Have You Started Your Holiday Shopping Yet?
Nannie taught me well: If you see something perfect you should buy it, even if the event (birthday, wedding, Christmas) is months away. One year, when the Cuters were young, I had finished my entire holiday shopping by the Sunday after Thanksgiving. I spent a blissful December wrapping and baking and shipping and not shopping. But that was only one out of 5 decades of holiday seasons which have left me in a frenzy, creating and locating up until the very last possible moment. This year I began even before the MOMA Holiday Catalog arrived. There is nothing contained within those pages which would disappoint me. It's hard for me to shop anywhere else once I've looked through it. But even the NYC marketers must think that August is just too soon for Santa. I am the only one who's focusing in that direction right now. Or so it seems. Take last week, for example. I followed link after link, being amused and amazed....