While celebrating thanksgiving with friends and neighbors – we laughed at the ads which had arrived that morning in and with our local newspaper. Many stores were opening at 4 AM on Friday and a few at midnight. None of us could think of a single item we needed enough to go out and stand in a line to get into a store in the middle of the night!<\/p>\n
The evening news started with footage of people camping in tents to be first in line. I figured if that was the most important local news of the day – I’d rather not watch – and so I turned off the TV.<\/p>\n
With the greedy corporate money grabbers after everyone, I wonder how far back the buying season will go? We already have the “holiday” paraphernalia out in late August but I fear the corporate buy-buy-buy season will also get re-set to pre-Labor Day – or earlier. Why not? This year some buyers were cautious as the price of gas and home heating went high and so spent less money after Thanksgiving – which itself cost more this year. So if the pre-xmas sales start while it’s still warm out and before we have to pay to heat our homes – maybe we’ll spend our way into bankruptcy months earlier.<\/p>\n
And those who get on the stupidity train of the “war on xmas” can spend more months arguing that point! Ah – life in the USA! And all during this many “pine” nostalgically for the good old days – yet forget that in those good old days – people actually spend time with family and friends – not in tents on lines waiting for stores to open!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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