I live in Alaska..shipping time is always extended..so welcome lower 48 to my world.
David Millikan
2 years ago
We didn’t have this problem under PRESIDENT TRUMP.
CaRepub
2 years ago
Christmas is so much more than presents. The only “gift” exchange we’ve had for years is the pleasure of one another’s company around a table of good food, good friends and holiday cheer. Perhaps that’s the best thing about growing older- you’ve learned what’s important to a fulfilled life.
Thomad
2 years ago
I started early to avoid crowds and possible shortages and shipping delays.
Nobody Army Veteran.
2 years ago
I’M A VETERAN ON SS PEOPLE LIKE ME WE CAN’T EVEN IMAGINE HAVING. WE’RE LUCKY TO BUY A LITTLE SOMETHING TO EAT. AFTER PAYING THE BILLS. HAVING HOLIDAYS ARE FOR PEOPLE THAT CAN AFFORD IT. SO HAPPY HOLIDAYS. EVERY ONE. HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERY ONE GOD BLESS YOU ALL
Daniel
2 years ago
I do not shop for Christmas instead give cash to my 2 sons and daughter and 4 grand children.
Candace Ogden
2 years ago
I’ve only bought for my one grand child. Everyone else gets gift cards or we donate to a charity in each other’s names. We don’t need gifts!
Doreen
2 years ago
I’m more concerned with the cost of food items than anything else.
Bill
2 years ago
I make my holiday gifts without relying on retailers
Bruce David
2 years ago
We use catalogs, cash & gift cards mostly.
RICHARD S HOCKETT, MBA
2 years ago
I’m a widower and Christmas, while a Holy Day, is not one I worry about shopping for any longer as I live alone and have all the material goods I need.
The shortages are politically contrived and being weaponized to make everyone bow down to the Communist behavioral control of taking the poison being touted as a ‘vaccine’. Therefore, a little planning circumvented any of this nonsense now going on.
Joseph O'Donnell
2 years ago
When I gave cash as Christmas present I felt too selfish for not taking the time to give, but when I recmembered receiving cash as a child I loved it because then I could get what I wanted.
Dante
2 years ago
Really!!!
With all the problems and dysfunction from the Biden administration is this really a problem????
I THINK NOT
Tessa
2 years ago
I’m thinking this would be a good year to focus on faith, family and friends and just stay out of the rat race.
Brad
2 years ago
We have never done presents. Better to celebrate Christ than to encourage greed.
Dan D.
2 years ago
About twenty yeas ago our children and us stopped giving presents and instead give contributions to a charity, preferably one that benefits children. We had been giving our grandchildren presents, but because they can’t seem to find time to write thank you notes or say “thank you” we have now begun to give money to Heifer Inc. in their name. We receive nice thank you cards from Heifer.
Yvonne
2 years ago
CHRISTmas is NOT about “things” that you purchase in a store! It is about our LORD and SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST! Focus on THAT and you will not need to “worry” about the supply chain!
Larry Hoffmann
2 years ago
This year we are going back to the purpose of Christmas. We will celebrate as Christians and get away in large part from costly gifts across the board.
Phyl
2 years ago
My family has never gone all out for Christmas. We celebrate the birth of Jesus. We do give gifts but they aren’t extravagant. I hope to knit my gifts. Almost everyone likes homemade things.
Horace Tucker
2 years ago
I give to Heifer Project in honor of family members. I usually make something useful or decorative in the shop. The grands usually get books. None of that will change.
Gascap
2 years ago
Buying all American. I need none of that Chinese crap. I buy American beef, pork, and chicken from American farmers direct.
TomB
2 years ago
Already bought a lump of coal for Brandon .. ya know, before he shuts down the coal mines. Just kidding. Happy Thanksgiving and Merry Christmas to all.
Jem
2 years ago
I give edibles, maple syrup, fancy jams, etc. , Maine products when possible.
Billie
2 years ago
What a perfect time to remember the true reason for celebrating this Christmas season. Less stress, shopping more time with family, friends and faith.
Cecilia
2 years ago
There are a few of us who do not shop for Christmas. I hate that it has been for some turned into a season of excessive spending instead of family. A personal touch such as baking or a handmade gift to me means so much more. Christmas was small in my youth a, High Mass at midnight and simple gift or two. Too many have lost the true meaning and beauty of the season. Just the way an old woman feels.
Uncle Pat
2 years ago
I search the product I am buying for origin of manufacturer. I refuse to purchase anything from a communist country .Have a very Merry Christmas.
