Well, it’s already the fourth of December and I haven’t even started my Christmas shopping yet. I know what your thinking, but Dave, you’ve got a good 19 and a half days to finish that shit, don’t sweat it. Well, I don’t know but I think it would be nice just one year to actually finish my shopping early. Sure the selections are less and the shopping is easier the longer you wait, because hey if the store is out of half of the shit then you’ve got that many less decisions you have to make… sounds simpler to me. Maybe my Christmas spirit is coming back, you never know stranger things have happened. If it is coming back it’s because I don’t have to deal with the stupidity of Christmas merchandising this year. If there was one thing I always hated it was being in charge of putting out the holiday shit every year. Every year it was the same shit, I’d put out Halloween around the first or second week of September and then I would mark all of the shit that didn’t sell down around the 20th of October and then after Halloween I would mark that shit even farther down. Of course right after Halloween was done I’d start setting up Christmas. I know what you’re thinking, what about Thanksgiving? Well you know what, fuck Thanksgiving because that was more of a grocery than a GM holiday anyway. Sure you’ve got your cheap ass turkey/meth making pans you put out for under $1 and you’ve got the baster tubes and lacers but those are all second fiddle to the turkey and stuffing really. As the GM manager I had to worry about all of the lame Christmas trinkets that nobody was going to buy from me anyway and know that everyone was going to wait until after Christmas to buy everything because they expected the half off sales to come. Now all I have to worry about is whether or not there is a sign or a tag on all of that bullshit. It sure would suck to still be stuck in the HBC/GM department… I feel sorry for anyone that is.
I just ordered myself a shitload of DVD’s again. I think I just did that a few weeks ago and got myself set up with all the George Carlin DVD’s and a few others. This time I ordered ten more on Saturday and then I had to spend my Fun Cash before the end of the year so I just ordered five more from that today. I have kept track of everything I’ve spent on movies through Columbia House since I started in the club and they do actually save you money if you are willing to buy more than one DVD at a time. My average cost for DVD’s is under $11, which you have to remember includes all of the 4 Aqua Teen sets and my two George Carlin sets that would have cost me over $60 a piece at the store. Merry Christmas to me indeed.
