With only days to go before Christmas, Zanetta Bowman, right, owner of Zee’s Holiday Gift Wrap, wraps a gift for Frederick Denton in Vicksburg Mall Thursday. “This year seems like a lot more people are waiting to the last minute to get their shopping done,” Bowman said. At right, Kaleigh Hopkins, the 5-year-old daughter of Jimmy and Lee Ann Hopkins, drops her donation into a Salvation Army red kettle outside the mall Thursday. The Salvation Army collects money for projects for the poor and elderly.