Archive through December 02, 2002
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Archive through December 02, 2002
Wargod | Saturday, November 23, 2002 - 06:26 pm     LOL, Tess. I have a feeling I'd rather be baking! |
Weinermr | Saturday, November 23, 2002 - 07:01 pm     6 more shopping days until Chanukah....... |
Wargod | Saturday, November 23, 2002 - 07:02 pm     Wow, I didn't realize Chanukah was this soon! |
Sia | Saturday, November 23, 2002 - 08:22 pm     I've actually got my kids' gifts purchased. I have bought very little for hubby so far and don't have a lot of stuff yet for extended family, but don't intend to buy much this year. We do have a new baby in the family, however, and I have a whole plastic tote FULL of stuff that I didn't give to the Mommy at the shower, so that's covered! Happy shopping, y'all! |
Wargod | Sunday, November 24, 2002 - 10:58 am     Oh hush, Sia, LOL. I can't figure out what to buy my four year old! She has barbies coming out the ears...never plays with them, has baby dolls...never plays with them, has a bike, a scooter, a doll house, a kitchen....never plays with them! I'm at a loss, LOL. The only thing she has asked for is a Babbling SpongeBob toy. I really don't think kids need a hundred new toys, but dang....I know I need more than one! |
Jkm | Monday, November 25, 2002 - 04:56 am     Wargod -- I hear you -- it's amazing when the girls really clean their room well -- how many toys they find they forgot they had -- In the past my dh and I have joked about cleaning out their room and just rewrapping the items they already have!!! I went to the mall with my kids Saturday after volunteering at our towns pancake and sausage breakfast. We have one of the biggest malls in the state -- I was pooped!! Couldn't get much because they were with me and dh was at home sleeping. (he had to be down there at 4:30 am to start cooking) For pre-teens - they threw a couple of big fits because I wouldn't buy them anything (other than afternoon meal at the food court). I had told them before we went in that we were looking for Grandparents and Dad presents and that it was too close to Christmas to buy them anything, but I would take suggestions. We did get Auntie Anne's pretzels -- we all really, really like those things!! I was soo tired!!! We were there for about 4 hours!! I forgot how long girls can spend in Claires!!! One is a middle schooler -- (I'm not cool anymore - at all) Mom, I need these earings right now! Mom, I really really want some of this fake hair to attach to my head -- Mom what do you mean I can't have the penguin from build a bear now!!! They are limited mom, what if they run out???? I do enjoy Christmas -- just not shopping with my daughters at this age!!! We ended up spending less than $100 and only got my Dad and in laws some presents. Now I have to go back..... It's about 45 minutes to get there and park so it's not something I'll get to do of an evening usually but we'll see!! Good luck Wargod -- I think I'm hitting Walmart's sales also -- Our local one is open 24 hours - so I wonder what time the sales actually start? |
Nimtu | Monday, November 25, 2002 - 05:31 am     Just so you all know....everytime I see the title to this thread I have a slight panic attack. I am soooo unprepared!! War - don't know if this will help, but, when my daughter was about that age we were stuck too. Saw a cute idea that she loved and played with for years...made her a dress up box. We got one of those rubbermade type storage boxes and filled it with things like $2-$3 sale pumps, went to salvation army etc. and bought 4 or 5 old bridesmaid/prom dresses (s-i-l cut and hemmed the dresses a tad bit shorter and I took them to the dry cleaners but nowdays you can just use that at home stuff!) We had junk jewlry, feather boa (messy!!) and I had bought some 1/2 price costumes after halloween (durable ones). Anyway you get the picture. She and her friends played with those dresses for years!! We only got rid of the box about two years ago and she's almost 13 now. Good luck to all the shopping warriors!! |
Jkm | Monday, November 25, 2002 - 05:49 am     Nimtu --- 29 more shopping days!! |
Weinermr | Monday, November 25, 2002 - 06:54 am     5 more shopping days.... |
Wargod | Monday, November 25, 2002 - 08:36 am     Grandma did the dress up box last year for her. The only thing she played with was the little plastic high heels...usually nekkid. She's been through three pairs of those! So, I did pick her up a new pair for this Christmas. Last week, her and my neice played with the feather boa. I smiled..til I noticed my neice with a yellow feather in her hair...I went running back to her room and found yellow feathers all over her room!! Anyways, I saw a Barbie tent, I'm thinking she might like. She is forever making her own...and their is my dilema, I like her using her imagination....so do I buy her the tent? LOL! JKM, I swore up and down about two weeks ago the kids wouldn't step in a store until after the first of the year! Even for grocery shopping, they've either stayed with my mom or husband. The "I wants" drive me nuts! Unfortunately, my son has been saving his allowance, and with his tooth fairy money he now has enough to buy a toy he wants. And, since he's done what we asked, which was to save half, I really have no reason to tell him no. I did ask him to wait, and he informed me that he had to have this toy, now, LOL. We've always used the "So long as use your own money, you've saved half of it, and you can afford what you want you can get it." |
