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Just heard there are only 110 days left till Christmas.

I know Debih has done her shopping. Any body else jumping the gun and doing it early?

Was in Tesco earlier , getting the essentials , WINE LOL

They had thier advent calendars and choccy santas out

I'm giving sport gift voucher or cash to son/dil as they are fitness mad which they enjoy
And a clothes /drink gift
Grandchildren pyjamas and cash
Lilly's mum cash to spend in New York next year
For j dressing gown drink and small gifts
Cutting right back on sending Xmas cards

We decided on sausages, mash and baked beans for dinner, if that counts.

That's as far as we go - apart from a couple of cards.

We start our Xmas shopping in January.

As well as our main presents, Mrs A and I each buy twelve small ones - one for each
of the twelve days of you know when. It keeps the magic of Yuletide going, and it
gives us something to look out for on our shopping trips.

Not given it a single second's thought - and those chocolate santas looked really, really out of place

I bought some gifts in the January sales, and I have a list ready with ideas jotted on for various people.

I'm cutting down on three presents though hopefully this year. An old friend of John's, he's Tom's Godfather actually, has three children and we've always bought Christmas and Birthday presents for them. John only really sees Mike at Christmas though, they live an hour away now and it's usually a rushed meet up on Christmas Eve afternoon to exchange presents and cards. All was normal last year. I sent their son a birthday present in January, Tom didn't get anything on his birthday in February so I assumed that they'd either forgotten or it was lost in the post. I sent their daughter a present in March. Joe didn't get anything on his birthday in May either so I didn't bother to send anything for their other daughter when she had her birthday in July. I've decided that what I'll do this Christmas is mail their card and leave it at that. If Mike then arranges to meet John then it's easy to buy three gifts but seeing as they've decided not to acknowledge birthdays I can't see them bothering with Christmas.
I think they've just stayed friends out of habit though, it's not like they even keep in touch by phone for the rest of the year