Bored as shit tonight and figured I’d add a useless poll to this post.
Only 7 days left, how much shopping do you have left? I didn’t even start mine til like Monday but all mine was online, so I am pretty much done.
This was probably the first year I was able to get everything I wanted for everyone, and more and not care about over spending. Also one of the years I didn’t really have anything I wanted so it’ll be interesting to see what I get.
What did YOU spend total this year on all your holiday shopping?
thats exactly how i feel too, some “recession” we are in.
i havent had this much money in the bank in a long time, even after gifts were bought and nothing went on credit. i am loving life financially right now.
i only had to shop for 3 people this year which means i spend way less than 500. good for me cuz i will have leftover money to buy myself goodies after the holidays are over.
how many of you guys actually get back what you spend in gifts? sometimes i get more, but most often not.
if I count what I bought myself, I spent more this year than I ever have. Oh and for the first time ever I think all but one thing I bought was made here in the US and they were all bought from small independent stores.
Not a fan of material presents anymore so I try to spend as little as possible. I do photography for a lot my family, and the g/f is getting inter-island plane tickets during our trip in Hawaii so I can take her to other islands. Other than that, Gift Cards to restaurants via restaurant.com FTMFW.
but should be a good xmas. my mom was just here for a week…havent seen her in almost 2 years. I’ll see my sister and brother in law for the first time in also 2 years next week… and also will meet my nephew for the first time.
There really is no point in overspending. I am just glad that I will be able to travel and spend the time with my family and friends that I rarely get to see.
I don’t think I will ever spend a lot of money on gifts just to have them end up buried in someone’s closet. That is not what Christmas is about.
$300 for my parents
$100 for the sister
$150 on the GFs family
$400 on the GFs gift
$50 for my family yankee exchange
$25 for my company exchange
$2000 for myself
The gifts are things people want. I am a firm person on not just buying something random for a person they don’t need. Also I like getting things like a night out or tickets to something they like.
I agree totally if I knew a gift was going to just go into a closet I wouldn’t buy it. I just like to buy people nice things that normally they wouldn’t buy themselves especially since know I can afford to do so.
This is the first Christmas in a couple years I’ll get to stay home and visit with family instead of showing up Christmas day and having to leave.
Yeah stuff like that I think is a lot better. Instead of material items having the person do something that may enrich their lifestyle a bit. When I was with my ex of 3 years I just used to take her on short vacations for special occasions, and she did the same for me. It was awesome actually.