We are celebrating Christmas a little different this year. Instead of letting the retail market get the best of our hard earned cash, we decided to hold off for one wek to give gifts in order that we might be able to find the same things we were going to buy last week on sale. Now we have begun to find a flaw in this experiment, which is that most stores have been stripped of all of their stock and the employyes seem to be a little less than friendly due to the fact that they are working the day after christmas. I guess I would be a little unhappy as well. Our plan also included going to the christmas tree lots and picking out a tree that would have been left over from the season, and would fetch little or no cost to us. Again, we ran into the problem that most of the tree lots closed shop a week before christmas, and the only trees that were found made the charlie brown christmas tree look like a 10 foot douglas fur. We did however find some rough looking trees on the trashpiles in front of some peoples house (which leads you to wonder what kind of person throws away a christmas tree less than 24 hours after the big event). Well the good thing is that fake christmas trees do go on sale along with the wrapping paper and ordiments. Well, the rest of the week is going to be interesting to see if we can muster up enough christmas spirit as the rest of the world tries to go back to the normal hustle and bustle. We do hope that everyone had a wonderful Christmas and for those that swim against the calendar of the retail world, Pre- Merry Christmas to you.
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