What's better:
Planning your Christmas shopping and getting it done calmly and
efficiently in the months, possibly several, leading up to Christmas or leaving
it to the last minute and finishing the shopping in an adrenaline fuelled last
minute scramble ending just as the store is closing?
Let us analyze. Planning
your shopping and executing it makes for a worry free Christmas. It also probably means that you were able to
stick to your budget and even if you didn't, you won't be facing a huge post Christmas
credit card bill (like most of us).
You'll miss the crowded stores, the panic buying and dealing with
salesclerks who've heard the same Christmas carol CD 20 times a day for more
than 15 days in a row. You will also
have the ability to gloat whenever your friends, family and colleagues speak of
their future shopping trips. Of course,
you don't have to gloat. You could just
smirk inwardly.
If you choose the last minute option you will have compacted
the time you spent in the mall to a bare minimum amount. You will have saved a lot of time to use for
other activities (like procrastination) and used a lot of effort over a short time
rather than a small effort over a larger period of time. You will also have received the aforementioned
adrenaline rush. One other thing that
must not be overlooked is that you will have spent the Christmas season in a
place that was decorated for Christmas, full of people doing stuff with
Christmas in mind, and lots of music to remind you that its Christmas. Outside of church, where else could you find
that?
I guess I would really like to be the first person, but am
more like the second person. I know it
is more effective to decide what to get each person, then leave the house and
go get it. In a perfect world......
(hopefully you can finish this sentence)
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