How are your plans for
Christmas going – have you got all your presents sorted and sent all your
cards? Are you stocked up for food for
the holidays or do you shop at the last minute?
I hate the crowds so shop online if I can for presents to save having to
join the throngs of Christmas shoppers – the busy aisles in all the shops is
bad enough but the queues for the checkouts is unbearable. I just stopped doing it years ago. I used to buy presents early and put them
away. The only trouble with that is I
often forgot where I had put the things so had to buy something else, only to
find the missing present in January!
That happened to me a few timesJ
Luckily we don’t have to
buy many presents or think of many to buy either. The children tend to prefer money with just a
small gift to open on the day if we are seeing them and my daughter lets me
know what the grandchildren want, so all I have to do is order the presents
rather than search for something. My
husband and I don’t buy each other a present and if we want something for the
house we buy that, but otherwise we just don’t bother.
I have been really late in
doing everything this year it seems and so have been really busy this last week
with getting out jewellery orders and catching up with Christmas stuff. LOL – you would never guess, would you, by my
lack of blogs this weekJ We
did our supermarket shopping at the end of last week to avoid the crowds but
the trouble is when you buy extra tasty food for the Christmas period so early
you just have to start sampling it early!
I finally finished posting the cards on the last day for 2nd
class postage and yet usually I get them written in the 1st week of
December. I have no explanation other
than I can honestly say I am a Google+ addict now and hours just disappear when
I am on there. I am not very good at
prioritising the important things.
Jewellery comes first and other things should come 2nd
followed by the internet. But you know
how it is, I go on there just to check there are no more jewellery orders and
the next thing I realise is that it is 2 hours later and my other things just
get left until later or the next day.
Usually it is something for
the grandchildren that I am surfing around online for as it is so popular that everywhere
has sold out, but this year I had a problem with my daughters present. She had said about a particular perfume she
had liked that a friend of hers uses and I thought I would get some for her to
open on Christmas day. Little did either
of us know that it was not being made any more.
She wanted Lauren Style perfume by Ralph Lauren and I tried everywhere
online – some annoying shops looked like they had it in stock until you went to
put it in your basket and only then did it say they were out of stock. I spent ages looking everywhere in the UK
Today’s snippet of useful /
useless information:
The
first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer. So did the first 'Marlboro Man'.
The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
Lastly a little joke for
the day:
'Cash, check or charge?' I asked, after folding items the woman wished to purchase.
As she fumbled for her wallet, I noticed a remote control for a television set in her purse.
'So, do you always carry your TV remote?' I asked.
'No,' she replied, 'but my husband refused to come shopping with me, and I figured this was the most evil thing I could do to him legally.'
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