Dec 27 2007
The Day After Christmas
Chrissy and I look forward to the day after Christmas almost as much as the day after Thanksgiving. We wake up early every year to get fifty percent off of all the seasonal goods. You have to wake up early to get the good stuff, since there’s always a crowd of people waiting outside the store to scavenge before you. We were at Kohls by 5 AM, but they had been selling their Christmas stuff for half off all week, so it was picked over already. Next we went to Target and bought a bunch of Christmas decorations, including six strands of blue lights and a white outdoor lighted tree.
We always hit the local Hallmark stores to buy holiday ornaments. I collect the Star Wars and Star Trek ornaments, and Chrissy collects the Pooh Bear and Snoopy ornaments. It almost wasn’t worth it this year, though, since the pickings were pretty slim. I only found two Star Trek ornaments (1, 2) and two Star Wars ornaments (1, 2). Chrissy managed to get two Pooh Bear (1, 2) and one Snoopy. It seems like they have less in stock every year. Last year, I missed out on several of the ones that I wanted. At this rate, they won’t have any at all next year. It might not be worth it to wake up so early anymore…
We made one significant purchase before heading home. We stopped at American Sales and bought a new Christmas tree, a seven-and-a-half foot pre-lit tree with a rotating tree stand. It has a thousand clear lights and almost two thousand branch tips. More branch tips means that you can hang more ornaments, which is good because we have years worth of Hallmark acquisitions. Our current six-foot tree looks pretty cramped, so we decided to go big. It’s almost too bad that we have to wait until next year to see what it’ll look like. We plan to give our old tree to my sister Nikki, since she’s been using the same tree since we were kids. It’s a little nostalgic to see the old tree at her house, but after 20 years, it’s starting to look a little Charlie Brown-ish.
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