How many people do you normally shop for?
Will this year look different with Covid cases soaring?
Posted Sep 17, 2021 - 4:19 am
How many people do you normally shop for?
Will this year look different with Covid cases soaring?
“The more I know about people, the more I love my dog.” ~ Mark Twain.
Posted Sep 17, 2021 - 4:52 am
My family is pretty large and we have a pretty close group of neighbors and friends. About 20 people.
However, I always budget about $50-$75 for my son to purchase Toys for Tots every year. I've been teaching my son about charity the past 5 years. We enjoy going into a store like Gamestop and hitting their sales racks to pickup cool pop culture toys and games for those less fortunate. It's not always the easiest to teach and only child that the seasons is about giving and not about receiving.
Posted Sep 17, 2021 - 5:30 am
My family is pretty large and we have a pretty close group of neighbors and friends. About 20 people.
However, I always budget about $50-$75 for my son to purchase Toys for Tots every year. I've been teaching my son about charity the past 5 years. We enjoy going into a store like Gamestop and hitting their sales racks to pickup cool pop culture toys and games for those less fortunate. It's not always the easiest to teach and only child that the seasons is about giving and not about receiving.
This is wonderful
Posted Sep 17, 2021 - 2:41 pm
Normally shop for 6 and hoping that this year looks better than last year did. Won't let Covid stop us from having a Merry Christmas though.
Posted Sep 18, 2021 - 1:35 am
Family - 9, including in-laws and 2 special cousins.
I used to shop for employees and their families but with us all working from home, I don’t even see them anymore. I may do some gift cards or something, though.
Friends - somewhere between 2 and 5, depending on when we see them, if at all.
Hockey “family” - 29, but those are all kids that we will get something small for. Door signs, key chains, probably stuff I will make at tournaments. Last year I made them all hockey related pillowcases and face masks.
Our church always does some kind of gift donation, so we will participate in that.
all in all, definitely not as many gifts as pre-Covid. We just don’t see as many people these days.
Posted Sep 18, 2021 - 3:10 am
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Posted Sep 20, 2021 - 4:57 am
It is about 24 family members. With so many nieces and nephews my siblings have opted to just focus on the kids and not buy each other gifts as it can be so much. I have 11 nieces and nephews and 2 god children. 2 are in college now. Then I have my parents, in laws and that side of the family. I really enjoy Christmas so it is fun for me. I usually buy something for someone once a week that way it is not a big hit and use BF to get bulk stuff for my immediate family and others if there is a good deal.
Posted Sep 20, 2021 - 11:32 am
Edited by tracy0504, Sep 20, 2021 - 11:36 am.
Posted Sep 20, 2021 - 12:24 pm
I shop for about 20, plus GD Secret Santa and our family Dirty Santa. 8 of those are kids and grandkids, so of course there's multiple gifts for those (usually about 13-14 a piece, but this year the 2 oldest grands might get 1 big expensive gift. They are getting too big to throw a bunch of toys under the tree). The rest just get 1 .
Posted Sep 20, 2021 - 3:02 pm
Posted Sep 24, 2021 - 4:41 am
Duh, I completely forgot to count my GD secret Santa! So 1 more person to shop for needs to be added to my list.
Well, I forgot to count that one too. SMH
Posted Sep 24, 2021 - 2:25 pm
Well I can officially say this year will probably be less people I’m shopping for since I usually give 3 of my work friends a small gift but since I have a new job (yay me) I don’t know that I will see them to give them a gift. Maybe I’ll buy gift cards in case we find the time to get together for a dinner after work.
So my normal gift count will be 4…..mother, father, sister and GD secret Santa.
Posted Sep 29, 2021 - 6:23 pm
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Posted Oct 17, 2021 - 2:51 pm
Well unfortunately due to Covid I have one less to buy for this year
I'm so sorry.
Posted Oct 18, 2021 - 6:09 am
Posted Oct 20, 2021 - 5:35 pm
We shop for our family and close friends (total of 19) plus my husband and then he shops for me (so 21)
My sister
My niece
My nephew
My two sons and their wives
My daughter (who is 15)
My FIL
My MIL
Family friends (the mom, dad, and their 4 kids)
and another one of my daughter's friends
My dad and his girlfriend (we lost my mom 4 years ago and they started dating late last year. I look for her to come to our family Christmas this year)
This is fairly close to who we always buy for and we all live close.
Edited by starbeck96, Oct 20, 2021 - 5:36 pm.
Posted Oct 21, 2021 - 11:04 am
Posted Oct 24, 2021 - 12:24 pm
Shopping for 10 (11 if husbands work does a secret Santa this year).
Only shopping for members of the household (Husband, myself and 8 kids aged 25 to 5yrs). We do 5 gifts each (something you want, something you need, something to wear, something to read and something to watch) plus stockings (a fruit, a candy, a toy and a couple of personal care products). We stopped buying for extended family and friends years ago. It was just to much when there were 30 to 50 people and more than half of them kids. Before Covid we just gather and eat and play games and have fun. There were a few grumpies the first year but everyone had so much fun that they embraced the change. Last year we ate and played games on zoom and it turned out fun. Going to do the same thing this year.
Posted Oct 25, 2021 - 8:30 am
I'm so sorry.
Posted Oct 31, 2021 - 5:36 am
I am going to online shop as much as possible like I did last year.
Posted Oct 31, 2021 - 7:08 am
Posted Nov 1, 2021 - 12:12 pm
8 family
1 Co-Worker
1 Friend
and I usually buy for at least one of my kids teenage friends who I know won't have much of a Christmas.
Posted Nov 7, 2021 - 2:56 pm
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