I’m not talking about watching late night infomercials – and ordering 50 of those food processors Mr. T is promoting these days – one for everyone on your Christmas shopping list.
It’s not a bad idea though the more I think about it. Mr T is persuasive no matter what he’s doing. If you don’t buy one he’ll break your head (or ‘haid’ – as he says).
Anyway, here’s the rub…
My Christmas shopping is done. It took 90 minutes and I never left home.
For years I’ve been talking it up and saying I’d roll my Christmas shopping online and do it in early December. This year, I’ve done it.
In a frenzy of anal retentive behaviour in late November, I researched and looked for websites. I wanted some specific sites plus some catch all ones where I could buy a few things.
Here they are…
http://www.zazz.com.au/ -Every day these guys have a different offer and you have to pounce on it if you like it. From remote control UFO’s to PC’s. It’s worth a look.
http://www.catchoftheday.com.au/ – This funny little site also has a new offer each day – as you’d suspect from it’s name. But no, you don’t order fish in the mail, but there are some super cheap deals. Yesterday it was a vacuum cleaner, but that’s not a present that will go down well.
http://www.etsy.com/ – Cute little gifts handmade by people. I covered most of my female Christmas shopping on this site. Granny will love the padded laptop case.
http://www.graysonline.com/ – You can get everything, even earthmoving equipment. If someone got me a bobcat to play with my eyes would light up big time.
http://www.salespot.com.au/index.cfm – This site is cheap and gifty – everything from poker sets to wine, cufflinks, kitchen stuff etc. Get amongst it.
http://www.ozbargain.com.au/ – If the above sites don’t have it, this one will. It’s especially good for tech stuff.
If you want to get it over and done with then get cracking – otherwise you might have ‘will the stuff arrive in the mail on time’ anxiety.
Plus I’ve saved you time hunting for the sites. What more do you need?
It was uber cost and time effective. Now all I have to do is wait for stuff to arrive in the mail over the next few days, then coax someone into doing the gift wrapping for me. I’m crap at it.
So check out those sites and do likewise ok.
Why suffer through cheesy jazzed up Christmas carols and screaming kids when you can listen to your itunes on your couch and roll it in an hour or two? Ho. Ho. Ho.
