One Stop Shopping for Christmas?!
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2short2care,
Posted on: 2011-12-24 14:18 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
Toys 'R Us does not have a large enough pony section.
(clap) Good on you, glad you had a terrific time and found some place like that. Merry Christmas.
Cancel the kitchen scraps for widows and lepers, no more merciful beheadings and call off christmas!
Bass Pro Shops is my Toys R Us.
I used to fiddle with my back feet music for a black onyx. My entire room absorbed every echo. The music was . . . thud like. The music was . . . thud like. I usually played such things as rough-neck and thug. Opaque melodies that would bug most people. Music from the other side of the fence.
New Egg. <3
Best Buy.
Truth is...
My area hasn't had a Toy's R Us since the late 90's. Nearest one is something like 3 hours away. This is in the Birmingham Alabama Metro area mind you, not exactly the boonies. I thought all Toy's R Us had crumbled in retrospect.
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Keep Calm & Chive On!
I did Toys R' Us last year. Granted, I did it on Christmas Eve when it was FLIPPIN' RIDICULOUS!, but I haven't got the slightest clue what to get kids nowadays. And since I'm a computer and comic geek, I have almost nothing in common with a 4 year old girl who is into collecting My Little Pony and a 6 year old cousin who's main hobby seems to be destroying things.
And this year, my present was family tech support for my parents and brother in the form of:
- Brand new backup hard drive
- A copy of Acronis True Image Plus 2012
- A copy of Perfect Disk 12.5
- And the labor to get everything defragged, imaged, and get regular backups going.
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Doesn't sound tacky to me, more like the best present you could get them actually. That or just give the cash to the parents for a babysitter night once they are big enough. They'll have earned it by then.
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Originally Posted by Hyperstrike
And for my brother's new kids, I'm just going to put some money into their bank accounts for later. It may be a little tacky, but they're 3 weeks old (and preemies at that
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Keep Calm & Chive On!
I don't buy gifts and tell people not to buy me any. Saves everyone a lot of unnecessary grief.
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Farewell is like the end
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And there you'll always be
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Tacky is buying reusable diapers when they've already said they aren't washing poo bags and in fact already have several boxes of disposables to get started on because not everyone is a god damn hippy and you can't ******* guilt trip me into using them
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Originally Posted by MaestroMavius
Doesn't sound tacky to me, more like the best present you could get them actually. That or just give the cash to the parents for a babysitter night once they are big enough. They'll have earned it by then.
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Hmmm sounds like someone got reusable diapers one christmas. LOL
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Originally Posted by LISAR
Tacky is buying reusable diapers when they've already said they aren't washing poo bags and in fact already have several boxes of disposables to get started on because not everyone is a god damn hippy and you can't ******* guilt trip me into using them
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Cancel the kitchen scraps for widows and lepers, no more merciful beheadings and call off christmas!
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Originally Posted by LISAR
Tacky is buying reusable diapers when they've already said they aren't washing poo bags and in fact already have several boxes of disposables to get started on because not everyone is a god damn hippy and you can't ******* guilt trip me into using them
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Well, cloth diapers would make more economical sense. But yeah, they don't want to wash poopy diapers.
Hell, got a look at their storage room downstairs the other night. Dear fricking GOD! Someone at Huggies is getting a bonus this year!
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This. So very much this.
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Originally Posted by Tenzhi
I don't buy gifts and tell people not to buy me any. Saves everyone a lot of unnecessary grief.
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My sister tried that and everyone got on her case. It was painful to witness.|
Originally Posted by Tenzhi
I don't buy gifts and tell people not to buy me any. Saves everyone a lot of unnecessary grief.
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My plans to make them give me her yearly allotment of gifts totally failed.
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It took a few years for my decree to sink in, but they finally got the concept that, yeah, they weren't getting anything. |
Originally Posted by MisterMagpie
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My plans to make them give me her yearly allotment of gifts totally failed. |
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I guess that's better than a donation to The Human Fund.
