{"id":12115,"date":"2015-12-22T03:44:44","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T03:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12115"},"modified":"2015-12-22T03:44:44","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T03:44:44","slug":"heres-how-you-shop-for-christmas-gifts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12115","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s how you shop for Christmas gifts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/maxresdefault-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12116\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12116\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/maxresdefault-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"maxresdefault\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/maxresdefault-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/maxresdefault-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/maxresdefault-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/maxresdefault-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am considering writing a shoppers&#8217; manual.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;ll be from a guy&#8217;s perspective. I believe I have mastered the technique for Christmas shopping. Today, I took it to a new level of brutal efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how it went &#8230; and please forgive me if I sound a bit boastful.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I left the house this morning at 8:30. I headed for a major department store. I had one thing in mind to purchase for my wife at this store. I found it, took it off the rack and then sauntered toward another part of the store. I found another item and took that off the rack.<\/li>\n<li>I then\u00a0hot-footed it\u00a0to another pre-planned location within the store. Grabbed the item. Then I paid for all of it. I left the store.<\/li>\n<li>I drove across the street to the regional mall: Westgate Mall.<\/li>\n<li>I marched through the mall entrance and then went to a store specializing in West Texas apparel. I then found another pre-determined item. I bought it.<\/li>\n<li>Then I wandered into a health store and found some cool things to put in her stocking. I bought them, too.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There you have it, fellas. I was <em>done<\/em> in less than two hours.<\/p>\n<p>Start to finish. Could we ever persuade our\u00a0wives and\/or girlfriends to do it this way? You may stop laughing now.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s my secret?<\/p>\n<p>Write a list. Stick to it. Head to the retail outlets early in the day before most of your community has had its final cup of coffee in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>Be disciplined while you&#8217;re looking. Stay focused. Consider it to be akin to a surgical strike.<\/p>\n<p>Does it sound like a tried-and-true men&#8217;s shopping formula for success during this wonderful holiday season? I think so.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, I got all this done with four whole days to go before Santa arrives.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am considering writing a shoppers&#8217; manual. It&#8217;ll be from a guy&#8217;s perspective. I believe I have mastered the technique for Christmas shopping. Today, I took it to a new level of brutal efficiency. Here&#8217;s how it went &#8230; and please forgive me if I sound a bit boastful. I left the house this morning &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12115\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Here&#8217;s how you shop for Christmas gifts<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9],"tags":[5793,5794,4112,5238],"class_list":["post-12115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-news","category-local-news","tag-christmas-shopping","tag-holiday-season","tag-santa-claus","tag-westgate-mall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12117,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12115\/revisions\/12117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}