{"id":3975,"date":"2014-12-15T14:59:53","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T19:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/barefootandpregnant\/?p=3975"},"modified":"2015-01-02T12:37:20","modified_gmt":"2015-01-02T17:37:20","slug":"get-this-not-that-a-gift-guide-for-errant-housewives-round-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/barefootandpregnant\/2014\/12\/get-this-not-that-a-gift-guide-for-errant-housewives-round-1.html","title":{"rendered":"Get This, Not That (A Gift Guide for Errant Housewives): Round 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Since there are only ten days until Christmas, I thought I should help you finish up your Christmas shopping while avoiding beginning my own. Two birds, one stone. Procrastination FTW!<\/p>\n

Like everything related to housewifery, gift-giving is an art I have not yet mastered. But someone might as well learn from my mistakes, so we\u2019re going to play a little game called, \u201cGet This, Not That.\u201d I\u2019ll start by posting links to presents from Christmases past that were either modest successes or resounding failures. Then it\u2019s your turn. You play by clicking the link for the item you want to buy, and then you buy it from Amazon and I get a teensy sliver of the sale price.<\/p>\n

I know this sounds desperate, but hear me out: our couch is broken. It is sagging and has a hole in the middle, and the back is snapped and there are sharp wood things sticking out that the Ogre keeps having to nail back together. All that is bad enough, but then this morning Liam had a couldn\u2019t-quite-make-it-to-the-potty accident and then sat next to me on the couch to tell me. Before, you know, changing. So now the couch smells like pee and I just cannot, with the pee couch. I just cannot. So consider this a corporal work of mercy, too. You\u2019re Christmas shopping and at the same time helping me collect enough funds to buy a couch that doesn\u2019t stab people and smell like pee. Win-win, right?<\/p>\n

Oh, and I should mention that if you click the link to Amazon and don\u2019t buy that particular gift but buy something else in the same visit, I still get the cash kickback. So let\u2019s say you\u2019re smitten with the adorably tiny teapot I bought the Ogre before I learned to do things like read product descriptions, and you intend to buy it but get sidetracked by this magic kitchen wand<\/a> $\"\"$ and buy it instead, I still get a couple dollars. Or maybe like a dollar. But with the pee couch destroying my Christmas spirit, every dollar counts.<\/p>\n