Holiday shopping done!

[central scrutinizer]

I have never shopped on Black Friday. I will never shop on Black Friday. I would rather jab a sharp stick into my eye than deal with that. As atheists, we honor all religious holidays and will put up lights on the house to help bring some illumination to the darkest of winter days.

I gave Mrs. Scrutinizer a $100 donation to the Red Cross for Sandy relief and she gave me the same thing. Our extended family draws names and you give one gift ($25 limit) to one person. I will give a selection of home canned jam, some beets and carrots from the garden, some home-cured and canned sauerkraut, and some home grown flint corn, ground for corn meal or polenta. On my wish list, I requested a donation in my name to the Heifer Project or a similar organization.

Done! Now to relax!

[riderinthestorm]

1. I hate you.

Just kidding. Kinda. I haven't even started and I have @ 100 gifts to buy between clients, staff and family. Now my stomach hurts thinking about it....


(rider trundles sadly away from this thread)

[Speck Tater]

2. In my extended family,

including sisters, brothers, parents, adult children and grandchildren, cousins, aunts, uncles, etc... we put all the names into a hat and each draw a name. Everyone buys (or makes) ONE gift and we all get together on Christmas and everyone gets a gift.

Incidentally, everyone also has an Amazon wish list so I seldom spend more than ten minutes at my computer to complete all my Christmas shopping.

The ONLY exception is that I buy an extra something for each of my young (under 21) grandchildren, but browsing around in a toy store for an hour is fun anyway.