Is This Weekend A Huge Shopping Time For You???

minimus

They say this weekend is the busiest time of the year for shoppers......How many buy MOST things this weekend (for XMas) and would you say you return most items bought or do you keep them to give as presents???

purplesofa

I avoid shopping from now till February.

purps

Finally-Free

No, I'll probably be patching up my igloo because the temperature is going up to 9°C tomorrow.

W

serendipity

I avoid shopping until end of Dec. except for the bookstore and Target.

blondie

How's business, min?

I never shop in a big crowd of people; I hate lines. The internet has proved to be a boon for me.

Blondie

minimus

Retailers have complained that this is one of the most sluggish years on record. I do think that electronics will always sell well esp. since they're sooooo cheap now.

minimus

see.....everyone's shopping!

juni

I have my grandkids' gifts for Christmas; just have to wrap.

I avoid stores now for awhile. I hate trying to find a parking space and waiting in the lines. Also this year I've done some on line shopping.

Juni

Alpheta

I avoid the physical stores as much as possible this time of year, especially the day after Thanksgiving. Sure, the T-day newspaper is crammed with special advertisements of shopping specials, and there are a kajillion people are there the next day too, all nuts! People camping out at midnight and whatever to be the first in line when the stores open for business on Friday. Elbowing your way through legions of rude, irate and tired female shoppers (you never see any men out there doing this silly stuff), carrying too much stuff in too small shopping bags, and sometimes the bags break, spilling your stuff all over kingdom-come, and then some smartass kid comes along and steals something from the pile you're trying to pick up and stuff back into the remaining intact bags. ICK!

I do most of my shopping online these days - and since I'm signed up to receive flyers from most of the retailers, including electronics, I get a heads-up on special sales and discounts. Office Depot, for instance, was running a really great promotion on a laptop (forget which brand), $299 (after discounts and rebates) for in-store buy and $399 (after discounts and rebates) for online purchase of a loaded Lenovo laptop. Got the email the day before T-day and could shop online on T-day. Most of the other retailers and electronics places also offered online shopping on T-day, so I didn't miss any of the big specials, if I was looking for that stuff. Internet, the way to go.

jaguarbass

Hello Minimus, I try to have my xmass shopping done before thanksgiving, I succeeded this year. I generally keep my gifts but saving and regiving the unwanted or unappreciatted is a idea. I would have to give it to someone way down on my list. Lets see I only have my wife and I that I give to.- We are doing a secret santa at work so this regiving idea may work there. I dont know though, If I dont want something then I consider it junk and I have a hard time giving it to someone else and feeling good about it.

Is This Weekend A Huge Shopping Time For You???

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