Holiday Shopping Season Longer This Year
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So, it's the day after Halloween — is it too early to start thinking about holiday shopping? For some residents and businesses, the Christmas lights will be hung as soon as the Halloween decorations come down. But hardcore shoppers know when their dream season begins. Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, has become the accepted if unofficial start time of the Christmas rush. It's a huge day for retailers but only the first of a roughly month-long extravaganza. And thanks to Abe Lincoln, who decreed Thanksgiving a national holiday, Franklin D. Roosevelt, who signed into law that it should fall on the fourth Thursday in November, and Pope Gregory XIII, who blessed the calendar we use by papal bull, 2012 has the longest possible …
BELVA THOMAS
12:01 pm on Monday, December 17, 2012
There are loved ones that I would love to give gifts to just because I love them and and it is Christmas. But I have decided to skip gift giving and Christmas shopping this year for two sensible reasons. 1 - I am out of work and feel whatever funds I have should be wisely used for things that are vital like utilities, mortgage, food etc. 2 - I've carefuly examined that list and determined that … more ›