I had heard about stores that won't put good stock into neighborhoods that are deemed "the hood" but I had never had this problem before.
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So, I look like Mother Hubbard. My fireplace mantel has, oh, maybe 15 stockings hanging on it. These are stockings for my friends who, like me, don't have family here in town -- or don't have family at all. I am the one with the big-ass house (seen "Money Pit"?) and matching mantel, so there the stockings go. With these stockings comes the job os stuffing said stockings.

So yesterday I went to the Family Dollar in my neighborhood to pick up presents for NUVO's "adopted" family and to get some stocking stuffers. I found these awesome little gizmos (I can't say what, because some of the recipients read this blog) that are only $1 each. Well, when I got home and parsed out the gizmos, I was three short. Too many stockings to count. Plus, I bought the wrong size outfit for one of the adopted kids, so I needed to take it back.

So today, I went to the Family Dollar at 38th and Illinois. The people who work there are very nice, but the stock there SUCKS. I needed one more little stocking for a pet, and they had NO STOCKINGS. Like, not even big ones. Plus, they didn't have ANY of the cute little gizmos. Nor did they have any good pet toys. Or any good little stocking-stuffer toys. In fact, they didn't have much of anything, save Cherry Cordial Hershey Kisses, which will be going in the stockings.

I had heard about stores that won't put good stock into neighborhoods that are deemed "the hood" but I had never had this problem before. The Dollar General a block away from NUVO dosen't show as much discrepancy.

So, I am pissed because now I will have to stop at the Family Dollar in my hood on the way home, and I am on a countdown to Yule (being celebrated by my coven this Sunday) and I am still missing a stocking!