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Here comes the chilly air everyone, the sign that the Christmas holidays is fast approaching. With Christmas holidays come the shopping activities that everyone is looking forward to, or should I say dreaded? We all know that Christmas shopping brings hassle to everyone. That is the main reason why the Ministry of Magic, especially the Department of Magical Transportation, comes up with these top three guidelines to a less worrisome shopping.
Here are the Ministry of Magic’s Top Three Guidelines to Christmas Shopping:
1. Plan your shopping list – It is very important so as to maximize your trip to the stores. Imagine how tiresome you will get if you will come back and forth many times to the store to buy all the things you want to buy? It will save you time and effort if you will have a one-time big shopping to a one-stop place. A helpful magical device would be a screaming notebook if you miss or done anything wrong.
2. Plan your shopping route – Plan your shopping list in a way that will let you shop in an orderly and organized manner. Plan the route that you will take in buying and the number of the things to be bought in every store. In this way, you will not go back to that store again because you forgot to buy the one piece there. Instead, you will have a smooth buying process in every store. A helpful device would be a time checker that will let you know what time it is to guide you in your busy shopping schedule.
3. Shop in the month of November – This is the best guideline the Ministry of Magic can give. The first two guidelines will fail in giving you a less worrisome Christmas shopping if you fail to follow this one. Historical statistics show that there are awesome great numbers of witches and wizards in every store in all the days of December. This occurrence is due to failing to shop in November obviously and failing to do the first guidelines, making them go back to the stores many times throughout the month. Also, the Floo Network Authority advises everyone to shop earlier because there will be an unbelievable number of people using the Floo Network that there will might be a problem and the system will be forced to shut down. Unless you want to ride in your broomstick with all your bags, you’re free to not follow this guideline.
I hope that with these guidelines, you will have a fresh and hassle-free Christmas shopping!
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It's really not as dirty as it looks.
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