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Buyer’s Remorse?

Rule #1–When you go in for a minor surgical procedure, and they specifically tell you not to make any important decisions for the next 24 hours, this does include shopping online. Specifically, it includes ordering a dress from Macy’s that you really can’t afford when you’re sleepless thanks to aforementioned surgical procedure, and the events leading up to it. So, no decisions, no shopping.

Rule #2–For the love of heaven, when said dress arrives, do not try it on! Probably don’t even open the box–just take the whole thing immediately back to Macy’s and return as quickly as possible.

Rule #3–If you have ignored rule #2, (shame on you!), and insisted on trying it on, do not, I repeat, do not, model it for any members of your family. Especially not little girls who love dresses, or over-complimentary husbands and sons.

Rule #4–Do not venture down the road of what I like to call “Amanda Math,” trying to justify how you might keep the dress. Pack it back in the box, and return it to Macy’s as quickly as possible (as was previously suggested in rule #2).

Rule #5–Maybe just block the Macy’s website from your computer.

Rule #6–If you have the will power to actually make it to Macy’s with the dress for the return, don’t look around. You’ll just find yourself back at the beginning of a vicious cycle!

An Unconventional Field Trip

Don’t laugh…I finally came up with an idea for a field trip for November.  It’s my goal to go on at least one field trip each month, which went well in September and October–I think we had a combined total of five field trips those two months.  But November had me stumped.  I don’t know of any turkey farms around here, and we don’t live near any old Pilgrim settlements, so what did that leave that would be seasonal and appropriate?

Tonight we went to Macy’s.  Yes, that’s right, we took a field trip to a department store.  Before anyone starts judging, let me justify a bit.  The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is a big tradition in our family.  I loved it as a child, and I’m passing that along to our children.  Also, in school today, we read Milly and the Macy’s Parade.  

And that’s where the idea was born.  What better field trip than one about a book we read? We visited most of the departments that Milly loved that were mentioned in the book, we rode the escalator (twice!) and the elevator, we looked at the Christmas decorations, and we talked about what a great thing department stores are. No need to visit a milliner, shoemaker, tailor, and dressmaker, just to clothe oneself.  One stop shopping at it’s finest, but still classy (unlike, say, our beloved Wal Mart, with which the children are endlessly familiar!).

It was fun, it was at least somewhat educational, and it was festive.  The only thing that would have been better would have been visiting the huge Macy’s in New York City (and seeing the parade in person).  But that’s another dream for another time.