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Christmas Shopping Poll
1. How close to done are you?
2. How many people do you have to buy for?
3. Do you and your DH buy for each other?
4. Who is the HARDEST person to buy for?
5. Who is the EASIEST to buy for?
Re: Christmas Shopping Poll
1. How close to done are you? 1 more person to get a few things for and then DH and I are still deciding if we are doing gifts for one another this year
2. How many people do you have to buy for? 8 total I think
3. Do you and your DH buy for each other? Still deciding, normally yes. We may just put $ into savings this year
4. Who is the HARDEST person to buy for? SIL's BF, soon to be fiance . . . she just doesn't know that yet
5. Who is the EASIEST to buy for? My sister
Nicole and Sam 10/3/09
1. How close to done are you? I finished on Black Friday- all of my wrapping too. Since then I have picked up a few un-anticipated items for DH though.
2. How many people do you have to buy for? Around 14-15.
3. Do you and your DH buy for each other? Yes.
4. Who is the HARDEST person to buy for? I don't think anyone really. I usually get a pretty good list from everyone on Thanksgiving before I go shopping and that makes it easier.
5. Who is the EASIEST to buy for? DH.
1. How close to done are you? about 70%. Hopefully 100% after tonight!
2. How many people do you have to buy for? my side, 10 people. DH's side, 31 people. yep...31. They still haven't gotten the concept of drawing names so we give to ALL aunts ALL uncles, ALL cousins, then of course parents, siblings and grandparents.
3. Do you and your DH buy for each other? yes, but we set a $50 limit. We do enough through the rest of the year.
4. Who is the HARDEST person to buy for? my son
5. Who is the EASIEST to buy for? my daughter.
1. How close are you to being done: 2 gifts left to go. One of them is hand made so I need to get busy on that!
2. How many people do you have to buy for: 10 or so.
3. Do you and DH buy for eachother: We normally do but this year we're scaling back because I needed a new computer so we spent our money on that instead.
4. Who is the hardest person to buy for: Generally my Dad but this year we had a great idea! He was the first one done!
5. Who is the easiest: Typically, DH. I'm around him the most and I shop year round so most years I'm done way before Christmas. He mentions something and I go get it later and stash it away.
1. How close to done are you? We are done, we finished all of our shopping this past weekend!
2. How many people do you have to buy for? 11
3. Do you and your DH buy for each other? Yes. Depending on our money situation each year and any goals we have to purchase anything large, we decide if we are doing gifts or just small stocking stuffers.
4. Who is the HARDEST person to buy for? My In-laws, they are the type of people to buy what they want, whenever they want it.
5. Who is the EASIEST to buy for? My H or my brother
1. How close to done are you? THISCLOSE. I just have to buy two secret santa gifts, and a gift for our girls' godparents (they are expecting in March, so we're buying them a couple outfits for the baby...easy!)
2. How many people do you have to buy for? Our list has gone WAY down over the last couple of years. Now, we buy for the girls, my mom, his parents (joint gift), his 3 nieces (they are our goddaughers), 3 secret santa gifts and the girls' godparents...so like 11 people.
3. Do you and your DH buy for each other? No, we don't. We stopped a long time ago. If we had the extra money, we would, but we figure we're basically buying ourselves gifts by doing it, so why bother when we don't have the money. We did stockings for each other the past couple years, but are not doing that this year either.
4. Who is the HARDEST person to buy for? Our parents have always been. I'm not that close to my mom, so it's hard to know what she's really like. His parents are typical parents that don't give you any ideas. But, they are all really close to the girls, and not good at taking pictures, so we decided to make it a tradition to do a yearly photo book of the girls and give that to them as their main gift. I made this years on Shutterfly and they should be here Friday...can't wait to see them!
5. Who is the EASIEST to buy for? Our girls for sure. Right now, we can just buy whatever we want and it doesn't matter. Amelia doesn't know better, and Olivia loves anything we give her. YAY.
1. How close to done are you? I have two gifts left to buy and the rest of the purchased ones are wrapped & under the tree. This year I was smart & wrapped as I went so that I didn't have a huge day of wrapping.
2. How many people do you have to buy for? 13-15 depending on the year.
3. Do you and your DH buy for each other? yes. I love that he listes to me all year long about what I mention and remembers it.
4. Who is the HARDEST person to buy for? My parents. They buy whatever they want and keep telling us they don't want anything.
5. Who is the EASIEST to buy for? My nieces. I just discovered that American Girl dolls have tiny panties with their outfits. I would have loved this stuff as a little girl and I love living through them when I buy for them.
2. How many people do you have to buy for? 9, I think
3. Do you and your DH buy for each other? We decided not to, but I will probably pick up a few small things for him.
4. Who is the HARDEST person to buy for? My mom.
5. Who is the EASIEST to buy for? My sister is pretty easy to buy for. My daughter also will be easy to buy for this year, I find things daily I want to get her. The hard part will be deciding what to actually buy. She won't even have any idea what's going on, so we are only planning on buying her a few things. Plus, she already has so much, and there is no need to go overboard just because!
My Bio
Married Bio
1. How close to done are you? not even nearly
2. How many people do you have to buy for? 25
3. Do you and your DH buy for each other? yes
4. Who is the HARDEST person to buy for? my dad. he has everything.
5. Who is the EASIEST to buy for? my step mom. i always know just what to get her. this year we bought her a rain barrel. i know she's gonna love it!
1. How close to done are you? Not close at all. I have part of hubby's done and that's it.
2. How many people do you have to buy for? 10 people.
3. Do you and your DH buy for each other? Yep.
4. Who is the HARDEST person to buy for? Hubby's grandparents.
5. Who is the EASIEST to buy for? My brother. He always just wants gift cards.
1. How close to done are you? Haven't even started, but most of the stuff I have to buy is pretty easy
2. How many people do you have to buy for? about 15
3. Do you and your DH buy for each other? No, we usually get something big we wanted for the house or go on vacation (I am hoping for a vacation this year!)
4. Who is the HARDEST person to buy for? My dad
5. Who is the EASIEST to buy for? My niece's
1. How close to done are you? Not close at all. Usually I'm done shopping this close to Christmas, but I'm very behind this year.
2. How many people do you have to buy for? 22 people and 3 dogs
3. Do you and your DH buy for each other? yes
4. Who is the HARDEST person to buy for? my parents - they have everything they want or need
5. Who is the EASIEST to buy for? my nieces - they are all really girly girls and it's so fun to pick out cute girl stuff (I only had nephews before getting married, and it's not nearly as fun to shop for boys)
Mr. Sammy Dog
1. How close to done are you?
Um....maybe 2/3 of the way? My dad's birthday is in about a week, so we have that to buy for too.
2. How many people do you have to buy for? about 15, I think.
3. Do you and your DH buy for each other? Usually - I think we might not this year - we just bought fireplace doors.
4. Who is the HARDEST person to buy for?
My brother. Every year I try to get creative, but I end up buying him clothes in the end. His wife says that half his wardrobe is from me! This year has been easier, since Williams-Sonoma has Star Wars aprons.
5. Who is the EASIEST to buy for?
My niece and nephews, and Big D's siblings. We always buy them pottery from an artist in my hometown.