Jkm | Monday, November 25, 2002 - 09:39 am     Wargod, I sympathize with you - they don't have too much attention span at your daughter's age - they get board with a toy quickly -- I'm trying to remember when the girls were that young.... Dress up, barbies (that got played with in spirts) How about a 4yr friendly home made art box - (put in coloring books, crayons, felt, glue, tape, construction paper, etc) Finger paints - modeling clay - PLAY DOUGH!! (I won't let it in the house anymore!!) Hey I did see something that was neat at the mall - in one of the local toy stores (not chain) they had these felt story boards - came with some people cut outs - but there were tons of kits - animals - people - etc Kids thought they looked cool but say they were way too old. You use your imagination and make up stories with them. One of those things that she could play with for many years (of course most of the time it would be in box) What about puppets (there are many many kinds) Some real inexpensive ones are at Oriental Trader (they have and online store as well as a catalog) Any kind of sing along cassette or cd player is always a big hit until mom and dad can't stand it anymore. |
Sia | Monday, November 25, 2002 - 02:35 pm     Wargod, think EDUCATIONAL: -flash cards -fun placemats that will teach as well as entertain (I've found ones that you use with wipe-off crayons to practice numbers and letters) -books, books, books to read -coloring books -activity books -a new sticker book -interesting new stickers -craft projects (latch-hook; she's not too young) -weaving loom (those potholders of loops are perfect for her little hands; she can set up the first row, you can help with the cross-wise ones) -markers and paint, art supplies -drawing paper -an art easel -dress-up clothes -Barbie accessories and clothes to spice up the wardrobe of the dolls she already has If I think of more later, War, I'll post them. |
Nimtu | Monday, November 25, 2002 - 02:57 pm     JKM, geez...just able to type again after the all out panic attack you and Weiner gave me!! War, buy the tent..the imagination still will work with all the games she'll play inside (this advice has NOTHING to do with the fact that Nimtu always asked for a tent for christmas and never got one!). |
Jkm | Tuesday, November 26, 2002 - 04:59 am     Breathe Nimtu! (28 days!) They put up a Christmas tree in the lobby at work last night -- Today is supposed to snow about an inch - not much but just enough for effect -- I've got www.mychristmaschannel.com on playing Christmas music -- now all I need is more money and more time for finishing home made stuff before it arrives. Never had a tent either - bed sheet over the kitchen table though........ I did no Christmas shopping yesterday - not on my lunch, not afterwork - not even when I ran into walmart for some essentials. (Could have something to do with being broke until Wednesday - put heh - the stores are calling!!!) |
Earthmother | Tuesday, November 26, 2002 - 05:58 am     I do a side business each fall and sell Christmas and gift items. This is great because part of my commission is merchandise..That means everyone on my list except my husband and kids are already done, wrapped and stored just waiting for the tree to go up. I love Christmas... Even the stocking stuffers are done. Each week when grocery shopping or at my favorite store I pick up one small inexpensive thing and put it in a bag with that person's name on it, so by the time the big day arrives I have at least 8 things for each stocking and I don't feel the price crunch just when the property taxes are due..lol |
Jkm | Wednesday, November 27, 2002 - 05:00 am     Well folkes --serious shopping time has arrived -- after the turkey's been carved -- the madness begins -- which store are you hitting first (or are you being wise and staying home in bed??) 27 SHOPPING DAYS LEFT!!!! Kmart and Big Lots open on Thanksgiving day with some specials (they just opened a Big Lots in the town I work in -- not impressed) Some stores having their Wednesday sale today --- |
Wargod | Wednesday, November 27, 2002 - 10:11 am     Oh......I'll have to check the Kmart sales ad! I usually have a couple hours Thanksgiving morning with nothing to do! |
Jkm | Wednesday, November 27, 2002 - 10:31 am     Does anyone know what the door buster sales are for Walmart? I local poe dunk rural post office doesn't get the flyers anymore ( I think our zip code has been dropped somehow) |
Wargod | Wednesday, November 27, 2002 - 10:55 am     I've got it somewhere around here, Jkm. I'll see if I can find it and post some of whats in it for you. The only things I remember off the top of my head are the gameboy advanced for 48 or 49 bucks, and a dvd player for the same. |
Wargod | Friday, November 29, 2002 - 07:59 am     Shoot, Jkm!! I'm so sorry!!! I forgot to look for that stupid paper, but trust me....you don't want to go there!!!!! OK, yesterday, I got up at 5:30am, got dressed, and went to Kmart. There was about 150 people in line in front of me...but, no big deal...I'm a shopping warrior! Uh huh...right up til the doors open and people went running!! I knew what I wanted and where it was..unfortunately so did everyone else in the store! I walked in, swung a left and came to another huge line...for the electronics department. I wanted some Gameboy games that were 9 bucks each...couldn't get close to them, LOL. So I went the other way towards toys. They had board games, buy one, get one free. I wanted four for my neice. Lets just say after standing there for ten minutes thinking I'm just too darned polite to go shopping like this, I jumped in and grabbed my games. 