Tis the season to be grumpy

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"We are always getting ready to live, but never living"

Ralpho Waldo Emerson

 

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Have you finished your Christmas shopping yet? Have you ventured into the shopping centres? Nightmare isn't it at this time of year. Unless you are willing to get there at 8.30 on a Saturday morning, and be out again at 9 that is.

 

Assuming you can get in and out the car park unscathed you still have to negotiate over stuffed shopping trolleys, bawling kids and stressed parents. I don't know about you, but the thought of shopping during December fills me with absolute dread and I will avoid it at all costs. Does that mean the people I know actually get a Christmas gift, or do they just get a card with bah-humbug written in it !!

 

Hardly - but here's a thought

 

Do people really need more "stuff"?

 

Most people I know have more money than I do, so can afford to buy themselves whatever they want. So for the main, rather than buying consumable gifts I like to get gifts that can be deemed to be experiences....

 

Movie tickets, vouchers for just about everything - High Tea at the Hyatt, Breakfast, Coffee and Cake vouchers, magazine subscriptions, etc etc....and every year, I choose a "theme" and everyone gets the same....that way I don't have to stress, people don't get "stuff" they neither want or need, they get things they may not have thought about getting for themselves, I get to shop in one place saving me valuable time I can use for other things, and I don't have to go the major shopping centres. Talk about a win-win situation.

 

But if you do decide to go to the shopping centres, go with the knowledge that it is going to be busy, assume you are going to have to set aside an extra hour or two each weekend between now and Christmas to do what you need to do. But take time out to get a coffee and sit and watch everyone else getting stressed. It's actually an interesting time for people watching if you take the time out to do it. You get to see human nature at its best and its worst.

 

"Cheers"

Elle

 

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