In picking out Christmas lights this year my lovable local walmart had the dismal selection of clear, multi, amber, or pink.
Now don't let me fool you, I got really excited when I saw the pink lights. I thought, what better way to show my true colors than to put pink lights on my house, especially when no one else on my 1 block street has decided to put up house lights at all.
The selection, however, disappoints me. It seems that walmart, the providers of everything you could ever need and more, is slimming down their selection to take away the choice. What happened to green lights, or blue, or red? Do these colors not matter in their world anymore? And who really puts up amber lights for Christmas? Amber is a pretty color but I don't think I'd be sporting it to say hey Christmas is here or anything silly like that.
I guess if you get down to it then pink really isn't a Christmas color either. But why should I let walmart decide this for me? Awhile back I had to buy paperclips, I could have waited and borrowed a couple from work but I was in the store and figured might as well get them now. After first locating the stationary section it took what seemed like years to locate the paper clips. One would assume they would have neat little boxes of 50 or 100 paper clips ready to go...but one would be wrong with that assumption. If you want paper clips now a days you have to purchase the paper clip holder that comes with 10...yes 10 whole paper clips. Outraged was I.
I bought them and the ridiculous purchase is sitting unused on my desk at home.
The problem with letting people dictate what you can purchase is that the things you will be able to purchase later will be completely unnecessary later. We're addicted to shiny things and we want them now.
If I was smart I would have gone to an office supply store to pay several bucks less on paper clips. If I was thrifty I would have borrowed some from work. But since I'm lazy I paid and grumbled and now have a useless purchase. But hey...yay for pink lights :)
