Just the decade
It was about 10deg on the celsius scale - our normal temperature around christmas here. No rain but some sun in the evening.
I didn't buy anything besides some japanese food. The standard stuff like clothes and household items I can buy whenever I want and the time for really new technology is gone since ten or fifteen years. In my opinion the consumer technology is saturated since then and only minor changes in technology occur. Nothing really new and a five year old device
(phone, computer
) basically does the same job as an actual one in most cases. No breathtaking changes at all.
30 years before every one or two years a completely new and improved technology came up. A new approach to get the job done, completely new design or software or totally new features and ideas that have not been seen on older devices. Or a new Intel processor with new features or possibilities.
Those days are totally gone an now it is just marketing and to imprint in the kids' brain that they "need to upgrade" but nothing new in general.
Stefan