Shopping ~ A Smoldering Cesspool of Jive

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True Story:

I decided to go analog this year... only shop locally, only purchase things in stock, be out and about - like the days of olden, support the locals, smile, be brimming with cheer & merriment & other happy shit, try to recreate the long gone days of my youth in the 1960's.

End Result: My wife and daughter basically have the weirdest assortment of gifts under the tree and I feel like I detest humanity more than ever.
But I did throw some coin back into the local pot, so there's that.

Going back to Bezos-Mart next year.

How was everyone else's shopping - enjoy it or make you gnash your teeth to nubs?

JwRosenthal

We did a marathon shop shop this morning in one location-
Trader Joe’s for candy gift , check.
Liquor store for very expensive bottle of scotch i couldn’t identify from Old Grandad- check
Gift certificate for spa day for friend who needs much more than a massage- check

Back home watching TV and eating salted caramels- check.

Holiday shopping done.

X350 XJR

I'm re-gifting all of the crap people bought me off Amazon last year.

Ho ho ho.

X350 XJR

I'm re-gifting all of the crap people bought me off Amazon last year.

Ho ho ho.

janice&fred

My wife is the same size as when I first met her, but I still would never attempt to buy her a stitch of clothing. Her taste is just too quirky and whatever I was to get wouldn't work. I stick to the universally pleasing gift of cash, as the thicker the envelope the bigger my chances are of getting lucky. And when I say lucky, I mean her forgetting something on my to-do list.

JwRosenthal

But you’re keeping those battery operated heated socks I got you, right?

MRC

I went to buy a friend a music CD (Shostakovich - 24 Preludes and Fugues) but found there was no shop in Cambridge selling CDs of classical music. Cambridge is supposed to be a rather intellectual city (as is the other big-ish Cambridge on the Charles River) so that was rather surprising. My friend doesn't do streaming so that wrecked this present idea.

I'll have to wrap up an IOU somehow ....

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I like this, a lot.

My two most controversial gifts this year:

A. My wife has gained some heft during this past year so I am crossing enemy lines, risking life & limb, and gifting her with a dress that would have fit her perfectly last year... as a subtle nudge.
Keep an eye for my Obit.

B. Her folks, my in-laws, send us the most hideous shit every year (cheap, gas station, wraparound sunglasses (think NASCAR), body washes scented with cinnamon, blue raspberry and cotton candy (yeah, we are seven years old) and wall hangings with tired slogans like "It's time to Wine!" & "Live, Laugh, Love" ouch)...
I've carefully curated the oldest gifts from them over the years in a care package back to them in Florida. Their forgetfulness has increased significantly so I feel confident they will both be dazzled by the package. My wife isn't absolutely positive but has signed off on the experiment. Time will tell.

Aroxx

Another option is to procure the digital files and burn your own CDs.

Evitzee

Nothing says Merry Christmas to a friend who enjoys music more than a burned CD with no cover art or notes, just a blank CD, hopefully with the contents scribbled down on the jewel case liner with a Sharpie.