Now Ben that’s kind of late but she is early too. Mine starts after Thanksgiving. I make a lot of videos for my ride with our slide show program and send it to them on DVD with the years worth of pics they emailed to me. They all love it and especially the old fashioned Christmas music I add to it.
We’re giving Christmas a miss this year, more or less. We’ll have a few decorations up (basically, the mantlepiece will have a fir bow and some lights. But, no tree, no presents. We’ve spent too much this year doing online shopping for everything we can, and I don’t see much point in buying even more (and unnecessarily). We aren’t allowed to travel out of the area (Pandemic regional lockdown) and ALL family branches are located outside of our area. No one’s allowed to travel INTO our area either. It will be a very quiet Christmas, which suits my husband and still-at-home son. I miss our granddaughter, and she’s very sad that she can’t visit us. I think all this isolation is hardest on the young children that can’t quite comprehend the seriousness of the situation. Hopefully, there will be a vaccine in the next year, so next Christmas can be more like normal. :(
I’ve seen empty shelves already where highly desirable gift Items, especially air fryers, should be. I told my adult kids I need the lists early, or they might end up with MY choices.
My family is not big on Christmas presents. We are more about getting together. We plan to still get together (only a handful of us) and we will mitigate the dangers best we can. If this were our last year on earth, would we really want to miss out on the chance to be together? Normally I decorate the Friday after Thanksgiving but this year I already have an urge to put up the lights. Could use some twinkly lights about now.
I used to do it two days before Christmas. That was before the internet. My record was the day right before Christmas, for the whole family. I don’t have the stamina anymore so I have learned to use my husband’s method. He buys presents during the whole year and stash them for Christmas. Way less hassle.
For a number of decades we have only been giving gifts to nieces and nephew. My family never gave gifts to adults. We never know what to give anyone in his family – they consider anything we give them to be cheap and we consider anything they gave us to be ridiculous and nothing something related to us at all and a giant waste of money.
So we have for some time bought gifts for his nieces and were giving my niblings (adults) checks – but the gifts to my nibilings stopped several years ago and his older niece is now an adult also. Gifts from us to his nieces were tossed aside even when bought items their mom said to get. His sister (ok Santa) gives the girls 64 gifts each as SIL has some crazy idea that they used to get same. (I knew her as a child – definitely not true.) Then their grandmother – who is on this side of poverty and should not be wasting money – gives them more gifts including a large shopping bag of candy each. Whatever we give them is tossed aside.
We are sure his sister is figuring that we are coming for Christmas Day dinner – WE ARE NOT. She does not really get the idea that we are not going out this year for health reasons.
Oh, and we never order anything online, by mail or by phone, unless it something we absolutely need and can’t otherwise get it. Deliveries never work right for some reasons – and I say this sick to my stomach waiting for my laptop to be fixed under warranty and returned to me – and I don’t believe that I will ever see it intact again.
As a kid, Christmas didn’t get started until after Thanksgiving. Now, it’s after Halloween and Thanksgiving is just in the way as another day. And Black Friday has become Black November.
stairsteppublishing over 3 years ago
And now Black Friday is every day in November. Can’t wait until after Valentine’s Day when Christmas Shopping season begins again.
whenlifewassimpler over 3 years ago
Now Ben that’s kind of late but she is early too. Mine starts after Thanksgiving. I make a lot of videos for my ride with our slide show program and send it to them on DVD with the years worth of pics they emailed to me. They all love it and especially the old fashioned Christmas music I add to it.
scote1379 Premium Member over 3 years ago
In a Normal year I say " The Horror the Horror " , this year of 2020 I say " Oh God No ,The Horror The Horror ! "
M2MM over 3 years ago
We’re giving Christmas a miss this year, more or less. We’ll have a few decorations up (basically, the mantlepiece will have a fir bow and some lights. But, no tree, no presents. We’ve spent too much this year doing online shopping for everything we can, and I don’t see much point in buying even more (and unnecessarily). We aren’t allowed to travel out of the area (Pandemic regional lockdown) and ALL family branches are located outside of our area. No one’s allowed to travel INTO our area either. It will be a very quiet Christmas, which suits my husband and still-at-home son. I miss our granddaughter, and she’s very sad that she can’t visit us. I think all this isolation is hardest on the young children that can’t quite comprehend the seriousness of the situation. Hopefully, there will be a vaccine in the next year, so next Christmas can be more like normal. :(
Michael G. over 3 years ago
Ehhh …
bjballard1 over 3 years ago
I’ve seen empty shelves already where highly desirable gift Items, especially air fryers, should be. I told my adult kids I need the lists early, or they might end up with MY choices.
car2ner over 3 years ago
My family is not big on Christmas presents. We are more about getting together. We plan to still get together (only a handful of us) and we will mitigate the dangers best we can. If this were our last year on earth, would we really want to miss out on the chance to be together? Normally I decorate the Friday after Thanksgiving but this year I already have an urge to put up the lights. Could use some twinkly lights about now.
KEA over 3 years ago
what with current shortages and delays I’ve already placed most of my orders for Christmas.
DaveQuinn over 3 years ago
Married men do not start Christmas shopping til Dec 24th at 5:00 PM. We have lots of time yet…don’t we?
sandflea over 3 years ago
Ben’s an early shopper.
cuzinron47 over 3 years ago
That early?
cabalonrye over 3 years ago
I used to do it two days before Christmas. That was before the internet. My record was the day right before Christmas, for the whole family. I don’t have the stamina anymore so I have learned to use my husband’s method. He buys presents during the whole year and stash them for Christmas. Way less hassle.
Holilubillkori Premium Member over 3 years ago
I prefer gift cards and giving them to Family members too.
Shinrinder Premium Member over 3 years ago
Me too.
mafastore over 3 years ago
For a number of decades we have only been giving gifts to nieces and nephew. My family never gave gifts to adults. We never know what to give anyone in his family – they consider anything we give them to be cheap and we consider anything they gave us to be ridiculous and nothing something related to us at all and a giant waste of money.
So we have for some time bought gifts for his nieces and were giving my niblings (adults) checks – but the gifts to my nibilings stopped several years ago and his older niece is now an adult also. Gifts from us to his nieces were tossed aside even when bought items their mom said to get. His sister (ok Santa) gives the girls 64 gifts each as SIL has some crazy idea that they used to get same. (I knew her as a child – definitely not true.) Then their grandmother – who is on this side of poverty and should not be wasting money – gives them more gifts including a large shopping bag of candy each. Whatever we give them is tossed aside.
We are sure his sister is figuring that we are coming for Christmas Day dinner – WE ARE NOT. She does not really get the idea that we are not going out this year for health reasons.
Oh, and we never order anything online, by mail or by phone, unless it something we absolutely need and can’t otherwise get it. Deliveries never work right for some reasons – and I say this sick to my stomach waiting for my laptop to be fixed under warranty and returned to me – and I don’t believe that I will ever see it intact again.
pbr50138 over 3 years ago
As a kid, Christmas didn’t get started until after Thanksgiving. Now, it’s after Halloween and Thanksgiving is just in the way as another day. And Black Friday has become Black November.