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  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Community member Posts: 14,985 Championing
    I agree @Strawberry1

    When I receive presents I'd rather people put thought in than spend a lot of money (that they probably need for more important things at the moment)
  • Strawberry1
    Strawberry1 Community member, Scope Member Posts: 5,249 Championing
    I agree with you too @66Mustang . Great minds think alike 😊
  • Hannah_Alumni
    Hannah_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,905 Championing
    I've started! Hoping to finish by mid November. Have everything wrapped by the end of November.

    Watch me be wrapping Christmas presents on Christmas Eve :D 
  • Strawberry1
    Strawberry1 Community member, Scope Member Posts: 5,249 Championing
    Bless you @Hannah_Scope , Good luck .
  • Strawberry1
    Strawberry1 Community member, Scope Member Posts: 5,249 Championing
    You always make me chuckle @Hannah_Scope ,  very good sense of humour.  Bless you. 
  • Jimm_Scope
    Jimm_Scope Posts: 5,293 Online Community Team
    We're visiting my partners family in the states, so might get a few souvenirs for people. Or things they can't normally get in the UK.

    For instance my sister, who is deathly allergic to peanuts, loves the peanut-free alternative that Trader Joe's (an american food store that is almost entirely local or own-brand) sells. It's made with sunflower seeds but looks and tastes quite like peanut butter. So we always bring her back a lot of it, enough that we usually get a few questions from the person at the till heh.
  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Community member Posts: 14,985 Championing
    Before the internet was a big thing and everyone had it I used to be like some sort of "fixer" ... whenever someone in the family wanted something I'd find it online and get them it ... they'd always be impressed at how I managed to source it (especially when I can't get out!!). Sadly those days are gone now :D 
  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 58,802 Championing
    Got my eye on a in the  night garden set for my grandaughter
  • Strawberry1
    Strawberry1 Community member, Scope Member Posts: 5,249 Championing
    Sounds lovely @Sandy_123 .
  • Hannah_Alumni
    Hannah_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,905 Championing
    @Strawberry1 One to make you chuckle. My brother always asks for me to do his Christmas wrapping as he isn't the best at it. 

    Years ago, he came home from University and decided to go out for a few drinks Christmas Eve with his friends. Came home gone 2am, and was very hungover the next morning.

    Realised he'd forgotten to wrap a pair of slippers he bought our mum. I had popped out to deliver some gifts so he had to wrap them himself.

    He wrapped each one individually as he was too hungover to wrap them together 😂😂😂

    As he presented them to our mum he said you've not got one but two gifts! 😂
  • Strawberry1
    Strawberry1 Community member, Scope Member Posts: 5,249 Championing
    Oh @Hannah_Scope , that's so funny 😆😅🤣😂
  • Strawberry1
    Strawberry1 Community member, Scope Member Posts: 5,249 Championing
    Bless you @Ada . Christmas is so over dramatised I think . I could live without it if I'm honest. 
  • Strawberry1
    Strawberry1 Community member, Scope Member Posts: 5,249 Championing
    Lovely gesture @woodbine .
  • Steve_in_The_City
    Steve_in_The_City Scope Member Posts: 709 Trailblazing
    @Ada Don't feel guilty. If you can't afford to buy gifts, then that is that. I've had more than a few broke Xmas's myself, and haven't been able to buy gifts. But I didn't feel guilty as most people had more than me and were going to have a good time anyway. As @Strawberry1 said, Xmas is over-dramatised and we are all under undue pressure to provide this, that and the other. But if you can't do it, you can't do it, so don't worry.

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