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A 12-Step Guide to Holiday Re-Gifting

December 20, 2018 · by · in 12-step, christmas, christmas shopping, confession, dementia, gifts, humor, James L'Etoile, revenge, shopping, survival · Leave a comment

‘Tis the season of giving! It is better to give than receive.  I think that’s how that goes.  I dug into my historical vaults to find the origins of this nobel sentiment.  Scholars debate the first time these words were spoken.  I found the true initial utterance of the phrase and it was not in […]

How It All Began…

November 27, 2015 · by · in author, black friday madness, James L'Etoile, shopping, social issues · 6 Comments

Meet George Black. George was ordinary guy. A guy who put in his 40 hours (plus or minus) slaving away at a dead-end job, in some soul-sucking factory where he polished widgets. Day in and day out, George clocked in and clocked out. Mind numbing drudgery. At the end of the week he’d collect his pay, a […]