Welcome to the Black Friday Book Bonanza Giveaway Hop, hosted by yours truly, Reading Reality, and the Caffeinated Reviewer!
Today is Black Friday, so named because in times past, the day after Thanksgiving marked the day that retail stores finances tipped from red ink (receipts not matching expenses) to black ink. It’s also the unofficial start of the Holiday season – and the equally unofficial start of the Xmas shopping season – hence that red ink to black switch. Even though stores don’t exactly use paper ledgers and ink to do their accounting, the principle is still true. Today is the day when retail starts to turn a profit.
That this year Thanksgiving is relatively late in the calendar has more than a few of them hoping that there’s enough time to get enough people in their stores – whether physically or virtually – to make the magic happen again this year. (Next year it’s a tinge earlier. C’est la vie)
This is not a day when a lot of blogging happens. People are either out shopping or still recovering from yesterday’s turkey coma. Still, I’m going to do my little bit to help you with your holiday shopping, even if it’s just a present for yourself.
The rafflecopter below is your chance at either a $10 Amazon Gift Card or a $10 Book from the Book Depository to treat yourself – or someone else.
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I usually don’t buy that much, but if I do it’s mostly last minute.
Thanks for the giveaway; I usually do most of my shopping in November.
I do mine a couple weeks before Christmas.
When my kids were small I did. Now we shop in December. We do a lot of online shopping for out of state family and then one local outting.
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i do it early because lot of my friends are abroad so i need to ship their package early december at the latest but if during the year i see an item i’m sure it’s for them i won’t wait.
thank you for the giveaway
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I usually end up getting everything at the last minute.
I always think I’m going to start early but that never happens and I end up rushing around, last minute.
I start mine early 🙂
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I hope you had a wonderful holiday. My plans are to start shopping online over the weekend!
I do my holiday shopping all year round and then some last minute ones lol no in-between. But for instance, I bought my mom’s Christmas gift for this year before the start of 2019!
I do mine at the last minute, but I also have greatly reduced my shopping.
It’s a mixture of all different time periods, but mostly from now until the 15th of Dec.
Wait until December.
I do my shopping early
I’m a last minute shopper. I plan on changing every year and every year I go back to my old ways of waiting.
Since all the kids in the family are now grown, I don’t have to buy many gifts any longer, but I try not to do last minute shopping.
It depends on the year. This year I’m late doing my shopping because my husband was in a car accident and we’ve been dealing with that. I prefer to start in October.
I do some of my shopping early, and some of it last minute.
My family is large, I try to pick things up all year.
Thanks for hosting the bonanza! Happy holidays to everyone!
I don’t do much shopping anymore, but I tend to keep an idea list all year. Even if I make my purchases in Nov/Dec, they aren’t impulse buys.
I do my shopping pretty much all year round
I do my shopping in December.
I tend to do my shopping thru the year. I also make a number of the gifts as well and that is done thru the year as well.
Most of mine is last minute.
I shop in the fall and sometimes throughout the year.
I tend to leave it until late November then throughout December but if I see something earlier, I’ll grab it. I bought a few bits in December this year.
I don’t do holiday shopping. My family stopped exchanging gifts years ago. We prefer to look on the holidays as a time for family to gather and enjoy each other’s company rather than to exchange gifts. We have no young children in the family. I give my daughter and her husband a small cash gift to buy something they want and a Honeybaked Ham gift card because son-in-law likes honeybaked ham and like me daughter is too cheap to buy it!
I do it all in late November or December.
I start buying Christmas Presents in February and buy things all year long so I don’t have to rush at the end of the year.
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I do most of my shopping in December.
Thanks for the giveaway. I do my shopping around Oct. & Nov.
I usually start around black friday.
I do my shopping all year round. That way, I can pick up on things people say they want and go ahead and buy them so I won’t forget later!
Almost always last minute, unfortunately.
“Do you do your holiday shopping all year round, early, or at the very last minute?” All year round–in order to find the perfect gifts!
I do all my holiday shopping at the last moment 🙂
We don’t really “do” presents in my family. Occasionally I will grab a few things last minute for friends or coworkers.
I try to shop early but not year around. Sometimes I have to wait to shop until I get that person’s wishlist. Like my son and my SIL…both slow when it comes to providing ideas and both are hard to buy for.
Usually, I start at the top of November when people share their lists with me, but I have been known to snag something throughout the year if it is exactly the gift for a specific person.
Thanks for the giveaway opportunity.
I start in November and try be be done by Dec 1st.
It does seem this time of the year is always a bit quieter when it comes to blogging with people busy shopping or preparing for the festivities. Here we don’t celebrate thanksgiving, but black Friday is a thing here now as well. I usually try to do some Christmas shopping in advance, but we don’t do a lot of presents anymore nowadays and I admit to waiting till December usually to start shopping now.
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I do my shopping early usually no later than October is when I start.
My daughter -in – law does mine for the grandkids . I cant walk very well. Lucky aren’t I?
I used to do it all year round.
