Tuesday, 21 July 2009
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Christmas Shopping In July?
Enter text here. With Christmas not anywhere around the corner, its hard to think about what you're going to stuff under the Christmas tree when you're more focused on working on a hot tan! I know someone who recently went shopping upstate and bought a few clearance items to use as potential Birthday/Christmas gifts, to take off the edge of last minute shopping and higher last minute prices. For me, this mentality is hard to focus on! I'm worried about saving my dollars this summer on vacations, expenditures and school coming up this Fall. Her reasons make sense at the same time. She has one less person to shop for when December comes around.
Would you opt for early Christmas shopping? Does it really save money in the long run as opposed to last minute gifts?
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I shop in the summer to take advange of the sales & I try to be finish with my shopping the first week of December so I can send everything out on time...which doesnt happen often but hell as long as you get it...
It's a well known fact that they jack up the prices at Christmas & after last year's black friday deaths in numerous cities, I expect to see a change in how they handle it. They were so poorly equipped & knew it & people were so greedy & careless. They need to hire extra security or off duty police officers for crowd control because they know how stupid some people can be. Was the man who got trampled to death in Walmart worth less than the $20 people could have potentially saved on a flat screen TV?
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I totally shop for Christmas early! I've never been so motivated as to Christmas shop in July, but I do start in early October. I do this largely to avoid using credit cards - $50-$100 per paycheck over the course of four or five paychecks is much easier for me to budget for than finding $500 in mid-December! Plus, I stress way less. Shopping centers on Saturdays in December make my head hurt :) - if I'm done by then, life is much easier!
@twentyfivecents - totally agree: time savings and budget-ease! Most definitely!
I start Christmas shopping on Boxing Day the previous year to get Boxing Day specials if I find things that could be really sweet gifts for others. I've done at least half of my Christmas (and later-year birthday) shopping since school got out in April. I tend to ask people what they want for Christmas/birthday in March or April, but obviously people are most receptive around November-December, so the second week of December is my FLAT DEADLINE for Christmas shopping.
I'm not worried about hot tans or vacations. o_o
@Shinbi_Belldandy@xanga That guy that was trampled in walmart was awful.. I cant believe people would go this crazy. If they would get it together earlier, there wouldn't be this madness for shopping!
I shop a little all year long whenever I see something that I know would be perfect for someone. That way it is such a small amount that comes out of my budget and it doesn't put me in a pinch at all. I've been doing this for years. I have a cabinet in the basement where I stash my purchases and I wrap them when no one is around so they are ready to go come the holidays. I do keep a list of what I've bought in the back of my planner so I don't end up with duplicates. This works for me.
By the time September rolls around, my Mom would have all of her Christmas shopping done. We've never participated in "Black Friday", we've never chased the "one hour sale" or K-Mart's "Blue Light Special", or the half-dozen other sales swamp events; rather, she always seemed to have the right thing around.
I try to take up where she left off; it's harder with teenagers in the house [whose tastes and styles change constantly] but I get a fair share of it all accomplished by November, most times.
I recommend to others to do likewise. Trust me - it's one less thing to worry about, and little grannies, these days, can be lethal at the 5AM Black Friday One Hour Sales when they absolutely *need* to get today's Cabbage Patch Kids, Furbies, Pokemon, Razor Scooters, or whatever the current craze...I watched a tiny granny whap a young fella with what appeared to be a mid-sized pocketbook lined with paving bricks, and the stunned young man had to pick himself off the floor while she took the Pokemon movie to the front of the store, leaning heavily on her quad-cane. True story.