Do you like Christmas Shopping?

[wmonbear]

Honestly, I hate it! - it stresses me out trying find the perfect gift.

 

[wmonbear]

Note: For the sake of the poll, if you go through the motions of shopping but complain feverishly or incessantly about it, than you probably should not select the "I tolerate it" box.

 

[seeteufel1]

I prefer to let shopping cause taking is better than giving!!And for my food during the holidays, I try to buy it a month before, cause I dont want to see people behaving like there is no food in the market at the day after holidays!!

 

[Anonyne#017]

No, I don't really like shopping at all regardless of time or event. Shopping is only bearable when someone else is paying and even then I prefer shopping at places where they offer something warm, fresh and eatable. Planning a shopping trip is very serious business for every man and one should always have fully designed route and a backup plan prepared before entering a shopping building.

 

[BusterLoads]

I don't even like Christmas. I don't buy presents for anyone.

 

[Anonyne#017]

Man should always setup clean goals and treat a shopping trip like a workout. One should always aim to get faster times each shopping trip. Correct timing is also very important key element to the success and to avoid masses. Those are some real achievements for each man to brag around; "This time my beer trip took a while 2 minutes and dodging those kids on the way without bumping them down took some extra agility and skills. I nearly had to take my backup plan and use longer route when I saw those kids on the way, but thanks to my quick thinking I realized that there was just enough room for me to pass.".

I also like to buy some cold and wet things too...

You can always ask your wife to help...

 

[Harpsman]

The internet has taken the stress out of it. Although waiting for deliveries from Amsterdam to be on time can be stressful

 

[Mr_Stiffy]

Shopping's fucking horrible at the best of times because there are people everywhere and the general public are mindless twats that move with the speed of an arthritic tortoise and dexterity of a one-legged elephant. They walk three or four-astride down the aisles blocking your path when you want to pass, and then hover about in the entrances to the stores having a meeting of the minds as to whether they want to be in or out, or where they're going next, so you can't pass without physically squeezing past them or asking "Excuse me" at which point, they shoot you a look as though you're the rude prick.

Christmas shopping is worse still because there are more people, and the people are bigger tossers, because they're stressed. They're stressed because they're getting close to Christmas and they've left it too late to get everything they need, because they're tossers. They cram themselves into the stores thinking that they'll find some amazing perfect gift, apparently blissfully unaware that they can actually buy practically everything they're after in fucking Matalan or Primark online and often cheaper, delivered to their door. Utter wankers. I know it can seem like when there's cash in your pocket it's more fun to physically be out and about waiting for that impulse buy to "grab" you, but if you lack the patience to browse through the websites of the same shops you're physically going to peruse, then I don't understand how you do have the patience to fight your way through the meandering cattle. Does not compute.

 

[Johan]

Usually I ask people to give me some gift-ideas and I give them some as well, then it is much easier to choose a present and you're sure that they will like it and Christmas shopping go smooth.
But when they don't give me these such gift-ideas, it always stress the shit out of me, particulary when I have to find gifts for people I hardly know, such as my in-laws :hairpull:

 

[wmonbear]

I'd say that's pretty close to accurate.

 

[bahodeme]

I only have to buy toys for my nephew. Everyone one else gets gift cards.

 

[Harley Spencer]

Sorry Stiffy, this year I'll be one who goes in late hoping for the perfect gift to just magically appear on the shelves. My money came in a bit late, too late for me to do online shopping and have it arrive in time for the big day. Otherwise... online shopping is always the best, because fuck slow people blocking doors and walking 6 in a row side by side.

In general I enjoy getting people gifts, but when I don't know what to get them or can't afford the perfect one, it is pretty damn stressful.

 

[Mr_Stiffy]

Sure, we all have the occasional disasterpiece like that. But you just know that great swathes of the dim-witted troglodytes that commute into the big cities from their god-awful little 'burbs to pack a whole Christmas' worth of shopping into the week commencing 21st December do it every fucking year and never learn.

slow people blocking doors and walking 6 in a row side by side

.... THOSE fuckrats.

Tip : buy an umbrella and sharpen the end. Skewer people in your path for a) being stupid, b) being slow, c) being too stupid to realize they're slow.

 

[tartanterrier]

It has to be done, but I don't like it much at all. So I usually do my shopping at the start of the month rather than leaving it till the last minute.

 

[vanlee1]

No!

 

[dakdak]

i get all my shopping done months in advance. i would rather drive nails into my head while putting lit coals in my eyes while dragging my nutsack across a mile of broken glass infected with the ebola virus than go to a mall or popular store this time of year.