So at what point does the Retailer's Association pump us up about holiday spending?
Someone on the Board of Directors really needs to get out in front of the Ebola headlines and re-position the frenzy!!!1
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I usually like watching shows like Frazier and the Golden Girls on the Hallmark channel but from October 31 to January 1 I usually avoid the Hallmark channel. Kmart likes to get their crowd out early for layaway so they are doing very subtle Christmas ads. I have not seen a Christmas tree at our local Kohl's store yet though. I'm wondering when they will put that up.
Maybe it's different if you have family and/or friends you're looking to celebrate with. I have neither. Family yes, but none that I want to celebrate anything with. And I'd rather catch Ebola than smooch anyone under the mistletoe.
Also never liked shopping centers and don't trust buying online. Saves me money not buying worthless crap, plus I don't have anyone to give it to and don't really care. I don't think it should be a federal holiday either, because of first amendment issues; i.e. why should federal offices be mandatorily closed on "Christ"mas (you can't really get rid of all the religion in it; it's not Aristotlemas or Nietzschemas) but not Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashana, Eid al-Fitr or Augustus Caesar's birthday? If you want to take it off I think it should be allowed (like any other religion, you have the right to take what basically amounts to a "personal day"
. But if you want to come in (I'm a workaholic with nothing else to do on that day, and so I'd probably want to go in), you should be allowed to.
Not everyone has family (or wants them) and not everybody cares. Besides, Christmas has nothing to do with the workings of the country or its history, so it makes no sense for it to be a federal holiday. They should swap it with 9/11, or Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day if they want to keep a holiday in December.
