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[rivka]

Dear retailers,

I understand that you expect people to shop in advance of the season, and that therefore you stock in advance of the season as well. Reasonable enough, I suppose.

However, has it never occurred to you that children regularly lose their mittens? And that, therefore, it is absolute lunacy to "not carry mittens anymore" by the 3rd of December?

No love,
Rivka

Comments

[kate-schaefer.livejournal.com]

Unlike clothing stores, drugstores carry gloves (I'm not sure about mittens) through the whole winter.

[telerib.livejournal.com]

I found el cheapo supremo $1 fleece toddler mittens at the grocery store a few weeks ago. Bought 3 pairs, amazingly still have all three. I'll bring a set to church Sunday in case you haven't found any by then.

[txobserver.livejournal.com]

Yes...Walgreen's is my first stop for stuff like this. When I was spending 12 hour days at the hospital with my mother for a month, it was the only store open at 7 in the morning, and I discovered that I was able to find so many useful things...warm socks for her feet, a cheap afghan-ish blanket, etc. and there were many socks/mittens/etc. for kids.

[redbird]

So do random guys on street corners, though that may be limited to New York. Gloves, hats, scarves. Sunglasses appear to be year-round, which makes sense.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Bingo! Thank you. We found some at Rite Aid. They are not the most beautiful gloves in the world, but they were cheap and they'll keep her fingers warm.