Well the holidays are in full swing and so is holiday gift buying. And if you are a mother or maybe even just a woman buying gifts can be an agonizing task, at least it is for me. I can spend hours on the internet just looking for the perfect gifts that I think my kids will love. I can return a million items just to replace them with a million more just to doubt that maybe the first gifts were the better choice and return them again to get the first million I bought. Yes, the walmart customer service ladies shriek when they see me and my ten thousand stapled together receipts for all the returns and exchanges I have made. I however shriek when I add all the receipts together and my best laid budget plans go into the toilet.
Then there is the other side of the spectrum instead of too many options and returning and exchanging and returning and exchanging to get the perfect gifts there are people like my dad who are impossible to buy for. What does he want, he doesn't know, I surely don't know, and gift cards are out because he hates to shop. Trying to come up with a gift for my dad (and really my brothers too although they like money any time) is like trying to solve a quadratic equation, you go through the brain hurting steps and agonizing line by line to get to what you hope is the correct answer. So what are my options 1. My mom says he wants a pressure cooker??? A what??? For what??? What kind of gift is that??? 2. Car detail - My dad is kind of picky and enjoys detailing his own car. 3. New floor mats for his car - too easy to order the wrong thing since I know nothing about cars and a pain to return if they aren't right. 4.New Phone - out of my price range 5. DVD player for his bedroom - Boring. So one of these options will be picked just have to agonize about it a little bit longer before I make my final answer . . .ugh.
Happy Holidays!
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