SIGNS YOU'RE CAUGHT UP IN THE HOLIDAY SHOPPING FRENZY

* Before stepping out of your car, you put in a mouthpiece, slip on protective goggles, and tape your ankles.

* You've somehow convinced yourself that "Visa burn" entitles you to park in handicapped spaces.

* You call the kids to dinner and hear their muffled screams coming from boxes you wrapped that afternoon.

* At 95% off, you don't care if that Acme Iron Lung works or not -- your kids are going to use it and appreciate it!

* Sure, the sign says "1 Furby per customer", but they're probably not doing body cavity searches.

* The bank has replaced your Platinum Visa with a one-of-a-kind Plutonium Visa.

* On any given day, you have more plastic on you than Anna Nicole Smith and Pamela Anderson Lee combined.

* In an effort to please your 5-year-old, you trade your 2-year-old for a Furby.

* Upon awakening on the sofa, you discover 10 beer empties, 5 Cheeto's bags, and an answering machine message thanking you for your order of 100 Dale Earnhardt Hummel Figures.

* The producer of "American Gladiators" calls after seeing you fight for the last Furby on CNN.

* Just too busy shopping to fact-check your NY Times article.

* Currently spending more time at "Amazon.com" than at "AmazonWomen.com"

* Your MasterCard bill arrives on a Zip disk.

* You hike up your skirt in front of the Toys 'R' Us manager, and in a throaty moan utter, "Wanna trade Furbies?"