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[blahflowers]

Anyone know any good sites for Christmas present ideas? Most of my family are stubbornly without much by way of interests, I don't want to just get them all DVD sets. New Scientist do have their No More Socks site, but it is obviously techy based and short on ideas.

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[ill-prezidante.livejournal.com]

I find that if any members of my family can't decide on what they want a selection from the East Dulwich Deli is always most welcome. And while you're in the area, you could meet some of us deep south lither's for a drink or two.

Are you one of these disgusting early christmas shoppers?

[bearo.livejournal.com]

That deli looks fantasic never actually been in but I love little shelfs and bottles so I should really.

I tend to get all my shopping online these days, books and dvd's are so much easier.

[ill-prezidante.livejournal.com]

I'm still of the old school. I like to touch things before I buy them and that personal interaction of meeting face to face with the trader, or representative thereof.

I feel that online shopping does away with the elements of trust and humanity that have characterised our trading methods for thousands of years. Engaging in the cold, unempathetic world of online shopping makes me uncomfortable. I can't fathom why people are so eager to escape the warm reality of business for meagre savings that will be eaten up by credit card interest and an evaporating sense of the value of money.

[bearo.livejournal.com]

Well I see what you mean when it comes to places like markets or small local shops but trust and humanity isn't too obivious in most shops in London quite the opposite, especially when buying things like books and DVD's (megastores and the like).

And meagre savings are quite important when you have a large family :)

[blahflowers.livejournal.com]

Online shopping helps because I tend to have it delivered to me at my parents, quite useful as I have to travel to them via the train. I would agree that online ordering doesn't really work for clothes, but I've ordered CDs, books, DVDs, videos and trees without difficulty.

[blahflowers.livejournal.com]

Is five shopping weeks to go disgustingly early?

In my family we tend to do lists of suggestions for what we want, when I was a nipper that normally meant hours going through the toys at the back of my Mum's catalogue listing every type of Transformer etc that I wanted, and maybe getting one if I was lucky come Christmas day. Now that I have a job that pays me well enough to give me some disposable income I find it difficult to think about ideas, I have pretty much what I want, and it's only CDs and DVDs I can think of for myself. That's what I get for being an uninteresting person with uninteresting needs.

[ill-prezidante.livejournal.com]

In a perfect world Christmas shopping would be legally restricted to the two weeks before hand. On top of that decorations would only be allowed to be hung in the week before that.

Also Christmas cards would only be sold in boxes of 37 meaning that you don't need to desperately claw around for a further 13 names upon whom you will foist half-assed cheer regarding a holiday that you would have to think about for a couple of minutes before you could give a reasonable explanation as to why it's happening.

Also there must be some things you would like to possess but can't quite justify the expenditure on. Perhaps a nice Schiele print for the bathroom?