Shop til you Drop!!!

I don't think anyone in the world loves to shop as much as I do. I can go all day and look at thousands of things and not spend a penny. I just love the thrill of the hunt for some bargain that's too good to pass up. I love the last minute rush before Christmas to get one more thing for someone's stocking or to just be part of the hustle and bustle. When Jen was young, we always went someplace on Christmas Eve and we would be there until they kicked everyone out and locked the doors. We shocked Jake one year by making a 30 minute trip over a crazy mountain road just to go to Big Lots!! He was sure after that roller coaster ride there was going to be some kind of store that was worth going to.

If you ask my husband if he likes to shop, he would absolutely answer "NO". But don't believe it. He really doesn't like to shop with me because, as I said, I can look and look and not buy anything. He only likes to go if he has a goal in mind to buy. Fortunately for me, in the process of reaching his goal, we look at lots of other things. He OOOs and AAAHs the Christmas decorations and gets excited by every new nutcracker he sees. Anything Rudolph or Wizard of Oz gets him to act like a kid in a candy shop.

Which brings me to our trip to K-Mart. We were walking through Craftsman tools (thank goodness for K-Mart & Sears because he never turns down a chance to look at Craftsman tools) when we heard an annoucement that they had Martha Stewart towels at the front of the store for $2 each. If you have never seen a grown man running through K-Mart to beat a bunch of old ladies to a towel clearance sale, let me tell you, it was a beautiful thing. By the time I got to the front of the store with the buggy, he had snagged six beautiful matching towels by reaching over the heads of the shorter women. Maybe if more husbands could see it as a competition to get a good deal before anyone else, men would like shopping. Stores need to start some sort of tag team shopping or something. Mud wrestling for microwaves. Darts for dishes. Tug-a-War for tools. If Target would just let them shoot at the big bullseye!! Maybe someday.