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<blockquote data-quote="smallworld" data-source="post: 109611" data-attributes="member: 2423"><p>SRL, I had to chuckle over your post because my youngest has "shopping obsession" instead of "gift obsession." It's not just five weeks before the holidays -- it's every weekend of the year! This afternoon she turned to me and said, "I'm bored. I want to go shopping." You have to understand that we don't celebrate Christmas, we did Hanukkah in early December, and the last place I want to be the Saturday before Christmas is out shopping. I tried to explain my reasoning, but my lack of interest in fulfilling her shopping obsession led to a one-hour meltdown. I didn't give in, but when we discovered tonight that the dog had run out of food and I needed to make an emergency trip to Target, I took M along. I kept pointing out the heavy traffic, no parking spaces in the lot, the difficulty we had maneuvering our cart through the store, the long check-out lines, yada yada yada. I hope it sunk in. But I have a sneaking suspicion she's going to bring up shopping again tomorrow. Yikes!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="smallworld, post: 109611, member: 2423"] SRL, I had to chuckle over your post because my youngest has "shopping obsession" instead of "gift obsession." It's not just five weeks before the holidays -- it's every weekend of the year! This afternoon she turned to me and said, "I'm bored. I want to go shopping." You have to understand that we don't celebrate Christmas, we did Hanukkah in early December, and the last place I want to be the Saturday before Christmas is out shopping. I tried to explain my reasoning, but my lack of interest in fulfilling her shopping obsession led to a one-hour meltdown. I didn't give in, but when we discovered tonight that the dog had run out of food and I needed to make an emergency trip to Target, I took M along. I kept pointing out the heavy traffic, no parking spaces in the lot, the difficulty we had maneuvering our cart through the store, the long check-out lines, yada yada yada. I hope it sunk in. But I have a sneaking suspicion she's going to bring up shopping again tomorrow. Yikes! [/QUOTE]
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