Come on. Is it possible? In this day and age of crowded malls, big box chain stores and homogeneous inventory that is for the most part “made in China.”

You’re rushing around, feeling the pressure, battling crowds and watching your credit card balance go up like an express elevator to the top floor.

You’re trying to think of what other people like or don’t like and shopping on behalf of others.

You see disinterest on the faces of part-time employees in mall chain stores.  And you see the look of semi-desperation on the faces of people who own their own retail outlets and survive on their Xmas turnover.

There’s the piped-in Muzak Christmas carols, cynically cluttering your head space and taking away what little breathing and thinking space permitted in these shopping places.  They spew out tired old rhetoric like “comfort and joy!”

I actually like Christmas, but the whole shopping culture has become so pressurized. It’s a real killjoy.

There are those who will say “Well, I just don’t.”

And to them I say that is a luxury of choice that isn’t available to people with kids.

So tell me: is it possible to enjoy Xmas shopping? And if so, how is it done?

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