Tim J
2 years ago
The true meaning of Christmas (and other Christian based holidays) has ZERO to do with spending ones hard-earned money and getting into debt buying items that they don’t need nor will ever likely use. Christmas has become almost 100% commercialized and secularized. I stopped buying a bunch of unnecessary gifts years ago. I’m using my money this year prepping from the very difficult days that are sure to come. Use your money wisely!!!
Maurice D
2 years ago
Honestly, great evil portends the arrival of great good fortune. Misfortune (i.e., “shortages” of the illiberal, diabolical Obama-Biden contrived misdeeds: energy crisis, inflation, illegal alien invasion; malicious mask-vax coercion; and divisive, power – controlling economic, social, and spiritually void regime) is always followed by great good fortune. Aren’t recent, positive election results actual proof? How are authentic, Free American citizens arousing compassion within, adjusting sensibly, and helping others honestly in need?
Della Latham
2 years ago
I buy items throughout the yea and stashit away. All the men in my family cooks so they usually receive some type of spice or food item.. What I don’t buy I make. We make Christmas about God and family not big expensive items.
Eric
2 years ago
Thanks to democrats attempt to unravel America, we have shortages and higher prices and those lying idiots call us spoiled for complaining.
They are absolutely not liberals, they are the left and their goal is to make America into Venezuela
Walt O
2 years ago
Got my Christmas present already. .. the Virginia election results.
Roy Lindsey
2 years ago
I have a small family. I usually do money. I have 2 nieces and a nephew.
Peter Stroempl
2 years ago
The bill is due; the tax payer – the most important entity in our country – has been and is being cheated. Nothing is given by Government – the taxpayer is always on the hook. Suggest that if you do not pay taxes.. you have no say on how the tax receipts are spent. Such a rule will shrink the deficit and keep our country together.
Spencer
2 years ago
Everyone, it’s time to fight for our Country! Talk is cheap and the Marxist Party has decided they won’t stop, until We the People stop them! They are cornered rats!
Stephen Russell
2 years ago
LA CA supply chain issues:
100+ ships offshore, 3 days to unload per ship,
Union drivers move cargo
Cant use trucks unless 2011 model year to unload .
Bottleneck
For So CA
Dr. Evan Yeager
2 years ago
We usually do our shopping early, so no big change on our end.
As far as Turkey, etc. shortages go, I would rather have Mexican or BBQ than traditional Thanksgiving fare anyway.
Tina
2 years ago
Actually, I have always shopped for the holidays starting in Septemhber. It is not really new to me, but the projected shortages have made it easier for my family to support my proactive stance in the case.
Oscar
2 years ago
These last elections proves the country is full of dummies still voting for demorats and enjoy paying more for everything. Will they ever wakeup doubt it the dolts.
Fernando
2 years ago
Waiting for the midterm elections and hoping to rid the democrats out of office in both house and senate.
Sandy
2 years ago
We are grandparents and our grandchildren have everything they need and more so we decided a few years ago to give the “gift amount” to a charitable organization. We gather and play games with $store prizes and have as much or more fun than opening a lot of gifts with no meaning.
DMM
2 years ago
Welcome to the Soviet Union.
Don D
2 years ago
If the lying media would stop spouting the lefts misinformation all the time this county would be far better off. Thankfully the ships that were stuck in Calif. because of STUPID LEFT IDEAS are now starting to arrive here in FLA and being unloaded. Hopefully this with help with the supply chain problem and also help with the Holiday shopping season. Unfortunately Christmas and the holiday has been so commercialized that it has ruined the true reason for the Christmas season.
dyan
2 years ago
stopped buying Xmas gifts YEARS ago, christmas is for kids, the kids are all older. We get together to be together & enjoy one anothers company. We give cash, that way everyone can buy the gift they really NEED, not what we think they need…. happier. MAIN REASON we stopped shopping – when THEY Took down “MERRY CHRISTMAS” & replaced it with Happy Holidays…Have boycotted ANY store that didnt have the guts to put up CHRISTMAS SHOPPING/Merry xmas…. and… well… most want our holiday dollars rather than xmas. THEY Dont want to offend other customers, yet what are all those Xmas specials? Black Friday is for who, Christmas is for who?…. IT is NOT Christmas Shopping anymore, it is Holiday shopping – NO THANKS. but IF a store has the guts to attract Christmas Shoppers… i DO go there, patronize the gutsy one.
BobA
2 years ago
Buy American…
Don Levitt
2 years ago
Democrats are running this country in to the ground! WE have an idiot as president who is mindless! How stupid can a party be to suggest we give illegals separated from family being in this country illegally $450000.00 a piece when we have veterans who fought for this country and are freedom living on the street!!
