Christmas shopping 🛒 🎅

[PeteXXX]

Where will you/have you done your Christmas shopping? 🎅

 

[Heigue'r]

Amazon for stuff the kids have asked for and cannot find anywhere except amazon,out of town retail park for most other things because I live out of town next to a retail park and finally town centre when I'm working in the city...so the first 3.

 

[Slick]

Not bah humbug but I've been threatening for years to give the Christmas rush a bye and wait until the sales before treating Mrs Slick. Seems she is agreeable to this suggestion as we are going away for Christmas with family this year where it's still all about the kids and Santa, probably for the last time. Sort the kids out with whatever they need and blast the budget in the sales.

 

[welsh dragon]

Amazon mainly. I give the grandchildren money because we obviously wouldn't buy them what they want.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Mostly online but never Amazon or eBay, with the odd foray into malls if I can avoid busy times

 

[DCLane]

I've finished buying presents and they've come from all sorts; Amazon (one), specialist boutique store (one), antiques reclamation (one), LBS (a few).

 

[I like Skol]

Online, online, online. I hate shopping on the highstreet, mainly due to pushy salesmen that actually know very little about what they are selling. I would gladly pay the higher mark-up of the highstreet v online if there was any kind of service to back this up but this is sadly not commonly in existence any more.
Have bought lots of stuff this Christmas from a mix of retailer sites, Amazon and ebay.

 

[fossyant]

Online mainly. I'd never find half the stuff in the shops. Can't exactly walk into Halfords for a 25l drum of 'car' snow foam

 

[Jenkins]

Most of the family wanted vouchers so I had no option but to visit the shops in question which were all in retail parks - where it's easier to park a bike than a car at this time of year.

Just one online purchase - from an obscure Gary Newman site!

 

[slowmotion]

Entirely online. I dislike the High Street with a passion.

Edit: except Toolstation and Screwfix, of course.

 

[raleighnut]

Shopping is Maz's department, I do all the cooking over Chrimble (my record is 6 adults and 5 kids catered for)

 

[screenman]

All of the top 3 on the list.

 

[Bazzer]

Mainly online.
I dislike crowded streets and pushy shop assistants. I was hoping Waterstones, (a mini oasis on a mid Thursday morning a couple of weeks ago) and an art shop to be visited next week, was going to be the limit of my High Street shopping, but I fear a branch of Thorntons is also going to have to be visited.

 

[Slioch]

Finished all my shopping yesterday. Is there's smiley for smug insufferable git?

95% was bought on the high street, with one item from eBay.

 

[Reynard]

The majority of my presents are homemade, so most of those don't apply.

I make jams, chutneys and traditional Belgian and German biscuits and Lebkuchen.

For the rest, there's the supermarket - beers for my lovely retired farmer neighbour, cheeses for a dear friend (to go with the chutney) and nice biscuits for assorted Christmas boxes for bin men, recycling collectors, postie etc. Mum's gift I spotted in a little boutique in town about a month ago.

Oh, and feline pressies from Zooplus.