........for magazines and catalogs! It begins in October and ends in January. Suddenly the trip to the mailbox is more interesting! Advertisements from all over the world arrive in my little brick mailbox. It's a daily onslaught of paper, color and temptation. Instead of a bill or two I return to the house with an armful of slick pictures and pages touting everything from soup to nuts, from perfume to support hose, from underwear modeled by women wearing feathers to ear wax that is supposed to cure tinnitus!
I'll never figure out why my name is on every mailing list on this planet. I don't even do catalog shopping, so somebody is accessing my name and address off the Internet. No big surprise there!
From the comfort of my living room sofa I can peruse the Smithsonian institute gift shop, imagine how fleece feels from Lands End, anticipate fun from Toy's R Us, Pottery Barn for Kids and a new place called Bit's and Pieces! I can even purchase a goat to be sent to the darkest corner of Africa through Samaritans Purse. (Honeybuns actually received that one year! It was a hit!)
There are hundreds more!
Hams, cookies, popcorn, sausage, spices, and candy can almost be tasted if I look at the pictures long enough. I could buy a car with a touch of a button on my phone.
I try really hard to stay OUT of the stories during this holiday buying frenzy season. It helps the budget stay intact and who needs to dust anymore knick-knacks and what-nots! (Don't you love the sounds of those words and wonder their origin?)
Evidently I need to stay away from the mailbox, too!
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