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Poll: Have you started gift-buying yet?

December 11th, 2008, 11:14 am · 3 Comments · posted by Jan Norman, small-business columnist

With only two weeks left until Christmas, 33% of Americans haven’t even started shopping for presents, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports survey

At the other extreme, 22% have already finished all their shopping.

Other findings:

  • 9% began their shopping within the last week.
  • Men are bigger procrastinators than women: 38% to 28% haven’t bought a single gift.
  • 62% plan to spend less on gifts than they did last year; 12% say they’ll spend more.

Tell us about your gift-buying progress:

How's your gift shopping going?
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