If I’m feeling well enough tomorrow Chris and I were thinking about officially starting our holiday shopping.
We still aren’t sure what kind of gifts we’re going to buy all the kids in the family! Perhaps tomorrow outing will just be a trip out to get some ideas. Most of the kids, nephews and nieces, are teens and I think those are the hardest people to buy for each year!
I had mentioned in another post that I was thinking of getting some of them newly released movies and or gift certificates to their favorite stores, but if you have any ideas for gifts for teens I’d love to hear them. Especially gifts that don’t break the budget! I haven’t been making much money lately so we don’t have much to spare to buy gifts this year.
My only brother that lives in the area has invited us over to his house for an early Christmas get together next weekend. His wife, my sister, her twins and their girlfriend and boyfriend, and my brothers daughter, her husband and their new baby will be there. It’s just a small gathering, but one that we try to do each year.
My brothers and sister and I usually don’t exchange gifts anymore. As I said in an earlier post we decided a while back just to buy gifts for the kids. This year I might get my brother a gift though. I found some fantastic silk ties and I know how much he loves his ties. So I might surprise him with a small gift. The gift would be a thank you for the Tom Cochrane and Red Rider concert passes that he got us in the summer.
Have you started shopping for the holidays yet? I’ll bet that some of you started today consider that it’s Black Friday! Did you put yourself on a budget this year? Cut down on the number of gifts that you’re going to buy?
I always find Christmas the most expensive time of the year. I’m still trying to figure out how we are going to manage to buy all the gifts we need to purchase this year on almost no money.
My wife and daughter did go do some shopping for the granddaughters yesterday. We are scaling way back this year.
An Arkie’s Musings
Black Friday was a nightmare for alot of ppl shopping at Walmart in Long Island, NY
I’m glad I’m done and all wrapped up!
After Thanksgiving come Christmas, so it is best to start with shopping early as much as possible. I have skipped Black Friday as i don’t have time and energy to fight over for some products.
The no money thing is going to make everyone’s life difficult this month. What’s worse is that since people won’t be buying as much as usual, retail numbers will be down, and as a result the economy is likely to get even worse 🙁