It’s that time of year again… our annual Kmart Christmas gift hunt is ON!
The store is already buzzing and the deals are good. Come with us as we: Reveal EVERYTHING in my fully-loaded mom backpack (snacks, Hydralyte, Invisalign kit… the works!) Say goodbye to our Frenchie Piper (he’s not allowed in Kmart, poor baby) Let my toddler take the wheel (literally) with the BEST trolley ride ever Score heaps of cute, affordable presents for under the tree!
Shopping with a toddler = survival mode activated
Drop your #1 tip for Christmas shopping with kids below – I need all the help I can get!
Who else is doing their Kmart Christmas run right now??
00:00And you are the best Christmas shopping assistant ever. High five. Top dog.
00:06Okay, today is another day with my awesome buddy. We're going to go Christmas shopping today.
00:30So we're going to go to Kmart. And as with everything we do, I've always got our backpack. And it seems to get heavier and heavier as we go.
00:39But I've got little finger food things for him in this bluey container. And I've got little treats here. I've got sandwich, my hydrolite drink, his water bottle. Water for me as well.
00:52Well, I can obviously, you know, change of clothes and just, and now my Invisalign tooth kit is in here as well.
01:05So like everything is crammed in this bag. But I'm actually enjoying this bag, to be 100% honest, because it's kind of, it's obviously my handbag.
01:14So it has everything that I need for him. Plus, it's got everything that I would normally have in my handbag, like my phone, my keys and all that.
01:21And it just fits on my back. So, I mean, yes, it's heavy, but it's my weight bearing exercise at the moment.
01:28And I do remember the days where I used to force myself to go to a gym and you do your exercises. And that felt grudgery.
01:35So this is my gym. I don't have to go to the gym at the moment. So that's pretty cool.
01:40Now I'm going to go and catch a toddler and get us out the door.
01:45Go on, love. Now, you've got your shoes on and I'm going to get my phone to, whoops, I've not done a good shot.
01:52Can I have to buy the Piper? We've made for a good toy.
01:56Can I buy?
01:56Piper's, yeah. Piper will wait for us here when he's there.
01:59Your toy.
02:01Buy Pisa.
02:02All right, do you want to press ground?
02:06Oh.
02:07Oh, excellent.
02:08They've got the, um, obviously someone's moving, so they've got all these covers here.
02:15That's to protect the inside of the lift from moving furniture or, you know, big bulky things.
02:21This is exciting, isn't it? Going to the shops.
02:25Hey, do you want to ride in the trolley?
02:27Yeah.
02:27Yeah.
02:28Ground door.
02:29We're looking forward to riding in the trolley.
02:31Come on.
02:33Hold a hand.
02:34That's all right.
02:34Come on.
02:36Come on.
02:37Come on.
02:38You can climb in now, can't you?
02:45I have an iPad.
02:47Oh, well, you're not going to have an iPad.
02:50You don't get an iPad really often in the car.
02:52You don't have a badge.
03:01Let's go down the button.
03:02Yes, let's see what button to press, um, how about, you've got a level one, yeah.
03:20Wow, it's so fun being at the shop, so I'll have a look at it.
03:27There's lots of things to look at.
03:34Alright, we've found a trolley, and mummy is a safety captain.
03:42I'm going to put your seatbelt on.
03:48You're up early, Steven.
03:50Alright, this is so fun. I absolutely love the little shop.
03:56Yeah, there's a reason a lot of stay-at-home mums go to shopping centres a lot, I think, because it's just fun.
04:03Oh, we've got Disney characters.
04:06That's nice.
04:08And we've got the Grinch.
04:10Actually, there's a bit of a Grinch theme on it at the moment.
04:13It's quite nice.
04:14It's quite nice.
04:15It's quite nice.
04:16It's quite nice.
04:17It's quite nice.
04:18It's quite nice.
04:19It's quite nice.
04:20It's quite normal with this.
04:21There.
04:22Yeah.
04:23Do you want to put that in the moment?
04:24Yeah.
04:25That's okay.
04:26I think the red one, though.
04:27It's cool.
04:28Do you want to pop this in the trunk?
04:29Do you want to pop that there?
04:30That's all right.
04:31Thank you, love.
04:32And do you want to pop this one in as well?
04:34Let's get this one.
04:35That's the way.
04:36All right.
04:37We've got a couple of rolls.
04:38All right, darling, let's go to the back.
04:41Yeah.
04:42Yeah, that's nice.
04:43There's Perfians.
04:44I don't know why these are just Perfians.
04:45So we're going to get a couple of rolls.
04:46Oh, this is Perfians.
04:47Yeah, this is Perfians.
