It seems every year its the same thing. If you haven't gone to the mall to buy that playstation 2 before Thanksgiving you can forget about it until February. Its not only that the stores are sold out of everything but you can't get there without serious hassle. People line up before dawn the day after Thanksgiving and don't stop going mad buying crap to give to friends and family until 12:30 A.M December 26. The season of Christmas cheer seems more often like the season to be stressed, broke and caught up in a frivolous bog of humanity in one of its worst states. Just go over to Google, search for shopping and you're going to find a shooting, a few tramplings, a dozen fights and god knows what else all over the joy of giving for this year. People going mad over the first wave of sale prices on crap they probably could've gotten online or elsewhere at the same sale price had they used their brains and not been such sheep to the mall.

I'm not going near the mall to shop for Christmas:

Shopping Online:

Its definitely the way to go for the 21st century. All my seasonal shopping will be done via the Internet or via small retail shops around Baton Rouge. I'm not going near that disaster of a mall or the temple of the masses at Wal-Mart. Ebay used to be the way to go for holiday shopping but many online sales here are overpriced due to ignorance of the value of products by the shopping public and greed of merchants. Stay away from here for retail shopping or you'll get fleeced. Many merchants who advertise with Google's Adwords give me better deals than I'll get at the mall and I also get back the 2 hours of my time it would take.