Early Christmas preparation pays off
I bought two great Christmas presents this weekend from a charity shop in Bristol while I took the kids to visit their grandparents. I can’t write about the first gift as my very good friend Rach may read this but the other is safe as it was for my 3 year old son.
On one of the Disney films he loves there is an advert for Muppet Treasure Island which he watches over and over again (his bloke genes have suddenly sprung into action and he loves all things scary, noisy, fast and bashy) as it has scary pirates in. As we walked into the shop he spotted the video of this film from the threshold and spent a good 20 minutes looking at the case. When he put it down for a second to play with the other toys I snuck it over to the til and paid the princely sum of 50p for it.
When he asked where it had gone I told him that I had just seen a mother buy it for her little boy.
It will probably be his only Christmas present from us as we tend not to ramp up the consumerism during the festive season.