Tom
2 years ago
I will give more cash than usual…problem solved.
eugene A ciciarelli
2 years ago
I’ll put my Trust, Faith, and Hope in Jesus.
David Hunter
2 years ago
It’s hard to have a nice holiday when there is a traitor at the helm trying to ruin our lives and our country!
Helen
2 years ago
We are great grandparents, low fixed income. If we have a few extra $, we send only something only to youngest of the great-grands.
Besides. Although Christmas is for giving, it is more about our Savior’s birth.
Jack D Hopkins
2 years ago
I am a conservative and if necessary, I can do with what I have or do without.
“Chew it up, wear it out. Make it do or do without.”
LET’S GO BRANDON !
I live in Alaska..shipping time is always extended..so welcome lower 48 to my world.
We didn’t have this problem under PRESIDENT TRUMP.
Christmas is so much more than presents. The only “gift” exchange we’ve had for years is the pleasure of one another’s company around a table of good food, good friends and holiday cheer. Perhaps that’s the best thing about growing older- you’ve learned what’s important to a fulfilled life.
I started early to avoid crowds and possible shortages and shipping delays.
I’M A VETERAN ON SS PEOPLE LIKE ME WE CAN’T EVEN IMAGINE HAVING. WE’RE LUCKY TO BUY A LITTLE SOMETHING TO EAT. AFTER PAYING THE BILLS. HAVING HOLIDAYS ARE FOR PEOPLE THAT CAN AFFORD IT. SO HAPPY HOLIDAYS. EVERY ONE. HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERY ONE GOD BLESS YOU ALL
I do not shop for Christmas instead give cash to my 2 sons and daughter and 4 grand children.
I’ve only bought for my one grand child. Everyone else gets gift cards or we donate to a charity in each other’s names. We don’t need gifts!
I’m more concerned with the cost of food items than anything else.
I make my holiday gifts without relying on retailers
We use catalogs, cash & gift cards mostly.
I’m a widower and Christmas, while a Holy Day, is not one I worry about shopping for any longer as I live alone and have all the material goods I need.
The shortages are politically contrived and being weaponized to make everyone bow down to the Communist behavioral control of taking the poison being touted as a ‘vaccine’. Therefore, a little planning circumvented any of this nonsense now going on.
When I gave cash as Christmas present I felt too selfish for not taking the time to give, but when I recmembered receiving cash as a child I loved it because then I could get what I wanted.
Really!!!
With all the problems and dysfunction from the Biden administration is this really a problem????
I THINK NOT
I’m thinking this would be a good year to focus on faith, family and friends and just stay out of the rat race.
We have never done presents. Better to celebrate Christ than to encourage greed.
About twenty yeas ago our children and us stopped giving presents and instead give contributions to a charity, preferably one that benefits children. We had been giving our grandchildren presents, but because they can’t seem to find time to write thank you notes or say “thank you” we have now begun to give money to Heifer Inc. in their name. We receive nice thank you cards from Heifer.
CHRISTmas is NOT about “things” that you purchase in a store! It is about our LORD and SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST! Focus on THAT and you will not need to “worry” about the supply chain!
This year we are going back to the purpose of Christmas. We will celebrate as Christians and get away in large part from costly gifts across the board.
My family has never gone all out for Christmas. We celebrate the birth of Jesus. We do give gifts but they aren’t extravagant. I hope to knit my gifts. Almost everyone likes homemade things.
I give to Heifer Project in honor of family members. I usually make something useful or decorative in the shop. The grands usually get books. None of that will change.
Buying all American. I need none of that Chinese crap. I buy American beef, pork, and chicken from American farmers direct.
Already bought a lump of coal for Brandon .. ya know, before he shuts down the coal mines. Just kidding. Happy Thanksgiving and Merry Christmas to all.
I give edibles, maple syrup, fancy jams, etc. , Maine products when possible.
What a perfect time to remember the true reason for celebrating this Christmas season. Less stress, shopping more time with family, friends and faith.
There are a few of us who do not shop for Christmas. I hate that it has been for some turned into a season of excessive spending instead of family. A personal touch such as baking or a handmade gift to me means so much more. Christmas was small in my youth a, High Mass at midnight and simple gift or two. Too many have lost the true meaning and beauty of the season. Just the way an old woman feels.
I search the product I am buying for origin of manufacturer. I refuse to purchase anything from a communist country .Have a very Merry Christmas.
