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QUESTION: Do you plan to do most of your Christmas shopping online or in the store?
Talk about it….
In the store. I want to see and touch what I’m buying, and if relevant, smell it.
Online shopping is one of the reasons people have been losing their jobs.
Stores have been cutting back, or closing and going out of business. It also
requires absolutely no exercise, which is one of the reasons we are living in
a fat society. People are getting too darn lazy. Get out and walk. Park your
car on the opposite side of the lot and walk a few extra steps, your belly will
thank you for it, as well as your heart.
When I Christmas shop, half the fun is looking and picking out an item that
I think the person would like and appreciate. I hate shopping, but Christmas
is different, I enjoy giving, and the delightful expression on their face when
they open their present is priceless. I’m shopping for somebody besides myself,
and that’s what makes it an enjoyable experience.
Shopping already finished online. Laziness has nothing to do with it. I’m not a shopper in the coloquial sense of driving around to stores and browsing the goods. I have in mind what I want to purchase and search for the items and procure the items without the need to mingle among the masses, witness a jewelry store smash and grab, or have my vehicle broken into.
Both! Sometimes online works to find that special item that you’d have to run to 10 stores to hopefully find.
But there is a certain amount of pleasure and holiday feel you get by going into the stores themselves!