Dear consumers, please use the following etiquette when purchasing a toy:
First, do not rip open my packaging, and either hide it, or try to bargain with the salesperson on a discount for the teared packaging.
Second, do not use me as a drool catcher for your baby while you scope the store, and then place me soggy and smelly back on the shelf.
Third, if I am the last in store. I am the last in store. It is after all 2 weeks until Christmas, and yelling at the cashiers will not help you get more any faster.
Finally, be respectful, and enjoy the holidays. They only come once a year and should be a happy time, especially in a toy store, where little kids can hear you swearing.
Thank you and Happy Holidays! —Hoping to Find a Good Home for Christmas
This article appears in Dec 8-14, 2011.
haha! Ahh the toy aisle.. Destined to give even hardened war vets post traumatic stress disorder..
but that’s what I was buying it for….
I was just product testing.
http://i819.photobucket.com/albums/zz119/f…
it started with those cabbage patch kids, lego is the only cool toy. i couldn’t find the cabbage on a stick from snl http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ecpALMx1Jek/SzTC…
I much prefer any of these….
http://www.rubiks.com/
a result of lego overload left me looking for massive time-wasting alternatives.
I. WANT. ONE.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtIL_VjBUGo
That is all.
I’ve been dreading going anywhere near crowded retail outlets.. I always tell myself I’m gonna go early every year, and I never do. Might have this year if it wasn’t for my trip.. but probably not.
You just need to go in with a plan, Tommy.
I have one more person to buy for and I have a very detailed plan.
I’m getting them three things and have planned my entire route through the mall.
Also, the key to a successful shopping trip is to not let anyone push you around. Make people go AROUND you, and bring an ipod to tune out the mindless chatter and shitty attitudes.
Follow this advice, and even December 24th shopping’ll be a breeze.
or you could not go the mall
PG: The year the cabbage patch kids came out, my cousin and I each had two.
My grandmother had seen them at a booth in the mall and thought “the girls would LOVE these.”
And then months later the craze set in and she just sat back and laughed. And laughed some more when we opened up each of our two dolls.
That woman spoiled our asses off like you wouldn’t believe.
She even gave me her green jello while she was on her death bed because she knew how much my little 4 year old self loved green jello!
Cool story Pretty Kitty, you grandmum was a visionary. My kids are long out of the toy phase but I went into the Toy Store in Dartmouth Crossing, my jeez it was nuts, to find something for a nephew I think I left my last nerves there.
apparently the only lego the boy wanted was the millenium falcon, but it’s been discontinued. so he gets a tattoo instead, cheaper than the lego^^
I dislike crowds as a rule, and really dislike crowded shopping malls—I don’t like shopping, but I’m very good at it. The malls are full of amateurs this time of year, and oblivious people who can’t get out of their own way, nevermind mine.
An example-I was at the store trying to figure out which was the best buy on kleenex. As a woman approached me, I pulled back my cart so she could get by. Instead she stops right in front of me so she can view the kleenex. When she still hadn’t moved after about 45 seconds, I said ‘excuse me, but I moved my cart so you could get by, not so you could block my view of the kleenex’
Bake em away, toys.
I’m leaking a spoiler…
my festivus wrapping paper this year is going to be giant tiger grocery bags.
yep, that’s how I roll.
Hey-zeus I used to spend literally DAYS playing with Lego as a kid. By far, THE best. toy. ever. I can’t wait until my nephew gets a little older so I can start getting him lego sets for birthday/Christmas (and then I can come help him build! Wahoo! lol)
OB, you forgot to mention: shop online where the pricing is realistic.
we have so much lego in the basement, i could build a rocket ship to the moon http://thevineprimary.myschoolbookclub.co.…
you likely could….
hop in.
http://www.onedigitallife.com/images/lego_…
yowzah, i think lego should hook up with tintin stuff. untapped market
I got my friend’s twins lego ornaments this year. Told them to go ahead and open when they arrived…
Gotta get one of these for Blue…
http://www.stuffedark.com/images/raccoonwl…
…he seems to enjoy playing with them 😉
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SVR6tnxlHA…
when kinder toys were first introduced, the boy didn’t care about the chocolate, he just wanted to build something. the big ones had the most parts, that’s what i based the lego on, lots of pieces and it’s something cool
Y’know what’s funny? Back in the day, American girls didn’t have black dolls like English and Canadian girls do. I had a black dolly, as did my cousins and aunts on both sides of the pond.
When we first moved to the states, we had some neighbors from the deep south who were incredulous that I would have a black dolly–couldn’t understand why anyone would even want one!
How about a Libby doll? does anyone remember them?
nope, but i had black dollies from my great aunt, she lived in england
Ladies boys didn’t play with dollies !
We had Action Figures ~;)
Like GI what his name
And cowboys with horses & little rifles that made ‘real’ bullet sounds …. lol
he had a cool jeep too http://0.tqn.com/d/collectibles/1/0/I/q/3/…