Saturday, December 20, 2008

Christmas Challenge - Part 20

20 - Procrastinators get what they ask for...  namely, long lines at the post office!  Most years I am so organized that I have Christmas gifts wrapped up and ready to be mailed to far away places shortly after Thanksgiving (which, by the way, really saves on shipping costs!).  Between the recent upheaval in our household, our bouts of sickness, and those well-laid plans I had for Christmas gift baskets NOT working out as planned, well, let's just say that procrastination became my byword of the month.

The five of us spent the first part of our morning at the post office...twice.  We got there shortly after they opened and took the first load in (there was NO line!), mailed some stuff, bought stamps and got boxes, then went back out to the car to assemble the boxes.  The girls put stamps on our pile of Christmas cards, Mr. Adorable read books and played, and I packaged, addressed, and promised myself that this WILL NOT HAPPEN next year.  We went back inside and got in the kinda-long line, and mailed the rest of our stuff.  By the time we left, the line was humongous, and I can only imagine how much it grew as the day went on!

All these words, just to say, "Plan ahead, don't procrastinate, and you'll save yourself a bunch of money, without the last-minute headache!"

1 comment:

KaraBeagle said...

I stood in line at PakMail today to buy ink, but everyone else was shipping boxes. Our post office is not open to the public on Saturdays (it used to be open until noon). Such is life in a small town.

We had to stand in line at Bimart, 3 deep. Another joy of life in a small town!

The third joy is the guys at the hardware store become pretty famililar with your plumbing system and can tell you what you did wrong!! :)