04:48Do you want to pop this in the trunk?
04:49Do you want to pop this in the trunk?
04:50Do you want to pop that there?
04:51That's all right?
04:52You can pop that there?
04:53That's all right.
04:54You can pop that in there.
04:55Aw, thank you, love.
04:56And do you want to pop this one in as well?
04:57Let's get this one.
04:58That's all right.
04:59All right.
05:00We've got a couple of rolls.
05:01So we're going to get a couple of sort of stocking filler type things from here.
05:07A few little sort of beauty skin treatment type things.
05:12But I'm going to put a glasses on because I want to be able to be fine friends.
05:20All right.
05:22That's better.
05:23Okay, darling.
05:24Let's have a look.
05:25Let's get a lip gloss.
05:27Let's get a lip gloss.
05:30How about we get this pink one?
05:37This is lovely.
05:38How about we get this for Amy?
05:41For stocking?
05:42Do you want to carry that around with us for a little while, darling?
05:46Rainbow.
05:47Rainbow.
05:48It's a beautiful rainbow.
05:49Let's go and have a look around together.
05:51I like the rainbow.
05:53Rainbow.
05:54Look.
05:55We've got a troll one.
05:57We've got a Cadbury one.
05:58We've got a Cadbury one.
06:00Do you want or we've got a Fruity Gummy one.
06:05I think we should get Amy a troll one.
06:12What do you think?
06:14Or...
06:15This is my thing too.
06:17Oh, maybe this one.
06:20No, maybe this one.
06:23We'll get Amy this one.
06:24And...
06:25What about for Amy's little brother?
06:30What do you think about this one?
06:33Do you like this one?
06:35Well, let's not break them up or we'll fork them though.
06:39Let's buy some of their calendars for you kids.
06:43Hmm.
06:44Hmm.
06:45Well, that looks alright.
06:47Well, we've decided to get this one too.
06:50Let's put the tin in.
06:51I think he instinctively knows what's in that tin.
06:54Yummy things to eat basically.
06:58Alright, let's go and make it down.
07:01This is another thing I saw for Amy.
07:03Oh, I'm up here.
07:05Oh, this is so fun.
07:10I absolutely love shopping.
07:12Yeah, look at these little bath scissors.
07:14Although, Amy's...
07:17You're the one that's having baths these days.
07:19Not really Amy.
07:20So, Amy's having showers.
07:24But I might get you...
07:28Don't tell...
07:29Don't tell Spencer that I might get you a bath.
07:32Busy for your stuffing.
07:34Now, shower foam.
07:35This is what I had my eye on for.
07:37Your sister.
07:38I might get her a marshmallow scented shower foam.
07:41I don't know if we'll get anything else from this section.
07:45Because...
07:46That?
07:47Um, this one?
07:48This one?
07:49That one?
07:50Give us a look.
07:51Let's see you make me, darling.
07:52Oh, this one!
07:53Oh, the pop-up bag set.
07:56Oh, now this is irresistible, isn't it?
08:00Oh, maybe we should get...
08:03Maybe you can give this to Amity for Christmas.
08:06Do you want to give this to Amity?
08:08We could wrap it.
08:10Yeah, okay.
08:11We'll get this one.
08:12How can we resist a pop-up bag set?
08:15All right.
08:16Well, how about you hold this?
08:18And...
08:19Do you want...
08:20Do you want to hold this for?
08:22We can help...
08:23We can give this to Amity from Spencer.
08:25How does that sound?
08:26I think we should.
08:28Yeah, holding that.
08:30I'm gonna sneak that in there.
08:32I think that's a perfect present from Spencer.
08:35Yeah, well, we've already got one.
08:38Yeah.
08:39But we can always do a little bit of a spot.
08:42There we go.
08:43How close is that?
08:45All right, darling.
08:47Let's go.
08:48There's another section I want to go to.
08:51Isn't this exciting?
08:53This is so fun.
08:55You need a $5,000 Kmart gift out to the spend, I reckon.
09:00It's got a few pretty patterns on it.
09:13Let's get out of here scrunchies.
09:15Do you want to pop that in there?
09:16There we go.
09:17See, isn't Spencer a good shopping assistant?
09:20Yeah, I'll lose my glasses.
09:25That's fine.
09:26I can go somewhere.
09:28All in one.
09:29What do you mean?
09:30Oh, you need them.
09:32Well, how about we get a bag with like this?
09:35That we can put in you and Anna's bottles.
09:39And how about we get one of these with a tray?
09:43Should we get one of these with a tray?
09:45I'm gonna chop that in there.
09:48And here are some cute fair ties.
09:55And we might like those.
09:57We'll pop those in there too.
