How Not To Pay 453 Dollars For Zhu Zhu Pets Hamsters For Your Kids

Every year I seem to get somehow caught up in the run up to the Christmas latest ‘must have toy’ craze, but this year has perhaps already topped all previous years…and it’s still 2 months till Christmas! Unfortunately, my daughter’s 6th birthday was in September….perfect timing for the Zhu Zhu Pets hamsters (often pronounced as Zoo Zoo Pets hamsters and Zu Zu Pets hamsters) madness to set in…lucky for me!

Within days of the commercials starting for these cute furry hamsters, my daughter had set her heart on one for her birthday…Mr Squiggles no less. All parents with kids will understand when I say that when children of this age get it into their heads that they must have a certain toy…well it really is usually pointless trying to convince them otherwise. Anyway, the continual bombardment of ads didn’t help the situation, nor did the fact that her best friend had already got a Zhu Zhu pet hamster called Num Nums together with a whole hamster world for it to run around in…great!

Deciding what to buy for my daughters for their birthdays and Christmas seems to get more and more difficult, so I was actually pleased that my younger daughter’s selection had been made for me. I did a quick calculation and thought that I could buy the Mr Squiggles hamster and some hamster house add-ons to create a better hamster habitat than her friends and still have money left over from our 100 dollar birthday limit.

Popping down to my local Walmart and Toys r Us turned up only sold out replies. Not the best response when your daughter’s birthday is quickly approaching. I must have driven to every possible toy outlet in the local area for the rest of the afternoon, but everywhere was the same story…no stock…sorry.

I eventually drove back home to the one place where toys are guaranteed to be in stock…the internet. I found my favorite online stores, but they had the same ‘out of stock’ messages everywhere. The only available sources it seemed were from people that had bought up the pet hamsters when they first came out and were unbelievably selling them for completely ridiculous prices. Just plain crazy. No way was I prepared to pay those kinds of sums for a small furry toy hamster, my daughter was just going to have to choose something else.

As any parent could tell you, when your child has been absorbed in the latest toy craze, all other toys in the world just seem soooo boring, especially when their best friend keeps asking her why she hasn’t got a Zhu Zhu pet hamster as yet…thanks. I should have known better, but I lost a valuable couple of days convinced that she would come up with another toy that she must have…but no it was a Zhu Zhu hamster or nothing!

Today was going to be my hamster success day. I hit the phone early, phoning every Walmart and Toys r Us and then every other toy sounding store in the area. Nothing. I increased my target area and extended from immediately local area to, well anywhere. I found a store that had a Mr Squiggles and a Pipsqueak. The only problem, the store was 43 miles away. My toy insanity had kicked in at this point and I only had three days left till B-day. I drove and drove and drove, eventually found the store and….they had already sold them, they couldn’t keep them aside for me any longer. My response to them doesn’t need to be repeated.

With only three more days till my daughter’s sixth birthday, no one was now going to tell me that she couldn’t have a Zhu Zhu hamster. By the time I arrived home ‘the must have toy’ insanity had firmly taken me over. With my husband’s credit card and super duper high speed internet connection, I was ready to do some shopping. Hamster pet Funhouse at 128.91 added to cart, hamster car and garage at 99.95, added to cart, Mr Squiggles at 37.99, added to cart, hamster bed and blanket set at 59.99, added to cart, Chunk the white hamster at 35.71, added to cart, exercise wheel and tunnel at 36.25, added to cart. Done and with phone calls and gasoline, total cost comes to a budget busting 453.00…give or take a few dollars.

You will be glad to know that my daughter loves her Zhu Zhu pet hamsters and hamster habitat and you literally cannot get her away from them. My husband…not so happy. Guess what our older 8 year old daughter wants for Christmas! Not again. No way. Not me. OK, but I’m going to buy them early before the supply disappears and the prices go up to prices that only a crazy mom would pay!

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