As a child of about 10, a plant and a calculator were the sole items that comprised my Christmas wish-list. That same year, I collected an unimaginable bounty of presents, and thus began my correlation theory between lack of gift requests as being inversely proportional to gift volume received.
This year -- mostly due to [...]
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I bought a gift online this year, which is quite a leap for my paranoid self. The vendor site is one that most likely gathers business from word-of-mouth. I'll admit that I first discovered it on another weblog. Given that, you'd think they wouldn't want to screw around with their newly established [...]
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For those keeping track, 've done it again. All of my Christmas shopping done in a single day. Statistics as follows:
Gifts Purchased: 8
People Purchased For: 5
Stores Visited: 7
Total Cost: ~$700.00
Time Spent: 2.5 hours
...And I still managed to fit in a full day of work. Fantastic.