I went Christmas shopping the day before Thanksgiving and I was very disappointed. In our horrible economy, I could find nothing that I wanted to buy. The first thing I was looking for was a CD player with a cassette tape deck. I looked at a large box department store and could find nothing that I really wanted. It is very devastating to a shopper when you look online to see what a store has only to go to the store and find that they no longer have it. I guess this is what tells me I am old at sixty. I knew I could find out which other big-box store had it and go there, but on Wednesday I did not want to. I wanted it to be there, then.
Moving onto other things, I started looking for a picture frame. I looked in all the logical places in the big-box store. But they were nowhere to be found. I actually had to ask where the picture frames were. Then I realized that many things had probably been relocated to allow space for Christmas items.
I considered going to another store to look for a CD player with cassette deck. But I realized that probably no one would have the type of archaic model that I was looking for. Then I considered getting a jazzier, younger version CD player that was available. I thought the engineering looked shaky and I wondered who they were building these models for anyway. They all had iPod docks. That is great, but I do not own an iPod. I feel so totally Neanderthal.
I moved on to other stores looking for a little ditty gifts that I usually manage to find for people. I think they are cute and I hope others do. But I could not find them on this day. The odds and ends store that I visited had nothing that I would even carry home. I picked up a couple of things and left dejected. No one knows how happy it makes me to find a wonderful little gift to give to someone at Christmas time.
