So how is your Christmas shopping going?
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Wife and I bought ourselves some new tires and a battery. We are pretty much set. We keep things very simple with our adult kids and grandkids - get something they need via mail order most times. We don't engage in the over-spending and madness. Having said that, I do remember the toy over-abundance when our kids and grandkids were very young. Good grief, the madness of it all.
Since we're in saving mode for a new house that doesn't flood every time it sprinkles, we're not doing Christmas presents with anyone this year. Just get together with family; the way it should be.
Done
Bought my wife a new house. To the rest I remain the;
Bought my wife a new house. To the rest I remain the;
Wife and I are Jewish and Hanukkah starts today at sundown. So I'm going shopping today.
We actually exchange gifts on Christmas for fun like clothes I think she'd look cute in and she does the same.
We actually exchange gifts on Christmas for fun like clothes I think she'd look cute in and she does the same.
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Haven’t even started yet lol 
. I don’t have time to do any shopping. Parents said they have already done some for me. They already know there is only three things I ever ask for money, tools and gift cards to tool stores or auto part stores.
. I don’t have time to do any shopping. Parents said they have already done some for me. They already know there is only three things I ever ask for money, tools and gift cards to tool stores or auto part stores.I have been spraying foam onto "Holiday spending" for a while now. Wife and I never did scheduled gift giving.
In 2019 a sister died. Clearing out her stuff reveled an enormous cache of unopened gifts she had received as well as many items bought by her for others. She had a "buying problem"; and looking at her possessions received as gifts, it appeared she wasn't alone.
We got everything sorted. The day we loaded the truck for the last time-the last day we'd have to be all together- I decided to grandstand.
I bellowed like an insane pig that we should dump this gift giving thing once and for all. I went on and on about it real loudly.
I searched the depths of all my life's experiences to select the most terribly obnoxious timbre to add to my voice.
They all agreed. I know I'm happy. I haven't heard any complaints.
edit: Just saw 64bawagon's post. Ha, beat you. Back when I did "shopping" I'd be done in August as I'd do Summer vacation replacement work on the Upper West Side...where small, individualized stores were clearing out for....you guessed it!
In 2019 a sister died. Clearing out her stuff reveled an enormous cache of unopened gifts she had received as well as many items bought by her for others. She had a "buying problem"; and looking at her possessions received as gifts, it appeared she wasn't alone.
We got everything sorted. The day we loaded the truck for the last time-the last day we'd have to be all together- I decided to grandstand.
I bellowed like an insane pig that we should dump this gift giving thing once and for all. I went on and on about it real loudly.
I searched the depths of all my life's experiences to select the most terribly obnoxious timbre to add to my voice.
They all agreed. I know I'm happy. I haven't heard any complaints.
edit: Just saw 64bawagon's post. Ha, beat you. Back when I did "shopping" I'd be done in August as I'd do Summer vacation replacement work on the Upper West Side...where small, individualized stores were clearing out for....you guessed it!
Its not a contest
Your story hits close to home, when I went through my folks things after they passed we ran into some similar things. Gifts I thought my Dad would surely use were still in the box tucked in the back of a storage cabinet. Material things mean significantly less than deeds done and time spent.
Our spending has decreased alot over the years. Used to spend way too much.
