How to do your Christmas shopping stress free. 1. Shop early, I usually start in July, and finish before Thanksgiving. It is simple, if you find something for someone on your list in the middle of the year buy it. 2. Avoid Black Friday, unless you are itching for a fight and have fewer than 2 misdemeanor convictions. 3. Go shopping at weird hours, 2 in the afternoon on a week day is best you will have the store to yourself. 4. Park far away, by doing so you can get in and out quickly and you could probably use the walk. 5. Bring a Friend, make sure they have the same shopping strategy that you have (mine is surgical strikes). And ideally find someone who enjoys fighting for parking spaces and let them drive so you can disregard No4. 6. Russian Shopping rules should always be used. When you find something buy it NOW it might not be there tomorrow. If you do not like it later on, you can always buy them something else and return it, or better still give it to someone more appropriate. 7. If you are having trouble figuring out what to buy someone ask people, even stupid ideas can give you good ones. Also you might need to decide who is going to give who what gifts. 8. What to give some one? For kids buy something cool and expensive, put a lot of thought into it they are present connoisseurs. For men buy them something that uses electricity. For women buy them something cute and ornamental. And unless you are buying for your kids or you are approaching senility Never buy anything practical. 9. Remember that you are broke, cheap and tasteless, no one expects you to buy them anything good so do not sweat it. If however you are none of the above you are on your own. 10. Stop and smell the roses, roses are not usually in bloom this time of year but you should smell them anyway. Okay do not take things literally like I do. 11. Always stop to help someone, if for example a 90 lbs. woman is trying to put a TV that weighs more than she does in the back of her trunk and is having trouble with it help her if you can. This is good for the soul and helps remind you what the season is all about. 12. Do not take your self so seriously!
Posted on: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 05:43:00 +0000
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