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Retired
Member
07-11-2001
| Sunday, November 12, 2006 - 11:12 am
FUN LINK
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Yankee_in_ca
Member
08-01-2000
| Sunday, November 12, 2006 - 11:17 am
Because I'm in Canada, I always order almost all of my presents for my family (who lives in the U.S.) online -- and just have them shipped to my mom's house and then when I arrive for Christmas I hide for half a day to wrap everything. This year, we'll be in New Zealand for Christmas and New Year's, so we won't see our family. So as of today I'm almost FINISHED my Christmas shopping -- the plan is, when I go home for Thanksgiving, everything will be waiting for me. I'll wrap everything then, and leave it for them to open on Christmas.
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Sunday, November 12, 2006 - 11:57 am
No, not yet.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Sunday, November 12, 2006 - 12:00 pm
Haven't bought a single thing yet. I've thought about it but haven't bought anything.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Sunday, November 12, 2006 - 12:02 pm
LOL, I started shopping shortly after Kota's birthday for Christmas. I even have about half of what I've bought wrapped! I always got my vacation check at work in Decemeber and would wait til the last minute to shop. Then when I quit it was kind of a habit to keep that up only without the extra cash. Decided last year I really didn't like the stress involved! So started early. Caleb wants a new version of the game, Guild Wars, that him and Darren play online. Thats like $60 and really the only thing he's asked for. Kota's gotten into music the last couple years. Jessie McCartney, High School Musical (soundtrack,) and the other day she came and got me to watch a clip on the disney channel that Hannah Montana (a disney show) now has a cd out. She really hasn't asked for anything other than heelies so far, which she will not be getting because I think they're dangerous! How do you all do it with extended family? We were talking about it not long ago and with 12 kids in the family it's getting kinda expensive to get each of them something they want for Christmas. I made a hard decision for us that we had to set a money limit and stick to it. They'll of course also be getting my traditional gift of a book but this year I'm buying two sets (haven't decided what yet) from Scholastic. I want to get something that doesn't have to be read in order, like Magic Treehouse for the younger kids, split the books up between them and encourage them to pass them around to each other. We (adults) enjoy reading books and sharing with each other then being able to discuss them so I'm hoping the kids will like that as well. Rosie, I love the idea of a mystery train ride dinner. That sounds like it'd be a lot of fun!
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Grannyg
Member
05-28-2002
| Sunday, November 12, 2006 - 12:03 pm
I'm almost finished and everything I bought online. From Walmart to Ebay. lol
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Sunday, November 12, 2006 - 12:48 pm
I bought a Mater talking car for one of my Angel tag kids at work.........havent even thought of anyone else yet.
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Lumbele
Member
07-12-2002
| Sunday, November 12, 2006 - 1:05 pm
Haven't started yet either.
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Dogdoc
Member
09-29-2001
| Sunday, November 12, 2006 - 2:27 pm
Don't need to do much shopping this year but people at work are putting up their outdoor lights now to avoid hanging them when the snow is here.
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Sunday, November 12, 2006 - 4:39 pm
What is a heelie?
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Mamapors
Member
07-29-2004
| Sunday, November 12, 2006 - 4:48 pm
Julie, those tennis shoes with wheels on the bottom. Heelie (sp?) is the maker.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Sunday, November 12, 2006 - 9:18 pm
Thanks Mama, yep, that's them. The problem with them is kids use them everywhere and don't wear helmuts.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Monday, November 13, 2006 - 7:20 am
Oh yeah I've seen them sliding down the aisles in the grocery store and I was like dahell?? Then realized they had wheels in their shoes lol.
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Native_texan
Member
08-24-2004
| Monday, November 13, 2006 - 7:29 am
War, have ya'll thought about drawing names for Christmas. My mom's family did that for many years. Also, something really fun is Chinese Christmas.
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Monday, November 13, 2006 - 8:46 am
I started shopping this weekend for Christmas. Yayyy!! We picked up ornaments at Hallmark. I try to get a few each year. My son wants heelies too. He's getting a basketball hoop. :o)
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Yankee_in_ca
Member
08-01-2000
| Monday, November 13, 2006 - 9:36 am
As of yesterday, I'm finished!
