I often wondered if there was a such thing as ‘Too much of a good thing?’ like a good thing can be in excess quantity. Chocolate is a good thing and I don’t care how much of it there is, it won’t be enough. Christmas gifts are a good thing and regardless that I’m over twenty-five, I still love getting Christmas gifts. My friend thinks other wise.
There was a time when gift certificates were a popular gift. My friend bought them and they were the total of her Christmas holiday gifts. She has been giving gift certificates to people on Christmas ever since. For her it was a good thing. There was no wrapping involved and she could buy all her gifts at one website. Sometimes she’d get discounts for purchasing so many. Then it happened; she was tagged as the person who always gave gift certificates for Christmas gifts. Apparently it was too much of a good thing. She didn’t realize she had been tagged until two years ago on Christmas Day. It was a gathering of friends and family and no-one particularly enthusiastic about opening her gift certificates. So she decided to do something about it next year. She began her Christmas shopping in October. She searched malls and websites alike looking for unique Christmas gifts for her friends and family. She was really impressed that every year I manage to do my Christmas shopping in twenty four days flat; she asked me what my secret was. What Secret? There is no secret. I push people ruthlessly out of the way when I’m at the mall and I quit sleeping all together in the last week so I can shop online.
About a week before Christmas last year, she called me up, she was all tears. She still hadn’t found the perfect Christmas gift for her mom and her sister. I suggested she try looking at some Christmas gift baskets. She was skeptical at first, Christmas gift baskets sounded a bit ordinary like gift certificates so I turned her on to Christmas fruit baskets. She absolutely loved the idea. Her Christmas gifts were some of the best that year. Everyone is dying to know what she’ll get this year.
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