once again, no presents to be knit

I am knitting a shawl.  For me.  It is an endless thing that I have been working on for a long time . . . seriously long time.   And now, I am not sure that I am going to have enough yarn to finish.  So, the question is do I buy another skein of the yarn and do the bind off that the pattern calls for or just do a simple bind off and hope I can get the whole thing done without haveing to ante up another $9.00?  It is this yarn (Knitpick's Chromo in Guppy). 

On the gift giving front, I haven't started anything for anybody for Christmas.  Lindsey guilts me into making things for her.  She has hats, scraves, gloves, socks (although I did take those out of her drawer because she doesn't wear them and has been known to just dump an entire drawer of stuff to "give away").  She wants a sweater.  I buy her sweaters.  You might ask why I buy her sweaters instead of knitting her sweaters?  It is simple.  She doesn't wear those that I buy so why oh why would I spend the time and effort to knit her one that she wouldn't wear anyway. 

Sarah is always hot, she rarely even wears gloves.  Hat?  Scarf?  are you kidding me . . . the kid (a relative term since she is 28) is always hot. 

Zachariah would wear a hat.  But not to school and only if he is outside playing and he has been known to occasionally wrap a scarf around his head/neck while working on the computer. 

A group of people at work wanted to learn how to knit and make mittens for our Christmas project at work.  I bought the yarn.  They all lost interest.  So I do have a box of various green yarns and need to knit mittens or maybe hats.  I could do mittens and hats, which would satisfy my need to knit something for someone for Christmas, serve a good cause and also get the box of yarn from under my desk.