You get demands for large amounts of money, weighty reading lists arrive and your parents appear to be eyeing up your bedroom for other uses.
Once the lists arrive, compare them to the reuseable items you already have to avoid buying more than necessary.
First the Top 10 lists arrive from sources nobody's ever heard of but it causes the desired uproar -- why was your film omitted from the Woodmere Press Republican?
Jon Niese, who finished last season on the disabled list, arrived here for spring training Monday morning 10 pounds lighter than he was at the end of last season.
The unidentified man, who was on a security "watch list," arrived in Britain several weeks ago, but was not placed under surveillance.
All was well, and I was even beginning to anticipate a small budget surplus, when Clementine's wish list arrived in my in-box.
Eight months later, as the third edition of Greenpeace's list arrived, a technology columnist at BusinessWeek magazine, Arik Hesseldahl, wrote, "There goes Greenpeace again, making noise with no substance to back it up".
It said the school could go ahead and install the computers, wait until a price list arrived in November before making a decision or make arrangements for ZapMe to pick up the equipment.
"I would like to ask," he said, "what would happen if another terrorist, bin Laden, who is also on the international wanted list, arrived in London and said that new terror attacks on nonmilitary targets in the United States were in preparation?
One day a listing arrived on my desk.
