Monica & Tuan

So the holidays are in full swing and I'm about halfway through my Christmas shopping list. It didn't help that Ottawa was "gifted" with 38cm of snow yesterday! But at least we are assured of our first white Christmas in several years :) Yay!

But Christmas isn't about snow or gifts under the tree. It never has been and this year is no exception. In fact, Tuan and I decided months ago to forgo Christmas gifts in order to save up for our house and wedding. After some more talk though, we decided we'd actually buy our "gifts" on boxing day when everything goes on sale. I say "gifts" because we're actually buying ourselves a flatscreen LCD television ... something that we'd actually need (well we need a TV, but not necessarily a flatscreen one!) when we move into our new house next summer but could get at a far better price on boxing day.

So how many of you out there actually wait until Boxing Day to buy big ticket items instead of paying more for them before Christmas in order to have them wrapped under the tree? And what do you think of this idea?

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