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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
oh, come now, really?
We got a catalog in the mail earlier this week advertising a "last minute holiday shopping sale". OK, I gave in early in adulthood to the idea of Christmas shopping before Thanksgiving, and then before Halloween, but since when is mid-November THE LAST MINUTE? Come on, marketers, you can do better than that. It's not the last minute until it's 7:30 on Christmas Eve and the last store in your town is about to close in thirty minutes and you realize that you have more presents for one child than the other and you have to dash down and buy a couple of Lego kits at the supermarket to balance things out. Not that that's ever happened to me, or anything.
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That really *is* pushing things.
Until this weekend, I'd been doing a good job of ignoring all the too-early Christmas promotion. Then, as happy, seasonal music played on a TV commercial one chilly morning, I felt a momentary urge to *put up the Christmas tree*. And it's not even Thanksgiving yet! Thankfully, sanity soon returned. ;o)
Still. Too early for the tree isn't too early to start getting my gift list in order. I'm tired just thinking about it, and I don't have that many people on my list!
Posted by: Michael at November 19, 2008 03:48 AM
They seem to be very desperate for shoppers this year
Posted by: debi at November 19, 2008 08:08 PM
