Found December 30, 2011 on Jersey Al's Packers Blog: Yardbarker Blogger Network
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Charles Woodson needs to sit on the bench next to Aaron Rodgers and Clay Matthews on Sunday. When did it become the norm in America to shop before, during and after the holidays? When I was a kid, my parents sneaked away after work on a random night in early December to buy my Christmas presents (my favorites were games for my Sega Master System or WWF wrestler figurines). They didn’t wake up at 3 a.m. to wait in line at some store on Black Friday. They didn’t buy additional crap on Cyber Monday. And they didn’t use the Holidays as an excuse to buy a bunch of stuff for themselves on the day after Christmas. Speaking of the day after Christmas, I never once rushed to a nearby store to exchange one of my presents. If I got a Ricky Steamboat wrestling figure, then by God, that’s the wrestling figure I played with until my birthday came around. Shopping for kids these days isn’t what it used to be. It’s hard. I don’t envy parents one bit. If I e...
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