This year I have broken my practice of being finished with Christmas shopping by Thanksgiving. As for being sucked under in the quicksand of the herd, I did nothing different this year and didn't leave the house on Friday but I did try to snag two items (8Gb thumb drive, 22" LCD monitor) from online one-day specials. Both items were sold out before I could get my cart to checkout and one of them was at 07:00. That was enough shopping mayhem for me.

Now I've become part of the craziness of waiting for the deals to show in the last two weeks and still being sure of delivery.

(actually only the monitor was a gift and one of the last three on my list)

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