I've been doing a lot of shopping lately. Seems this would be the best time to get great deals on presents and things that I normally wouldn't buy at retail.
Trouble is, where to put all this stuff for another 11 months before they can be given away? We bought a tree about a month ago, and now it's on sale for only 25% of what we had paid. It really doesn't make sense, considering some return policy is 90 days. Some people would take advantage of that, and just "borrow" the item for a while. It's wrong, but sometimes you'd wonder, why don't they just keep the low price all the time? Make it not worth the time and money to "borrow" instead of buying.
I'm still reading the book on Wal-Mart. That was the original idea: every day low prices. However, that comes at a price. Target for a while was getting really expensive in comparison, but now they are back on track. Thanks to the "dollar items" there are now many Dollar Stores and dollar days even in the grocery stores.
Problem with shopping is that everything looks great in the store, but once we get it home and have no room for the new purchases, we wonder if all these are necessity items. Of course not. We are all buying into the advertisement, the desires, and people telling us that we need more, more, and more.
Sad. But, people with clutter are the ones keeping me employed, so I guess the cycle just goes on and on.
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