In case you are looking for some Christmas gift ideas for me, here’s just a few that come to mind…

1 – An answering machine
2 – A boombox or walkman
3 – The party game Trivial Pursuit
4 – Gift cards to Blockbuster or any other video rental places
5 – A yearly subscription to T.V. Guide
6 – A mixed tape of all your favorite songs
7 – A Milli Vanilli cassette tape would be great
8 – A thighmaster
9 – A cool colored Trapper Keeper to organize all my papers
10 – Hairspray – a lot of it
11 – A pair of Reeboks
12 – some new banana clips to pull my hair back
13 – a gift card to Hair Cuttery for a perm
14 – Atari
15 – Some scrapbooking supplies

What are you asking for?

Yeah, I was there. I went shopping at 9pm last night and got some deals. It was madness and fun. I confess. As I looked around at all that stuff though, I couldn’t help thinking about all the money being spent and all the junk filling the aisles and how a big arrow with the word “DEAL” pointing to some trinket makes people fill their carts.

But, the day is nearly over now. Black Friday and crazy deals to get people in the door to wow them into spending money is almost done…sort of. I’ve got a lot of my boxes checked with things I needed to buy at those places, mind you. But, there’s still a good bit of wiggle room with some of those remaining boxes on my list. And, I’d love to wisely shop for those folks…you know, shop with more than one purpose in my mind. It’s not just get the gift; it’s get the gift and do some good at the same time.

That’s shopping with purpose. Sounds pretty cool, huh?

If you’re into the idea too, here are some suggested places to get you started. Feel free to add links to others you know of so we can check ’em all out and multiply the joy this season.

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