{"id":10590,"date":"2006-12-17T19:37:51","date_gmt":"2006-12-18T02:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/12\/17\/ch-ching-7.html"},"modified":"2006-12-17T19:37:51","modified_gmt":"2006-12-18T02:37:51","slug":"ch_ching_7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/12\/17\/ch_ching_7.html","title":{"rendered":"Ch-ching"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img-shadow-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Christmas time ...\" height=\"95\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/xmas.jpg\" width=\"90\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Well, we finished 99.5% of our catalog shopping (and, thus, 95% of our Christmas shopping), after a marathon day of catalog poring-through and web site navigation.<\/p>\n<p>A number of sites were still within the normal shipping period.  The ones that weren&#8217;t were balanced by our doing some online discount code Googling.<\/p>\n<p>We probably spent too much on too many people for too much stuff &#8212; but I&#8217;m at least a bit pleased that our motivation wasn&#8217;t to Impress, or Keep Up, or Fulfill Obligations, but to simply share a bit of our good fortune with folks, and brighten their days.  With swag, to be sure, but nice swag.  <\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s not like we&#8217;re bankrupting ourselves, or that Katherine won&#8217;t be able to find a full scholarship somewhere, eventually, right?  And the bank doesn&#8217;t mind the occasional missed payment &#8212; especially in January, &#8217;cause, I mean, who&#8217;s expecting other bills to be paid in January, right?  Right?<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, we finished 99.5% of our catalog shopping (and, thus, 95% of our Christmas shopping), after a marathon day of catalog poring-through and web site navigation. 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