Gifts and Experiences

I enjoy giving Christmas gifts to my family and friends, however the traditional process of Christmas gift shopping – ie choosing and buying suitable gifts was painful.  The process included  some or all of the following:

• crawling along in traffic queues along with other Christmas  shoppers on the way to shopping centres or out-of-town retail parks
• circling around the car parks and fighting with other Christmas gift shoppers for any available parking space
• trudging through store after store to get gift ideas
• getting hungry and thirsty and stopping for something to eat or drink
• finding that the queues to get a drink or snack are a mile long
• queuing for several hours more in each gift store to pay for the Christmas gifts
• hauling several bags through store after store
• being run down by trolleys or kiddies strollers in the crowded stores
• enduring tired, bored, hungry and screaming kids- (yes – your own as well as others!)
• dragging yourself and your shopping bags back to your car
• finding that there are long queues to get out of the car park
• discovering that you don’t have any change to pay for parking!  GRRRRRR!

This method of shopping for Christmas gifts made me extremely GRRRRRRRRR—UMPY, until I discovered that I don’t have to put myself through this frustrating process every year, when shopping for Christmas gifts can be so stress-free!

How Shopping for Christmas Gifts can be Stress-Free!