They're Starting To Pull Out The Big Guns!!!

     I can see the momentum starting to build! What am I talking about?!...The HOLIDAY SHOPPING SEASON of magazines and catalogs!!!! WHEW! They REALLY want to sell me something this year!!..Now, don't get me wrong, I like a sale as much as the other guy, but it's not even half way through November yet and already I'm just about tired of collecting my mail!! And you know how much I love getting mail!....Well, letters. ^_^ But this OTHER mail...we call it "junk mail" here...is taking over my mailbox!!!
   Now, there probably could have been some reasons for me to be excited about all this sale mail. For instance,  If I actually celebrated the holidays...which I don't! (all due respect to those who do),...if I had money to waste, which I don't, (and wouldn't spend shopping for things I don't need, even if I had some)...and if I felt like spending my spare time fishing through catalog after catalog instead of crocheting,....which I don't!! LOL {Speaking of which...I finished one of the fingerless mittens yesterday. I went with gray...It was that kind of weather day! :-] }

     Are you all getting inundated like I am?!...Are you happy about it?!...Here's what I mean. Some sale magazines are congratulating me...for what? I'm not sure. Usually congratulations come when you've actually done something, or won something. Not when you're about to BUY something!...One magazine actually used my birth name...you know, "Deborah". Like they knew me or something!! LOL My mother doesn't even always call me Deborah! {That is if she called me, which she doesn't...That's another story. Scratch that long road. I'm not going down that one today!! LOL}
     The only other people, generally speaking, who call me Deborah are the other people in my family who are related to me,...or lawyers....Don't ask!...and people trying to sell me something!!....Well, there you go!

     And some of the catalogs are offering me all kinds of coupons! 20% off...

    ...of my highest priced item. Okay, so.....I'd have to buy more than one thing?!...

    ....an express delivery upgrade....Hmmmm....I'm not even sure what that means! Maybe it's still too dark outside for my brain to be trying to figure it out too! :-)

     Ooooo! Free shipping if I buy 3!!!...Wait a minute! 3 of what?! I haven't even looked inside this magazine yet!!...And there is the problem. What these hard-selling, hard-working promotional people don't realize is that I'm the kind of girl that never even sees whatever it is they think is so wonderful for me to buy..most of the time....because the only thing I open the magazines for when I get them in the mail is to remove my personal info so I can throw it away!!
    The only time I stop and peruse any sale flyers or magazines is if I have a reason already in place to do so! For instance, if hubby's underwear are so holey that I can't stand it another minute (and I've successfully made them disappear without his knowledge); or I get tired,  or too hot, wearing the same old night gown and just have to find something more fitting, or loose fitting...NOW!! Or the sheets with the pretty rose pattern all over it now looks like there's been a gopher in the garden; Or when we're about to go on vacation with friends and I don't want my friends to know how "comfortable" we really are with our bottoms being uncovered at night, and our luggage being mix and match!! LOL
    So, lovely HOLIDAY SHOPPING people, thank you very much....

     ...but NO THANK YOU!!! :-]
{Maybe I should be taking a clue from them for promotion to my Wuglyees Etsy shop!!!...Hmmmmm....:-) }

Ooooo! Mail!!!

I love to hear the sound
of when ribbons hit the ground,
when ripped from a envelope, brown,
brought by the mailman, bound.

I get excited and act a clown,
after seeing it all unwound.
Oooo! A package from out of town!
Well, did you expect a frown?!