Not-shopping

[jhetley]

We will not contribute to the National Day of Shopping.  Neither of us actually enjoys shopping, even for something we want or need.  Add to that an abhorrence of crowds in general and elbows in particular, plus extreme traffic-avoidance behavior, and you have a formula for us staying out of stores until mid-January . . .

I think the mall area performed a greater service to humanity when it was still a dairy farm.

Comments

[kk1raven.livejournal.com]

I start trying to avoid stores as soon as they start up with their Christmas stuff. The earlier they start in on the Christmas music and decorations, they longer the time period where I try to stay away. They're not influencing me to buy more by trying to start the Christmas season at Halloween.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

We hear you. Wife had to go into a store, a couple of weeks back when it *should* have been safe. Got assaulted by "Jingle Bell Rock" at the door and nearly turned on her heel and left . . .