Collected Item: “Christmas Without the Joy of Shopping”
Give your story a title.
Christmas Without the Joy of Shopping
What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?
Text story, photograph
Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.
My story deals with how I had to change my gift giving approach for my son in the 2020 holiday season. I chose not to shop in stores for his gifts, to reduce my exposure to the virus and avoid passing on a virus from myself to others. Instead, I gave him gift certificates. This change reduced the holiday joy for me, as I greatly enjoy shopping for just the right gifts for him by directly engaging in the shopping experience in a physical location, and he appreciates the effort and the unique gifts I always found for him.
This is a response to the #pandemicprompt on the holidays for Arizona State University, HST 580.
This is a response to the #pandemicprompt on the holidays for Arizona State University, HST 580.
Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?
pandemic prompt, holidays
Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)
Sharon E. Hunt
Give this story a date.
2020-01-17