When do you start doing your Christmas shopping?

I usually start after Thanksgiving...I do my first round of Christmas shopping on Black Friday so I can get some good bargains. lol.





How about you?|||Early October is the new early November for me ha ha :)





No, I'm a liar. I'm one of those idiots that do those last-minute shopping the DAY before Christmas. Sometimes on Christmas morning, if the stores are opened...|||I usually start my Christmas shopping at the end of October. I have been known to buy presents in July, I have spotted something that I know would be ideal for someone and bought it. The problem is I have also been known to put it away for safe keeping till Christmas and then forgotten about it.


Earlier this year I was cleaning out some cupboards and came across a book that I had bought for my husband for Christmas and simply forgot about it. Still it was a nice surprise to have a present at Easter instead of Christmas, thank goodness I had not wrapped it in Christmas wrapping paper.|||I usually start thinking of ideas in the summer and then start buying in September/October. If you know what you're looking for, you can always be on the lookout for a good deal and not end up paying a high price just because it's advertised as "on sale." I do a lot of comparison shopping via the internet and regular stores so I can feel confident about getting a good deal.





...but in the end, I always end up running around for something at the last minute anyway. ;-)|||lol pretty much a week or so before Christmas. Just because In my family we we're never brought up celebrating holidays (part of my moms side does Christmas the other half Hanukkah and on my dads side Hanukkah so it's totally split up). When my grandmother was still alive on my dads side we used to go there and it was the best thing ever, but after she died in 2002 we haven't done Hanukkah or Christmas (well we only did Christmas one year but that's it) We still did high holidays for my grandfather because he was religious but he died this summer so goodbye all holidays. lol





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like a week or two before Christmas I go buy something for my best friend, and that's my Christmas shopping. |||Hi there, I would normally recommend shopping when all the advertisements for christmas deals are on tv and radio also if you have kids or younger family i would leave it until mid-november as kids minds are always changing!, Basically to sum up, go around early november to mid november when all the deals are starting but the crowds are not too bad!!!|||I'm 13 so i only buy presents for my brother and parents.... I usually start looking around this time of year..... But i don't really have to worry about my brothers present, for him i always just sneak in to his room and grab his fav tee or 50 bucks out of his drawer, He goes crazy looking for the stuff and then he opens up a box on christmas to find his missing stuff lols:D......|||I prefer to do it after Thanksgiving so if something happens I must return the gifts, I'm not stuck with not being able to return them since that places usually only allow you 30 days to make a return ( though some places can be less than that). And I find it easier to shop in stores because if you have to return something, you have a hard time to impossible time trying to do it online. |||Greta, oh no! You just made me stress. I need to get moving. I usually start about this time-ugh, that's where my money goes every year.





I attempt the shopping after Thanksgiving every year in Green Bay and end up looking like a mad woman after a few hours of that. Darn those deals, and the horrible lines to get them.|||I've never started before Black Friday. Some years I start as late as around Dec. 10.





I do as much as possible online or at Wal-Mart or Target.





This year our family is on a tighter budget and a cash basis. The online orders will be on credit cards, so I plan to start my online shopping earlier in November so that I can have it paid by Christmas. In past years, I was still paying for Christmas in January.|||well i do my christmas shopping year round that way i am not spendin hundreds of dollars at one time, it doesn't seem that expensive if you do it year round. And then you just save the presents in like a closet. It really is a good idea.|||Generally October 29th. After I've cashed my birthday checks from the day before, I go out and spend it all on my amazing friends and family (:





One would think it would be terrible to spend all your birthday money on others, but it really just makes me happy :)|||I would go Christmas shopping on like December 2nd so you dont have to go through tough crowds and when you fianally there is no more people there will be nothing good to buy.So this is why i tell you to go on that date.|||I'm kinda lazy, so usually almost christmas time lol.


But I've heard that especially now is a good time to start because of the economy crisis, a lot of places are having sales.|||In two weeks, I'm going to my cousin's for the weekend. I do this every year and she has a huge mall near here. I will try to get some of my christmas shopping done then. I can't wait til the last minute.|||I start in October, usually. I find some really good deals this early, they actually have super deals at this point in the year. Then, I go the day after Thanksgiving and find lots of good deals. |||well im 15 so i don't really do a lot of it haha





but i get my cousins, parents and brothers and sisters things for christmas.





so i usually start pretty late lol. like the 20th of December |||I do mine the DAY after thanksgiving EVERYTHING is on sale and if you don't have the money do it whenever you got the extra money!|||If I'm out, and something like: %26gt;BAM%26lt; it hits me, then I will be like "OMG ____ would love that!" Then I will buy it.


But mostly all of my shopping is on Black Friday (good deals, good deals!!)


|||I normally shop during the year if I find nice things or sales. So I normally start after Christmas is over looking for presents for next Christmas.|||Usually around the middle of October, and I get about 75% of it done by Halloween. Then I finish up on Thanksgiving weekend.|||The day after Christmas the previous year. I also shop on Thanksgiving day and the day after.|||I am starting right now because time goes by so fast this time of the year. I am doing all my shopping this year on yomili.com to find the lowest prices due to the current economy.|||This year will be a small (very small) family gathering. So I have been doing shopping off and on since January. I just really wish this holiday would just go away...... :( sorry :(|||Early November or maybe earlier than that coz the prices are still low and whenever I find something "inexpensive" and nice|||my family does ours all year round, whenever we see something on sale or just something we know someone will love|||I try my best to do it after thanksgiving but i always end up doing it about a week or so before Christmas lol!|||Before last year, I was a last minute shopper. (I mean...the week before). Last year and this year, I started in mid October.|||Actually, I think I'm just going to save myself some money and bake something this year... Though haven't planned that out yet.|||I actually start just befor christmas eve


|||as of the begining of october|||I usually pick a few things up here and there. But I do most of it right after Thanksgiving when everything goes on sale.