Thank GAWD that whole Christmas shopping nightmare is over! Although I admit to being the inveterate shopper, I do not enjoy being anywhere near a retail establishment during the weeks/days/hours leading up to The Event. However, I’m also the inveterate procrastinator, so I am doomed annually to join the hoi polloi in the seasonal rite of time passage I know as Holiday Hell.
But, once it’s over, watch out baby! No, I’m not one of those insane people that descend upon Macy’s at Oh-Dark-Thirty on December 26 to dig through the detritus of Christmas Past. Au contraire, on the days immediately following the day, I retreat to the sanctuary of my home to let the healing begin. It is not until almost a solid week has passed that I feel it is sufficiently safe to venture out into the post-apocalyptic world that remains once the aforementioned crazed throngs have exhausted themselves in a Christmas Clearance crescendo.
And so, refreshed from a few days of rejuvenating rest and relaxation, the time came to emerge into the daylight (albeit here in the Washington DC area, bone-numbing COLD daylight). I had convinced BFF Chris that we deserved a full day of shopping, Howard-style, which meant an exhaustive – and exhausting -- crawl through my fave local thrift stores! Check out the video of our adventures at Yesterday’s Rose (for “Half-off EVERYTHING Day”!) and Joseph’s Coat (where everything was also half- off!) OMG OMG OMG!
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Love it, H! Do you do any staging too? Liked your finds. All good tips for the rest of us. OK, so my biz partner gave me a Flip for Christmas too (which was embarrassing because I gave him a coffee mug :( And every video I shoot is like 100 megs, too big to upload. What am I doing wrong, oh Genius Shopper and Videographer???
ReplyDeleteInspired prose, Howard. You've captured the dis-spirit of the post-season. :)
ReplyDeleteRealtorAnn, I very muhc want to get into the staging biz, at least peripherrally. In fact, when I launch my AsLuckWouldHaveIt website, I intend to market to stagers and realtors (HINT HINT!!!) RE: Flip....I use a Mac; I found I had to save the video for "Mobile" to be able to load to the Blog. Still trying to figure it all out tho....
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