Christmas Shopping
I started my Christmas shopping early this year. In August, to be exact. Because while I was in Europe, I realized that I could buy stuff for people for Christmas and it would be extra awesome by virtue of the fact that I got it in Europe. Since then, I’ve been randomly picking things up as I’ve seen them and thought, “This would be perfect for so-and-so!” and then putting them into the ever growing pile of presents in the closet in my growlery ((The growlery, a.k.a., spare bedroom that I use as an office, has a nice big closet that I use for storing things, like cookware that I don’t use that often, since I don’t have enough kitchen storage space for all my cookware; my Costco overflow, which will feed me when the zombie apocalypse comes; and Christmas presents)). So it’s going to be the Christmas of a bunch of random little presents.
However, I have recently clued in that I haven’t gotten something for everyone that I need to buy for and I haven’t evenly spread out all my gift purchases among the people for whom I need to buy gifts! And just now as I was ordering something online, I was surprised to see that if I order something today, it won’t arrive until Dec 17 ((Unless I pay for shipping. But paying for shipping when there’s a free shipping option available is for suckers!))! That’s getting awfully close to Xmas!
I think I need to examine my pile of presents, see what I have for each person and get a game plan going on for filling in the gaps!
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Tags: Christmas, Christmas presents, family, friends, rampant consumerism, shopping
and you are here in Toronto on dec 15th…. so you won’t be home to accept any deliveries… just come to toronto, don’t bring any gifts… you are the gift … save money for the irish pubs…lol
Yup, I’ll be there, so I’m getting this shipped directly to Nancy & Jeff’s place. Means there’s more room in my luggage for wine!
Congrats on making it through NaBloPoMo!