November 28, 2016

  • Looking to Wrap Things Up

    I have most but not all my Christmas shopping completed. I still need to get a couple things for Sparky. I wanted to find a dancing dashboard Minion for his car but there aren't any to be found at a reasonable price. When they first came out, you could pick one up for $2.99. Searching the internet I was able to find them in sets of 4 for $50 (shipping and handling extra). So I'm scratching it off the list. I was thinking about getting the gift for the work gift exchange but the rules this year have changed. Management is purchasing the gifts and we will have the "dirty Santa" exchange where you can steal a gift and the person who gets it on the 3rd steal gets to keep it. In the past the "hot" gifts were all alcohol but this year there won't be any gifts that involve alcohol or gambling. There won't be the flurry of thievery over the stack of lottery tickets or the bottle of Vodka. We were at Goodwill looking for our traditional "lame" t-shirts that we buy the boys.
    We passed up this one:
    DrWhooves
    It was too cute - really. Neither son would be caught dead in a My Pretty Pony t-shirt even if it was Dr. Who themed. Too bad it wasn't my size.
    We ended up getting a Transformers t-shirt
    Prime
    We had several other choices including a Deathnote t-shirt that was very interesting but Sparky hates clothes that have skeletons/skulls on them. There was a very neat (and brand new) t-shirt for Notre Dame but Sparky thought it was too small. He finally picked the tie-dye Beatles t-shirt.
    Beatles apple

    Other than purchasing the "elf gift" (underwear because elves are completely over the whole toy thing), all I have to do now is the wrapping. Will I start early and do elaborate wrapping jobs with patterned tissue paper and fancy bows? Or will I just chuck everything in gift bags and call it good??

Comments (10)

  • I don't know about you, but I choose gift bags.

    • I have some gift bags but not enough to do all the gifts. I refuse to spend lots money on new bags - most of mine were purchased at a garage sale at 10 cents a piece. I'm leaning toward letting my husband use the gift bags and wrapping the other gifts in tissue paper and newspaper ads!

  • If you do online shopping, sign up for ebates.com and log into them first. Then check out other online stores and ebates gives you cash back. I have been an avid fan of amazon, and groupon as well as ebay.

  • The pattern on that bottom shirt is slimming, and I like the colors.
    No online cyber Monday shopping for me. I spent half the day driving to and from Tallahassee.

  • @murisopsis: glad to help. If you are trying to save cash too, and have a few minutes a day, sign up for Bing Rewards and Lucktastic too. It takes awhile but it is extra gift cards. Receipt hog too.

    • Thanks I'm already doing Bing Rewards. Lucktastic is pretty much on my list as a scam. They are a little too shady with the way they dole out prizes and don't respond to problems... I won't deal with them.

  • I can remember when my hands wrapped neatly before the cheap wrapping paper. lol You could always use the funny papers with a pretty bow.

    • Haha! That is my husband's family's go to wrapping method. I swear they save the funnies all year to have enough to wrap all the gifts. Also they are anti-bow and ribbon. All their packages are unadorned. That just goes against my upbringing. If it doesn't have a bow it isn't completely wrapped!

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