I can't do any shopping between, well, it USTA be between Thanksgiving and Christmas, but now it is more like between Labor freaking Day and Christmas. Just can't do no shopping during that time. Hafta wait for the merchants to settle back down again. I refuse to participate in a spending orgy, and I refuse to have some poor shlub greeter be forced to give me a half-hearted "Merry Christmas." Isn't this supposed to be about the birth of the Lord, anyway? What would Jesus buy?!!