Panic BuyingIt's the last shopping day before the whole country shuts down for christmas. You've been looking all over for something, anything, to buy your favourite person. Something that says you care, that makes them see you in a new light.
Well, something that won't make them punch you would do. My brother-in-law once bought his wife a bin for her birthday - it was a very nice bin, but boy was he in the crud for days.
What have you bought in sheer panic and desperation? Go on, you know you do it every year.
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chthonic, Fri 23 Dec 2005, 15:10)
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guess the valuethis year i recieved an registered mail envelope from my mum with my presents in - bit of a work up as i had to go down to the post office to sign for it. on the way home i got thinking - registered mail? whatever's in there must be worth a bit, certainly more than the dodgy soap/shampoo combo i'd picked up for her. thinking turned to panicking and panicking turned to buying as i ran around picking up a couple of unsuitable/unwatchable/unwanted dvds and cds - i live abroad so that day was my last chance to get something posted back to england. clocked up about 60 - 70 euro worth of purchases and then another 25 to send my parcel registered mail.
come christmas day i'd saved all my presents to unwrap in the company of my girlfriend and her family so i didn't look like some unloved outcast. upon unwrapping my mums present i worked my way through layers of bubblewrap to reach a small packet of chocolate nuts. not even a gift box but a plastic packet of cheap chocolate nuts worth so much less than the packing and envelope it was in, let alone the registered mail it was sent by... tasted grotty as well.
(, Wed 28 Dec 2005, 10:00, Reply)
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