Walmart - Christmas Boycott
It's official. I am seriously considering boycotting both Wal-mart and Christmas this year.
I've been to that filthy, dirty place five times in the past five days, dropped over a thousand bucks and while they had a parking place that wasn't too awfully far out from the door, they did not remember to greet me with a gold-plated shopping cart or take me to the high limit spender checkout. I had to wait in line behind three other gals with full baskets...
SO. Since I've had to buy this and that to fix up more stuff katrina ruined, get some hunting stuff and birthday presents and the first couple of things towards thanksgiving dinner, I'm fed up with Walmart and don't want to shop for Christmas at all this year.
This is a very dangerous position for me to be in. Some of you may remember last year when I decided to boycott Thanksgiving. I took a week off and a year ago tomorrow packed up the family and headed up into the foothills to "see fall" ...it was the first time in my life I didn't eat thanksgiving dinner on thanksgiving day, and it was quite liberating! We were very thankful, however, to actually find a diner open at 11a.m. along the interstate so we could eat breakfast... (I caved and cooked a turkey dinner the day we got home from our trip, but hey, it wasn't thanksgiving! LOL)
This year I'm cooking dinner with the other wives out in the woods. I'm cheating though, ordered the turkey-- all that basting would cut into my hunting time!
I think it would be a really great idea to boycott Christmas this year instead. Because I REALLY don't want to go to walmart again any time in the near future. The comps aren't very good there...
I've been to that filthy, dirty place five times in the past five days, dropped over a thousand bucks and while they had a parking place that wasn't too awfully far out from the door, they did not remember to greet me with a gold-plated shopping cart or take me to the high limit spender checkout. I had to wait in line behind three other gals with full baskets...
SO. Since I've had to buy this and that to fix up more stuff katrina ruined, get some hunting stuff and birthday presents and the first couple of things towards thanksgiving dinner, I'm fed up with Walmart and don't want to shop for Christmas at all this year.
This is a very dangerous position for me to be in. Some of you may remember last year when I decided to boycott Thanksgiving. I took a week off and a year ago tomorrow packed up the family and headed up into the foothills to "see fall" ...it was the first time in my life I didn't eat thanksgiving dinner on thanksgiving day, and it was quite liberating! We were very thankful, however, to actually find a diner open at 11a.m. along the interstate so we could eat breakfast... (I caved and cooked a turkey dinner the day we got home from our trip, but hey, it wasn't thanksgiving! LOL)
This year I'm cooking dinner with the other wives out in the woods. I'm cheating though, ordered the turkey-- all that basting would cut into my hunting time!
I think it would be a really great idea to boycott Christmas this year instead. Because I REALLY don't want to go to walmart again any time in the near future. The comps aren't very good there...
posted by Kim at 12:03 PM
6 Comments:
UUUMMMM a road trip huh,,,,,, sounds good to me!!!!
Not this year. Those last 2 trips to TX wore me out, and we have to go back to TX in Feb and OK in March... I'm heading for a quiet spot in the woods, all alone!
I do most of my chrtistmas shopping online from the comfort of my own home.
It made things very easy.
I'm certainly not boycotting Thanksgiving but I did order the dinner to be made and I'll pick it up that day. I'm not cooking for my ungrateful mother-in-law anymore.
I love Thanksgiving...but the commercialism of Christmas just gets to me. I'm all for forgetting the gifts and just making it about going to church and getting the family together. But I'm sure I'd be outnumbered and ambushed if I pushed the issue with my family.
I hear you about Walmart. I have been there 6 times in the last 3 days. There is nothing new there that I havent seen. Well maybe a couple of things. I keep on forgetting things and having to go back. I just think I will buy some stock there because I am leaving all my money there and it just seems I am not getting much in return.
Linda
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