Christmas 2015 is tomorrow, and while everything around us seems to be changing, at least the Christmas story remains the same. I noticed at least one other thing that hasn’t changed. It seems the Christmas shopping list has stood the test of time and modern technology.
With the advent of the cellphone and all things computer, I was happy to notice shoppers pulling out their paper Christmas list and checking it twice.
Oh, they weren’t checking it to see who’s been naughty or nice. They were checking to see what they had bought and what they had left to buy.
The time-honored Christmas shopping list comes in many forms and colors but so far not electronically.
Good old-fashioned paper is the foundation of a real Christmas shopping list.
The paper can be any size or shape but the 8 1/2-by-11-inch standard-sized paper works best because you can fold and unfold it over and over again and it can withstand the harshest of holiday shoppers.
The pen works best when composing the Christmas shopping list.
With the pen if you change your mind about something on the list, you simply scribble it out; if you buy something on the list, you check it off.
It was truly refreshing during this Christmas shopping season to see people sitting at a table in a restaurant mulling over their list and talking to the other people at the table about what they had left on their list. The shoppers would compare notes and plan the rest of their shopping day by what was left on the list.
I am not really sure why the Christmas shopping list has been spared the same fate of many other things, but I am glad it has.
On the subject of a list at Christmastime, I can’t help but think of my mom’s Christmas card list.
Her Christmas card list (or book) really had grown over the years. It was torn and tattered but still served its purpose. Once you were on her list, you were never unfriended.
Mom died a year ago this week. She had mailed her Christmas cards out weeks before her passing, so this will be the first year that there will be no Christmas card from mom.
Yep, never thought I would say it, but I am tearing up a bit because I miss that card. Merry Christmas.