Monday, November 15, 2010
Enough is Enough !!
So Friday night after the kids went to bed I went to >>>> not the spa>>>>not the gym>>>>not even to do some great act of service>>>>>but rather I went to Toys R' Us. You may be asking yourself , WHY????? would I do that on a perfectly good Friday night whilst my husband is at home enjoying the peace and quiet with three sleeping kids? I asked myself the same question. I am a sucker for a great deal and for my three kids. It was a sale and I had the coupon to go with it. I went , I bought, I had the after bargain shopping buzz all the way home. Then I decided I should get out all of the kids Christmas presents and organize and take inventory. I shop for Christmas pretty much all year off of the clearance racks, ironically this is so I don't have to run out after all the crazy sales going on this time of year---as if I were above it---atlas we see I am not. Anyhow upon arriving home I pulled the gifts out of the storage unit and realized that I had too much, I didn't want to give my kids that many gifts. My bargain shopping buzz was shot. I looked at it all a bit dismayed. How did this happen? I repeat-I am a sucker for a great deal and my kids. As I lay in bed that night feeling a little sick over it all I decided that I needed to pull back the reigns a bit. I thought I was already doing a good job of that. The life maxim strikes me --the hardest thing to do is the thing you think you are already doing. And so here I am Thanksgiving not even here yet and I have more then enough Christmas gifts. I am surrounded by bargain shopping bliss and I have no more shopping to do. Have I learned my lesson? I guess in a months time we will tell.
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had to smile as I read this. I find on Christmas Day I'm always thinking, "enough is enough. we have SO MUCH and we just got MORE"...so I am with you! are you going to return your toys r us finds or keep it all and have a hay day?? :)
COMPLETELY understand. When Tess was little she got bored of opening gifts because there were just too many and since then I've tried to find the delicate balance of stocking up on deals but not overdoing it. The good thing is, there's always birthday parties and Toys for Tots for the extras. They like good deals, too.
ahhh i am a sucker for good deals too, but you have sometimes say enough is enough like you said. Good luck on that.
This always happens to me, too! I am such a sucker for toys. I always thought that the cool kids had tons of cool toys growing up. :) Maybe you can use the excess to give to one of the kids off of an Angel Tree or something like that. We can usually find one at the mall or a bank.
I am the same way! I still have presents from last Christmas that I couldn't give Carter because I'd gotten enough without them. I'm already done with toy shopping for Christmas and Carter's birthday in January (except now he says that all he wants from Santa is a camera - not in my stash). If only I had more kids . . . I've decided I just need to become a personal shopper so I can continue to shop and find the great deals - with someone else's money and someone else's house to store it in. :) Oh it's going to be hard to resist these sales, especially when I know I'm going out on Black Friday. . . I'm curious - what did you get at Toys R Us?
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