Now that nobody has any money left, everything is on sale. It isn’t fair. What idiot scheduled Christmas before everything goes on markdown? Officials should declare the first Sunday every January as “Boomerang Christmas” (for presents and family gift giving), leaving December 25th for more spiritual celebrations.
If we can afford tremendous sums of money to win the war, we can afford to invest whatever amount it takes to win the peace.
Quotation from Henry Wallace, US Vice President from 1941 to 1945
If the first Sunday were to become a new gift-giving holiday, the stores would simply change their sales season, bumping it to the second Sunday in the new year.
Long live the land of consumerism.
Only reason there are sales is because they know you are short of funds and they want to leach even that last bit out of you. Glad to see your Christmas went well.
LOL, to the comic this week. Very funny.
What poor Henry Wallace didn’t know is we had a president who was so close to being a communist himself that he would give away everything at the bargaining table after the war and allow the U.S.S.R. to have everything they wanted making them a power to be reckoned with and a future pain in the booty for the west. Got to love crappy presidents. A trend we have not shaken.
For Christmas, I gave my husband free tickets to a show I got online. I was able to print the tickets myself at home on my computer. It STILL cost me $12.00 for some kind of handling fees or something.
Isn’t that what they do in England? Spiritual stuff on the 25th, presents on Boxing Day the 26th? Or something?
Nope Dale
Here in the UK it’s commerce all the way. We are being encouraged to borrow lots more to dig our way out of the hole we got into by borrowing too much in the first place. Interesting concept eh?
Peeps here are out spending their holiday $ in droves. Normally they would all be away on holiday at the beach, but most are staying home and in a big panic spending what little they have left as a panacea to maybe having nothing next year. Too silly for words. I’m staying outta the shops.
Christmas is the season when you buy this year’s gifts with next year’s money
.Wishing you a happy New Year and All The Best
You only know you’re rich when you have something money can’t replace.
There is a commonly used expression over here “There is no such thing as a free lunch”. But the next best thing ( for some ) is post Christmas shopping as the major retailers open their doors at 5 am in the morning to be greeted by a stampede of eager shopper buying goods up to 50% off.
Some of the shoppers queue in lines overnight to be first into the stores. It has been the highest turnover for years.
Best wishes
it’s always like that! But I still love any sale, especially when I find the winter coat I didn’t buy months ago for 70% off:-)
so exciting you are out of town!
I wish you so much fun!!!
I will relax too these and i wish a Happy Holidays for you!
a kiss,
from the friend,
Kira
this is true. from all of the gift givings i did last christmas i’m as broke as a glass in pieces. LOL anyway, happy new year sera! a blessed one to come for all of us!
Haha, I work in retail and people are coming in NOW because during the week of Christmas, it snowed like a bitch here in Vancouver.
I fully understand the notion that “people are poor yet still want deals”. Now that Christmas is over I’ve dealt with more asshole customers today than I did in the past month. Retail…kill me.
Soon, we will find a way to charge for breathing…