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Online Christmas Shopping; I keep telling myself it is just as enjoyable
Decided to get out amongst the throngs on Black Friday just to get me in the ‘ho, ho, ho’ spirit of it all. No agenda, just walk amongst.
In looking back over my holiday shopping characteristics, the mail-order catalog was my go-to choice to get the deed done. This was because I worked full-time and a shopping mall was over an hour-and-a-half away. It was embarrassing having the postman shove all the catalogs into the mailbox day after day. I was definitely on the mail order company’s list.
My kids really didn’t have a list; I had to come up with what I thought they just had to have, on my own. I created a collection hobby of unicorns for my daughter and penguins for my son just to be able to buy them something. The catalogs would be tabbed by folding the upper corner so I could refer back and forth to all the possibilities.
With the advent of online shopping, it still takes hours and hours, but with me hunched over the computer with several tabs open showing product reviews and all the possibilities of what might brighten the face of a grandchild or surprise my son and daughter that despite them being old, their mother still knows of something they just had to have and they didn’t know it.
So, is online shopping bigger better brighter? Because of where I live being so isolated from a place to get into the hustle and bustle and fighting over the last box of a certain toy, I hate to say it, but I still harken back to liking the turning the pages of the mailorder catalogs rather than clicking open another tab and search for a review. I don’t want the mailorder companies to know that however, because having all those catalogs come in the mail would still be embarrassing.
Get out there and have fun watching the shoppers!
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