Last year, I woke up early to shop on walmart.com, then I headed to the mall when it opened. I wasn't gone but for maybe an hour or two. That's the way I prefer my BF.
I think I'll be doing good if I can get buy with one more year from my 9 yr old. He questioned last year and I just told him if he would believe, Santa would come. But, the tooth fairy just came and he had no doubts. So, we'll see...
We have an account at the credit union that we set aside money in. This is just an all purpose savings. I usually get about a $500 Christmas bonus, so I use that and then get the rest out of the credit union. I don't even know how much we usually spend. We have lots of people to buy for. I would guess it's around $1500.