Have you done your Christmas/holiday shopping? 🎄✨

[S.J.]

It's almost December, so I thought I'd see whether anyone has started (or finished) their shopping! Are you someone who shops early, or do you leave it until Christmas Eve? The same question goes if you craft your holiday gifts!

I've bought gifts for everyone I need to except one person, since I'm yet to figure out what they'd like! I also need to draw some Christmas gifts, so still a lot to work on there!

 

[Halloqueen]

Despite wanting to try to get Christmas shopping done earlier so that there's no rush, I usually end up a bit into December before really getting a lot of the shopping done. This year, I have some ideas for what I'm getting people and am still trying to come up with some ideas for others. Haven't started purchasing any yet though.

For local folks, I always get my shopping done before Christmas Eve though. Definitely don't want to cut it that close, latest I'd be willing to risk delivery is like 22nd or 23rd, but I usually schedule things to arrive prior to that. Regardless of when my shopping is done or how long I've had the packages sitting around delivered, I always wrap the gifts on Christmas Eve night or early Christmas morning around midnight. It's kind of a personal mini tradition and I like putting the gifts under the tree in the dark room lit up by the Christmas tree lights. Little things like that enhance my enjoyment of the holiday even more.

For longer distance friends and family, I try to get the things there early but still close to Christmas Day. Like hopefully it'll arrive to them around the 19th-23rd or so.

Any cookies I bake for long distance folks, I'll mail out by like the 16th or so, whatever the cutoff for the cheaper shipping method is with the post office. Again so it's close enough to the day, but also, so shipping cost isn't crazy.

This post is mostly to do with online shopping. I do enjoy getting out into the physical stores to look too, but I find that I don't find as many Christmas gifts for people from physical stores in recent years.