The true meaning of Christmas (and other Christian based holidays) has ZERO to do with spending ones hard-earned money and getting into debt buying items that they don’t need nor will ever likely use. Christmas has become almost 100% commercialized and secularized. I stopped buying a bunch of unnecessary gifts years ago. I’m using my money this year prepping from the very difficult days that are sure to come. Use your money wisely!!!
Honestly, great evil portends the arrival of great good fortune. Misfortune (i.e., “shortages” of the illiberal, diabolical Obama-Biden contrived misdeeds: energy crisis, inflation, illegal alien invasion; malicious mask-vax coercion; and divisive, power – controlling economic, social, and spiritually void regime) is always followed by great good fortune. Aren’t recent, positive election results actual proof? How are authentic, Free American citizens arousing compassion within, adjusting sensibly, and helping others honestly in need?
I buy items throughout the yea and stashit away. All the men in my family cooks so they usually receive some type of spice or food item.. What I don’t buy I make. We make Christmas about God and family not big expensive items.
Thanks to democrats attempt to unravel America, we have shortages and higher prices and those lying idiots call us spoiled for complaining.
They are absolutely not liberals, they are the left and their goal is to make America into Venezuela
Got my Christmas present already. .. the Virginia election results.
I have a small family. I usually do money. I have 2 nieces and a nephew.
The bill is due; the tax payer – the most important entity in our country – has been and is being cheated. Nothing is given by Government – the taxpayer is always on the hook. Suggest that if you do not pay taxes.. you have no say on how the tax receipts are spent. Such a rule will shrink the deficit and keep our country together.
Everyone, it’s time to fight for our Country! Talk is cheap and the Marxist Party has decided they won’t stop, until We the People stop them! They are cornered rats!
LA CA supply chain issues:
100+ ships offshore, 3 days to unload per ship,
Union drivers move cargo
Cant use trucks unless 2011 model year to unload .
Bottleneck
For So CA
We usually do our shopping early, so no big change on our end.
As far as Turkey, etc. shortages go, I would rather have Mexican or BBQ than traditional Thanksgiving fare anyway.
Actually, I have always shopped for the holidays starting in Septemhber. It is not really new to me, but the projected shortages have made it easier for my family to support my proactive stance in the case.
These last elections proves the country is full of dummies still voting for demorats and enjoy paying more for everything. Will they ever wakeup doubt it the dolts.
Waiting for the midterm elections and hoping to rid the democrats out of office in both house and senate.
We are grandparents and our grandchildren have everything they need and more so we decided a few years ago to give the “gift amount” to a charitable organization. We gather and play games with $store prizes and have as much or more fun than opening a lot of gifts with no meaning.
Welcome to the Soviet Union.
If the lying media would stop spouting the lefts misinformation all the time this county would be far better off. Thankfully the ships that were stuck in Calif. because of STUPID LEFT IDEAS are now starting to arrive here in FLA and being unloaded. Hopefully this with help with the supply chain problem and also help with the Holiday shopping season. Unfortunately Christmas and the holiday has been so commercialized that it has ruined the true reason for the Christmas season.
stopped buying Xmas gifts YEARS ago, christmas is for kids, the kids are all older. We get together to be together & enjoy one anothers company. We give cash, that way everyone can buy the gift they really NEED, not what we think they need…. happier. MAIN REASON we stopped shopping – when THEY Took down “MERRY CHRISTMAS” & replaced it with Happy Holidays…Have boycotted ANY store that didnt have the guts to put up CHRISTMAS SHOPPING/Merry xmas…. and… well… most want our holiday dollars rather than xmas. THEY Dont want to offend other customers, yet what are all those Xmas specials? Black Friday is for who, Christmas is for who?…. IT is NOT Christmas Shopping anymore, it is Holiday shopping – NO THANKS. but IF a store has the guts to attract Christmas Shoppers… i DO go there, patronize the gutsy one.
Buy American…
Democrats are running this country in to the ground! WE have an idiot as president who is mindless! How stupid can a party be to suggest we give illegals separated from family being in this country illegally $450000.00 a piece when we have veterans who fought for this country and are freedom living on the street!!
I will give more cash than usual…problem solved.
I’ll put my Trust, Faith, and Hope in Jesus.
It’s hard to have a nice holiday when there is a traitor at the helm trying to ruin our lives and our country!
We are great grandparents, low fixed income. If we have a few extra $, we send only something only to youngest of the great-grands.
Besides. Although Christmas is for giving, it is more about our Savior’s birth.
I am a conservative and if necessary, I can do with what I have or do without.
“Chew it up, wear it out. Make it do or do without.”
LET’S GO BRANDON !