How's xmas sales doing?

[Deja Q]

For that holiday taken over by thge corporate pagans?

I see a lot of places full of people.

But I don't see much in the way of big ticket purchases.

Even a person's front lawn, with those big-ass plastic light-up snowman and santa (a net price of $150 from walmart) were knocked over and put into amusingly lewd positions by somebody. (Driving home the other day, I saw that and chortled...)

And you'd think with all the people, you'd find somebody you'd want to talk to or even do mutually gross things with. :shrug:

[dryan]

1. Seems like....

everyone's Christmas is a little quieter this year.

[KalicoKitty]

5. Ours is much quieter this year!

Due to the high energy prices, we did not put lights outside, as we always have in the past. Our large family of children, grandchildren, step-children and step-granchildren are just drawing names this year. And any money they might have spent on everyone have the option of donating it to charity.

My heart is not in the Christmas season at all this year, due to all the loss of our soldiers, the homeless, jobless, uninsured, etc.

It sickens me what the White House has spent on lights, decorations, etc., not to mention the expense of the 9,500 who guests will consume the menu of ham, turkey, lamb, cheeses, and gnocchi from an enormous candlelit table in the State Dining Room. The first lady's office reports that when the last guest collects his coat, 30,000 Christmas cookies, 10,000 petit fours, 1,100 truffles, and 2,100 pounds of sweet potatoes will have disappeared.

The Bush Who Stole Christmas

By Christopher A. Micklos


“Every Who

Down in Who-ville

Liked Christmas a lot...



But the Grinch,

Who lived just North of Who-ville,

Did NOT!



The Grinch hated Christmas! The whole Christmas season!

Now, please don't ask why. No one quite knows the reason.

It could be that his head wasn't screwed on quite right.

It could be, perhaps, that his shoes were too tight.

But I think that the most likely reason of all

May have been that his heart was two sizes too small.”

[fasttense]

2. I heard Wal-Mart has done 4% over last year.

but with inflation that four percent turns to a negative.

[displacedtexan]

3. Pentagon City Mall hasn't been crowded at all!

3 or 4 people in most stores at one time, except for the dept. stores... but nothing I would call a "Christmas Crowd."

[ET Awful]

4. I heard that the weekend was pretty decent for retailers, but the season

over all isn't.

[rurallib]

6. Observation not about sales

Wife and I usually visit the area towns and look at holiday lighting on peoples houses. Lighting is down tremendously around here. Those that have lights are much more subdued than in the past. No doubt the cost of energy is having a huge impact. Also, the little I go into a mall, traffic there seems to be down.
And for the 4th year in a row, no presents from Wally World for us'ns

[dryan]

7. Here in Central Florida....

people usually go all out for outdoor lights. Some subdivisions even have group displays. This year its not happening. We haven't put lights out because it's hard for my husband to get around because of his leg. We've always been Christmas fanatics - decorating the whole house - but this year since loosing both my parents within 3 weeks of each other, it's going to be a quiet Christmas.