Do You Spend Like a Santa or a Scrooge?

By: Artimis Charvet
Estimated Completion Time
3 min
Do You Spend Like a Santa or a Scrooge?
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About This Quiz

What reactions do your gifts usually get? Are you a generous Santa or a penny pinching scrooge? Maybe you land someplace in-between, find out how you spend!
What reactions do your gifts usually get?
Complete shock
Not much of a reaction
A huge smile of approval
A genuine thank you

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What's your budget?
$5-10
$10-15
$15-20
$20 or more

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Who are your buying gifts for?
Family
Friends
Co-Workers
No one

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Easiest person to buy for?
Family
Friend
Significant Other
Myself

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When do you start shopping for Christmas?
It's a year round event
The day before
Usually around black friday
I don't really plan it

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For you, holidays mean:
Shopping
Stress
Sweetness
Santa

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Where do you want to buy the gift?
Mall
Online
Specialty Store
Big Box Store

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What is your gift giving style?
Go for the sparkle!
Choose something useful.
Go big or go home!
Modest, but thoughtful.

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Have you ever re-gifted a Christmas present?
Yes. I do it all the time.
Yes - but only once, and it was awful!
Never that's rude
Nope

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When do you open presents?
Christmas Eve
A little on both days
Christmas Day
Christmas Day, but after dinner

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Do you prefer to give gifts or receive them?
Give
Recieve
A little of both
I don't like the concept of gifts

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Would you ever give a gift card?
Only if it was for a large amount
Sure, it's an easy gift
Never
You'd avoid it unless it was the only option

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Who will you enlist for help to figure out what to buy?
Family
Friends
Facebook
I'd just ask them

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Where do you least like to shop?
Grocery Store
Walmart
The Mall
Liquor Store

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How many decorations do you put up?
None
Just a few
My house glows in the dark.
My home owner's organization decides.

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What kind of wine do you like best?
Merlot
Pino Grigio
Chardonnay
Shiraz

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Who will receive the most expensive gift this year?
My significant other
My parent
My child
Me

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What's your gift wrapping technique?
You try to get a professional to do it for you
Gift bag if anything
Artsy and fun - you like to add a few extras
Basic, but it does the job

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How would your friends describe you?
Active
Lazy
Fun
Serious

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What is your favorite holiday?
Mother's Day
Christmas
Easter
Thanksgiving

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What kind of tree is the best kind to have?
Plastic
Any so long as it's real
Nobel Fir
Anything so long as it's big!

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Favorite winter activity?
Building a snowman
Skating in the park
Snowboarding / Skiing
Sitting at home by the fire

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Where do you put up the tree?
Outside
Living room
By the front window
Well we usually have 2-3 set up throughout the house

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If you have any doubt, you tend to:
Give big
Not give much
Give something homemade
Give something useful

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Most annoying thing about this time of year?
Relatives
The Christmas songs!
Not getting what you ask for
Crowds

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Where's your favorite place to be during the holidays?
Home
Some place warm
Someplace with snow
Anywhere but home

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What is the largest gift item you will purchase this year?
Car
Phone
Gift Card
Jewelry

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How many siblings do you have?
3 or more
2
1
0

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Hardest person to buy for?
Family
Friends
Significant other
Myself

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What's the best present you've ever received?
Kindle Fire
4 foot tall styrofoam standing T-Rex skeleton
A gift certificate to a book store
Positive pregnancy test

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