明日はクリスマスの買い物の最終の日です。

買い物がちょっと好きじゃない。

オンラインショッピングがもいいですよ。

私たちは少しだけプレゼントが欲しい。

クリスマスツリーの下に驚きがありません。

ゆうゆうのまつりが好きです。

Generally Speaking

Tomorrow is the last Christmas shopping day. I don't really like shopping. These days we buy almost everything online. We don't really want much. There are no surprises under the Christmas tree. We prefer a calm and quiet holiday.

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質問とコメント

1. This is one of those entries that I hope to be able to explain better next year...if my Japanese improves!

2. Almost everyone I know drives themselves crazy buying presents at Christmas. I hate that. No one seems happy. They're all stressed out. I tell my friends, "My gift to you is that you don't have to buy a gift for me. Spend the time and money on yourself."

3. Anyway, for years it was only the two of us, me and my son. Now it is just me and ajm (and sometimes his son or my son). None of us need much of anything. So what we usually do is buy some "family" present. For example, this year we are buying a turntable so that we can listen to our old LPs from the 1970s and 1980s.

4. As for smaller presents, anything that we've wanted since Halloween, we buy ourselves and wrap up to save for Christmas. Or we go online together at amazon.com and pick out a set dollar amount each of books, CDs, and DVDs. Under this system, almost all of our gifts are from "Santa".

5. I suppose this doesn't sound very romantic, but it certainly saves on stress and disappointment. We have enough as it is. It's more fun to do things together than to buy things for each other.