It is curious how many things I have gotten that I have asked for this year. The next thing is staying at home for the holidays. I don’t care for the holidays for many reasons. It’s starting to get cold, work was always more stressful, and people seem to generally loose their mind. I more prefer to see family during the year instead just at a huge gathering. I have never been one to like to be made to do anything and buying presents because you have to is not fun. Don’t get me wrong, I love gift giving, I just like to buy special presents for people as I see them and don’t like to wait for some product driven holiday to give it to them. I also enjoy making crafts for people instead of something else they don’t need. Again, I have issues with authority. Over the years, I would just Christmas shop all year saving the special gifts in the wooden toy box my Dad made me. Sometimes I couldn’t wait and I would just have to give a present early and say, “By the way this is your Christmas gift too unless something creative hits.” I usually only do that to people that can handle it. This year is easy…. Pictures of Evalyn all around. Period. There is no energy or time to go running around trying to find items that I feel good giving. Of course, I have a few good ones stashed away…..
Black Friday freaks me out a little. Just the thought of it makes me want to pull the cover over my head. Speaking of Sleep… the time is 3:20am. My mom came home one time telling us that some crazy women had snatched power rangers out of hand and then there is always someone that get stampeded to death. Bet they wish they said home. Supposedly this year, there were people camped out days before Black Friday and skipped Thanksgiving all together. Jonathan and I laid in bed and discussed what we would do that for. We had to stay in the reality box…. Not like for you dog, or favorite mattress, something you all ready have, or 10,000 off a car you are buying. I really couldn’t think of anything. It almost bothered me that I couldn’t think of anything. I would camp to camp…. In the woods.
Now I appreciate that there are some great deals out there and if you have to save the money, well fine. Jonathan's said a really good price on a big T.V. would have done it for him. I would be ok with him going if that T.V. also had a volume stabilizer, do they even make those? I’d like to think that if we cook at home a lot, use thrift stores, craigs list, and ebay to save money all year on needed items, I can splurge to possibly save my life. Now for some of you, this has become a family tradition and you are actually spending time with people you care about and you don’t get all stressed if a yellow power ranger is available…. To me this is ok…. Spending time together is good. What ever floats your boat. But for others, is possible that we have been brainwashed through constant advertising that we NEED all this stuff NOW? The book I’m reading now, “Through Painted Deserts”, talks some about this too. Concert Tickets…. I would camp out for maybe two days to see Michael Jackson again… not in the box though.
I'm with you. I also worked in retail so I had to work on Black Friday. You really see the ugly side of people and it sort of ruined the holidays for me for awhile. So...I have no desire to experience that as a shopper. There is nothing I need so badly and I'm not a very materialistic person anyway. Plus I love my sleep more than ever now.
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