Since my nieces & nephew all live in Canada, I just shop over the Internet from .ca suppliers and order gift-wrapping at check-out. It saves a world of hurt in taxes, duties, tariffs and shipping. And energy/sanity.
well yes indeed. I've learned the hard way to buy from amazon.CA if at all possible, the customs hassles with amazon.COM are not worth any savings.
but to have shopped thataway would have required forethought on my part, which, sadly, was missing. The books for great neices/nephews were bought 10 days ago and stuff for adults a week ago. but I haven't gotten behind in gear to wrap.
I'm off to the dinner. hostess prezzies are wrapped, and two (count 'em, 2) of the remaining (quick count) 27 gifts are still on the dining table. sigh.
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Date: 2007-12-25 06:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-25 07:12 pm (UTC)but to have shopped thataway would have required forethought on my part, which, sadly, was missing. The books for great neices/nephews were bought 10 days ago and stuff for adults a week ago. but I haven't gotten behind in gear to wrap.
I'm off to the dinner. hostess prezzies are wrapped, and two (count 'em, 2) of the remaining (quick count) 27 gifts are still on the dining table. sigh.