift I ever bought my wife except for maybe perfume, is left to collect dust. So what's the point? All it does is add to the hording and collecting of useless things that are destroyed by moths.

The best part of our Christmas celebration outside of commemorating the birth of our Lord is the family time together. That is the best gift we can give each other in my opinion.
 
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Christmas for me is actually depressing to a degree. Shopping gives me a feeling of materialism that drags me down, especially if I can't think of anything the person might want or need. To buy a gift just to be able give something is pointless to me. Every year I tell my family the same thing. "I do not need or want anything. If you want to do something for me for Christmas, give to a charity or someone you know who is in need." Literally every gift I ever bought my wife except for maybe perfume, is left to collect dust. So what's the point? All it does is add to the hording and collecting of useless things that are destroyed by moths.

The best part of our Christmas celebration outside of commemorating the birth of our Lord is the family time together. That is the best gift we can give each other in my opinion.
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I get where you are coming from. It can be very materialistic and the pressure on you to buy something is great.
The basic strap line of advertising is "show someone you love them by buying our product and give it to them"

My kids have iPhones so they get e-mails along the lines of "buy dad an iPad Pro"
Really? Where on earth are my kids going to get the money to buy me an iPad Pro?
So when my kids ask me what I want for Christmas/birthday/Father's Day I just say a nice squeezy hug.

As for my wife when she asks me I can't reveal that for fear of being told off by you all:lol

So not wishing to be a bah humbug (WIP not saying you are) every year my wife and I make plans to go Christimas shopping for presents that we have bought of Amazon. Initially I get quite excited, then we hit the shops and that excitement wains within half an hour. I'm not called grumpy wallet by family for nothing. I try my best but when we get to the till and it all adds up apparently my face shows the shock. Oh dear it does seem I am actually a bah humbug.

Mind you one good point when we go Christmas shopping i get to eat a really nice bratwurst sausage and sour kraut and mushrooms from the German Christmas market. No grumpy wallet there. Yum Yum.
 
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