I won't be buying that.

I mentioned last week that I have been enjoying a variety of Christmas catalogs that have been showing up in my mailbox.  I received one yesterday that is new to me.  It's called "Wind & Weather" and as you might guess contains lots of decorative weather related items like multifunction barometer / thermometer gadgets and pages and pages of outdoor Christmas and any time decorations.  Since my 'outdoors' is limited to my balcony I am not really tempted by most of these.  However there was one item that caught my attention.  My son-in-law has a wonderful collection of nutcrackers (you know, the kind that look like old time soldiers) and from time to time I have added one to his collection as a Christmas gift.  So, in the catalog I saw a very nice, traditional looking nut cracker that is almost five feet tall and meant to stand guard by your front door.  I though it might be a fun gift until I looked at the price.  $399.00!!! Yikes!  I love my son-in-law a lot but that isn't in my gift budget for this year or any year.  I'll keep it in mind for when I win the Power Ball lottery.  Or, maybe when I write the great American novel and sell the movie rights.  Equally likely events.