Have you started your Christmas shopping?

I do all my xmas shopping the monday after thanksgiving. I usually take some notes throughout the year what to get folks, bang it all out online and call it a job done.

There seems to be a presumption here that everyone has the means and opportunity to celebrate the holiday in it's common consumerist manner.

Almost finished. I had to get it done early as they changed our pay schedule in the summer so our December payday is the 23rd. Defo not shopping then!

Just need to do a hamper for a baby (who is due on Christmas day) then I'm all done.

No, with the exception of my grandson who gets a Kings Island season pass each year, I still have 5 kids to do. I don't buy presents for adults and don't expect or want them to buy anything for me. My husband and I stopped with gifts many years ago - up until Covid we agreed that travel was our priority.

As Scroogish as it sounds, I finally had to tell people to stop buying me something just because. I was getting things I had no use for and because they shop online, I couldn't even return it for something else. Last year I finally told my adult step- daughter that anything she gave to me would probably go to Goodwill the next day. For a while people were exchanging gift cards - unbelievably stupid.

It's not like anyone in the family needs anything - everyone is well off.

One year I suggested we pool our money and sponsor a needy family and that went over like a lead balloon and after that I just gave up.

I must still buy a couple of things but I have already acquired almost everything what I wanted to have. I always try to have everything ready on November.