Quit yer bellyachin’

Almost every blog I read regularly has recently contained some rant about how horribly commercialized the holidays are, and how Christmas is about nothing other than crowds, greed, bad tempers, horrible traffic, etc.  Bloggers seem to get themselves into foul moods just writing in anticipation of going shopping.  Everyone is supposedly rude and pushy, prices are inflated, and people resent the thought of putting themselves through hell in order to give “obligation gifts”.  All this talk leaves me bewildered, because Flippy and I go to a shopping mall perhaps once per year, if that, and we rarely even set foot in a grocery store anymore.  If we’re not heading out for food or Starbucks, our car sits in the garage, and the products come to us.  Why on earth are all the cranky bloggers not shopping online?!  They’re obviously “Internet savvy”, and I’m sure most of them have at least a debit card to use for purchases, so why do they insist on sitting in traffic, standing in lines, shoving through crowds, etc.?  I don’t understand it at all.  Flippy and I started to shop online the second the option became available… I was buying stuff from Sears back when there was no “Sears.com”, but just a Sears shopping section on Prodigy.  That was back in 1992, and today I’m still merrily buying everything online.  Kleenex, cat food, a dishwasher, blood tests—it all gets ordered online and the product (or paperwork) is brought to my front door.  All you gripers, stop whining and start shopping online!  You could be finished your shopping in a single evening if you know what you want to buy, and you could do it all in your pajamas and slippers.  While drunk, even.  Sheesh, people, you’re making me crazy.

Update:  I wrote this entry last night before bed, and this morning the blog Piffle had a new entry which referenced “Brown Santa” (aka, UPS).  Exactly!  These are my kind of peeps.  I’m sitting at home today waiting for “Office Max Santa” to deliver (for free) our new, cheap 71” bookcase.  We have so many new books lining our upstairs hallway that it was either invest $39.99 on a bookcase or break a leg.  The bookcase was ordered 48 hours ago, and as I said, it will be delivered for free.  No using gas, no going to the store, no struggling to put the box in the car… all I have to do is answer the doorbell.

Posted by Leigh-Ann on 12/09 at 06:11 AM

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  1. I am with you!  I love shopping online and if you are resourceful, you can usually find a hella deal.  I love slickdeals.net as they usually have some great price cut to exploit! :) LOL

    Posted by Expat  on  12/09  at  02:12 PM

  2. Amen!  EVERYONE that complaints about the holdays in any way should be banned from celebrating.  I am sick of hearing it too.  Just put up with it, be as cheerful as you can be and if it upsets you so…well just sit at home and speak amongst yourself (to yourself).  Hate whining!

    Happy Holidays Ms. Muddy!

    Posted by Ilona  on  12/09  at  04:25 PM
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