Local Business Helps Kids Shop for their Parents

WATERTOWN, New York (WWNY) – the Crosstown Julie Brown business solved the age-old problem of how kids can buy gifts for their parents and keep them a surprise.

For 5 years now Crosstown Julie Brown has made it so folks can bring their kids into the shop, have the parents step outside, and pair the kids up with a helper to pick out their parent’s gift out of the shop’s wide selection of items.

After their purchase, they’d walk to the back of the store where they’d get their gifts wrapped and ready to go under the tree. Co-owner Matt Lichtenauer says each year they see more and more kids.

“Kids can only keep their secret for so long. So we figure the closer to Christmas then they only have to hold the secret in for a few days because each year the parents find out they don’t really know what they’re getting until Christmas morning,” says Matt Lichtenauer.

The owners say this event is a lot of fun every year and that they hope the kids had fun.

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