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Black Friday
November/23/07 01:39 PM Filed in: Jacquie
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The holiday season is here. It is Black Friday
that annual day of shopping hysteria. Fortunately
I am a part of the Internet shopping force – I
sit with cup of tea in hand and aimlessly browse.
It is a good thing.
Probably one of the best aspects of the whole World Wide Web thing is that land no longer needs to be cleared to build large shopping malls with the parking lots that have negative water shed results with every rainstorm. We no longer need to travel by car, idling while waiting for a parking space to open. No more mom’s screaming at their children while expecting seven year old boys to stand patiently while they debate the blue or the pink sweater.
Ahhh bliss.
There is another positive benefit to our beloved World Wide Web. Trees. Trees that can grow instead of being be cut down to create paper to print a magazine, a newspaper, or even paper to send a letter.
It’s a good thing. OK, it is sad that we no longer sit down and write letters to family and friends. There is something quaint about receiving Grandma’s letter and I have to admit I love to get mail.
But I also love to get email from friends and family. I wish, often, that they would not be so brief
But this holiday, what am I thankful for… a lot really. A beautiful son and wonderful husband, an extended family that is generally healthy including my parents, the bounty of my life and the love that is within it. Yes, all those things.
But I am also grateful for the fact that I don’t have to go to the mall, except to see Santa and marvel at the Christmas decorations. Though those are no longer so great, often being themed around Disney Characters in red hats.
And I am hopeful that online shopping will destroy the mega mall and allow the neighborhood “mom and pop” stores to reopen. Being nostalgic, maybe we are returning to the days of the “Sears catalog” where mom would shop out of the catalog and then wait for the mail. But those day-to-day things were bought in town, at the local shop that was owned and operated by your neighbor.
Wouldn’t that be nice? I remember the holiday decorations were better. Not a Mickey Mouse in sight.
Probably one of the best aspects of the whole World Wide Web thing is that land no longer needs to be cleared to build large shopping malls with the parking lots that have negative water shed results with every rainstorm. We no longer need to travel by car, idling while waiting for a parking space to open. No more mom’s screaming at their children while expecting seven year old boys to stand patiently while they debate the blue or the pink sweater.
Ahhh bliss.
There is another positive benefit to our beloved World Wide Web. Trees. Trees that can grow instead of being be cut down to create paper to print a magazine, a newspaper, or even paper to send a letter.
It’s a good thing. OK, it is sad that we no longer sit down and write letters to family and friends. There is something quaint about receiving Grandma’s letter and I have to admit I love to get mail.
But I also love to get email from friends and family. I wish, often, that they would not be so brief
But this holiday, what am I thankful for… a lot really. A beautiful son and wonderful husband, an extended family that is generally healthy including my parents, the bounty of my life and the love that is within it. Yes, all those things.
But I am also grateful for the fact that I don’t have to go to the mall, except to see Santa and marvel at the Christmas decorations. Though those are no longer so great, often being themed around Disney Characters in red hats.
And I am hopeful that online shopping will destroy the mega mall and allow the neighborhood “mom and pop” stores to reopen. Being nostalgic, maybe we are returning to the days of the “Sears catalog” where mom would shop out of the catalog and then wait for the mail. But those day-to-day things were bought in town, at the local shop that was owned and operated by your neighbor.
Wouldn’t that be nice? I remember the holiday decorations were better. Not a Mickey Mouse in sight.
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