Christmas

[butterfly]

Am hopefully, with a bit of luck going to finish my Xmas shopping tomorrow!! Yippee!! Then i'll be able to relax and just enjoy

maybe you can help with mine, wow! well done, really wish I was so close to finishing.

started to move the room around ready for the tree in early December. I have a few presents but that as far as I am prepared.
Idea of Vancover would be amazing couldn't do it at Christmas it would have to be a New Year thing.

[Beate]

God I hate Secret Santa at work. Why do they inflict that on us every year?

[butterfly]

Beate can't you opt out of it?

[McG]

Beate can't you opt out of it?

Don't do that ....... they'll all think your the Grinch!
Is the problem deciding what to b*y? Do you b*y for a particular person?
Last Christmas I b*ght a "night in" for various people who are difficult to b*y for.
I b*ght a dvd, bottle of wine & sweets or a book, a nice smelling candle and sweets and various other permutations.
It allows you to spend as much or as little as you want/can afford!

[claire]

At our work the secret Santa has a spending limit of £5.
And I'm the one who get people the embarrassing present.
Including one year I had the bosses name and I b*ght her nipple tassels with union jack on.
Lol. Her face was a picture. Did I own up to b*ying it ? NO way. She'd kill me.
All I said was. Ooo that's very patriotic

[Beate]

Yes you can opt out of it but how does that look? We have a spending limit too, £5 or £10 or something. And then you sit around a big table and everyone unwraps their gifts in front of everyone and then you have to guess who it's from and it's just excruciatingly embarrassing when you have to fake delight at some pretty horrible candles or a mug with a Santa on it. ARGH.

[McG]

Yes you can opt out of it but how does that look? We have a spending limit too, £5 or £10 or something. And then you sit around a big table and everyone unwraps their gifts in front of everyone and then you have to guess who it's from and it's just excruciatingly embarrassing when you have to fake delight at some pretty horrible candles or a mug with a Santa on it. ARGH.

That's why I tend to b*y something most people will use, and perhaps even appreciate, or at least not cringe at!

If limit is £5 b*y a bottle of wine £3, a box of Maltesers (£1) and a dvd from Poundland(£1).
If limit is more, you can easily adjust the price of wine/sweets/dvd.
Also, it's suitable for male or female and most people would at least use the things rather than throw them away or donate them to the charity shop. I hate to think of wasting money!

This can be a useful suggestion for people who have everything but you still want to give a gift and limit the spending!

[Celini]

(throwing things to charity shop is not wasting money... plus it actually pays for my salary )

[Rainey]

Am hopefully, with a bit of luck going to finish my Xmas shopping tomorrow!! Yippee!! Then i'll be able to relax and just enjoy

maybe you can help with mine, wow! well done, really wish I was so close to finishing.

started to move the room around ready for the tree in early December. I have a few presents but that as far as I am prepared.
Idea of Vancover would be amazing couldn't do it at Christmas it would have to be a New Year thing.

YIPPEE! I'm done!
(well with the exception of 2 things for my son that were sold out instore, but I've just seen them online so will order as soon as I get home from work).

I normally am finished by mid November, due to lack of funds still had things to get right up til a few days before Xmas last year, but we got pa*d really early and ended up leaving my self short, becuase of the early payment it was 7 weeks between p*y days!

So was determined this year to find the money and get it done early come what may, have been super organised using the MSE Grabbit board, and all the discount codes, vouchers, etc I could find, have only pa*d about a quarter of the price for my daughters gifts! As well as Xmas I have my nephew, niece, father in law, OH, brother in law and mum's birthday in December...but there all done too now!

Vancouver at Xmas would be fantastic, my dad moved to Canada so would really love to go but it too expensive for us all at the moment, maybe next year, or the year after.....or the one after that.

Good luck with the Secret Santa Beate, bottle of wine or some choccies maybe, wouldn't waste to much effort.

[canadian_turtle]

Yes you can opt out of it but how does that look? We have a spending limit too, £5 or £10 or something. And then you sit around a big table and everyone unwraps their gifts in front of everyone and then you have to guess who it's from and it's just excruciatingly embarrassing when you have to fake delight at some pretty horrible candles or a mug with a Santa on it. ARGH.

Don't you guys make wish lists? In the Netherlands we do for Secret Santa so you should end up with something you actually like (unless the person who picked you is an ass and just got something completely random not on the list because they already had it in their house or so)