www.dotcomhunter.com Last Minute Christmas Shopping If you are like most people you do the majority of your Christmas shop ping at the last minute. Visit any mall or shopping center in the fina l days before Christmas and you are likely to find parking lots that a re filled to capacity and stores that are literally filled with shoppe rs who are still searching for the perfect Christmas gift for their fr iends or family members. As it gets closer and closer to Christmas the crowds tend to get more and more restless and the search for the perf ect gift becomes a search for an acceptable gift. Although Christmas f alls at the end of the year and people have a whole year to prepare fo r this joyous occasion, most people leave their shopping until the las t minute every year despite New Year’s resolutions to get the Christma s shopping done early. This article will discuss a few different types of last minute Christmas shoppers. There are those who do their Chris tmas shopping at the last minute out of necessity, those who do it bec ause they have procrastinated and those who do it because they find it to be exciting. People become last minute Christmas shoppers for a number of reasons . Perhaps the most innocent last minute shoppers are those who shop at the last minute out of necessity. Consider college students who t ypically end the semester around mid to late December. Many of these students are living on campus without access to a car. This can mak e Christmas shopping quite difficult but when you combine this livin g situation with the fact that they have finals to take at the end o f semester, Christmas shopping becomes downright impossible. Finals often account for as much as 50% of a college student’s grade and it is understandable that they would have to spend the early part of D ecember studying, the middle of the month taking their finals and th en wind up last minute Christmas shopping almost immediately after t heir last final. Other last minute Christmas shoppers include those who are just bor n procrastinators. They may go to stores every weekend in October o r November. This could be an excellent opportunity for them to get their Christmas shopping done early but instead they wind up window shopping or purchasing items for themselves. While they are aware the Christmas season is approaching, they don’t feel compelled to s tart shopping until the absolute last minute. When this happens the y find themselves in the unfortunate position of fighting the crowd s in a last minute Christmas shopping frenzy. Finally, there are others who are last minute Christmas shoppers sim ply because this is when they prefer to do their Christmas shopping. Some of these shoppers see shopping at the last minute as a challen A gift from www.dotcomhunter.comwww.dotcomhunter.com ge. They know they are short on time but are confident they will be able to find great gifts for everyone on their Christmas list this y ear. Other shoppers who intentionally wait until the last minute to do their Christmas shopping may do so because they enjoy the excitem ent of the crowds. Although last minute Christmas shopping can be st ressful it is often exciting. Those who enjoy this excitement love s hopping at the last minute because it gives them a sense of energy t hey wouldn’t feel if they were shopping for Christmas presents in October. PPPPP Word count 552 A gift from www.dotcomhunter.com