Aibu to have brought and wrapped all my christmas gifts .......

[Mrbojangles1]

All done a dusted brought everthing during the year and finshed off today in the next sale sat and wrapped everything this morining

Got pack of 120 luxury cards from marks for 30p last new year oh is having hot air ride but i will book that near to the time i have to ring his work behind his back and see when he can have a day off

In my family, we do table presents and tree presents, so they are easy to pick up in the sales.
For example, after last xmas I picked up a house shaped bird feeder metal affair for my sis for about £2, stig silly putty the other day for dad and bil (they'll donate them to dd and dn after playing at the dinner table), Clarins make up samples and creams for £15 that will be shared between DM and other dn and dd, all sorts. I enjoy it!
The boots 75% sale means DD's friends get pretty darn cool presents for their birthdays, we have a whole selection, Glee sets, coin counting money pots, boho perfume, and I bought some wine/glass/chocolate sets from bhs for £3 from £8. Pretty nice pressies for friend birthdays thru the yr. another friend will get the baileys glass gift set, another the Starbucks hot choc one.

Means I can afford to buy them presents

YANBU. Very organised!

Dear lord!! Never start Christmas anything till Dec 10 th after dh birthday.

Up to you of course but just don't be smug!

I couldn't go shopping on Xmas eve either. I don't cope well with crowds so it would be a nightmare if I had lots to do in town (not too bad if it's just a couple of bits).

I do love Xmas shopping, I just prefer to do it online where I feel safer. But I enjoy the process so much - the lists, the choosing/discussing with DH, the wrapping etc - that there is no way I would want to get it done so early as for me it would be an enormous anticlimax.

I've bought some presents this month in the sales - feeling quite pleased that I've found things for all the people that are usually hard to buy for.

I like Xmas shopping in December but now I've just got the people I find it easy to find things for and enjoy shopping for, and will have a bit more money then as well.

I'm not usually this well organised - I've put it down the weather, I've been online shopping to cheer myself up & at least I can justify getting Xmas presents stocked up .

It's a teeny bit wierd to have everything bought & wrapped, but a bit mean to suggest that the OP doesn't enjoy Christmas - maybe she is going to spend November sewing tree decorations and December baking Christmas cookies while the rest of us fret about last minute presents & fight through crowds of stressed out shoppers

"And on chistmas eve instead of rushing round the shops me and the kids string pop corn and make christmas bunting"

I hadn't even read that when I posted

Now that's what I call planning! I don't think it's weird and I wish I was half as organised as you!

There is a middle way though, i never go shopping on Christmas eve, but i don't start until after october half term. Just seems very lacking in excitement and enthusiasm to buy a selection of random gifts, and wrap them, half a year in advance, and follow it up with a pre-decorated tree, and then to come and attempt to preen about it

Brought them where? On holiday?

Nee na nee na nee na

I see the thread police are out

QOD I don't normally care what topic stuff is in.

But I really don't want to read about Christmas for 6 months of the year. It's so dull.

Whoosh over my head yellow, I was referring to the brought/bought snipe

I think you'll find its a pedantry alert rather than the thread police. Brought makes no sense in the title.

Yes, that is pedantry rather than thread police.

Pedantry is just as annoying. In fact, it is downright rude. I didn't even notice it said brought not bought, who cares?

nappyaddict decorations are still attached when you pop it up

I bow at your feet.

This is so good.

Im going to make a list and start next week.

Its so stressful, so pressured and so expensive every year. 17 kids to buy for and all the adults...jeez, i never look forward to it, just dread it.

Yabu you will lose 6 months at least on the garentee if a product is faulty

I think anyone sniping at anyone for their punctuation, use of pedantry (I'm sure a pedantic will critic that too!) is just plain mean and snippy.

My iPad speaks a different language to me I'm sure and autocorrects all sorts of crap, sometimes the poster can blame their tool, sometimes their local colloquialisms, sometimes their poor education.

It's just plain fecking rude to pick on people for it innit.

It depends on what you buy, i suppose.

Part of the pleasure of Christmas, for me, is going shopping with my teens. I give them spending limits, Ugg boots etc are counted in with presents.

I like to give chocs in Snow/Robin patterned boxes etc.

If i bought Ipods etc, now, they would be out of date. There are DVD's etc that won't be available until the end of October.

I am usually well ahead of my christmas shopping at this point, but have not started yet for various reasons.

YANBU but I leave the wrapping until christmas eve.

I have got quite a few presents. I have to buy a few each month to spread the cost and I would say I have half of the xmas presents bought. Won't start wrapping just yet though or I will forget what I bought

I try and get most of it done by oct/nov time as I hate going to town in december

YANBU to have started, but to have finished and wrapped already? It just seems a bit... Boring! Christmas shopping is what October and November are for.

Yes to whoever said joy sucking.

Yabu in finishing all your christmas shopping in July !!, but yanbu to have made a start.
I start around September, but i finish around mid-December as i enjoy the festiveness and joy with all the store christmas carols and lovely decorations.
Finishing crimbo shopping in july takes the fun out of it imo