Argh-Xmas shopping Spirit

[samhill]

Pretty much wrapped up, but

2 kinda big ticket items, paid for in advance, salesman said delivery before Christmas. Later I get a message delivery a month to 6 weeks later.
Operating on my money. Ho Ho Ho.

[farmaholic]

That sucks.

The older I get the more patience it seems I am getting. Age must mellow.

Now that the kids are grown...."gift" giving has turned to mindless gift cards....buy what you want. What's the point of buying something off a list...where's the element of surprise in that? And the dangers of not buying from a list is them not liking or wanting what you got them....I stopped setting myself up for that a while ago....two less disappointed people that way, LOL.

Commercialized nonsense. In that sense, everyday is Xmas for a lot of people.