That’s the time I got up this morning. Like, actually got myself out of bed. My alarm went off at 4:30 and I gave myself 9 extra minutes. We were off within 15 minutes to the mall. I was having a hard time between two doorbuster Christmas trees. One was at JCPenney’s and the other Sears. JCP opened at 4 and Sears at 5. I figured the JCP tree would be gone but stopped by just in case because I actually preferred that one. And sure enough, there were 3 left after mine.
So then we had an hour to burn until Staples – our big hit of the day – opened. So we went to Belk. Heather got a camcorder and I got the girls some winter coats and two Christmas outfits.
Our one issue happened there. Two people in front of us in line was insisting on using their Belk card. Their card system apparently went down and the woman had to be on the phone for about 10 minutes. Finally we overhear the amount is only for, get this…$5. The lady FINALLY hands the woman cash. Yeah. That wasn’t fun at 5:30am.
Over to Staples we headed with only minutes to spare. The parking lot was full. The line was wrapped around the building. That’s what that picture is above. Way across the parking lot is the door. The line is down the front of the building and out the back of the parking lot where I was standing. It was 40 degrees and windy and COLD. But we got in and got everything we wanted! My big score was my 500GB external hard drive for $79 after rebates.
But we stood in line for an hour and a half! Thankfully we had some really nice people in line and had some good conversation and we were able to go in and out of line a few times to change our minds about a few things.
After that, we splurged at Chick fil a and then stopped at Target where I scored a GREAT rug and picture for the kitchen and then to Best Buy where Heather got a 32" tv.
We headed home then. I was starting to fall apart. Saying things like "What time is it?" while holding out a price tag for Heather to read really meaning to say, "How much does this cost?"
We came home to find Scott had all the Christmas stuff down and he had a bunch of stuff already in place. We unloaded everything and then made three more stops. First to Walgreens for blow up yard things. Lowe’s where we couldn’t find a microwave for Heather so our last stop was Home Depot where Heather bought her microwave.
It was a big day and we were so tired by the end. I managed to stay up until about 2:30 in the middle of putting up bubble lights on the tree and crashed for 2 hours. Heather just called and she’s still up. I guess she’ll really crash for tonight.
All in all, I had a GREAT time shopping with Heather. Just shopping period. I even managed to mark one person off my Christmas list ;).