Remember the days when you could start your Christmas shopping in September and have the store keep it until December. Yes the wonderful days of lay-away! I miss them, but there is still one store that has it and they actually carry kids toys and more, yes I am talking about the Kmart Lay-Away. I loved using lay away at my local store, but then they got rid of it and I have decided that the drive to Kmart will be worth it as I can get something and pay for it over time. If I don’t do it that way I won’t have the money to get it.

I am debating on putting the toy we are getting my nephew on layaway. It’s the smart cycle and i think he would love having this to play with and get all of his energy out. He lives in a trailer park where there is nothing to play with, so he could use something like this. The reason I want to put it on layaway is that there is a group of us paying for it and we could each take turns paying on it. that way we are not all scraping for money close to Christmas and are not able to get anything for anyone else.

Of course you don’t have to use layaway for just Christmas we use it for birthdays and more, well everyone else’s birthday we did, mine is 1 week and a few days after Christmas and usually layaway was closed for my birthday. I’m now sure if K-mart is though.

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I have been thinking more and more about shopping for Christmas. I am trying to decide if I should go to Kmart and put some things on layaway or if I should wait and just buy what I can afford in December when I’m not trying to come up with gas and food money for school. I’m sure I’m not the only one worrying about this, but in my house we always struggle every year to get gifts, I remember a few years ago when I was so excited because I had $10 to spend on each person instead of $5. I realized how sad this was after talking with some people yesterday who were complaining because they only have $50 for each person, or their parents have told them that can’t buy them that $200 coat or phone that they want.

Part of me is happy I have had to deal with going without, I think it does make me a better person, but it still sucks when you can’t afford basic things, and then you can’t afford to buy extra stuff on holidays. I mostly hate that I can’t get something good for my niece and brother, my brother is 15 and is old enough to know he can’t get things he wants, but he didn’t get much as a kid since my sisters wanted so much. My niece is still young and should get something good. Maybe I’ll win the lottery that would be nice!

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