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Originally Posted by LISAR
Tacky is buying reusable diapers when they've already said they aren't washing poo bags and in fact already have several boxes of disposables to get started on because not everyone is a god damn hippy and you can't ******* guilt trip me into using them
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Reminds me, my co-worker's little guy seems to get a rash from every diaper brand but one.|
Originally Posted by Hyperstrike
Well, cloth diapers would make more economical sense. But yeah, they don't want to wash poopy diapers.
Hell, got a look at their storage room downstairs the other night. Dear fricking GOD! Someone at Huggies is getting a bonus this year! |
The "house brand" of the store next to work
She lucked out on that (but then, Fred Meyer/Kroger and the "gourmet" Private Selection has always been good brands)
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Negaduck: I see you found the crumb. I knew you'd never notice the huge flag.
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Originally Posted by seebs
Toys 'R Us does not have a large enough pony section.
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Ponies are not horses.
Orc&Pie No.53230 There is an orc, and somehow, he got a pie. And you are hungry.
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They're equines |
Originally Posted by Rajani Isa
Ponies are not horses.
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Ponies are horses, although not all horses are ponies.
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Originally Posted by Rajani Isa
Ponies are not horses.
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I used to fiddle with my back feet music for a black onyx. My entire room absorbed every echo. The music was . . . thud like. The music was . . . thud like. I usually played such things as rough-neck and thug. Opaque melodies that would bug most people. Music from the other side of the fence.
I'm just said lemons were not oranges. I never said they were not citrus.
Of course, we could have fun and expose the (my little) ponies to Hrulgin.
Orc&Pie No.53230 There is an orc, and somehow, he got a pie. And you are hungry.
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Negaduck: I see you found the crumb. I knew you'd never notice the huge flag.
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Shoot and I bought this for you too..|
Originally Posted by Tenzhi
I don't buy gifts and tell people not to buy me any. Saves everyone a lot of unnecessary grief.
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It's all about the hands |
Originally Posted by PSLAnimal
Ponies are horses, although not all horses are ponies.
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Unpossible right?
WRONG.
And no, it's NOT the Internet, although you'd think a computer guy like myself
would heavliy use it...
No, I'm a 'hands on, brick and mortar' kind of shopper. I'm not into getting things, then returning them because they don't fit or whatever, because I couldn't put my hands on it. Oh, I've done it, but every time I worry "it is right?" And sometimes... no, it's not. Arrgh.
In any event, this Christmas, I've had... well, issues... shopping. I am justthat messed up, and so *today was the fracking day*.
One lucky thing is that we all in my groupage draw names, so I only have to worry about 5 kids and 1 adult, and bring food... which reminds me, I have to get that stuff to make the thing I'm makin'... meh.
So, anyway, filled with excitement, dread, and forboding, and also realizing that even with 'just 6' people to deal with... this could take *all day*.
I was done in 2.5 hours. And that is mostly travel!
The shopping experience:
1) Get up, get dressed, deal with morning pains and such, get the fudge out of the house.
2) Get fuel for my car
3) Get fuel for myself in the form of a breakfast sammich.
4) Drive to Toys R Us.
5) Shop for everyone, and DONE.
6) Head to home, but stop for lunch.
7) Actually get home, unpack the car.
That's right, Toys R Us had everything I needed, on Christmas Eve, including what I needed for my adult. They are ALL getting what they would want/need/have to have.
I'm just uber pleased with myself. And I thought this was gonna be horrible.
So, folks, remember, if you absolutely, positively, have to buy anything for anyone and it has to be done in one stop, one day? Toys R Us. You could *live* there, if they'd let you.
Well, except they don't have internet, so I couldn't run City of Heroes there. (And with this line, it's now an officially "game-related" post, as required by the forum descripion. Praise me. PRAISE ME!)
Merry Christmas to all, and Happy New Year too!
/please note, this is not a plug for Toys R Us. Not at all. It could probably have been Target or WallyWorld or (insert mega-store here).
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