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Ginger1218
Member
08-31-2001
| Monday, November 13, 2006 - 9:47 am
Yankee that is just sick. LOL
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, November 13, 2006 - 11:27 am
LOL. Even though I started way early for me, I won't be finished til mid December. But it should just be Darren's Christmas stuff and a few things for the kidlets (like stocking stuffers.) Certainly not the mad rush of years past. What is Chinese Christmas?
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Native_texan
Member
08-24-2004
| Monday, November 13, 2006 - 11:41 am
War, here is an explanation: http://www.zianet.com/ebear/chinese.html My parents' genealogy group does Cutthroat Bingo with a potluck dinner. Everyone brings a $5 gift in a paper bag. After we eat, we play bingo with the winner of each round choosing a gift. The gift has to be in the open to be seen. Once all the gifts have been taken, we have dessert. Then when we play Cutthroat Bingo until 9:00 pm. This time around, the winner gets to take whatever gift he/she wishes. Most of the players are elderly and it really is quite a hoot to watch as there is always at least one gift everyone wants and the current holder will sometimes try to hide it. So you may win five gifts and leave with nothing.
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Max
Moderator
08-12-2000
| Monday, November 13, 2006 - 12:40 pm
I don't do a lot of Christmas shopping. But I am furiously knitting some gifts. YOu can see progress on my blog: http://knitforjoy.blogspot.com I'm way behind, but that's normal for me! 
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Gidget
Member
07-28-2002
| Tuesday, November 14, 2006 - 8:36 am
well i only had one daughter, one granddaughter and the boyfriend left. but now gramma is sick so i am doing her shopping too. to date i have wrapped over 90 gifts and i am guessing i am at the half way mark for wrapping since i will likely do grammas. i love to wrap tho so it's okay. i thought bf was nuts to be shopping in september and he explained with our size family we have to be done by thanksgiving. turns out he was right. you just know by next year i will have figured out a better way to do this. they dont like secret santa but i will think of something. meanwhile i already had the christmas music on. i love christmas!!!
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Tuesday, November 14, 2006 - 1:29 pm
Wow Gidget, 90 gifts!! You guys need to cut it out for the adults and just draw names. Adults don't need multiple presents, only young kids really notice the number of presents, and of course teenagers who believe they should get everything all the time, LOL. We went to a name drawing a few years back, and now I can never get the teens anything but gift cards since I don't have a clue what they want and always buy the wrong thing. But as for the topic of this thread, I have two more gifts to buy and I am done. Just haven't quit settled on what to get my sister!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, November 14, 2006 - 1:50 pm
I love gift cards. The kids enjoy doing some shopping on their own, like going to the toy store or bookstore and picking out something they want. Last year, and I forgot all about it this year dangit! we got Boo'd for Halloween. Basically what it is you print out the little boo poem from the website, buy a little halloween bucket or something and some candy, surprises (little things like a pumpkin flashlight,) and decorations then you pick a friend or family member, sneak to their house and decorate their porch/front door, leave the poem and bucket of goodies, ring the doorbell and run. You hide somewhere they can't see you to watch their surprise and don't let on it was you. There is also a sheet of directions you print out and leave so they know to pass it along. Someone boo'd us, we boo'd the neighbors, and so on. It was really fun. LOL, totally offtopic for this thread, but, I thought it'd be a fun tradition for Christmas. So, we'll buy a couple stockings, pack them full of goodies and print out Twas the Night Before Christmas and a sheet that tells them to copy the poem and pass it on. The kids absolutely loved it last Halloween. The looks on their faces as they opened the door and found their goodie bucket waiting and then even more, getting into helping make one for the neighbors and sneaking over to decorate. My only problem is when you read the Halloween poem it says, "You've been Boo'd!" and I'm stuck wondering what the heck I'd put for Christmas, lol, "You've been hoho'd?"
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Justavice
Member
11-22-2005
| Tuesday, November 14, 2006 - 2:00 pm
How about, "Santa says you were good this year!"
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, November 14, 2006 - 2:01 pm
Oh I like that Just! Thanks!
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