It's 3 o'clock in the morning and the kids are all in
bed. I am staring at the ceiling in my
bedroom and I can't sleep. If only it
was sugar plums that were dancing around in my head. Sadly my mind is a buzz about homework,
what's for dinner tomorrow, how do I get the kids out on time in the morning
and thoughts of what to get my kids for Christmas.
I give up! I can't
sleep. What should I do? I could read but I am peeved at the current
book I am reading. I could do laundry
but the washer and dryer are so loud. So
I head to my good old friend, my computer.
I check my mail and I see that my mailbox is filled with coupons, offers
and flyers from retailers. I start
glancing through them when I see that one of them is advertising watches. I remember that my son had asked me for a
wind-up pocket watch for Christmas. I
had been through three whole malls and had no luck at all. I found pocket watches, but they were all
battery operated...and they were all quite expensive.
I open up Google and type in "wind-up pocket
watch." Instantly I have a few
thousand watches pop up. I glance
through the first two pages and I see that there are several on Amazon and
Ebay, but I check the independent retailers first. As I check these first sites out I see that
there are so many options for wind-up watches...antique, steampunk, polished,
skeleton, etc. I get excited. I never knew that there were so many
different types of pocket watches. I
realize that I won't just have to settle for whatever I can find...I will be
able to find the perfect pocket watch. I
am so thrilled. I had spent a whole day
futilely searching three shopping malls without any success, and within just a
couple of minutes the possibilities grew immensely.
I took me about half an hour to pick out the perfect wind-up
pocket watch for my son. I purchased it
for approximately 1/10th of the cost of the battery operated watches that I saw
in the mall, that weren't even half as nice.
With that huge feat accomplished I was able to get back to bed and get
some well-deserved shut-eye.
I saved time and money and found a present that was far
better than anything I could have found in a physical store and I was able to
do it all in my pajamas. Now all I have
to do is find a Sonic Screwdriver for my younger son and a sock monkey onesie
for my daughter. I won't waste time
looking for those in stores and I will head straight to the internet and I will
have my Christmas shopping all done before the beginning of December!
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