Advice for next year

Resolve to buy all of your Christmas gifts by December 1st. We've done it 2 years straight and it's helped keep our sanity in check. You'll also do a better job of finding gifts people actually want rather than settling with whatever you happen to stumble across. And it gives you a lot more time to bargain-hunt!

(I know this is late for 2008, but I didn't want to take the misery of those who waited till the last minute and rub it in.)