I Am So Excited!!

[Clara Bow]

I got all my Christmas shopping, save like three things done today!! And I got GREAT gifts for everyone, I am thrilled!
I also got myself a little "preChristmas, postfinals" present: the new Hannibal Lecter book...I cannot wait to get started reading it (but not at night while hubby's asleep and I'm up in the house by myself...)
So who else fudged a little and bought themselves a little goody whilst out spreading cheer??

[Sandi Papaya]

I'm not even halfway finished with my shopping, but I saw a deal on eBay on something I've been wanting for a long time - the Swarovski crystal Mickey Mouse charm bracelet, complete with all 5 charms  - for under $150. Mind you, at regular retail, the bracelet ITSELF with the Mickey Mouse charm is $150. The other charms are $50 apiece.

So I got a $350 bracelet for $122, all told. Gotta love eBay!!!! But really, mine was an "I survived my ginormous accident and being in a halo for 3 months" gift to myself. I'll get the rest of my shopping done this week.

[Evil Duckie]

Good going Auntie Venom!

I am done except for the socks and underware. I will be buying them Monday. I really hope that they will go on sale Sunday.

[Clara Bow]

They've got "Cars" undies at WalMart, my son is three and thinks that girding his loins with Lightning McQueen and company is the only way to go...didn't notice any sales though I must admit I wasn't looking. Good luck!

[kckgirl]

Congratulations. My shopping is all done (has been since Black Friday except for the last thing I got yesterday). Fortunately this time, procrastination paid off. One item I wanted for my granddaughter was $30 when I first looked at it, and I just didn't have that much the day I looked at them. Yesterday I decided it was time to just suck it up and buy the item. It was on sale for $19.99.

Now I have to wrap...my downfall every year. Last year my daughter and I were out at 5 a.m. on Black Friday. We got everything (and great deals) and were home by around 10 a.m. DD was on a roll. By lunchtime that day, everything was wrapped. Unfortunately, this year we got a later start and she had worked all night. So when we got home she went to bed, and I'm still driving around with all the gifts in the trunk of my car. I have Monday off work and I think we'll wrap while the kidlets are in school.

[Sandi Papaya]

I'm almost done with all my shopping - and now I have to wrap.  I hate wrapping gifts. I'm glad I won't have to wrap my mom's, though - I paid extra to have Apple gift-box and wrap it for me (it's an iPod nano! I'm so excited for her to get it!).

I've got a week till Christmas and maybe 6 people left to shop for - that's a first, for me! I end up doing all my gift shopping last-minute every year.

[purplebunny]

As of Saturday my husband I were both done! And the gifts to family back home are in the mail as of yesterday... should get to my parents' house tomorrow for distribution (I called and asked if they would play 'Santa' so we could save on shipping costs).

One thing about shipping most gifts away... it means we have to get finished that much sooner!

[Linda1967]

I finished my shopping Saturday except for some stocking stuffers for my mom and dad and DH, since DH and I will be spending Christmas Eve and Christmas Day at my parents' home. My parents still hang stockings for each other and for any daughters, sons-in-laws and grandchildren who are visiting them.

DH and I actually bought most of our gifts in one afternoon on Dec. 2. - the only ones we didn't get that day were gifts for each other, our teenage nephew and our adult niece and her new husband. We had purchased those gifts by Dec. 10.

On Saturday, DH wrapped the gifts that we are giving to the senior citizen that we adopted for Christmas through our church, and wrapped and mailed the gifts to his brother and his brother's wife and child. DH is on vacation this week, so yesterday he wrapped and mailed the gifts to his parents, and wrapped all of the gifts for my family members, whom we'll all see the week of Christmas. It feels good to have everything done - and I am so lucky that I have a spouse who is a much better gift wrapper than I am and who wraps everything without me even asking him. I still need to wrap his gifts, however.

As for what I bought for myself while Christmas shopping:

1. A pair of winter white wool pants at Ann Taylor Loft. I needed one or two pairs of wool pants for work, and I am planning to wear these pants with a fancy top on New Year's Eve.

2. Undies and bras, which I really needed and which were on sale at Victoria's Secret. I got a free lotion and body wash for buying them, and I'll give the lotion and body wash to my mom as a stocking stuffer.

 

[Scritzy]

Well, let's see …

Except for our stocking-stuffer run at the Five and Ten that we'll do on  Saturday, I've been finished with my shopping for some time. (Though I did cheat and buy my sister a pair of socks on Saturday.) But for myself I have bought some black suede lace-up boots in the style I'd been seeking for two years now (30 percent off); a nifty little red hat (50 percent off); a pretty sheer black shawl covered in chain-stitch embroidery and sequins (50 percent off) and a black/maroon skirt that looks wonderful with my new boots (50 percent off). 

Plus a beautiful Christmas sweater with cardinals done in red sequins and embroidery. Gotta have those sparkles!

I still have to make a couple of things, though, for Tim and his wife. I'll do that tonight, while Chip is out shopping for ME!! 

[HogwartsAlum]

I'm all done except for:

My skating coach - gift cert to teacher store (must get still).
Friend at the rink - little skating buddy stuffed animal (I have it, just not wrapped).

I haven't really bought myself anything yet, but I might go to the flea market this weekend.  I have two gift cards from Barnes & Noble to spend - whoopeee! - but I probably won't go until after Christmas, unless I get really really bored.

[WildChild@Heart]

I fudged and got myself a new pair of Ugg slippers, the old pair was worn out.