09:59Yeah, you see?
10:00There's the Grinch.
10:01I've seen those Grinch stuff around.
10:04That's why they've got Grinch wrapping paper as well.
10:07So maybe Kmart has the license this year to have Grinch merchandise.
10:11It looks pretty cool, isn't it?
10:13You're being a very good shop assistant, darling.
10:14Thank you very much.
10:16Wow.
10:17Look at these.
10:20Now at Holy Moly and Time Zone, we love that game where we've got balls.
10:27Someone might like a bag of these.
10:31Oh, wow.
10:32What a find.
10:33Look at these.
10:34Oh, wow.
10:35What a find.
10:36Look at these.
10:37Should we pop these in the trolley?
10:38Do you want to pop the balls in the trolley?
10:39There we go.
10:40Wow.
10:41We have, we're getting the.
10:42Well, here.
10:43No, no.
10:44We're going to put them in here.
11:10We're going to leave them in there, darling, because we do not want those going all over the shop.
11:19Now, I do know what Emi is going to help.
11:24Yep, here it is.
11:27Here it is.
11:28Well, darling, I think we've bought enough balls today, to be honest.
11:34No, we're not that old as balls.
11:36Oh, well, maybe we'll have a look at the bigger balls, too.
11:39But this is what I know your sister, ta-da, a Christmas Squishmallows.
11:49Squishmallows are her favourite toys ever.
11:52She has got, she's got over a hundred, I think.
11:55She's got so many of them.
11:56And they're all different.
11:57They all come, they all, you know, each season, they're always making new ones, of course.
12:04Let's get this, Amity.
12:06She's going to love it.
12:07Do you want to pop that in our trolley?
12:09There we go.
12:10We're going to go to the craft section now, because Amity is into craft.
12:15And I've got something in mind from her that I have seen.
12:22Oh, car.
12:23Oh, it is a car.
12:25Wow.
12:27Well, darling, we're going to get this today.
12:29Because someone might be getting, it is a pick car.
12:37That is so cool.
12:39Someone might be getting one already.
12:44So, we might not buy one right now.
12:48Yeah.
12:48Uh-huh, in the other craft section.
12:50I think there's one on this side.
12:55Oh.
12:55Yep.
12:59I think we're going to get Amity something.
13:02To keep her busy.
13:06I think she might enjoy making some of these.
13:11Oh, she's a craft.
13:12Crafts girl.
13:13Crafts girl.
13:14Yeah.
13:15Pop those in there.
13:16Pop those in the trolley as well.
13:17Oh, well, we've got quite a stash now.
13:21We've got quite a haul, don't we?
13:23Look at all the stuff we've got.
13:27These are, I reckon these are probably, I reckon these are the winners, really.
13:34One kid is, actually both, actually all three kids are going to love this piper.
13:40It's going to go sick for these boys.
13:42And Amity is going to love this squishmower collection.
13:45And you'll have fun with the advent calendars too, won't you, I think.
13:50Every day you need to open one.
13:51Look.
13:52Ah.
13:54Piper would like this.
13:57Piper would like this very well.
13:58Are you dinosaurs?
14:00Yeah, look at them.
14:01They're big.
14:02This one's a big one.
14:03You want a few dinosaurs though, don't you?
14:06But still, these aren't awesome.
14:08I don't know what those are.
14:10Dinosauras?
14:11Ah.
14:12I don't know, darling.
14:14We, um, I don't want to buy all your presents today.
14:20Just in case you do remember them.
14:23Hopefully the balls.
14:26How about today we more focus on Amity.
14:30And then maybe when I can sneak off on without my shopping assistant, I might get you a few things.
14:36But otherwise, you're not everything you're eating.
14:39But yeah, this is pretty cool, isn't it?
14:41Well, this is maybe giving Mummy an idea though.
14:45Maybe.
14:46Someone might like something like this.
14:48And that's, I know, there's some, there's some really big ones.
14:52Look.
14:53This one's a big one too.
14:54And that one.
14:55Look at that one.
14:56Can I have a look at this one?
14:59Yeah, do you want to have a look at this one?
15:01Look at this one.
15:04Look.
15:05I'm going to be there so you can't look.
15:08Part of the fun of going shopping, obviously, I'm going to say something very obvious here,
15:13is just the looking at stuff.
15:16Like, there's just so much stuff and it's fun.
15:20I mean, look at this.
15:22Jurassic World.
15:24Right.
15:27That's cool.
15:29So, we're in line to pay.
15:32It's weeks before Christmas and the shops are already so full.
15:35And this is just a normal Wednesday during the week.
15:38It isn't even the weekend.
15:39And the line to pay just snakes several loops.
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