Sunday, December 15, 2013

The hassel of christmas shopping when your a single mom.

Alright stop rolling your eyes and hear me out first please.

I generally love Christmas time but it is damn near impossible for me to shop for Christmas

Gifts with laylaboo in tow, Sometimes she is able to stay with friends and or she is at school

And I get off work early and can go shopping. But usually I have to bring her along which is

Fine just extra work having to be creative. I usually have her stand on the next aisle over and

wait while I pick out a gift, but even then it becomes a matter of which monster high  doll was

It she wanted? Does she really need this ? As she is getting older she plays less

And does more crafts so it makes shopping a little more hard and having to be creative.

You should see the looks I get when I throw my jacket and whatever else I can find over

The stuff I have in my cart. You would think I was shoplifting.. But come on what else am I

going to do so Laylaboo doesn't see her stuff. I almost died when on one aisle I was covering

The monster high dolls up with my coat and making sure Laylaboo wouldn't figure out what

They were when this lady came up to me and said Honey crime is a life for no one you wont

Get very fair shoplifting . And besides those dolls are no gift any child should be getting there from the devil.

 I smiled my best smile and said I realize that but these damn

Monster High dolls they keep telling me to come back here and please take them home

But sometimes I just don't have the money but they scare me and say please bring us home with

You so I just don't know what to do ? They drive me crazy!! You understand don't you? The

Look of pure horror on her face was so hilarious she just stood there with her mouth wide open

Then she shook her head and said Honey I really Hope you get help It's people like you who

Make this world unsafe. I'll show her unsafe I wish I could of took a monster high doll out of

The box and made It "say please come back we really want to be your friend". lol....The look

On her face I bet would have been priceless. I can't stand nosy people.

Anyway I called Laylaboo over and we headed to the  register I usually make her go

Somewhere close enough I can keep a eye on her but not where she can see what I am

Buying. This particular shopping trip I was At my favorite store target so I just had her

Go to the dollar  section and wait for me. I patiently waited as the cashier rang me up and

Kinda panicked as I watched my total go up but was relived when all the 5.00 target cards I

Saved up all year only left me paying 5.00 bucks in cash yeah! Now It was time for me to go on

the hunt for  the last two must  have Christmas gifts for laylaboo was a mp3 player and Austin 

Mahone anything. The problem with this was that number 1. Austin Mahone was a up and

coming singer which meant he was getting really popular but were not talking popular like

Justin Bieber you know what I mean you mention his name and the fan girls start crying and

Hyperventilating . You go in any store you find Jb. stuff you go looking for Austin mahone and

Have to do some searching,I did find some stuff in Claire's but everything was overpriced and

I also found some stuff on amazon but I am still on the hunt for more things.

She needed a Ipod. Not a mp3 player ,She didn't even know what the difference was she just

 wanted a Ipod Because her friends had one. also a  problem I needed  to save up money to 

Download all the songs she would ask for. I also needed to find one in my budget and not

 A ghetto looking one either, Or a pink one she really despise the color pink.

Do you know How many pink ones I have come across??? her favorite color is green  I can find

Pink and red and blue but no green. so frustrating. I have been to many stores and found many

mp3 players they are either to expensive , screen to small, no screen at all, or they are brands

That I have never heard of and know nothing about.

 . On to problem #2. Austin mahone is a up and coming

Singer so this means that yes he is popular but we are not talking Justin bieber popular...

You know total chaos and you say his name and a thousand fan girls start crying and

Hyperventilating . I searched high and low seriously...I manage to find some things at Claire's

Can you say overpriced. I found some stuff on amazon...I am still searching.

And never go into to a best buy when there is only immature snarky zit face teenager boys

Working and try and ask if they have any Austin Mahone stuff. You will only get snarky

Dumb ass comments some of which may be my Favorite one today "Aren't you kinda old to be

Listen to him?". To which I replied it's for my daughter but even if it was for me who the hell

Are you to assume how old I am and to imply I can't listen to someone because there a teen?

Snarky teenager employee decided it was best to have someone help me before I chewed him up and spit

Him back out. Even better Dumb Ass number #2 who had no idea who I was talking about.

