Christmas shopping done right.

The stress of christmas. 

The thing I hate most about christmas is the stress of actually buying people presents. I'm pretty sure everyone feels the same. My biggest fear is the happiness when someone opens your gift; you feel relived that you got it right only to discover three hours later that it's been put on eBay with a starting price of 99p and Infact they hated it. (This isn't a real example, but I could think of a few people- I won't name names) *cough*my sister*cough*

How do I get around this issue? 

I'm the sort of person that thinks more is more. If a gift doesn't have 27 elements and some sort of 3d pop up, exploding card, is it really worth it? Being this faffy has it's perks, especially if you have a somewhat unlimited budget. But evidently, I do not. I get £3.79 an hour, and despite recently terexperiencing a 7p payrise (insert explosions and snoop dogg in background with money falling from the sky and loads of chains and then cool sunglasses)

 this does not cover the cost of my ideal gift. I suppose really I have no way of getting round it and in actual fact this whole paragraph is a rhetorical question. BUT wait, I hear you cry, what about that wonderful thing we call the internet? GASP

Not to get all extreme couponing up in here, but I must say google shop has been the most helpful tool in my christmas present purchases this year. With it being my first christmas that I can just about afford to buy real gifts for everyone, I wanted to get things people actually want, and hence curving the whole will it/won't it go on eBay scenario. (Again, I'm talking to you Alex, I swear to god if I find your present on eBay I'll weep) 

Take my dad for example. There's only one place he'll be if he's not at work or at home and that's on his bike. So it's pretty obvious that I had to get him something bike related. This is where the wonders of google shop step in, I had the fabulous idea to get him some personalised bike wear (I'm thinking banter written across is large letters will be perfect), so I just typed this into google, clicked shop and ordered according to price. I was actually quite shocked at the amount of personalised bike wear specialists, surely it's not that high demand? Apparently so. So as I trauled this page (for approximately 17 seconds) I came across exactly what I wanted and all for £5.47- what more could I ask? 

So, in this plea, I urge you to follow suit and literally use google to do your christmas shopping. I can't guarantee it won't be sold on, but I can gaurentee you won't really be that bothered because they'll probably get more for it than what you paid. Win win all round. 

Oh what a marvel this internet-ma-bob is 

Emma x