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Xmas Shopping Status: 75% Completed

Today, I went insane and went Xmas shopping with my 7 year old niece in tow. Yes, that’s absolutely bonkers!

We spent the entire afternoon buying toys for all the kids in my family. After getting hitched, I suddenly have a plethora of nieces and nephews from my wife’s side of the moon. This is in addition to all the multitudes of younger cousins that I am already cursed with.

7 year old nieces get hungry and thirsty very often. And then, they require a quick trip to the bath room which result in “why can’t you bring me to the toilet” questions which leads to me stammering out the differences between boy-people and girl-people (hint: it’s indoor or outdoor plumbing).

So now we have hordes of matchbox cars, X-men, Gundam, My Little Pony and brandless nameless made-in-china shite. My mentality is such that I reason out that kids think bigger is better, causing me to purchase the largest biggest baddest toys. Queuing up to pay was terribly embaressing. I had so many boxes of toys that I could barely even stand up. Finally one of the salespeople at Metro wised up and gave me VIP treatment (I didn’t have to queue to pay). However at the giftwrapping counter, the sheer quantity of gifts I had them wrap up caused a major bottleneck and thus a long long queue of angry shoppers that wanted their purchases giftwrapped as well.

Oh, in case you’re wondering - my niece got to choose a super huge barbie house with a barbie doll.

What’s left to buy:
Dad - Juicer
Mom - Pearl necklace

so what have you gotten for your wife?

after spending so much monies on toys for others, i think yer wife will only get leftovers of u on xmas day…ie: only dressed in a big tattered bow.

ewwwww

You know I envy you got shopping everynight almost for x’mas gift. This is a happiness family events. And taking care of your nieces is an advance parenting training. Keep it up Santa Caleb!

Your wife, parents and nieces are lucky kiddies as they have you in their x’mas.

p.s. Just wonder, how much you budgetted your x’mas gift every year?