Have you bought all your Xmas presents yet?

[forza]

With only 10 days left, have you bought all your Xmas presents yet? What have you bought? Or what are you going to buy?
Here's my list:

-roller blades for 12 years old
-soccer ball for 11 years old
-some books for 15 years old
-some books for 14 years old
-book of crossword puzzles for older lady to be at the Xmass party (that is what she likes - I was told)
-pajamas set for my cousin
-mobile phone for my half sister (I hope she'd appreciated and I plan to ring it the moment she opens the box)
-I need gifts for 2-4 more ppl to buy

[bescheid]

Forza

You are certainly ahead of me! I just got my Christmas cards in the post. Next week will be gift buying time.

Charles

[rdywenur]

Your joking right???

Forza you are getting off easy. If you were living here your list would be ipod, xbox, cell phone,stereo.pc.clothes,videos, etc.

[suzanne]

My shopping is all done. This is a new record for me, getting it all done before mid-December!
I've bought my son and daugher various books and games, some astronomy books and chocolate for my husband and a couple of weeks ago, I arranged to have a small holly bush sent to my gardening mother-in-law and I baked and mailed out cookies to the faraway members of our family.

My dad was working on getting a bunch of family genealogy records/photos together, and I hope that's what I'm getting for Christmas!

[nancy]

suzannem,

come over to the genealogy folder and tell us if you had any luck over Thanksgiving .... or maybe your Dad's efforts are a result of your questions?

[suzanne]

Nancy,

Oh yes, of course I will post over in Genealogy. Dad has apparently done a lot of work, collecting a lot of my mom's family's info that I had posted about over a month ago, which had all been a disorganized jumble of stuff. He keeps telling me to be patient in getting it, so that's why I think it's being planned as a Christmas present! I don't really want anything else for Christmas this year, anyway, just to have all that collected, written down, etc. so I can start research into the Polish side of the family.

[forza]

rdywenur said:

Your joking right???

Forza you are getting off easy. If you were living here your list would be ipod, xbox, cell phone,stereo.pc.clothes,videos, etc.

I am getting off easy but - to explain! - those are my cousin's kids I'm buying gifts for, not mine! and I'm not staying overnight at their place, too so I think I m apriopriate.

[zooba]

Forza, I envy you. I haven't got any presents yet. Even worse I haven't got ideas for presents. I hope last minute stress will release creative thinking in me.

[justjohn]

Have all the shopping done last week. This year we went on-line for a majority of it.

Yesterday we received the final confirmation that the gifts had been received.

Not a bad way of doing business.

[rdywenur]

Forza...I did not mean it the way you took it . I meant that here in the US the kids ask and expect a lot more. I think some parents have a hard time buying as they wish to please some that expect and sometimes demand so much more. For some parents must be very difficult.

[zooba]

My son also wants some extremely expensive presents that are unacceptable form me. Parents must be tough otherwise they will escalate their "needs" without an end.
I'm tough and proud of it.

[gardenmoma]

No! I have been too busy with baking for church bazaars and bake sales...our parish has a reputation as having the best "food sales" around...we raise a significant amount of money that way...more about this after the holidays in the Food and Drink section.

This year I am "giving" more cookies and sweet bread as gifts. I feel a little overwhelmed with all the TV commercials etc.

My husband - new bird feeder (he could order one himself, but he won't!); two history-based DVDs;

Children & their spouses - items brought back from Poland ("high tech" amber necklaces for the girls), Polish items brought here in the U.S. so I don't have to lug them back in the plane;

Grandchildren (all under age 5 years) - "low tech" items to stimulate the imagination - miniature tea sets and baking dishes, DVDs that can be watched over and over again (Polar Express is one) with family, "action figures" which the boys use to devise all sorts of stories, books which at their tender ages they've some to expect from Grandma, sweatshirts (still to be purchased) from the University of MA; and, oh yes, Christmas tree ornaments;

Sister and her friend - books (!) and a magazine subscription; silly odds and ends

Friends - (depending upon likes / dislikes) magazine subscriptions; local cookbooks; items for collections - one collects frog 'things" ; ornaments, perhaps, if I can find the appropriate one for each; baked goods...I need my friends ;D

No family on Christmas Day or Christmas week - they are too far away and weather has been terrible for driving and airplane flights are unpredictable. Will spend it with very old friends; Wilia will probably be just husband and myself...unless these same friends are able to join us as they usually do.

[rdywenur]

I purchased one for myself. I saw an ad in the Sunday paper for a Spode Christmas tree angel ornament. Her dress is a bell. It looked nice enough to chance so I ordered it and it arrived yesterday. She is exquiste. Her little face is painted perfectly(most faces are painted on very poorly) but I see she is not dated.