If men did the Christmas shopping.

All shops selling Christmas shit would have to close for a month.
Only women keep these places open and in profit, impulse buying whilst browsing these dumps with their thumbs up their bums and their minds in neutral, usually dragging a couple of brat kids around with them.
I can't imagine many men buying something from Shitebusters, simply because the price had been reduced by 90%.
Men shop like the SAS on search and snatch operations.
Identify the target, get in, get it, pay for it, get out.
Men's Christmas presents would be bought wholesale.
Engraved 'Zippo' flip top cigarette lighters for the boys.
Boxed sets of eu de cologne for the girls, colouring books for the brats.
All wrapped as if by monkey's

Anything to add anybody?

If I let my fella buy all the presents, Christmas would be shit.

Women love shopping the way they love sex. To most women engaged in either activity, the journey is every bit as important as arriving at the destination.

To most men, the only thing that matters is arriving at the destination which, in the case of shopping, is the buying of the required article. Hence the popularity of Internet shopping: you get what you want without it having to take hours and hours and without having to keep stopping for the wife of girlfriend to catch up. Exactly the same reasons underlie the popularity of Internet porn.

Sadly for men, however, it's not always possible for them to go it alone: sometimes the wife or girlfriend has to be involved. A perpetual problem for women, however, is that when it's a joint operation with their man, arriving at the destination is by no means guaranteed and the journey itself can be much more of a trial than any sort of a pleasure. Indeed, many women embarking upon either exercise have been known to wonder, after only a few minutes, why they agreed to it in the first place given the wealth of past experience that should have informed their decision.

My advice to women is therefore, when it comes to sex or shopping, don't even think about getting a man in - do it yourself!

I find it hard to shop for women. I can buy a man something for interest's sake like a spacehopper or an American Civil War cavalry officer's cap and he will say "wow!" bouncing off to attack some Red Indians. But with women, you have to be so careful. Is this offensive? Did it look better in Slate green-grey, or Green slate-grey? Will it hang well on clothes rack, or look a bit limp? Bah humbug.