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Christmas list shopping

Going from store to store looking for items to put on your Christmas list. To be contrasted with regular shopping as you're just making a list of stuff you want versus actually buying anything.
Store clerk: Can I help you find anything?
Customer: No thanks, I'm just going Christmas list shopping.
Store Clerk: Oh, ok.
Christmas list shopping by vmiboxman November 22, 2010

Christme Shopping 

Christmas is on it's way, you've just bought gifts for all extended relatives and their dozen pets, isn't it time for a little personal splurging while you're out?
Simply put, going "Christme Shopping" is purchasing gifts exclusively for yourself - usually items that you know you aren't going to get otherwise, or could just be shopping for yourself around the holidays when the outlets are packed.
"Everyone else is looked after, time for a little Christme Shopping"
Christme Shopping by Lerako November 27, 2012

Christman Shopping 

The manly art of going out the week before Christmas and buying yourself a gift that you really, really want thus causing your friends/family to return the one that they bought you that you hadn't opened yet.
Him: "So I really wanted a new leather coat and I saw this on a Christmas Eve sale and bought it for myself. It's my way of Christman shopping"

Her: "I guess the one that I bought for you can go to the homeless shelter for Christmas. At least they'll appreciate it"
Christman Shopping by GUK S. December 23, 2009
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)
fogey by Petyush September 14, 2005
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