Holiday Shopper Prints

"I love holiday gift shopping."

"I'll be on Fifth Avenue, pressing my cold little nose wistfully against shop windows."

If you see something you want, whine!

Christmas is Around the corner,

'Ahh...I see you travelling far and wide on a long fruitless mission but you still can't find a town centre parking space this Christmas...'

'I braved the Boxing Day sales just for you, dear.'

Judy was all about Christmas shopping...

'Looks like we'll have to hold our traditional family dinner another time. . .'

"You don't know anything about electronics, do you?"

Television and Christmas Sales

"It was terrifying experience being faced with that kind of compulsive, insane behaviour...I tell you it's positively the last time I put foot in the sales!"

'What do you do with the time you save?'

"It's a 'Black eye friday'. I got it in a fight over a 56 inch TV."

"I'd like a partridge in a pear tree, 2 turtle doves, 3 French hens, 4 calling birds and 7 swans a swimming."

"So last Christmas it was those Cabbage Patch Kids."

A Snowman checking out some products for blacken his teeth

Holiday Sales: The Starting Line

Cars follow the sign to the mall rather than the sign to the manger.

Black Friday

"Because it's got a goddam crack in it, that's why."

Seasonal shopping.

'Denied?...but it's my last one.'

STRIP "I've tried everywhere to get a new winter court...but all the stores are full of next years summer collections"

"I am in training for the sales."

"...And don't forget to include the receipts!"

'Do I believe?? Listen, I believe in anything that generates $400 billion in annual sales!'

'The good news is, I got your Mum's cardigan.'

'My holiday season: A rich tradition of belated giving and premature babbling.'

inflation at Christmas

December 24th and the December 26th.

'Everything must go...manners included!'

'First I'd like to remind you of the true meaning of christmas - profits.'

'Why not just serve Thanksgiving dinner in the shoe department next year and be done with it??'

'I think we should put a limit on how much we spend on each other at Christmas, like two hundred and twenty thousand pounds.'

"Do you have the time? We need to be home before Christmas shopping season ends."