Waiting in line for days to buy something.

I don't understand that myself. I usally wait untill the price goes down first on something I really want.

When a Louis Vuitton store opened in Japan some years ago, newspaper covered pictured of women willing to spend the night on the street in front of the shop to be the first buyer in the next morning. Different people and stuff, same attitude... I think it's correlated with Pride and about getting Acknowledgment for our worth. Like your case, maybe a father was willing to do it so that he earns the title a good father. Although the professed reason might be to make his kid happy, but quite unconciously he actually also thinks of acknowledgment from his kid. And of course the proud feeling for being called a good father. I'm not saying Pride is totally bad, we are created to have it, too. It becomes bad because without God's grace we are controlled by it.

I love a bargain , I am known as the bargain queen in my family ,I would never stand in a line to buy anything , especially overnight , I am getting on in years lol and I like my home comforts too much for that , xx

Years ago my good friend of mine would bring her kids over to my house to spend the night. She would go to the local store to wait in line for a chance to buy the newest Cabbage Patch Kid. They were expensive too! My kids got the knock off's instead of the Cabbage Patch Kids. We waited for the price to go down and the dolls to become more available. I never understood why anyone needed to get something so bad that they would stay up for hours standing outside in the cold weather to buy it.