Drop everything and run!
I don’t know if all Targets are the same, but ours just put the last of their Christmas items on sale for 75% off. I got 4 really cute placemats for $1.96. There were many bigger things I wanted, but not really in the budget …
I eventually want to be like my uncle (well, in this one respect, anyway): he and his wife have a ‘present closet’ that they keep stocked with things they find on super-cheap clearance sales. So, every holiday or birthday that comes around, they just pull something appropriate out of the closet and wrap it. Saving and giving … what could be better?
Christmas
Well, another Christmas has come and gone. And it was a very good one.
Christmas Photos
This is the kids’ official Christmas ’07 photo, along with some pix of the kids and Jay making Christmas cookies last night.
That time again
Well, thanksgiving was almost a week ago now and my fridge is starting to smell like a trash can. I guess it’s time to clean out the remains of the leftovers. 
I am listening to a great assortment of Christmas music right now, thanks to my rad bro-in-law Glen. I mean seriously, I could listen to iTunes from now ’till Christmas and not listen to the same song twice. Some of my favorites are the old Chrismas songs (think Lena Horne, Nat King Cole, Peggy Lee, Bing Crosby …) on Ultra-Lounge: Christmas Cocktails and Pier 1 Holiday Classics and Amy Grant’s Christmas albums, including Home for Christmas and A Christmas to Remember.
