November…let the shopping begin!
It’s the official month of the official holiday shopping season.
We gals here at Pitch! are making our list and checking it twice, though when it gets down to the task at hand, Pam and I are quite different shoppers.
Pam is the online maven. She can order everything from a freezer to an elliptical and still squeeze in some serious face time on J Crew. She finds the best deals, greatest steals, and gets free shipping on everything!
I am a sensory shopper. I love to escape into a store and meander. Granted, if I’m armed with my naughty and nice list, I can punch out some serious purchasing power. But I still like to take-in the displays, enjoy the visuals, and be inspired.
The rapid rat race keeps us racing against the clock and ourselves. First the fax brought up our pace and our deadlines, then email took our workloads and tasks to ridiculously high expectations, and now the mobile phone has us on-duty 24/7.
So meandering = a mini electronics-free 20 minute vacay. Even if it is the official season of officially bad holiday music played at high levels. Maybe I should meander over to the earmuff section…
So go forth my holiday shoppers! But remember to stop and meander every once and a while. And if you say “What about the office? What about my cell?” To that I would say “Bah Humbug.”