He just keep saying is he  like a second coming of Justin Bieber? I smirked . Um yeah I guess you could say that.

 All I want to know is if you guys have anything Austin Mahone! Dumb ass #2

Just stands there I felt like I needed to  start belting out a Austin mahone

Song or doing a dance from his video Which I am not ashamed to say that I do know all of his

Songs I am mom Fan so what. Anyway I just left I could not take it anymore.

My  mp3 shopping was even more horrifying. After I told laylaboo to wait a aisle over from the

Mp3 players I asked bored teen boy at Toys R us if he could help me out. I whispered what I was

Looking for so Laylaboo wouldn't hear. and asked his opinion on them since I had really no 

Idea what I was looking for or really much about mp3 players.  I let him know it was for a
 
8yr old So I didn't want anything to expensive just simple but not cheap either.



He was really helpful maybe to helpful because apparently I had given off the vibe that as a

Single mom I was needing to be seduced. He was to close to me and really needed to stop

Touching my arm.  He made wired jokes and asked me what kind of music I was into and did

I know that I could buy a shower proof protector for the mp3 player so I could dance in the

Shower.....Ummm Yeah I was making that face too.....ewwee just retyping it makes me sick.

I did a horrified face and said thanks and found laylaboo and left fast O' and sanitized my arm.

I Went to what felt like a thousand stores searching just for  a simple mp3 player.

It should not be this hard to find one I don't think? I am still searching with only 9 days

Left until Christmas. And If one more sales person tells me I should just buy a Ipod

 I am going to scream. I know a Ipod is better but they are way expensive and she is 8.

She does not get one if I don't have one..lol.

I knew Laylaboo was probably getting really tired and I still had to take her to the mall She

Wanted to buy me a Christmas gift she had only 8.00 But wanted to get me something really

Nice The problem with her wanting to Christmas shop  for me was that 1. she never had much

Money. and 2.as hard as she tried to hide it I always saw what she was getting because I couldn't

Let her go off by herself to far. So this year I took her to the mall. She picked Victoria secret

Which I love but we all know can be expensive. I gave her 20.00 to help her out and let Laylaboo

Know the stuff I liked the scents I preferred and so on . I was going to just look around while

She got my gift But she really wanted to be a big girl and do it herself . So I noticed there was

A young girl just standing around so I explained to her that Laylaboo was Christmas shopping

For me and didn't want me to see and could she helped her out while I waited outside the store.

You should of seen the look on the girls face. You would of thought I said something horrible

She Looked at me and said are you serious? I smiled back and said yes, she is a customer isn't

That your job to assist her? She still just stood there. I got right in her face I am not asking you

To babysit her I am asking you to help her pick me something out so I don't see it , Is that to

Much to ask of you? I looked around the store that was pretty empty and said you don't seem to be,

Busy so could you just do a nice thing and help her out . The sales girl gave me a half smile and

said fine. I waited outside the doors for a few minutes. Laylaboo came bouncing out of the store

With a big pink box and proudly said I spent 28.00!! The Sales lady said why not spoil your

Mommy. Well played Victoria secret sales girl.. But I still left behind a comment card that

Awaits your boss so we are even:)

I guess  I cannot complain to much I don't have to buy any other presents then Laylaboos I

Do stress over money but try to save as much as possible to make ends meet. It is just the stress

Of having to figure out ways to buy presents with her around and the snarky sales people

And other peoples comments that irk me . I hate when people say get a babysitter then go

Shopping that would mean I have to save up money for the babysitter and who knows how long

I would be gone and how much I would have to pay. I always manage to figure it out every year.

Would Life be easier if I wasn't a single Mom of course it would . But in the end being a single

Mom does not define me as a person I t just makes me stronger and able to handle tough

Situations and even snarky sales people.

Besides If I wasn't a single mom I wouldn't have awesome adventures and even better blogs to

Blog about and I especially wouldn't have Snarky employees to make there life fun and regret

That they came to work that day, Just kidding....um maybe a little.
 


 

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