The Day After….
By Pam Sherman | December 27, 2009
The mall was crazy crowded on December 26th. Why do people shop the day AFTER Christmas? Haven’t they gotten enough stuff? Are they returning stuff? Are they using gift cards immediately before they go bad to get stuff? Was it hard to not have anywhere to buy stuff on Christmas Day? I suppose I should be happy, consumerism lives on and that is good for the economy, but I can’t help but feel a little sad. What happened to the days of being grateful for and savoring the gifts you’ve been given before getting something else?
Of course you may wonder why I was there at all. This year, we gave each of our kids a day to plan for this vacation and my daughter’s day included culture (a trip to a museum and sketching at High Falls) and culture shock (the mall for dinner and a walk about). We had to do everything she wanted on this day and somehow she managed to cover two sides of her mother, artsy intellectual and raging shopaholic. I thank my daughter for helping me learn more about myself with her activities. My sketch wasn’t as bad as I thought, and I had to show restraint at Banana Republic, all good for my soul during this reflective time of year. My son’s day is next, we’ll probably end up all playing his xbox 360 in the basement for 12 hours - I wonder what I’ll learn about myself that day.
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