Last minute shopping..
It is ironic doing a last minute Christmas shopping blog entry, when the blog itself is two days late. But…. here goes.
I have found that last minute shopping, although stressful for the giver, is in general quite lucrative for the receiver. Unless, the receiver is someone that may not be at the top of your list. But for the people at the top of the list, it’s well… like Christmas.
Case in point; yesterday I started and finished buying gifts for my wife. We had decided to keep it under $50 for each other this year, but of course we never stick to our budget. I only had one item I really wanted to get her and a few other things I liked. (Shannon, you are to stop reading now) But, while I was shopping I couldn’t find that “one thing” in the right size. So, I ended up buying the other stuff to make sure I was covered. Then in the last store of the day I found what I was looking for, and it turned out they had a two for one type deal, that I would have been foolish not to take advantage of. The moral of the story is… well I blew my budget, but I got everything I wanted (for someone else) and more thanks to procrastination. That’s good, right? 