Because I like showing my toy drive donors what I did with their money, behold! These are the results of the shopping trip I mentioned last Tuesday; since the trunk was already full, I didn’t want to leave them in the back seat overnight. Immediately after taking this snap, I loaded them in the car and left my incall to return to Sunset, stopping by Olympia on the way to drop them off. Those with sharp eyes may notice I got two copies of “Sorry”; that’s because it was one of my favorite games as a kid so I buy at least one every toy drive. In general, I try to avoid duplication within a batch, but since each drive requires several trips I sometimes forget what I’ve already bought, and I reckon it doesn’t really matter anyhow as long as I maintain a rough balance of boyish toys, girly toys, unisex toys (including games) and toddler toys. Not in the picture: several books and DVDs (and a bottle of my favorite perfume) from some of my lovely gentlemen, which I found waiting for me when I arrived. And while I was in Seattle I also did the last of my own Christmas shopping, so now I can just concentrate on the last of the preparations for our celebration this weekend.
Diary #599
December 20, 2021 by Maggie McNeill
Glad your Toys for Tots drive was successful.
Glad you included board games. Board games may even be subtly subversive to totalitarian agendas.
Kids who play board games learn to think strategically, to think even several steps ahead of where they are in the game now.
They learn without even being taught expressly, just by playing the game.
Kids who learn to think become adults who can think.
Adults who can think are the bane of the totalitarian agendas you expose daily on this ‘blog.