@sundancer those kids and their wishes! Those red ring guns, we called cap guns. Not allowed in our house either ? You have good taste in pie/ cake.

@dawfydd if it wasn’t for the last minute, nothing would get done, right? Do you find Christmas shopping on the Eve super-busy or super quiet? I’ve been there, shopping on the day before and felt like I was picking over the wreackage. A buzzard at the scraps.

@querion the same thing happened in my family: gifts for the younger ones. Adults, nope. Puzzle framing is totally a thing though: lots of people do the same! Good choice of toys, but what is old is new again: Transformers are still going strong. Rumours of a reboot of G.I Joe, M.A.S.K. as Hollywood franchise movies mean toys will follow.

@limburger I didn’t think of 40k etc as an option. But then again, I was a kid, and still remember, when Hero Quest and Space Crusade we’re new on the market. Sold in toy shops. Good times. Remember the add for Hero Quest?

Classic!

Apparently one for Space Crusade too, though I don’t recall seeing this high quality commercial on Australian television…

Oh, wow, your choice of pie filling sounds tasty too…

@evilstu no Black Friday for me this year I think… other than what the employer dictates ? seriously though: Boxing Day sales were the thing. Now Black Friday as well. New Year’s Day sales too. It really is stupid. Thoroughly stupid. *sigh* I need to get out of retail.

Mowing the dirt huh?

@horati0nosrbl0wer seasonal shopping done by August??? What kind of crazy, we’ll-organised, thoughtful person does that?!? Running around in the final throws of the season, that’s how any “rational” person does it! ?

@mage Black Friday is the 23rd, this Friday. No one has done a Black Friday thread this year, yet.