How do we spell 'holidays'?: E-B-A-Y

This is the first year that I am aiming to buy most (heck maybe all) of the kids gifts on Ebay. I'm sorry but it's all too easy to sit on my butt and bid on things instead of running frantically through the malls. And at prices sometimes 50% or more off, who can resist? Last year I must confess, I bought a (gasp) pre-owned gift for Madison and passed it off as new :) She was drooling over a $75 very silly looking fabric doll house at Pottery Barn (who can afford to shop there on a regular basis besides Donald Trump?) and I found the same item "like new" on Ebay. Madison didn't know the difference and she lost some of the pieces about a week after she got it; I was not even the least bit upset after having paid only $20 for it. The downside of Ebay is that I have to break with my long standing tradition of shopping at the last minute and cursing out all the long lines at the mall. With Ebay you have to allow enough time to receive what you ordered but that's a fair trade-off, don't you think?