Happy Shopping!

​Well, its that time of year again … Christmas!  So here we are.  Christmas is almost here and I still have some last minute shopping to do.  I already bought the kids big ticket items … winter coats, winter boots.  Now, I just want to get some small things to put under the Christmas tree.  But, since I waited to the last minute, I guess I’ll have to go to the store.  If you’re anything like me, you hate going out to the stores this time of year.  I am so thankful that I can shop online.  I don’t know how people can do it anymore.  The stores are too crowded.  Little kids are crying because they are hungry, irritated, and/or tired.  And people are just plain cranky and/or rude!!  For this to be a jolly holiday season, people can sure act real funky!!

One of my friends told me that she was thinking of getting a movie pass card.  That sounded like a great gift.  I looked at the website and discovered that the purchaser pays a one time annual fee and the person the card is purchased for would be able to use the card all year long to go to the movies without paying.  I looked up which movie theaters around us accept the card, and was glad to discover that every theater we go to in Brooklyn and Manhattan accepts that card.  I thought I found the perfect gift for my kids.  What teenager wouldn’t want that gift?  Hell, I was even thinking of getting a card for myself.  That is a gift that would definitely be used.  So, I get online to order the passes and found out that the card user has to be over the age of eighteen.  What kind of crap is that!  Don’t they realize how much money they’re potentially losing?  Or, maybe they think that teenagers go to the movies so much that the company would lose money if they let them have the cards?  Either way, now I have to come up with another gift idea. 
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Oh well.  I’m sure no matter what I get them they will be happy.  Luckily for me, I can honestly say that now that my kids are older, they are satisfied with whatever they get.  Every now and again they will put in a request, but not that often.  And when they do, its not overly expensive.

So, since its so close to Christmas, I will have to brave the crowds, or pay extra for expedited shipping. 

Don’t be like me.  Shop early, or else you’ll be fighting the crowds. 
Consider Yourself Warned!

To all you parents out there, have you finished your holiday shopping, or did you wait to the last minute like me?