I am a pretty good bargain hunter ( o.k, my friends say I'm cheap, but I'm really just thrifty!) I have several gifts purchased already, some I picked up on Dec 27th, with boxing day sales. I have pj's for 2 neices, a glove and hat set ( pink and silver chenille) for another, and one of the girls ( 3.5) also has a dress up set with shoes, purse, gaudy necklace, sparkly skirt that doubles as a cape, etc. For both my parents and my in laws I got a plug in carbon monoxide detector, regular $40 and I got them on sale for $10., ( they are from the kids), also on Friday Walmart had a Monsters inc version of Milton-Bradley's Life game, as well as another Monsters Inc game for $9.81 each so I got both to put away for either my kids or for the emergency birthday party gifts, you know, when it's 2 hours before the party you forgot about?
I still have a lot of shopping to do, but I noticed the Decor Store near me is having a huge sale this week ( closing for renovations) so I will probably get something collectible for my mil to put in her curio cabinet. They had a Bradford Exchange ornament showing a black lab with angel wings I'm going to get for the tree, we put our 12 year old labx down this spring and the kids still have some rough times.She was very sick and we really prepared them for almost a year that soon the time would come, but children can never really understand something like that. Hopefully with the ornament we will be able to show them that we miss her too, and that it is ok to remember and be sad sometimes. (Now I've made myself sad)