I do my shopping year round. I shop all the sales and clearances. I get a lot more value for my money than people that wait till the last minute. I love a bargain!
I do the shopping after thanksgiving and in December
I’m happy to shop whenever I find a gift suited for someone on my list !
This is the first year I actually started my shopping early. I always said I would start early and never do well this year I finally did.
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I start in November most of the time! Thank you for the great giveaway. Happy Thanksgiving too you!
I do a bit all year ’round 🙂 but I also just give the gifts when I get them. I don’t save them up for the holidays 🙂
year round
I don’t really do much shopping, but I like to do it early.
I usually buy some early and the rest between Thanksgiving and Christmas, though I try to avoid last-minute shopping.
I do my shopping at the last minute.
I guess I would say I do it fairly early.. usually start 1st of November although I was much later this year.
I do my shopping early.
I don’t need to do much shopping, but it mostly gets done close to Christmas.
I try and start as early as possible.
It depends. I feel like I am falling behind this year.
I usually start around the first of December. I don’t have kids, so I don’t have to buy too much.
I shop year-round looking for good sales and finish shopping in December.
I usually start my shopping right after Thanksgiving 🙂
Last minute everytime- makes it more exciting!
I do mine I at the last minute.
i say i will shop all year every year but I wait until after thanksgiving
I have a small family so only a few gifts to buy so I usually shop at the start of december.
I shop all year round but I always end up doing lots at the last minute.
Buying cute and useful (and on sale) stuff throughout the year. I can never pass up a great buy.
thanks for the giveaway. I don’t like to go shopping, I buy what I need early, online.
It kind of varies…I tend to get antsy and can’t wait until Christmas to give gifts.
I usually start shopping in Nov.
I usually start shopping after thanksgiving
I look throughout the year but normally spend most after November.
I pick up presents right through the year.
Last minute
I no longer shop for the holidays.
I pick up things throughout the year. When I see a great gift- I snap it up.
Last minute
I sometimes pick up a few things in the last few months, then mostly shop in December.
I shop on black friday and cyber monday.
I try to get started early.
I am a last minute shopper.
I usually start buying Christmas presents at the beginning of November. And this Black Friday I didn’t buy anything! 🙂
I do it early 🙂
I prefer to shop year round!
I do my shopping in November and December.
We don’t do the whole presents-at-a-set-date thing in my family, rather we find something someone else likes and buy it for them. Then they complain a lot, there’s a row over it, the receiver is specially alert for something to buy the other person, etc. You never know when it’ll happen, but we’ll fight about it for sure 😛
Early and online! I try not to set foot in a mall after Thanksgiving. Thanks for the giveaway! 🙂
I always plan on doing it early but wind up being a last minute shopper. Every. Single. Year. I’m hopeless! lol
I do my shopping early. I usually start around October and try to be done before Thanksgiving weekend.
I do mine both early and last minute. I usually drag my feet because it’s so frustrating trying to get presents for people that say they don’t know what they want. Ugh!
last minute!
I shop last minute.
Year round
I normally try to do it early but this year will probably be last minute
I usually start in September but if I find something perfect at any time of the year, I will make the purchase.
im always on the look out for good deals. but i shop most on black friday and cyber monday.
I do majority of my shopping the weekend after Thanksgiving. I don’t like to be stressed!
I watch for sales year round
I do mine in november / early december.
I try to shop early but will pick things up any time if I find something fitting!
usually the last minute
I do my shopping in December.
LOL – I am a total last minute shopper!
I usually do mine around the beginning of December. Thank you!
Last minute.
I usually start my holiday shopping somewhere around the first or middle of October.
I try to shop all year when I saw something on sale.
I am a last minute kind of person.
I start shopping in December.
I’m honestly a procrastinator and need to work on it!
I try to start my shopping at least in November. Thank you for the chance!
I used to shop year round and I need to get better at that. I try and start in November at the latest though.
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My holiday shopping starts on Black Friday.
I used to do it early but nowdays last minute.
I usually start mid-November, then by the first week of December, I think “I got this”, and begin to relax too much…and then mad dash at the last minute!
It’s usually when something is at its lowest price.
I usually start my shopping after Thanksgiving.
I try to shop early to avoid the craziness and find better deals.
I typically do my Christmas shopping a couple weeks before Christmas.
I tend to shop at the last minute. Sometimes, I shop early, especially when I find the best deals.
I try to do it year round to get the best deals.
I usually do my shopping all year round but this year I’m wayyy behind and have to do some last minute!
I do mine year round
I try to find great deals all year long and put them back and hopefully match them up with someone come Christmas time. There are almost always last minute gifts to get though!
I try to shop sales all year.
I start in July or round about then.
I usually wait until the last second
I usually start my shopping on black Friday and then shop all the way to Christmas.
I tend to start around Black Friday. Try to get everything done within 2 weeks because then the week of wrapping begins!
I start my shopping in December
I usually start around the end of October, beginning of November. Well here the last 2 years anyways. LOL
I shop year round, especially when I find unique gifts.