It is December 21st. Christmas is on December 25th. If you are one of those people who wait to the absolute last minute to buy Christmas gifts or do anything. This is your time.

If you do not have set items you are going to buy. If you do not have a specific place where you are going to buy it at, you more than likely was your money and disappoint the recipient of  your gift to be.

If you have been reading The Shopping Nazi for any time you know that loath last minute shopping. Just going to from place to place to see what is available at the last minute leaves so much to chance.

I truly believe the hardest thing to buy for anyone is clothes. It is not just size and color of the clothes. It is the material and style that plays an important part. Then there is how that piece of clothing fits.

The good news is the last 5 days before and after Christmas is some of the best time of the year to buy clothes. The other three times is at the start of Spring, Fall, and in the month of August. August because of the end of Summer vacation and the start of school.

The start of Spring is the best time to buy winter clothes for the next year because stores don’t want to send them back to the warehouse or store until Fall.

We are closing in on the last 10 days of the 2010 Christmas shopping season. People are working hard to make this the best possible Christmas in years. It has been a hard the last few years for shoppers and retailers. However, this year we are seeing early reports saying this Christmas shopping season will be the best in quite a few years.

Even the old tradition of carrying arm loads of packages into the local Post Office are being streamed line for ease of those who are shipping their Christmas packages. I am writing about the old tradition of going to the local Post Office with arms full of packages. Then standing in a long line for what seems like hours. Once getting to the counter where the Postal employee standing behind. He or she is slowly methodically checking the address, figuring the postage, and then in an authoritive voice announces the cost for shipping those packages.

This past week I went to Best Buy shortly after they opened their doors at 8am. It was the best time to go shopping at Best Buy or any other store. There’re no crowds. There maybe two other customers in the whole store. I got in and out of the store in just a matter of a few minutes.

Many people just want to get the Christmas shopping over and done with as quickly as possible. In doing so they have found shopping online answers their desires. Nobody likes to fight crowds and long check out lines in any store, no matter what great deal for what great gift there is to get.

As you all know there has been a growing trend to shop at a store’s internet website and have those items delivered. In the last year or two the lines have been blurred more than any previous Christmas shopping season. Over the past few years shopping online has become more and more popular.

I am sure we have all have went shopping for some one who it is just impossible to find them the right gift. Then there are those who you bought them a specific only to find out later that someone else has bought them the very same gift.

My mom and dad were not very creative when it cam to Christmas gifts. I can tell for certain what our aunts and uncles got for Christmas for a 10 year period. It was bath towel sets.

I remember every year dad would go to the some place like Kmart, or JC Penny’s and buy a dozen bath towel sets. When he got home he would take old paper bags that he had been saving and wrap up all those box set. I remembered it to quite some time buy the time he had all those wrapped, and addressed. Then the next week day dad would take them down to the post office to get them mailed off to their desired location.

There is nothing worst than opening a present at the office Christmas party and your face turns beet red while your mouth slowly opens with no words to say. It is extremely difficult to smile when opening a present to find you have just been given a gift that should never have been bought.

Office or workplace Christmas parties are usually where the most embarrassing gifts can be given. It is at these parties where careers can be made or ruined over the gift given from one co-worker to another fun.

My Christmas gift to you this year is to help you from giving that career ruining Christmas gift. I want to keep you from embarrassing yourself and the person who receives that Christmas present. PLEASE stop and think! I don’t want to get one email from anyone telling me they had got any of the item I put on this years 10 worst Christmas.

We reached the second day of December 2010. The Christmas shopping season is well on its’ way. Depending on what website you read or what news program you watch you get a different list of top Christmas gifts, this year.

I wanted to give you my list of my top seven Christmas gifts. I looked at lists from a national local news programs, web commentators and people who have asked me about what to get their friends and family for Christmas. Then I put together my list of recommendations.

Xbox 360 w/Kinect – The Kinect is an added on to the Xbox 360. It basically gives you a hands free game playing. Your bare hands are the controller. According to all my resources say that it is slow responding. Many tech sources are saying to wait until next year.

Last night world renown artists sang classic Christmas songs as a prelude to the lighting of Christmas tree in Rockefeller Center. Boise Idaho received a dusting of snow over ice. This made it difficult for shoppers to get home. Local Radio stations have started playing Christmas music from a wide variety of genre.

This year the feeling of Christmas is stronger than it has been in a long time.  Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade which normally signals the start of the Christmas shopping season was beat out by Sears.  For the first time in the history of Sears they opened on Thanksgiving morning with price cutting deals.

Wal Mart  has started the Christmas Shopping season early from their website. All the other retailers followed the lead of Sears and Wal Mart by blurring the lines of Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Cyber Monday. 

I remember as a child the first weekend in December meant my dad and I would drive up into the mountains through the snow to get our Christmas tree. The trip would take up up in the mountains to where they would stop plowing the snow. Then we would leave the car and hike into the forest until we found the perfect Christmas tree. After we cut it down we would drag it back to the car. Then when we got home we spent the rest of the day was putting it up the tree and decorating it.

As the years past we had to go to the local Christmas Tree lot and purchase our tree. Then one December years later dad brought home an artificial Christmas tree. From that Christmas on, Christmas was just never the same. It felt as if we had sold out to something less than real.

Do you still have some money? Do you still have more shopping to do? Are you tired of fighting the crowds? Do you just want to get some great deals from your computer, at home? Cyber Monday is just for you.

Next to Black Friday, Cyber Monday is considered the next biggest shopping day of the year. The only major difference between Cyber Monday and Black Friday is that Cyber Monday is done online and Black Friday is done in the physical stores.

Retailers and shoppers alike have high expectation for the Cyber Monday. Over 88 % of retailers expected to offer a special Cyber Monday. 62.7% of retailers will be sending promotions and deals to shoppers via e-mail. 54.5% of workers with Internet access shop online from their work computer.  (The stats were from BizJournal.com)