'Tis the holiday season, a time for Peace on Earth and Good Will toward man...and also a time to pull yourself away from the computer, put down the packing tape and be with family and friends.

If you find yourself sneaking away from Christmas dinner to check your auctions, then you might want to read the following list compiled by a special group of online Elves. If more than half of these describe you, then maybe it's time to start thinking about what your New Year's resolutions should be!

Day 12) You open your Christmas present (from out of state Mom) early because you need the box.

Day 11) Book values are dancing in your head instead of sugar plums.

Day 10) Instead of going out to the stores to do Christmas shopping, you do Christmas sniping.

Day 9) You ask the checkout person at Sears if they accept PayPal.

Day 8) You get your Christmas decorations out and decide to sell them on eBay rather than decorate your house.

Day 7) The gifts you get (especially from out of town relatives) get put into the "keep" or "sell" pile!

Day 6) You set up an ebay ID that your family doesn't know about to sell the "sell pile".

Day 5) You can no longer accept house guests for the holidays because your spare bedroom is full of eBay items.

Day 4) At holiday dinners with family or friends, you unobtrusively lift all the china to read the backstamp.

Day 3) When you're standing in line at the post office with your stack of #7 boxes, customers that walk in behind you, roll their eyes, turn around, and walk right back out.

Day 2) You tell all of your friends to save the packing peanuts from their packages.

Day 1) You have auctions ending on Christmas Eve!

Happy Holidays, and thanks to the special online elves - you know who you are.