Yesterday I put in several hours of shopping based cardio and got all of my Christmas shopping done. I KNOW. I was over myself too by the end the day!
I mean really, could I BE anymore annoying. It’s only the middle of November FFS and here I am, smug as could be, because I’ve got Christmas 2014 sorted.
But don’t worry. Nothing ever goes to plan at Kirsten and co. HQ, so I’m sure I’ve probably forgotten at least one present somewhere along the line!
Sophie decorating our tree a few years ago
Of course to thank myself for being so organised this year, I did manage to sneak in a couple of little purchases for myself. Which reminded me of Pam’s legendary Christmas Gift Giving Strategy, which I feel you all should know.
It all started a couple of years ago, when Mum went Christmas shopping and somehow managed to also buy herself a really nice black dress.
Dad had done a bit of Christmas shopping that same day and when he got home he carefully placed 3 gifts for Mum under their tree before heading upstairs to check his emails. Which of course is code for sloth on the couch.
Mum took one look at her 3 gifts and another look at the one, rather small present she’d bought for Dad and thought she’d better even things up a bit.
But it was getting late, she hadn’t really caught onto the whole online shopping concept yet, and was 2 chardy’s in so couldn’t jump in the car and duck down to the shops.
Pam stood in front of the tree, eying up the very generous presents Dad had bought her and BAM! The solution hit her.
She ducked upstairs, wrapped another present in a fairly large box and placed it under tree. “There you go Errol. Two lovely big presents are waiting for you to open on Christmas Day. Now. Where’s my wine?” she probably said.
Fast forward to Christmas Day and we’re all sitting around the LED Christmas Tree. Yes, Pam has one of those trees that is made up of nothing but LED lights that change colour every few minutes.
It’s borderline migraine inducing and VERY Gold Coast, which is lucky, for that is indeed where Pam and Errol live. Could get awkies if they lived on Wisteria Lane and dared to put up a tree like that!
It’s a Gold Coast Christmas!
But back to Christmas Day at Chez Pams.
So she opens the 3 presents from Dad (I can’t remember what they were, but for someone who has no idea how to use an ATM card, Dad is quite a generous gift giver at Christmas, so it’s safe to say they were fairly decent gifts) and then passes her two gifts to Dad.
We watch on as Dad opens a box of golf balls (“Lovely. Just what I needed!”) and…wait for it….a little black dress.
Mum took one look at the dress, put her glass of champagne down and said, “Oh for heavens sake. That is NEVER going to fit you. Here. Give it me. I’ll have it.”
And that, my friends, is how Mum has scored herself a fancy new frock every single year since!
What do you think of Pam’s Christmas Gift Giving Strategy? Is it one you embrace too?!
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