...because while our four-foot tree remains disassembled in a cheap cardboard box in our storage unit, the Frema-Useless Clutter household has completed its Christmas shopping. During a span of seven days, we inhabitated Best Buy, Target, Books A Million!, Babies R Us, Barnes and Noble, Bath and Body Works, Sears, JC Penney, the Hallmark Store, and numerous boutiques where we lost zero dollars but gained splitting headaches, headaches that are bound to resurface the minute we open our credit card statement.
Ho freakin' ho ho ho.
Nice to be done, isn't it?
Posted by: butterflygirl | November 27, 2006 at 01:51 AM
Hummmmm...........Bet I wasn't on THAT list either
love ya anyway..
Aunt Ruthie
Posted by: Anonymous | November 27, 2006 at 11:00 AM
A seven day shopping marathon? Woman, that is some serious endurance! I ventured out briefly on Black Friday, but I only impulse purchased myself a new frying pan before running for the exits.
But good on you; finishing the Christmas shopping before December puts you in the 99th percentile of organized consumers!
Posted by: Kelley | November 27, 2006 at 06:36 PM
As you know, the mjd/daddy d combo will not display a tree or do much shopping until late December. I admire your perserverance. We do have a few details that should be taken care of quite soon. Oh well, as Scarlett O'Hara said, in Gone with the Wind "Tomorrow is another day."
Posted by: mjd | November 27, 2006 at 08:54 PM
Okay, I haven't even started yet. You are my hero.
Posted by: Isabel | November 27, 2006 at 09:42 PM
Wait, is it that time of year again?
Posted by: daddy d | November 27, 2006 at 09:57 PM
I am currently in the exact opposite state of being. The tree is up, the stockings hung, the rooftop lined with lights, but I haven't bought a single gift. I'm still in the "thinking about what to buy" stage.
Posted by: Britt | November 27, 2006 at 11:21 PM
Three cheers for holiday shopping - and during the busiest weekend of the season, at that!
Throw away your credit card statement. Who needs those nasty ol things anyway?
Haha
(Visa will come find you. Pull the statement back out of the trash.)
Posted by: Lost A Sock | November 27, 2006 at 11:37 PM
Oh man. I'm still in the "Buh ... it's that time again?" stage of things.
Posted by: Fraulein N | November 28, 2006 at 11:41 AM