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mizzy
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mizzy
United Kingdom
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Status: offline |  Posted - 23 Sep 2007 : 22:31:52  
| pressie shopping is something i feel obliged to do and always gets me frustrated towards the end of the holiday
i've usually not found anything to buy or i've started to worry about the gifts i have bought
i love shoping but not good when it comes to choosing gifts | | Report this post to a moderator | goto top of page |
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E. Cosgrove
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Cruella DeVilla
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Status: offline | Posted - 23 Sep 2007 : 23:20:59
| We don't really buy pressies anymore Marie as we are away too often, saying that I will this trip as my folks are just back form Turkey with lots of knick knacks for me (My main 40th birthday present from my folks was presented to me tonight also as being the mare I am no one new what to buy at the time so I opted for gold from Turkey as it is really nice and 14kt too).
Overall I never find shopping a chore especially in Florida and on more than one occasion each trip I fill the boot, back seat,passenger seat and floor too. I shall do my Christmas shopping next week and looking forward to it. I do go to local neighboorhoods rather than the norm mind you as I think you can sniff out more bargains!
I would say I am a true shopaholic not just something I enjoy but an addicition and I hate shopping with anyone one else whether it be girlfriends, Mum and especially Mr CDV. |
CDV
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Edited by - Cruella DeVilla on 23 Sep 2007 23:25:53 | | Report this post to a moderator | goto top of page |
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Susan J
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Status: offline | Posted - 24 Sep 2007 : 10:38:15
| I like present shopping, but with souveneirs for people -well Ihave been coming here for 23 years - and its hard to buy -and we have a list we HAVE to bring back for :-
My Mum and Dad - no problem, I can always find something, and they look after our Chinchillas for us, so I like to encourage my Son to look for something as a thank you.
OUr Foreman and wife and 6 staff -MAJOR headache
A couple of close friends who often come with us, and their 2 grandsons -ugh -I want to get some thing nice, but they have seen it all.
I am lucky, that the last of my list was a cousins [who we are close to] two young sons -age 5 and 8. They went to Disney for the first time this year -and for YEARS I have made special trips to Downtown Disney or somewhere, to bring back the latest toys requested, or baseball tops or whatever - so they fetched my son his present -a GOB STOPPER -a mickey one with Mickey ears on it $2.95. Thats two bags of sweets on the next trip -has helped me greatly :D
However, this year, I went to the Disney shop in the UK before my Hols, and managed to pick up a couple of knick knacks for the staff- Disney Mugs and things, to save me hauling them back. ONe year we asked Forman what he wanted -took us two and a half weeks to locate this certain baseball top or whatever it was - never again :D
I like to just come across something and think -oh so and so would love that, I'll get it for them -not every damn trip :(
It is so time consuming!! However having said that, given time -in general, I love to get presents for people and spend far too much time looking for them. |
Susan J
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Tom n Bex
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Status: offline | Posted - 19 Oct 2007 : 10:37:44
| I love wandering round the shops on a day off from the parks, although my girlfriend does visit far to many shoe shops 
I will be doing the majority of my christmas shopping when I go out soon. | | Report this post to a moderator | goto top of page |
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chrizzy100
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Status: offline | Posted - 19 Oct 2007 : 18:46:57
| I don't like shopping unless it stuff for under $10 shopping...me and my friends do lunch and bargining shopping once a week...
I buy gift everytime I go for my Grandson and the daughter of one of my husbands friends..I could not go now without buying both a little something... | | Report this post to a moderator | goto top of page |
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LiesaAnna
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Status: offline | Posted - 19 Oct 2007 : 18:59:03
| | we love pressie shopping, Lauren for her school friends, and crikey theres enough of them, only pens, big lolloipops, we get the little uns toys as theyre so cheap over there, and perfumes/smellies for the big uns and with 6 children and 6 grandchildren and another 2 on the way next spring so we do have some fun |
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mizzy
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Status: offline | Posted - 19 Oct 2007 : 22:14:11
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Originally posted by Cruella DeVilla
Never thought i'd say it but I am shopped out this trip. 4 shopping trips with the car full to bursting each trip has just about finished me off. I had to phone the fraud folks at Bank of America to let them know it was me spending and not someone who had stolen my cards and gone on a spree
i do this before i leave home i'm normally so frugal i worry that they'll think all this sudden spending is extremely unusual and stop my card | | Report this post to a moderator | goto top of page |
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