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Just Me™?
Even tho I was struck down [struck down, I tells ya!] by Jihaddi-Virus early this month *hack*sniffle*cuss* I did make it out to shop a coupla few times. how ya think I caught this thing? eh?!? Oh yeah - Little Miss Outsmarted Herself—thought she’d get ahead of the curve. Get started early... *hack*sniffle*cuss*groan*
I managed to hit most of my favorite little “oh, you can always find something cute here” spots. Most of my shopping is for cute little stocking stuffers and girlie type gifts, so the local giftie store, stationery shop, accessory departments at big department stores and a couple of ‘drug stores’ are my faves. Yanno what I found?
Nuttin. Scarves—dull ones. Gloves—cheap ones. Wallets—expensive and ugly ones.
No cute little off-the-wall, funny, unusual things. No “never seen that before” stuff. No “what a great idea” items. No “that made me laugh - it’s great” frippery. Srsly—the most ‘interesting’ thing I found was hair elastics stretched around a circle on a stick to look like a lollypop. Funny, yes. But rly?!? That’s it?!?
Nuttin’. WTH?!?
Then, yesterday [being male] The Mister started his shopping, looking in his fave spots for guy-type stocking stuffers, and guy-type gifts. [Division of labor is big around here.] Yanno what he found?
Flashlights and hammers. Srsly. Even at Harbor Freight, where they usually have silly, cheap-but-interesting toys and unusual gadgets, they had flashlights and hammers. WTH?!?
Is it that the buyers 8 months ago were so timid that they didn’t dare risk any capital investing in any items that weren’t already guaranteed movers?
Not. A. Good. Sign.
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