Done With Your Holiday Shopping and Sending Out Cards

[Soulstation1]

Today is the day for getting out my cards

I hope they make it back east

[catesta]

I would like to say yes, but have to say no.

I have one thing to pick up tomorrow up in Westchester and that's it.

[catesta]

I guess that's not completely accurate.

On Friday I go to St. Johns Cemetery to pay my respects and place holiday flowers for family.

[Rooster_Ties]

We're scaling back on presents this year. Mrs. Ties and I made good sized donation to the Red Cross back after Katrina hit, and plan to make another Katrina-related donation before the end of the year.

Somehow managed to convince both her family and mine to scale back on gift-giving this year, in order to fund the extra charity donations. My father-in-law was the only holdout, and he may yet grump a bit on Christmas day with the reduced giftage (only time will tell) - but everyone else thought it was a great idea.

As a result, it only took an evening or two to get all our present-shopping done, whew!!!

My wife got all her cards done and sent out a couple days ago. Got half of mine done last night, and hope to get the other half done tonight. As long as they're out by Chirstmas day, I'm good.

[wesbed]

I completed my Christmas shopping today, 12/24/05. I'm finished till next year.