It's not huge and I know I'm not alone but I can’t bear Christmas shopping! Don't get me wrong I love Christmas but the shopping part is a big thumbs down.
This year I suggested to my family that we have a £5 limit on presents but instead of just spending £5 we’d pool the money of the 8 family members that will be with us on Xmas day and spend £40 on one person – a bit like secret Santa – so you could buy one nice present or several smaller ones. This worked for me on many levels...
1) I don’t have a lot of money but I do have 2 close family members & a boyfriend that selfishly thought December would be a good month to be born, so I have birthdays to contend with too.
2) What with panto rehearsals and performance (Peter Pan at The Princes Hall, Aldershot, on case you didn’t know)I won’t have a lot of time to actually shop.
Unfortunately my family didn’t see my plight and now I have 8 individuals presents to supply, birthday presents for 3 and gifts for other friends too...I am not best pleased. I was fortunate enough to have this weekend off from panto rehearsals, so I thought I’d put it to good use; get the tree and decs up at home (done!) and start, and hopefully buy, most of my Xmas presents (not in any way done). It was a very bad idea from the beginning really, as, in the last year, I appear to have developed some kind of dislike to other people. I realised today that, not only could I not do my Xmas shopping with my boyfriend holding me up in every shop ‘to see if there were some good ideas for his family’, I also can’t bear being in shopping precincts with other people milling around looking at what could be a great gift Granny – do they not understand the military timing I am being forced to adhere to to buy these gifts; gifts which should be given with love and a knowing that that family member will glow with a warm heart when you hand over their well thought out present. So when I thought I was about to drag the boyfriend out of a shop and then screech to the heavens that I didn’t have time to look for his family too and when my innards felt like they were about to explode out of my body when the couple in front were pondering whether Granny would like a blue or a yellow oven glove for Christmas, I stopped, took a step back and thought; let’s go to the cinema and after I’ve been to the cinema and enjoyed my Sunday afternoon with the man in my life I’m going to do this all online later this evening . I was instantly filled with a calm serenity and my blood was brought back to a mild simmer – ah the internet what a work of genius.
Happy Shopping
Posh x
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