Mats

I moved into my home in October 2002. In my shopping for furnishings, I set out to find a door mat for the front door. As it was nearing Christmas, I decided to get two: a “regular” one and a Christmas one.

As I began looking for the seasonal mat, I discovered that there were dozens of styles and messages: “Happy Holidays”, “Season’s Greetings”, “’Tis the Season”, and the like. But, there wasn’t a single mat that said “Merry Christmas”!

I even went to a couple of store managers and asked if they could order one. To our joint amazement, they could not find one in their supplier’s catalog!

I was finally able to find one at Walmart (One of my Christmas Spirit stores), and I thank you for carrying the obvious.

As you are out shopping this year, or even online, take a moment and notice how difficult it is to find anything, from Christmas Cards (for crying out loud!) to door mats that say “Christmas”.

When you find this, would you please take time to complain to the store manager? That’s the only way we can reverse the Purging Of Christmas.