The Golden Ticket (is Red)
Oh, NO! I cannot believe we did it!
Every year we laugh at all those people who camp out in front of Best Buy and all those other stores all night long just to get a good deal.
The boys agreed to take a set amount of money from us for Christmas and to pay the remainder of the cost of a laptop as their Christmas gift. One son decided to pay a larger cost and caught an online deal. He has to wait a week for his laptop to arrive in the mail. We actually bought it on Wednesday and I see this morning it is already sold out online.
Hubby and the other son set out at 10:30 p.m. to stand in line at Best Best Buy.
I woke up at 5 a.m. to find them at home and asked why they were home so early. "We got the Golden Ticket and could come home to wait until the store opened." For the doorbuster laptop, they received tickets #17 and #18. Many people who waited in line for hours did not even receive a ticket.
As they headed back to the store to pick up their deal, and no doubt wait in a long line to check out, I headed to blog about it.
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Of course, I HAVE to have photos to scrap this monumental adventure, right? "Smile," I said. "Not at 5:00 a.m.," was the answer. Who is to argue with that?
Now, I wonder what we will do on Christmas morning. It just won't be the same without gifts to wrap all season long and gifts to unwrap Christmas morning. I'm going to have to get my thinking cap on and figure out something new -- we need a new tradition.
Every year we laugh at all those people who camp out in front of Best Buy and all those other stores all night long just to get a good deal.
The boys agreed to take a set amount of money from us for Christmas and to pay the remainder of the cost of a laptop as their Christmas gift. One son decided to pay a larger cost and caught an online deal. He has to wait a week for his laptop to arrive in the mail. We actually bought it on Wednesday and I see this morning it is already sold out online.
Hubby and the other son set out at 10:30 p.m. to stand in line at Best Best Buy.
I woke up at 5 a.m. to find them at home and asked why they were home so early. "We got the Golden Ticket and could come home to wait until the store opened." For the doorbuster laptop, they received tickets #17 and #18. Many people who waited in line for hours did not even receive a ticket.
As they headed back to the store to pick up their deal, and no doubt wait in a long line to check out, I headed to blog about it.
>
Of course, I HAVE to have photos to scrap this monumental adventure, right? "Smile," I said. "Not at 5:00 a.m.," was the answer. Who is to argue with that?
Now, I wonder what we will do on Christmas morning. It just won't be the same without gifts to wrap all season long and gifts to unwrap Christmas morning. I'm going to have to get my thinking cap on and figure out something new -- we need a new tradition.
1 comments:
Before you said it was 5:00 a.m., I was already thinking that by the way your son is not smiling. :-)
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