Question of the Week: Holiday Shopping: Are you a grasshopper or an ant?
by CityMama

My husband and I chuckled last night as we watched the first Christmas commercial of the season. In the Wal-Mart ad, a family prances happily around their house which has been adorned with the requisite trim. While gathered around the Christmas tree, the kids tear into their gifts and lo and behold! They got exactly what they wanted: a Bratz doll and a Transformers toy. The family then turns to the camera and smiles broadly. As the camera pulls away, the jolly scene is revealed to be a holiday card with "Christmas 2007" scrawled above it.

Christmas 2007 hasn't even happened yet, but the shopping frenzy has begun.

When it comes to holiday shopping, are you a grasshopper or an ant? Do you wait until the last moment or was your shopping begun during the post-holiday sales last year and completed sometime around the Fourth of July? Me, I'm neither grasshopper nor ant. I'm a mole. I burrow until the last possible moment until I realize that shopping absolutely must be done. Then I blindly flail around on Amazon's site looking for items that: 1. are in stock and 2. will arrive by December 24. I haven't set foot in a mall to do my holiday shopping since the first click-and-mortar shops opened their doors during the dot com boom. Crowds? Fighting over a $20 hat-scarf-glove set? Being accosted by those bell ringers everywhere I go? No, thank you. I'll stay home and shop from the comfort of my own couch.

So tell me, are you done shopping? I mean really done? Presents wrapped and everything? (I hate you.) Or are covering your ears and singing, "Fa La La La La" until Spring of 2008? And fellow moles, please let me know I'm not alone. Moles unite!

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Submitted by CityMama (view blog) on Mon, 11/05/2007 - 05:14

Comments

 

Done shopping? No way!

Okay, for once I have started. And this is early for me, but I think I have been put in the mood, by a CD I wrote about earlier, here in Blogher. Now, most of my people on my list are getting this CD. The kids are easy.
I was thinking about donating to some causes in someones name, I think that would be a cool thing for the adults on my list, exspecially the impossible to buy for ones, we all have those on the list (yeah, husband). As long as I can buy it online, I will be happy with my shopping this year. I am going on mall-strike.

Just my few cents worth on the subject

Peace and Love

Claudia Blanton
Motivational Coach, Fundraiser

Submitted by Claudia Blanton on Mon, 11/05/2007 - 06:19
 

Later Is Better

I give very few presents. To those that I feel are worthy, I will make something (usually still working on the final touches Christmas morning while hubby makes breakfast) or provide them with a gift certificate to make something at a later date -this gives me January to create something at an ant's pace. My recipients can drool over the catalog while I smile away at the thought that I was able to move thru the season seemingly unscathed.

Lisa, Creative Goddess
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Submitted by ecstewart on Mon, 11/05/2007 - 06:29
 

I blogged it

I'm something else entirely....

~Denise
BlogHer Community Manager

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Submitted by Denise on Mon, 11/05/2007 - 06:53
 

What? There's a holiday coming up?

Nope. Haven't started. And this year, Chanukah starts Dec. 4.

Submitted by SocalMom on Mon, 11/05/2007 - 11:20
 

Christmas shopping - bah

I started an Advent calender for my kids when they were very young so I have to have at least 48 little presents bought and wrapped by Nov. 31... no where close. Time is not on my side.

Submitted by opalstorm on Mon, 11/05/2007 - 13:03
 

I am getting there...

Slowly but surely. I am working my way, and now waiting for another week to get more done. I will be done by the middle of December!

Submitted by fritzfacts on Mon, 11/05/2007 - 18:38
 

Well, I TRY to make my gifts...

I always manage to convince myself that I have time to knit about 50 things by Christmas. I usually finish some of them, and then buy a few gifts last minute. This year I'm trying to prioritize - immediate family and closest friends first, then extended family. We'll see. I'm also thinking of making some baked goods or candy or something for coworkers and casual friends.

Submitted by Kat with a K on Tue, 11/06/2007 - 06:46
 

Mole here

I suggested to my mom this year (who is feeling very mole-ish) that my family and I go online to create "wish lists" at online stores. Most stores have them. Mine are at Target, Best Buy, Macy's, and Home Depot (I am a first-time homeowner this year!). I highly recommend it. It may sound a bit greedy, making a list and then sending it off, but my mother insists every year on getting her an accurate list of what we most desire. I guess it makes it easier on her, and I agree.

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Submitted by lizzen on Mon, 11/12/2007 - 13:34
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