This has nothing to do with my girls… sorta..
I’m just flustered with all that is commercialized Christmas now. The ads boast the best prices for the best gifts, because you know, Christmas is all about how many gifts you can get now. UGH. Anyway. It’s not like I can really go shopping to all of these places. I take the girls with me, and if I want to have much control over them touching things, I have to put them in the stroller…. Oh, and did I mention the double stroller won’t even fit through the door to some of these stores? and if it does, it sure as heck isn’t going to fit down the aisles, or in between any of the clothing racks. The stores are so packed with stuff, you’d be lucky to get out alive if the place caught on fire!
The latest advertisement on tv for Walmart boasts their “site to store” shipping, where shipping is free if you order on the website, and you choose the store they ship it to so you can pick it up. Well, that’s all well and good, but don’t expect to get it in time for Christmas. I purchase a small item, a stove guard to keep my girls from getting burned, during off peak times, and it took a MONTH.. no I’m not kidding.. it took 4 weeks to get to the store. So I saved $8 by getting it from Walmart, but I could’ve had it faster if I would’ve just gone to Goore’s in the first place. Why oh why didn’t I do that? I wanted to test out their service. I even emailed them to inquire as to why it took so long, and I never did get an answer. Disappointing to say the least.
And then there’s the fear of being killed while shopping at the mall. With the latest mall shooting (God bless those people and their family who were senselessly killed), it’s gotten too scary to even go to the mall. Not that I can fit my stroller through the stores at the mall.
All these commercials.. Blah.. Yeah, so we’re getting sucked into the buying frenzy, but we’re doing it online for the most part. We’ve purchased from Apple.com, and Sams Club online, even Costco.com… It makes things so much easier. If it wasn’t for some of the last minute gifts that I’m sure we’re going to have to get, I probably wouldn’t have to go to a store at all!
