Don’t hate her because she is efficient

A reader who saw the reference in today’s Slice column to there being exactly a dozen weeks of Christmas shopping left wrote to report that she was done with her gift-buying as of yesterday.

She has even finished wrapping.

I know. Even her relatives have a hard time comprehending this.

“My sis uses various words for me, some that are unprintable, because I can accomplish this feat so early.”

Her secret? Well, for one thing, she does quite a bit of shopping at after-Christmas sales. Then, for the rest of the year, when she sees something that would make a good gift she doesn’t dither. She goes ahead and buys it.