If
you were to run a word association exercise where you say one word and
your counterpart says an associated word, then the word “Christmas”
could have a series of associated terms. One person will say “tree”,
another will say “present”, and still others will say “decoration”. Some
people, conscious of what they will be getting up to in the run-up to
Christmas, will supply the word “shopping”, because Christmas makes a
lot of people think about what they will be buying for others. Some
people love it, others hate it. but if you do not want to be considered a
“Scrooge”, then you will not be able to avoid Christmas shopping.
Christmas
shopping is something which has many different approaches that can be
applied to it. The fact is that many people leave their shopping to the
final few weeks before the holiday, and when the things that they are
looking for turn out to be in short supply they curse that course of
action. Others do their shopping in advance, by a few months (and some
even do it in the January sales), but this can demand a level of
prescience that most of us do not have.
If
you embark on a relationship in the weeks running up to Christmas, you
will then be forced into coming up with a gift that will keep the
relationship running smoothly. Should you use the Internet to buy it,
knowing that it will be in stock but may not be delivered on time? Or
should you brave the crowds and go into the stores to look for the right
gift? Only you can decide.
