ajburlingame

I go to the local gas station and pick up my paper :)

I use mostly wrapping paper but I do use gift bags for hard to wrap or odd sized gifts and sometimes if I have something last minute that just saves time to be put in a bag. I buy my wrapping paper after Christmas on clearance, except for an occasional roll at Dollar Tree if I see a particular pattern that someone might like. (my daughter loves Elmo)

My husband says that he wants Sears Gift Cards so that he can go get a saw that he wants after Christmas that is to expensive for 1 person to buy so he keeps telling everyone to give him Sears Gift Cards.

I "hope" I will be getting 1 of each.

20+ Walmart, Walgreens, Target, Sears, Kohls, JCPenney, Famous Barr, Bath and Body Works, Toys R Us, Kids R Us, Dollar Tree, Shoe Carnival, Value City, Gordmans, Old Navy, Childrens Place, Yankee Candle, Dillards, Lane Bryant, Circuit City and I know that I am forgetting some others.

I have only received a Christmas bonus at one job in my whole life. It was several years ago and was $500.00 minus taxes. It was so exciting and a huge surprise. A few months later, they went belly up. (I would rather skip the bonus and keep the job, than to have that happen again)

I think that I am going to get the babysitter something from Bath and Body Works. She often comments in the morning about whatever scent that I have on and I don't think this is something that she would buy herself. She spends all of her extra money on her kids.

I will not be taking pictures. That would be another thing to have to carry!

I am at work usually when UPS or FedEx drops packages off at my front door. I have not ever tips them though, even when I was home. I have take out a cup of hot cocoa and cookies to the mailman once before though. It was REALLY cold.

This year we are having a christmas party at work during regular business hours and I do not think my husbands employer is having anything at all so we have a total of 6 holiday celebrations which includes Christmas morning at our house. We will go to my Grandpa (dads dad) on Sat. Dec. 17 for pot luck. We will go to my other Grandpa (moms dad) for breakfast on Sat. Dec. 24. We always spent the afternoon and evening of Christmas Eve at my parents house. We will have Christmas with my daughter on Christmas morning, noon on Christmas day at my inlaws and supper on Christmas evening at my Grandma's (moms mom). We should be exhausted by the end of the day on Christmas. We are so lucky that everyone lives within a 15 mile area.

Do you have stockings for just the kids or do you also have stockings for the parents, dogs, etc? At our house there is a stocking for myself, my husband, my daughter and our baby that is due 2/7/6. We had a dog that passed away this last year, but for the previous 10 years, he also had a stocking. At my moms house there are stockings for my mom and dad, my grandma, my sisters and I, our husbands and all of our children. I think we have more fun getting our stockings then the presents. Just wondering if other people do this also?

Yes. Cookies and milk for Santa and Carrots for the reindeer.

Whenever my daughter wakes up. Could be anywhere between 5 and 9.

I have been so blessed and really haven't had any bad Christmas's.

I hope that it does not snow. Just makes it more complicated to get to our our destinations!!

Hardest is my Grandpa, easiest is my daughter!

I have a Christmas Club and try to stash also, but for some reason I have constantly needed to use the money from the stash this year so it is very pathetic.

Yes

other...... we always go to the Olive Garden in the afternoon and relax a little while we work on our lists and regroup before we go back out. We are some of the crazy people that shop until late in the evening!! Will definately do a quick drive thru or something in the morning, nothing specific though, just something to hold us over. (we always pack snacks for while we are on the road also)

Cash and debit card.

Before kids, as they were wrapped. Now, on Christmas Eve after everyone is asleep.

Books for my daughter. She is 15 months old and loves the books that we already have but I am so sick of reading the same books over and over.

I am a secretary to 12 people. I was thinking of bringing in a pretty container full of cookies to each of them.

I LOVE Reeses Christmas trees!!

My parents and siblings have always gotten together on Christmas Eve since we have been grown. My husbands family gets together in the afternoon on Christmas. I am blessed to not have to make a choice.