Christmas shopping on Christmas.
Posted by Terry Nelson on Dec 25th, 2007
Christmas could die of consumption.
I heard on network news today, that FAO Schwartz in Manhattan was open on Christmas Day for shopping. I imagine it was done as a “courtesy” for the poor children who received Gift Cards instead of real toys. Other shoppers were out simply to enjoy the festive holiday atmosphere on 5th Ave. - which is fun to do in NYC!
Although, I predict consumerism (as well as Gift Cards and dysfunctional families) will change the way Christmas Day is observed in the very near future. Next year, more stores will probably open - so people can redeem their Gift Cards - or just entertain themselves with America’s favorite past-time, shopping. And if the shopping mall has an amusement park - it will be open, Shirley.
December 25th, 2007 at 8:34 pm
I, too, wonder how Christmas will be observed in the future. I supposed an even more deluted version of what we have now will be the norm. But I still love Christmas.
And please, stop calling me Shirley.
LOL!
December 25th, 2007 at 9:39 pm
Sick, sick, sick!
December 25th, 2007 at 11:35 pm
Three or four years ago I came down with the flu on Christmas Eve. I was, as is my custom, over at my brother’s house with his family and my sister for supper and later gift exchange and chat. I lost my voice half way though supper.
I still felt OK and hung around for a while until I started to feel sick and left about 11:00 p.m.
On the way home I stopped by a Walgreens drug store near my house to pick up some Nyquil and cold medicine.
What to my surprise was that the parking lot was full and there were probably 150 people shopping in the store at about 11:30. And they were shopping for presents and wrapping paper and those kinds of things.
They weren’t at FAO Schwarz (a son of FAO Schwarz III was my roommate for a short time when I was in college; he was studying for a PhD in Animal Husbandry at the UofMN and asked my advice as to whether or not he should buy a ranch in Montana and taught me how to technically chart the stock market).
People cashing in gift cards at FAO Schwarz toy stores aren’t the poor looking for toys.
The poor looking for toys are shopping at Walgreens at midnight, Christmas Eve, because they just got the money they need to buy toys for their children.