Presents for the boyfriend's parents and sister. I don't get paid again until Christmas Eve, so I have to do last minute shopping. I don't have a clue what I'll get any of them.
Another Day Another Letdown......When I First Read The Title I Assumed This Thread Was Going To Be All About The Last 7 Days In The "Marquis De Sade's" One Hundred And Twenty Days Of SODOM.... Clearly I Was Wrong.... Cheers Glen.
I'm not buying anything for anyone! One of the benefits of being far away from my family + having no significant income. My girlfriend will just have to be happy with what she got for her birthday a few days ago. Damn, that xmas shopping is such a hassle. Sure am glad I don't need to worry about it.
I haven't bought any presents yet. Everyone in my family just buys each other books, so at some point I will have to venture into town to the bookstore.
you had my hopes up for a minute there, but according to wikipedia, orgy is still alive and well, with only one of its original members.
No gifts left to purchase, thankfully. Some groceries I can not get yet as it would not be fresh should finish all off and probably I will double check on my bar .
Alcohol and munchies for my sister's family... otherwise I haven't subjected myself to the retail orgy that bid-ness owners salivate over upon burping up the last chunk of Thanksgiving turkey with dressing, mashed potatoes, pearl onions, winter squash spam, baked beans, spam, spam, and spam... Seems that too many are elbow deep in the orgy of malevolent magnanimity induced hollow-day one-upmanship to appreciate how an occasion characterized by such platitudes as, "peace on earth, good will roward man", affects the behavior of motorists trapped in the gridlocked craze of retail mass hysteria--- not to mention how the same "perfect" strangers interact when one has the unmitigated gall to occupy the space that God himself has guided the other to in the quest for the perfect retail expenditure in the bounty that thou hast provided we give thanks, a-fucking-men! Curiously interesting that simultaneous to this perverse display of lowest common denominator behavior, modern man has mistaken this pagan rite of unmeasured excess as a religious holiday- albeit that it has in fact become just that- except the god that is worshipped is money... because as Tom Lehrer so quaintly put it, "Angels we have heard on high, tell us to go out and BUY" Christmas is a spectator sport to be sure.
Im still not buying anything. Why should i spend more money because of a time of year? This is the first christmas i have ever had where i haven't spent anything.
