Toys

Toy Shopping

I can’t wait to go toy shopping for the holidays this year. It’s always fun, and it’s something that I look forward to. There is nothing more relaxing than looking for the perfect toys, and I always know I am going to find the very toys that my daughter seems to want the most. I know that if I can’t find it in one store, I will most definitely find it in the next one that I go to. When my daughter gets older and doesn’t want toys to play with any more, I am going to miss toy shopping very much.

If you didn’t read the sarcasm in what I just wrote, you must not have young children. I never had a problem when I would go toy shopping for a relative or a friend’s child, but now that I have my own I have learned to loathe the very thought of it. Toy stores seem to bring out the worst in people. I am often surprised at how rude people can be when toy shopping. It never fails either, that I find out the very toy my little girl wants the most is nowhere to be found.

Last year when we went toy shopping we were looking for the Dora Talking House. I thought Toys R Us would certainly have it, but I was wrong. We looked everywhere we could think and no one had one. I couldn’t believe it. It wasn’t even one of the most wanted toys that year. We panicked when we couldn’t find it, and I didn’t know what I was going to do. I don’t get her everything she wants, but I do try to get her the one thing that she wants the most, and last year it was the Dora house she wanted. In the end my dad went toy shopping and found it the day before Christmas. I was in tears when he told me he had found it for her.

If you loathe toy shopping like I do, you should try to get it done early, and if you can find something online, that might be the best way to buy it. If you go toy shopping on the day before Christmas, you are just asking for trouble. For me though, that is the best time. I have thought ahead this year and have gotten some of her presents early, but I will have to brave the crowds again this year at the last minute to get the rest of her gifts. Perhaps next year I will be able to get it all done early so I don’t have to be tempted to hurt someone.