Sold Out
Despite getting up in the dead of night and waiting out side in 30-degree weather, we couldn’t get laptops for the kids. Based upon everyone’s input, and some careful reflection of our own, we did decided that laptops would be appropriate Christmas presents for them. But we made the “mistake” of sleeping at home rather than camping out all night. Our vacation days are too precious to spend sitting in sports chairs, waiting in line. We’ll check online and see if we see anything in our price range. So farm the deals haven’t been as good but nothing beats shopping from the comfort of our study, playing MP3s with a fire going in the fireplace. If anyone sees any amazing deals for a low-end laptop online, please let us know. Soon we will be headed out to dinner and a club or two. Everyone enjoy their weekend.
No, that standing in line gig can be awful. Only two times have I gotten up early and waited in line. The second time it was pouring rain. Never again. Surely with all your expertise you will find something. Good luck.
When daughter Eva was a child, laptops hadn’t been invented. Weren’t we lucky! Hope you find what you’re looking for in time for Christmas. Emm and I are looking forward to your Christmas photos! Hope you’ve kept the Santa costumes safe.
Camping out, waiting for a store to open, is for the birds. I think it’s worth the extra price to not have to deal with the crowds and hassle at this time of year and just shop online.
Rosie: I just wonder why they don’t have more of the popular items in inventory. We didn’t make any substitutions, so they didn’t get any of our money. And with so many things being advertised on the internet, it’s easy to know where the best deals are on everything and go to several stores. Having “loss leaders” to get you into the store doesn’t work nearly as well as it used to.
Alfie: With cell phones, laptops, digital cameras and the like in such widespread use there is way more technology around kids than there used to be. I’m not sure it makes parenting more difficult but it does present different challenges. BTW: We still have our Santa hats. And, since we’re always on vacation the week before Christmas, we’ll have some holiday photos for sure.
Chickie: We usually sleep in and shop online, or in the stores when they aren’t so crowded. But the deal was so good we thought it was worth a shot. We won’t be doing it again though; the woman who was in line behind us was driving me nuts.