11 bucks for four board games, I was feeling spiffy. So, I head over to clothes, pick out a jacket for my daughter, 11 bucks! And got two blankets for the kids beds for 3 bucks. I did ok there, but still couldn't get the video games I wanted so I came home and sent hubby (shopping warrior that I am, LOL!) By the time hubby got there the video games were gone, but he did get a rain check. Fast forward to this morning. Hubby is going with me to Walmart. I'm thinking with his long legs he can run to electronics and pick up the Gameboy. We get up at 2:30am (two hours of sleep for me!) and he goes and picks my mom up to stay with the kids. We get there at 3am...we're the 30th people in line. We chat up the people in front of us and in back of us, its cold but not freezing nor windy. We were having a pretty good time. Then people start to come. By 4:30 the line was around the building. By 5:15, we were crowded in front of the doors..we had no choice, the people behind us kept shoving. And people started to show up about 5:30...standing right next to the people (us!) by the front door. Let me tell ya'll.....I have never felt fear like I did when they opened them doors and all those people started shoving, LOL! But, we had a plan. Hubby was going to electronics....I was going to kids clothing. Hubby left me in the dust..and I got run over trying to get outta everyone else's way. People were grabbing tv's, dvd players, and vcr's and running. I actually had no problem getting the jeans and sweats for the kids. Getting over to meet hubby in the laundry detergent isle was pure hell though, hehe. After 27 minutes, we emerged from that madhouse with two gameboy advances (hubby grabbed his own Christmas present, LOL,) 2 pair of jeans, a sweat suit, a dress and a knitted pants outfit for Dakota and Grandma's denture adhesive! I learned one very important thing this morning....I am so not a shopping warrior!! I was absolutely out of my mind thinking I could push and shove people out of my way like that! I will never, ever for as long as I live go to another sale like that again! (Well...I am going to hit up Target later on today...but after the big sales, LOL.) |
Sia | Sunday, December 01, 2002 - 02:05 pm     Somewhere I have a list of the stuff I've been buying all year and have hidden in my closet, but I am not certain where that is right now. After we finish decorating the tree (hopefully by tonight), I can start wrapping presents! It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas; I even strung up 100 clear lights above my home computer! I know my hubby thinks it looks tacky, but he smiled and even helped me put them up--I can't reach as high as he can; he's six feet tall and I'm much shorter! |
Wargod | Sunday, December 01, 2002 - 04:51 pm     We got the tree put together last night, got lights on it this morning and will decorate it tonight. I'll be wrapping presents tomorrow probably..but we've decided not to put any under the tree til Christmas Eve. That way we don't have to fight the kids and dogs who think under the tree is the place to play, LOL. I sat here yesterday and watched my neighbor put up his outdoor lights....now when I have the back door open I have this great veiw! It is definitely starting to look alot like Christmas, LOL.....I'm so excited I started my Christmas cards last night. Oh, and after talking about it, and debating about it..we decided to buy Dakota a new bike for Christmas. She does have one...but its a bit beat up and getting too small for her. She'll get a "big girl" bike for Christmas, and her old one will get a new seat and be given to a friend of ours who has a little girl about a year and a half younger than Dakota is. Things are coming togehter. |
Sia | Sunday, December 01, 2002 - 08:51 pm     We did get our tree decorated this evening, and then we all watched "Olive, the Other Reindeer." Cute movie!! Tomorrow I will deal with storing the ornament boxes. The tree looks very nice, but the kids really tried my patience. They want to just grab things, and I have delicate ornaments I've been collecting and making for over thirty years. I don't let just anyone handle my bulbs! ROTFL!! |
Jkm | Monday, December 02, 2002 - 06:07 am     Wow!!! I bow before your presense Wargod!! I cheated -- I went shopping after work on Wednesday evening -- not crowded --everything stocked! (plus scouting for Friday) I ran out of money before I got tired of shopping. I made plans to go to Target to get the dvd/vcr combo that was on sale (they had a couple hundred of them setting out wed. evening). Friday came, the alarm went off at 4:00 -- went to bathroom, then turned on tv - news was showing the lines at the shopping center I was going to go to - already a hundred or more in line. I shut the tv off and went back to bed!!! lol I went to Wal-mart (never did find a flyer) about 9:30 - got a front row parking spot (with out driving around and around) got the dvd/vcr combo $30 cheaper than the one at target (don't care about brand -as long as it works) put that and a stereo ($50) for the girls in layaway (yea only two weeks before have to get it out -- but spent to my safety level wed night). Home by noon!!! |
Wargod | Monday, December 02, 2002 - 09:57 am     Hehe, I still won't ever do that again!!!! We got the tree done last night also, while listening to Christmas caroles and pleas from the kids for candy canes!!! For the most part they did a good job with the decorations, LOL. I did have to go around the tree after they went to bed to rearrange a few things....Like ornaments hanging from the light wire and some that were all hung on the same branch. We had fun though and the tree looks great. Jkm....if I had seen the lines on the news Friday morning I would have climbed back in bed, LOL. Once again....there is no way I'll ever do that again!! I'd rather pay full price, LOL! |
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